Crescendo (Hush, Hush, #2) in vampire fans!!

Jul 17, 2011 Lydia rated it really liked it

Omg!!!!!! I absolutely LOVED it!!!!! Best cliffhanger evaaa!!! Although I must say throughout most of the book I was NOT happy with Patch and how much time he was spending with Marcie :P

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May 03, 2010 Michelle novelsontherun rated it really liked it

4.5 STARS OUT OF 5!!

I can't tell you how much I had been waiting for 'Crescendo'. I absolutely adored 'Hush, Hush' and Patch was my dangerous, in control, smexilicious, smart ass lead character. I was running in circles when I finished 'Hush, Hush'. I had PABD which apparently = Post Awesome Book Depression...lol!!

BUT!!!!!! ......Well I just have to say it....Patch has lost his 'mojo' in 'Crescendo'. As much as it pains me to say it, and it does pain me. If you were wanting smexi Patch from 'H 4.5 STARS OUT OF 5!!

I can't tell you how much I had been waiting for 'Crescendo'. I absolutely adored 'Hush, Hush' and Patch was my dangerous, in control, smexilicious, smart ass lead character. I was running in circles when I finished 'Hush, Hush'. I had PABD which apparently = Post Awesome Book Depression...lol!!

BUT!!!!!! ......Well I just have to say it....Patch has lost his 'mojo' in 'Crescendo'. As much as it pains me to say it, and it does pain me. If you were wanting smexi Patch from 'Hush, Hush' well he was there in a teeny way. Now let me explain. There were reasons for him being unable to be that guy and I unfortunately in my mind have made Hush, Hush almost souly about Patch which is not right...lol!!! My brain was one tracked and I was expecting Patch to be front and centre in this book the way he was in Hush, Hush. But as we know by now he is no longer a fallen angel, he is now Nora's guardian angel and guardian angels have to behave themselves or they get sent by the archangels to hell. Hence why Patch has lost his mojo , to a certain extent. I must selfishly admit I missed 'that Patch' dearly from Crescendo.

Putting that aside ( which was very hard to do) there are great "POW's "in this book. I love to have my theories and predict what is going to happen in books. Well I didn't see any of them coming. I have to admit, Becca knocked my socks off with her advertised twist/ cliffhanger at end of book. WOW!!!!!!! Wicked ending. It was more like you are free falling until 'Tempest' is released.

If I was to be truly honest and as much as it pains me to say, as I am a Becca Fitzpatrick fan, I did feel a tad let down by Patch not being around much in this book. Or around where he should be. I understand why, but I missed Patch. I missed his dangerous side, his smart ass character. He had another role in this book.

I think the best way for me to think about this was how most of us got to read all 4 Twilight books back to back in like a week ( many fans did do this) . We would have noticed after Twilight bk 1 if we had to wait a year to get New Moon and found no Edward hardly we would have been peeved a bit , then another year for Eclipse for Edward to be back in the book. But we got to read all 4 like within a week for most of us. So Edward not being around lasted like a day for some of us. What I am trying to say is if in 2 years time we stumbled across Hush, Hush series and we had 3 or 4 books to read back to back...Crescendo would be like New Moon where a fave character was missing or not as good . That feeling might only last a day or two until we opened Tempest and our Patch was back. But!! this is not the case so we have to be feeling a bit let down for like a year LOL!!! ..until Tempest and hopefully we back on track. If any of this making sense??? Hey the beauty of reading a series of books back to back.

Vee , I liked much better in Crescendo. She had some funny one liners. We were introduced to new characters, Scott and Black Hand. Rixon is back. Marcie is well Marcie, groan. Sooooo annoying but that is the beauty of Becca's writing. Marcie makes you feel like giving her a good hard slap and that means as a writer Becca has done her job nicely making us loathe the girl. Sometimes I wondered about the point of one character as well * scratches head* was it more a decoy for our minds.

I can't express how blind sided you will be with the POW's/ twist. Really well done Becca!!! When you think you have it worked out.......POW!!!!!!

Crescendo is essentially Nora's story , a mystery to solve, but I found sometimes I was a bit let down as the reader by Nora's jealousy rather than smexual tension. I want to say things about story line but it would give away so I can't.

Is Crescendo better than Hush, Hush? Well if I broke it down. POWS!!!! Crescendo was awesome , Patch's character not in a long shot. But that's what I will call New Moon Syndrome. Sometimes a character gets sacrificed but comes back to make up for it in the next book.

The book cover is of course gorgeous. I can't wait to see what Tempest cover looks like.

I am hoping for great things with 'Tempest'' . I hope it heads the way I think it's going to...... with that cliffhanger twist it sounds like it could be a very exciting book. ...more

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Mar 24, 2012 Aditi rated it it was amazing

Before I picked up this book, a lot of my friends warned me that the book had a lot of relationship problems and put u in a bad mood. I refused to believe them and decided to read the book for myself. However, after the first 20 minutes of reading the book, I was annoyed, agitated, and upset. The most baffling part was that I couldn't bring myself to stop reading it. Even if it was maddening, the plot moves fast enough to make u want to keep reading. It proposed several questions to keep u up an ...more

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Mar 19, 2011 Chisom rated it liked it

I think the first book was way better. Nora just kinda annoyed me a lot in this book. But i loved the twist in the end. Saying all that it was a pretty good book.

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