Silence

Becca Fitzpatrick

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Publish Date: October 2011

Version: Hardcover print with Walmart exclusive

Series: Hush, Hush

This is the third book in this series.  It starts out with Patch talking with Hank Millar who is also known as “the Fist of Justice, Iron Fist, and most famously, the Black Hand.”  After this meeting, Nora mysteriously ends up in a cemetery after being missing for three months.  She doesn’t remember anything about being kidnapped or what happened to her during that three months.  Now that Nora has lost her memories of Patch, he has vowed not to get mixed up in her life to keep her safe.  That doesn’t work so well.

Nora is sure that there is more to the story of Patch and her kidnapping than what her mother and her best friend Vee are telling her.  Actually, they aren’t really telling her anything that would help her piece together her missing memories.  After finding out her mother is dating Hank Millar, who has divorced since Nora went missing, she takes off to find some solitude.  What she finds instead is Scott Parnell.  He answers some questions that she desperately wants answers to.  These answers only lead to more questions which Scott is in need of help finding the answers to.

Being the third book in this series, I am not disappointed.  I was kind of leery about how this book would turn out because there have been other series that I read where I was disappointed in the later books.  This book is full of excitement.  Having read the first two books, helps you to understand the back story, but it is not necessary to understand what is happening in this book.  I was happy to hear that there will indeed be a fourth book as this book did not give you the closure like a last book in a series should.

 

The noise between Patch and Nora is gone. They've overcome the secrets riddled in Patch's dark past...bridged two irreconcilable worlds...faced heart-wrenching tests of betrayal, loyalty and trust...and all for a love that will transcend the boundary between heaven and earth. Armed with nothing but their absolute faith in one another, Patch and Nora enter a desperate fight to stop a villain who holds the power to shatter everything they've worked for—and their love—forever.

•Even though Patch has good intentions of leaving Nora alone after she loses her memory, that doesn’t happen.

•That Nora’s mom and Vee try to protect her by not telling her the whole truth.

•Scott Parnell.  He gives Nora some of the answers that she is looking for.

•Having the version with Patch's view in it.  It tells the story of when Patch and Nora first met through his eyes.  You get to see some old characters like Rixon in this story.  I don't really remember the setting where they met, but it was interesting to read his thoughts.

•Hank Millar.  He is tricky, deceitful and uses people to get what he wants.

•Marcie Millar.  She has long been Nora’s rival.  In this book, she doesn’t have the total picture and does things for what seem to her to be appropriate reasons, but are actually not.  You kinda feel bad for her in this book because she is used by her father too.