Hush, Hush, by Becca Fitzpatrick

Hush, Hush, by Becca Fitzpatrick
Young Adult, 2009

Nora gets good grades, lives with her mom in a cool old farmhouse, and tries desperately to be a normal teenager. When she's partnered with Patch in her biology class, she's annoyed at how easily he can press her buttons - and how much time he tries to spend with her. But as she gets to know him, she realizes there's a dangerous secret surrounding this mysterious new love of hers.
Ok, first, I LOVE the cover. I'm not a cover person at all, but this one was just well done. Second, um...this is Twilight, but with fallen angels instead. I'm dead serious, it's completely parallel. She's an average teenager that gets good grades, lives with a single parent, lots of beat up cars in this one but a nice one for Patch...near death experiences and people out to get her, and realizing she's not so safe from Patch as she thought....and to top it all off she talks about how he smells good. Sound familiar? I will say that in my mind the fallen angels thing is a lot more believable than vampires, so it 'worked' better for me. There's also a lot more sexual tension than in Twilight, although technically nothing ever comes of it. If you loved Twilight, you will love this book. I did like it better than Twilight, but because of the writing I'm still grading it a B-. (Which is, incidentally, what I would grade Twilight.)