Hi.
You were probably expecting a review of Kathryn Stockett's The Help. However, due to reasons of marking, I am going to wait until I have handed in my review and received a result, I shall refrain from posting the review.
However, I have another book for you.

Although not all my reviews are spoilery, which I do not consider this one to be, here is a little warning just in case.

Review Written: 3rd November 2012

Finale by Becca Fitzpatrick 

I think this is the first book series I have completed in a long time. Teen series that is. They are notorious for continuing for about 100 books. I am quite sad that the Hush Hush series finished at four. Alas, things do not last forever and Fitzpatrick ended on a good note. Things never got boring, dragged or had repeated storylines.

This book sees Nora Grey take up her role as the new leader of the Nephilim race. She has to be accepted as their leader, or she will die. With the help of Dante, who trains her, she will become a great leader. Except, Dante gives her devilcraft and she becomes addicted to it. Oh, and Dante is just a suspicious guy. War is coming between the Nephilim and the Fallen Angels, and Nora needs to lead her side to victory so that she, and her people, will be able to live out their lives in peace and not as vessels for fallen angels.

Patch is still as lovely as ever. I like how their relationship is on equal footing. She tells him that she does not deserve him. He agrees, telling her she deserves better. None of this, yeaaah, I'm good looking and you don't really deserve me nonsense. Fellow Nephilim Scott helps too in a bittersweet ending.

Two shocks are in store for you - one concerning Nora's best friend Vee and one concerning Scott. One happy, and one not.

It's a happy ending. I do like a good happy ending. I also believe characters in teenage supernatural books deserve happy endings for the amount of stuff they have to go through. However, it was sad saying goodbye to the world Fitzpatrick has created here. I hope to read more of her stuff soon.

NEXT REVIEW: RACHEL CAINE'S BITTER BLOOD

Although not all my reviews are spoilery, which I do not consider this one to be, here is a little warning just in case.

Review written: Monday 9th January 2012

Silence by Becca Fitzpatrick

I have a confession to make.

The previous book came out so long ago, that when I opened the third book, I was utterly confused.
It’s no-one’s fault, I am aware but perhaps fitting. You see, we start the book with the main character Nora, having lost her memory. When she finds out what happened previously, so do we, or rather so do I. Sure I remembered the basic plotline but not the tiny details that I feel necessary to create a good book.

The mysterious Jev, or Patch: I once read a magazine article during the vampire craze (which seems to be disappearing in replacement of angels) that exclaimed ‘every girl likes the idea of a bad boy.’ Patch is just that. He seems to ooze the same appeal as Meyer’s Edward Cullen but is a) more badass and b) protective but not obsessively so. Patch isn’t my favourite fictional badass - that title is firmly given to Rachel Caine’s Shane in Morganville Vampires, but Patch is a good second.

What I like about Nora is that she’s not annoyingly ungrateful like many young adult fiction female characters. She comes from a single parent family which is the theme in teen books, her father having died. Her character mirrors the book - it’s not whiny. The book is fairly fast paced, with plenty of action for Nora to endure!

The flaw of many teen books that have sequels, are that the sequels are often rubbish. Not the case with Fitzpatrick’s novel which is just enjoyable as the first. I’m very much looking forward to the next stage in Nora & Patch’s story.