Silence
Becca Fitzpatrick, 2011
Fantasy Young adultRomanceHorror
A girl wakes in a cemetery with months missing from her memory and a stranger who knows her name—YA suspense with fallen angels and dangerous romance.
Feels like serenity. About society.
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The childhood game you’d play in a place that now frightens you.
I stood at the foot of the sloping bridge, gripping the stone wall for support. I was sure the maybe-officer had seen me, but I moved into the shadows of the trees bowing over the river’s edge anyway. From my peripheral vision, the black water of the Wentworth River glinted. As kids, Vee and I had crouched under this very bridge, catching crawdads from the riverbank by inserting sticks speared with hotdog pieces into the water. The crawdads had fastened their claws to the hotdog, refusing to let go even when we lifted them out of the river and shook them loose in a bucket. Becca Fitzpatrick.Silence is the third of four Hush, Hush novels; the series was a New York Times bestseller and a fixture of the 2010s fallen-angel YA boom.
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Questions readers ask
- What is Silence like?
- Feels like serenity. About society.
- What should I read after Silence?
- If you liked Silence, try The Turn of the Key (Ruth Ware), The Last Thing He Told Me (Laura Dave) and Icebreaker (Hannah Grace).
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The line works as a thesis for the epistolary thriller: the narrator’s voice is both evidence and defence.
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How a tragedy hides inside an ordinary Tuesday.
This is the terrible thing about a tragedy. It isn’t with you every minute. You forget it, and then you remember it again.
The Last Thing He Told Me · Laura Dave
The moment an eating contest becomes a love language.
You ate twenty chicken nuggets in about four minutes. It was like you were in an eating competition, but you were the only contestant. I’ve never been more in love with you.
Icebreaker · Hannah Grace
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