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- Referencenod to comics or other movies
- Cameoa familiar face shows up
- Setupplanted now, pays off later
- Behind the scenesproduction trivia
- Behind the scenesBorn in an online class
Becca Fitzpatrick started the saga after signing up for an online writing class. It took four years and several rejection letters before the first book came out in 2009.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesA debut pitched at Twilight fans
Kirkus called it a thrilling debut with an attention-grabbing cover and pointed it at Twilight readers. The same review found the ending rushed.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesOn the New York Times list
The book reached No. 10 on the New York Times best seller list. Rights to the saga sold in 13 countries.
source ↗ - ReferenceA graphic novel shaped by fans
In 2011, Sea Lion Books put out a graphic novel of this book, drawn by Jennyson Rosero. The author shared early art with readers, and some designs changed based on their feedback.
source ↗ - SetupRemember the word Cheshvan
Cheshvan shows up in this book, a calendar month that matters to the fallen angels' rules. It comes back later in the saga.
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- Behind the scenesRewritten from scratch
Her editor didn't like the first draft, so Fitzpatrick rewrote the whole book from the start.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe editor's idea
Nora and Patch talking through dreams was her editor's idea, not the author's.
source ↗ - 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.
source ↗ - 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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- Behind the scenesIt used to be called Tempest
The third book was announced as Tempest before it became Silence.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesIt was meant to be the last
The saga was first sold as a trilogy, with this book as the ending. Fitzpatrick changed her mind and wrote a fourth.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesTwo Goodreads nods
Silence was up for two 2011 Goodreads Choice Awards, including young adult fantasy and science fiction.
source ↗ - SetupThe name Jev
Nora meets a guy called Jev who saves her from an attack. Watch how he talks to her.
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- Behind the scenesOne more book for the fans
Finale exists because the author wanted a story set during Cheshvan and fans kept asking for a fourth book.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe end, in 2012
Simon & Schuster published Finale in hardcover on October 23, 2012, three years after the first book.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe movie that never arrives
Film rights were bought in 2012 and lapsed in 2014. A movie got the green light in 2021, with Liana Liberato and Wolfgang Novogratz as Nora and Patch, but it still hasn't been shot.
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