Title: Silence (Hush, Hush #3)
Author: Becca Fitzpatrick
Release date: October 4, 2011
Publisher: Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pages: 448
Source: Bookstore
Reading level: YA
Nora Grey can’t remember the past five months of her life. After the initial shock of waking up in a cemetery and being told that she has been missing for weeks – with no one knowing where she was or who she was with – she tried to get her life back on track. Go to school, hang out with her best friend, Vee, and dodge mom’s creepy new boyfriend.
But there is this voice in the back of her head, an idea that she can almost reach out and touch. Visions of angel wings and unearthly creatures that have nothing to do with the life she knows.
And this unshakable feeling that a part of her is missing.
Then Nora crosses paths with a sexy stranger, whom she feels a mesmerizing connection to. He seems to hold all the answers…and her heart. Every minute she spends with him grows more and more intense until she realizes she could be falling in love. Again.
I know there are a lot of people out there who don’t really care for this series but I have to say that I’m not one of them. I adored Hush, Hush and while I haven’t loved the rest of the series as much, they are still some great reads. Silence is definitely a fabulous addition to this series!
I’ll start with the things I didn’t like about Silence since there aren’t very many of them. My biggest issue was just Nora. She has always been whiny in the books and that hasn’t changed. She cries quite a bit and she always relies on other people to save her when she gets into trouble. She doesn’t even remember Patch and yet she still expects him to come to her rescue in a few parts of the book. He’s a stranger to her and she trusts him more than she trusts herself. I can’t get behind that and it really bothers me about her. I want her to be stronger and just more independent. However, in this case, it bothered me but it didn’t make me dislike the book all that much.
The story kind of threw me for a loop at first. Things have changed drastically since the end of Crescendo and for a little bit I was kind of scratching my head wondering what the heck I was missing. Things were explained pretty quickly though and it started to make sense why things were so different. Nora’s memory is completely wiped and so it was almost like the first book all over again with her discovering the fallen angels and Nephilim and things like that. She definitely learned some new things in Silence though that she didn’t know about before. There was just enough mystery for me to be kept guessing right along with Nora and it kept me hooked. Silence may have had it’s issues but it is still one book that is extremely hard to stop reading once you get started.
Nora is still the same girl as I mentioned before but she is the only one who is still the same. Patch is a very different guy now and I almost think I like him more this way. He’s a bit more reserved, back to his secretive ways, very protective, and super mysterious. He’s not all lovey dovey although he does have some of those moments too. He’s just a little aloof and I really do like the tall, dark, handsome, and mysterious air about him. Vee is also rather changed. Things have not been going her way since the last book and she has kind of turned into a man hater. Her comments cracked me up and I have to say that Vee is probably my favorite character out of them all. She has such an awesome sense of humor and while she does make some mistakes, she’s a really good friend to Nora. Nora’s mom, however, changed and not for the better. I couldn’t stand her for most of the book. She was overbearing and I get that she wanted to protect Nora but she wasn’t doing a very good job of it.
Overall, while Silence isn’t my favorite book in this series, I enjoyed it and it’s got me eager to finish out Nora and Patch’s story.
What others are saying about Silence:
It’s been a while since I’ve read this but GoodReads tells me I gave it 4 stars. Apparently I gave every book in the series 4 stars but the last book 2 stars. I remember liking all the books and really disliking the finale, haha. I agree about Nora’s mom… she is downright annoying. But Patch was great in this one!
It’s been more than a year since I last read this one, but I remember absolutely loving it (and wanting to strangle Nora’s mom ugh). I still don’t get why a lot of people hated this series, and it’s so sad because it’s one of my faves! I hope you’ll enjoy Finale ;D
I love this series, too, one of my favourites. I’ve read it like, a billion times, and I’m still biting my nails when I read it.
I’m totally with you! I loved this series from the beginning. The whole world with the angels and everything was unique and fun and I’m invested in the romance.
Lovely review 🙂