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Crescendo (Hush, Hush, #2)
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bookshelves: romantic-recollections, fantastic-fabrications, young-adult-books-read
Nov 28, 2015
bookshelves: romantic-recollections, fantastic-fabrications, young-adult-books-read
This book angered me so much! Whilst I could forgive a lack of plot progression, cliched sub-plots, nonsensical plot holes and characters I struggled to relate to, I could not forgive some of the characters behavior!
Let's start with guardian angel, Patch. Patch is a demeaning asshole! I disliked him in the first book and struggled to see what Nora found so attractive about him. Here, however, he is an utter *insert every swear world under the sun here*!!!
He is literally every guy I have ever hated all rolled into one fictional piece of shit. He played with Nora's emotions, led her to believe one thing when he knew one sentence could remedy his behavior and save her from a broken heart, picked and chose when he wanted to see her and often used physical displays as opposed to emotional honesty to rectify himself to her.
All of this made me have reservations about Nora's character, as well. She put up with so much disrespect and heartbreak and just seems to be rolling with it. I want my fiction to feature strong female role-models and she does not deliver on that front! I initially found her likable enough, but to fall for such an obviously dislikable creature has me questioning her sanity!
I am so done with this series! Obama out.
Let's start with guardian angel, Patch. Patch is a demeaning asshole! I disliked him in the first book and struggled to see what Nora found so attractive about him. Here, however, he is an utter *insert every swear world under the sun here*!!!
He is literally every guy I have ever hated all rolled into one fictional piece of shit. He played with Nora's emotions, led her to believe one thing when he knew one sentence could remedy his behavior and save her from a broken heart, picked and chose when he wanted to see her and often used physical displays as opposed to emotional honesty to rectify himself to her.
All of this made me have reservations about Nora's character, as well. She put up with so much disrespect and heartbreak and just seems to be rolling with it. I want my fiction to feature strong female role-models and she does not deliver on that front! I initially found her likable enough, but to fall for such an obviously dislikable creature has me questioning her sanity!
I am so done with this series! Obama out.
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Reading Progress
November 28, 2015
– Shelved
November 28, 2015
– Shelved as:
to-read
August 24, 2016
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Started Reading
August 25, 2016
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60.0%
"There seems to be a lot of filler in this book. Also, am I the only person in the world who actually really dislikes Patch?!?!"
August 26, 2016
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73.0%
"The only parts of this that are interesting are the dream sequences. The rest is just endless misunderstandings and miscommunications between all the characters that could have all been solved in one proper conversation. This is definitely suffering from middle book syndrome."
August 26, 2016
– Shelved as:
romantic-recollections
August 26, 2016
– Shelved as:
fantastic-fabrications
August 26, 2016
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Finished Reading
March 11, 2021
– Shelved as:
young-adult-books-read
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Vilda wrote: "That sucks! Sounds like a good choice to leave it. Great review, Dannii!"
Thank you guys. This book has a big ol' 'nope' from me.
I tend to get a bit ranty when I dislike something, so I tried to stick to my main points of discontentment here, haha!
I read these books at a time in my life where I felt an obligation to see every book and every series through. I don't think I ever DNF'ed a book and slogged through series that really weren't for me as if it was a contractual obligation to read them. I discontinued this series, after this book, and it really taught me that I could be okay with doing so and that I am not going to have an immediate affinity with something, just because I force myself through it. I guess, in a weird way, I owe this book a lot ;)