{"id":514,"date":"2009-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T00:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/?p=514"},"modified":"2024-12-31T14:03:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T01:03:06","slug":"hush-hush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/01\/01\/hush-hush\/","title":{"rendered":"Hush Hush"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong>Becca Fitzpatrick<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><em>Simon and Schuster<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Otago Daily Times, 2009<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The cover of <em>Hush Hush<\/em> proclaims \u201c<em>A fallen angel\u2026a forbidden love\u201d<\/em>, and the opening scene is the Loire Valley, 1565.\u00a0 Once beyond the prologue, however, it becomes clear that Becca Fitzpatrick is channelling not Elizabeth Knox but Stephanie Meyers.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Fast-forward to present day Maine where Nora Grey has just been assigned a new biology partner, a dark and mysterious transfer student called Patch.\u00a0 Not only does he possess great deal of personal information about her, he seems to know exactly what to say to make her uncomfortable. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, she finds herself irresistibly attracted to him-a vulnerability that Patch is only too happy to exploit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"> When a threatening stalker begins to follow her, Patch is the obvious suspect, but when confronted by Nora, his response unsettles her even more; he is a fallen angel and she his means of escape from eternal exile.\u00a0 Whether this requires her salvation or her sacrifice is Patch\u2019s choice to make, while Nora must decide whether to trust her head or her heart&#8230; You can guess the outcome.\u00a0 Although angels have been substituted for vampires, this novel is little more than an old and tired clich\u00e9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Becca Fitzpatrick<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOtago Daily Times review 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[88,112,370,18,407],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-88","tag-becca-fitzpatrick","tag-fiction","tag-odt","tag-speculative-sci-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/1442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}