It has been ten years since we first met Johnny Merrimon and his best friend, Jack Cross, in The Last Child. A lot has changed in the years since Johnny wouldn't let his sister's disappearance go unsolved. Jack has become a lawyer, his mother has married Detective Clyde Hunt and Johnny is living on the 6,000 acres left for him in Hush Arbor. Over the last ten years, Johnny has gained a reputation for being a loner who doesn't take too kindly to strangers being on his land. Including the local billionaire, William Boyd. Boyd is desperate to get his hands on The Hush at any costs. Including funding a lawsuit that may cost Johnny his land, the basis of which goes back more than a hundred years. But when Boyd is killed during an illegal hunting expedition on his land, Johnny is the prime suspect. As the truth starts to come to light it is obvious that there is something much more sinister and Johnny's nightmares may be the key to solving not only Boyd's murder but all of the unusual events that have been happening in The Hush for more than a century.
I have been a huge fan of John Hart's for years and was eager to read his latest. I was a little surprised at the supernatural elements in The Hush. It goes all the way back to when Johnny's ancestors were slave owners. And one particular slave, Aina, who had unexplained powers. Johnny's great-great-grandfather was desperate to save his wife's life and was willing to make a deal to do just that. A key part of the story is that a descendant of Aina's, eighteen-year-old Cree, was having the same kind of nightmares as Johnny. Their connection was definitely supernatural and their hatred and distrust of each other went back more than a hundred years, but it was hard for both of them to understand why. One of the things that I did like about The Hush was continued and strengthened friendship of Johnny and Jack. It was the only pure thing about this book. Don't get me wrong, I liked The Hush, I really did. But it was hard to follow and I still don't feel like Boyd's death and the death of others in The Hush was ever fully explained. - CLICK HERE FOR SPOILERS Both Johnny and Cree tell of the of their dreams, causing the book to jump around in the timeline.
Bottom Line - John Hart has done a great job of creating a mystical world that requires his readers to suspend disbelief and just open your imagination to the possibilities of a force greater than you. Once you get a few chapters into it, The Hush is one of those books that you won't be able to stop reading!
Details:
- The Hush by John Hart
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- Pages: 432
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press
- Publication Date: 2/27/2018
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