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| Hush Hush Series by Becca Fitzpatrick |
I've been so into the Young Adult (YA) genre lately that most of my to-read list consists of them, but I've said to myself that I am not picking up another vampire series, thus my current fixation on the Nephilim.
The first time I have encountered this name, this term was when I read Danielle Trussoni's "Angelology" (review in the works), and well since it's new (for me), even if the storyline did get to be a bit dragging somewhere in the middle, it got me hooked into the world of fallen angels.
The "Hush Hush Series" is the last series I've read from this sub-genre and I don't know if it's because of that that I didn't like the story or maybe it just didn't really cut it for me, or as I may have read somewhere, it's just plain bad.
The story starts with our heroine, Nora Grey. She's your typical protagonist, seemingly normal, oblivious to her looks, might not be totally pretty but the fact that she thinks she's average is what draws men to her, gets dragged into an unknown world, falls in love with the worst possible guy ever and all because he looks at her funny (and I mean that in every sense possible).
In comes love interest Patch Cipriano. I gotta hand it to Becca Fitzpatrick for giving her male protagonist a not so normal name and could be downright absurd but then again Patch is his nickname, so I guess its acceptable. As for Patch, well I guess I could also compare him to other love interests like that of Stephenie Meyer's Edward Cullen. He keeps giving our girl mixed signals like I-am-so-drawn-to-you-but-you-totally-have-to-stay-away-from-me-but-then-again-just-be-with-me-but-I'm-super-dangerous kind of thing.
[Spoiler ahead]
First of all, out of all the book covers, the only one that made sense to me was the first one, which is Patch being attacked by some invisible force which could possibly be the time his wings got ripped out by the archangels. The only book in the series where Patch has his wings is in book 2 "Crescendo" and his not even on the cover.
That isn't even what I imagined Patch would look like, why is his chest always out? Ugh it seems too gay.
Background check. Fallen angels are those angels that are banished to the earth for crimes they have committed against heaven. They have their wings ripped out by the Archangels. Meanwhile the Nephilim are the offspring of fallen angels and humans.
One of the punishment of the fallen angels is that they can't feel anything physically; in order for them to feel anything, they need to possess another body. Ideally, the body of a purebred nephilim, born from one fallen angel parent and one human parent, technically they are immortal so that makes them stronger than humans.
Now, for these fallen angels to possess a nephilim body, the nephilim have to swear an oath of fealty. Most of the time, these fallen angels use force to get the nephilim to swear the oath. Then they become the angel's vassal and once they've sworn in, that's when they stop aging.
The fallen angels can only possess their nephilim vassal, every year during the Jewish month of Cheshvan, and they get to abuse their possessed bodies to their hearts contents for the remainder of that season without any complaint from their vassal.
There begins the feud between Fallen Angels and Nephilims.
