Nora Grey, a once normal teenage girl, stumbles upon an extremely attractive fallen angel who has saved her life more than once at this point. In the first book of this series, Hush, Hush , Nora Grey, a 16 year old, plain normal girl, set on GPA's exceeding 4.0 by a mile. Her whole life goal to never fail and live up to her full potential. That is when Patch, a new mysterious student, with no record on campus (known by sneaking into the school guidance office), stumbles along and attaches to Nora as much as she attaches to him.
In the second book, Crescendo, Nora and Patch, a deceiving couple, experience the worst fight with each other that they have ever felt pain twords. Then again, Patch can't feel physical pain, only emotional. Patch Cipriano, the fallen angel and guardian angel of Nora Grey, has grown distant to his girlfriend of 2 months, Nora. His eyes avert to Marcie Miller. Noras' Arch-enemy. But with all the frustration of the fight between the two, Nora would have hardly noticed Scott Parnell on any other day, an old friend from school. But little does Nora know, Scott is a friend of her actual dad and is her future almost killer.
I would say the theme of this book would be "You never really bury the hatchet" and that all comes back to Scott. When Nora keeps finding things about her past (that to her dismay, she doesn't want to know), she cant get the ideas to go away. Her 'hatchet' or past, is never ending. she is reliving what her family in the past did to keep themselves alive. The hatchet relives and never goes in the ground again.
In the quote " I thought he despised his branding. A new piece of information rose to the surface of my mind" (Fitzpatrick,350), all information now popping up shows. This is the process in which she has to ponder and think for herself a little more. To bury the past and never again bring it back. But yet Scott has brought it back. Also when this quote appears: " "I was given this when I was an archangel," he said. "To help me discern truth from deception," " (Fitzpatrick, 24). This part doesn't relate to Nora as much, but to Patch. Those are his words and what his experience is. He ends up giving his lifeline necklace to Nora and that is his history. The history he can't bury. As well as this quote " " My dad gave it to me a week before he was killed" " (Fitzpatrick, 25). this quote does show Nora's point. She gives Patch the ring her dad gave her before he died. She cant get the history away from this ring. She can't never let go of it and it all keeps coming back all the time to haunt her memory. Showing that this book is all under the influence of the theme "You can never really bury the hatchet."