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Crescendo

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Nora and Patch's relationship runs into an angel rule, an old friend comes back to town, and the mystery of her father's death resurfaces

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Quick recap

Patch and Nora are together, but a guardian angel can't get involved with the person he guards, and he won't say he loves her. When Patch starts hanging around Marcie Millar, Nora's rival, Nora turns to Scott Parnell and fires Patch as her guardian. Marcie reveals Nora's mom had an 11-year affair with her dad, Hank, and Nora learns Hank is her biological father. In the end, Rixon, Vee's boyfriend and Patch's best friend, turns out to be the man who killed the father who raised Nora, and he tries to sacrifice her to win a human body. Patch stops him, and Rixon is sent to hell. Nora and Patch make up, and Hank asks Nora whether she killed Chauncey.

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Trivia

  1. Behind the scenesRewritten from scratch

    Her editor didn't like the first draft, so Fitzpatrick rewrote the whole book from the start.

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  2. Behind the scenesThe editor's idea

    Nora and Patch talking through dreams was her editor's idea, not the author's.

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  3. Behind the scenesTen weeks on the list

    Crescendo came out October 19, 2010, spent ten weeks on the New York Times best seller list and made YALSA's 2011 Teens' Top Ten, voted by teen readers.

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  4. SetupThe Black Hand

    A letter tells Nora the Black Hand killed her father. Hold on to that name: its story doesn't end in this book.

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