Katie L. (kloughlin) reviewed on + 4 more book reviews
As aforementioned, the protagonist of this novel is Nora Gray, a sophomore (more about that later) at Coldwater High School (CHS) in Coldwater, Maine.
In case you were wondering, Coldwater is not a real town. I had to double check because the voice in the back of my head kept nagging about it. Man, what is it about paranormal books being set in nonexistence, shitty, little towns in frigid, northern states? Its as if supernatural creatures couldnt live somewhere real, warm, and sunny.
Enough about the state of setting in most paranormal novels and back to Nora. Shes a tightly-wound overachiever who focuses on her schoolwork more often than anything else. She works for the high schools online magazine (I shuddered every time they said EZine), visits the school psychologist every week, and has some eclectic interests we only learn about through Patch (more on him later as well) but never see her actually participating in. Noras father is deadmurdered in a dark alley or somethingand her mother is a real estate agent who travels for work one week out of each month, leaving Nora home alone often. Her mother employs a German woman named Dorothea seemingly to make meals for Nora when she isnt home. Together they live in an old farmhouse, which happens to be far away on the outskirts of town, where their neighbors are a mile away.
Read more: http://theparanormalreview.blogspot.com/2014/12/hush-hush-by-becca-fitzpatrick.html
In case you were wondering, Coldwater is not a real town. I had to double check because the voice in the back of my head kept nagging about it. Man, what is it about paranormal books being set in nonexistence, shitty, little towns in frigid, northern states? Its as if supernatural creatures couldnt live somewhere real, warm, and sunny.
Enough about the state of setting in most paranormal novels and back to Nora. Shes a tightly-wound overachiever who focuses on her schoolwork more often than anything else. She works for the high schools online magazine (I shuddered every time they said EZine), visits the school psychologist every week, and has some eclectic interests we only learn about through Patch (more on him later as well) but never see her actually participating in. Noras father is deadmurdered in a dark alley or somethingand her mother is a real estate agent who travels for work one week out of each month, leaving Nora home alone often. Her mother employs a German woman named Dorothea seemingly to make meals for Nora when she isnt home. Together they live in an old farmhouse, which happens to be far away on the outskirts of town, where their neighbors are a mile away.
Read more: http://theparanormalreview.blogspot.com/2014/12/hush-hush-by-becca-fitzpatrick.html
