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Hush: The Final Tainted Love Story
It was always her. Verna Firefly Dodd. She was the one woman in the world who understood me. It didn’t matter that I was born mute; I never needed to talk around her. She was beautiful and full of optimism, and she loved me too, but she shouldn't have.
It made her vulnerable. I made her weak.
I knew it, and yet I allowed myself to fall in love with her, for more reasons than I could count… But she wasn’t mine to love. She was my brother’s: his wife and his Firefly.
I’d learned to shove it down; after all, what could I say?
I was voiceless.
My inability to talk had made me an easy target in a world where judgments are harsh, and talking my way out of a troubling situation wasn’t an option. I needed Verna. She was my life raft on violent waters. My channel through the hush.
I may have come into the world silently, and I’ll leave it that way too…
But what I won’t do is go out without telling my side of the story.
And when wanting her pushes me past the breaking point, will I betray my brother and cross the line?
If anything is worth the risk, it’s her.
It made her vulnerable. I made her weak.
I knew it, and yet I allowed myself to fall in love with her, for more reasons than I could count… But she wasn’t mine to love. She was my brother’s: his wife and his Firefly.
I’d learned to shove it down; after all, what could I say?
I was voiceless.
My inability to talk had made me an easy target in a world where judgments are harsh, and talking my way out of a troubling situation wasn’t an option. I needed Verna. She was my life raft on violent waters. My channel through the hush.
I may have come into the world silently, and I’ll leave it that way too…
But what I won’t do is go out without telling my side of the story.
And when wanting her pushes me past the breaking point, will I betray my brother and cross the line?
If anything is worth the risk, it’s her.
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February 11, 2022
Cliffy has been so patient waiting in my TBR for as long as he has, silently giving me the finger when I started reading another book. So why did I leave him there for a while? It might be because I knew just how heartbreaking this book was going to be. Yes, I knew going in that this wasn't going to be a HEA; anyone who has read the Tainted Love trilogy and Whisper will know that. But nothing prepares you for the gut-wrenching, heart-ripping out emotion you feel when you read this story. It is heartbreakingly beautiful and so well written, especially when you consider the challenges facing this author, trying to convey what this wonderful mute character had to say. Getting to know him in this book just made giving him up that much harder.
These books are ones that will stay with you forever; they will take root in your soul.
These books are ones that will stay with you forever; they will take root in your soul.
October 26, 2021
I don't even know how to write a review about Cliffy's story.
It was so beautiful, and broke your heart to read about all the things he wanted to say, but couldn't. RC is the master of playing with your emotions, and tugging at every single muscle in your heart.
Once more, we got another viewpoint into the Tainted Love story, giving us a full 360 look on exactly what our favourite characters went through -- before, during, and after captivity. And the struggles they faced even after they escaped... GAH.
And even though I KNEW what was coming, it still destroyed me to read. In the way I love most of course.
Must read this series!
It was so beautiful, and broke your heart to read about all the things he wanted to say, but couldn't. RC is the master of playing with your emotions, and tugging at every single muscle in your heart.
Once more, we got another viewpoint into the Tainted Love story, giving us a full 360 look on exactly what our favourite characters went through -- before, during, and after captivity. And the struggles they faced even after they escaped... GAH.
And even though I KNEW what was coming, it still destroyed me to read. In the way I love most of course.
Must read this series!
October 15, 2021
This is the realest book I ever read! Intense, heartwarming and heartbreaking all in one. Loved learning more about Cliffy. And always good to hear from the rest of the gang. So sad this is the last time I'll visit with these characters... although I suppose I can just reread the Tainted Love trilogy until the end of time! Pick up this series immediately if you want unique!
November 13, 2021
HUSH is the third and final book of the TAINTED LOVE series by RC Christiansen, a husband and wife author team (more about them see below). I have read this book before reading the first two and although I recommend you to read Tainted Love (The Complete Trilogy), Whisper and Hush in their proper order, I had no problems following the plot or enjoying the superb storytelling.
It was strange. I saw the post announcing the future release of Hush on social media and fell in love with the main character Cliffy upon reading the blurb. It wasn’t just the normal feeling of “Oh, this sounds like a great book, I should pre-order it.” No, it was way more than that. Something called to me, deep down in the deepest recesses of my soul. I cannot explain it, I had no idea why but I’ve learned the hard way to better follow my intuition.
So I went with it, even though I was scared of the trigger warnings like the mention of child abuse. That’s why I didn’t read the first two books in this series, even though I loved the snippets the author posted and the reviews Tainted Love and Whisper received were full of praise. I was simply too scared of my anxiety spiking.
Throwing caution to the wind when it came to Cliffy Dodd, the mute younger brother of Ken Dodd, male MC of the first book, Tainted Love, I had just hit a dry spell in work between projects and because my daughter had fallen asleep in my bed it meant, I couldn’t listen to an audiobook as my phone fell down once too often and earbuds don’t work so well anymore and my current read being a paperback so putting on the light was out of the question as well, I reverted to my Kindle app where I found Hush had just been delivered.
I started to read and was enthralled. My heart was into the story from the first page. I felt with Cliffy, looked into his mind, saw what he saw and suffered along with him. The characters leapt off the page and it was as if I was standing in the middle of them, watching, observing, but not only their actions, their thoughts and feelings, too.
The author has a way of writing that makes you feel, you are living what the characters are living. And I would also like to add that as someone who listens to audiobooks in multiple genres, mainly from trade pub bestselling authors as the indie author community often doesn’t have their works published in audio format yet, I have to honestly say that to me, RC Christiansen can sure hold her own with the NY Time and USA Today bestsellers when it comes to storytelling.
Even though I had not read the first two books in the series, it didn’t take away the pleasure and understanding of reading the third instalment first, although I would still recommend you read them in their proper order. I plan to remedy this in the future. Because I am so in love with this author’s style of writing, the heartbreaking story that had me in tears, at other times, I wanted to punch my pillows, then again, my heart was flowing over with love for these beautifully broken souls that you feel you just want to hug and protect and tell them it’ll all be better. All this is worth facing my own trigger fears about the mention of child abuse and deeply tormented characters.
The way the author handled these issues were as sensitive as they were beautiful. There is a thin line between being horrifying and glossing over the horrors victims of child abuse have lived through. The author is as sure-footed as a circus artist balancing virtuously on a tightrope. The whole book with its myriad of details and occasional excursions into the past is a masterpiece of dark romance that hasn’t got a happily ever after but somehow, by the end of it, as you sit there and cry your eyes out, you will understand that the beauty of this story lies in its brokenness and the many things that these now adult abuse victims have in their behavioural patterns that are not what non-traumatised people have and why they ultimately don’t seem to fit into a reality that is judging and condemning them as harshly as if they were the culprits.
What moved me the most overall in these characters was the deep sense of loyalty they feel towards each other. Cliffy Dodd’s actions are all led by his unerring devotion to his older brother Ken and Ken’s wife Verna whom he is also in love with. Life deals them blow after blow and things happen because most people don’t understand the mute Cliff who cannot sign and misinterpret his intentions and actions. But although it bothers him and sometimes he wants to scream when he can’t, he finds his voice of expression in the tragic end of not only this book but the entire trilogy.
I cannot put into words all the varying emotions this book has taken me through on a rollercoaster ride. But I don’t hesitate to say, RC Christiansen has deserved her place with the great names right on top.
It was strange. I saw the post announcing the future release of Hush on social media and fell in love with the main character Cliffy upon reading the blurb. It wasn’t just the normal feeling of “Oh, this sounds like a great book, I should pre-order it.” No, it was way more than that. Something called to me, deep down in the deepest recesses of my soul. I cannot explain it, I had no idea why but I’ve learned the hard way to better follow my intuition.
So I went with it, even though I was scared of the trigger warnings like the mention of child abuse. That’s why I didn’t read the first two books in this series, even though I loved the snippets the author posted and the reviews Tainted Love and Whisper received were full of praise. I was simply too scared of my anxiety spiking.
Throwing caution to the wind when it came to Cliffy Dodd, the mute younger brother of Ken Dodd, male MC of the first book, Tainted Love, I had just hit a dry spell in work between projects and because my daughter had fallen asleep in my bed it meant, I couldn’t listen to an audiobook as my phone fell down once too often and earbuds don’t work so well anymore and my current read being a paperback so putting on the light was out of the question as well, I reverted to my Kindle app where I found Hush had just been delivered.
I started to read and was enthralled. My heart was into the story from the first page. I felt with Cliffy, looked into his mind, saw what he saw and suffered along with him. The characters leapt off the page and it was as if I was standing in the middle of them, watching, observing, but not only their actions, their thoughts and feelings, too.
The author has a way of writing that makes you feel, you are living what the characters are living. And I would also like to add that as someone who listens to audiobooks in multiple genres, mainly from trade pub bestselling authors as the indie author community often doesn’t have their works published in audio format yet, I have to honestly say that to me, RC Christiansen can sure hold her own with the NY Time and USA Today bestsellers when it comes to storytelling.
Even though I had not read the first two books in the series, it didn’t take away the pleasure and understanding of reading the third instalment first, although I would still recommend you read them in their proper order. I plan to remedy this in the future. Because I am so in love with this author’s style of writing, the heartbreaking story that had me in tears, at other times, I wanted to punch my pillows, then again, my heart was flowing over with love for these beautifully broken souls that you feel you just want to hug and protect and tell them it’ll all be better. All this is worth facing my own trigger fears about the mention of child abuse and deeply tormented characters.
The way the author handled these issues were as sensitive as they were beautiful. There is a thin line between being horrifying and glossing over the horrors victims of child abuse have lived through. The author is as sure-footed as a circus artist balancing virtuously on a tightrope. The whole book with its myriad of details and occasional excursions into the past is a masterpiece of dark romance that hasn’t got a happily ever after but somehow, by the end of it, as you sit there and cry your eyes out, you will understand that the beauty of this story lies in its brokenness and the many things that these now adult abuse victims have in their behavioural patterns that are not what non-traumatised people have and why they ultimately don’t seem to fit into a reality that is judging and condemning them as harshly as if they were the culprits.
What moved me the most overall in these characters was the deep sense of loyalty they feel towards each other. Cliffy Dodd’s actions are all led by his unerring devotion to his older brother Ken and Ken’s wife Verna whom he is also in love with. Life deals them blow after blow and things happen because most people don’t understand the mute Cliff who cannot sign and misinterpret his intentions and actions. But although it bothers him and sometimes he wants to scream when he can’t, he finds his voice of expression in the tragic end of not only this book but the entire trilogy.
I cannot put into words all the varying emotions this book has taken me through on a rollercoaster ride. But I don’t hesitate to say, RC Christiansen has deserved her place with the great names right on top.
October 25, 2021
Hush
By R.C. Christiansen
I've never been affected so deeply by a book before. I liked Tainted Love (the first book in this trilogy). I loved Whisper (book two). But this book is truly something special. If you've read the first two, you go in thinking you know the story. But you don't know it at all. Hush is the final book in the trilogy, and the most powerful of them all.
I laughed and I smiled. I hurt and I felt sad. I related to Cliffy. We all just want to be seen. We all just want to be heard. But Cliffy is mute, and without a voice, he feels even more invisible. Guilt over past events eat him from the inside out. The twisted ideal of Family First has been so deeply ingrained in him that it drives every decision, every thought, every feeling. He gives everything for his family. He gives up everything for his family.
I've cried while reading books. I've been torn up by stories. But I've never openly, ugly, unconsolable sobbed like I did at the end of this book. Knowing how it ends does not prepare you going in. Be warned.
Hush is more than a romance. It's more than just a story about unrequited love. It's more than just a story about brotherly love. It's all of these and more. This is truly the most shattering, most beautiful love story I've ever read.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
By R.C. Christiansen
I've never been affected so deeply by a book before. I liked Tainted Love (the first book in this trilogy). I loved Whisper (book two). But this book is truly something special. If you've read the first two, you go in thinking you know the story. But you don't know it at all. Hush is the final book in the trilogy, and the most powerful of them all.
I laughed and I smiled. I hurt and I felt sad. I related to Cliffy. We all just want to be seen. We all just want to be heard. But Cliffy is mute, and without a voice, he feels even more invisible. Guilt over past events eat him from the inside out. The twisted ideal of Family First has been so deeply ingrained in him that it drives every decision, every thought, every feeling. He gives everything for his family. He gives up everything for his family.
I've cried while reading books. I've been torn up by stories. But I've never openly, ugly, unconsolable sobbed like I did at the end of this book. Knowing how it ends does not prepare you going in. Be warned.
Hush is more than a romance. It's more than just a story about unrequited love. It's more than just a story about brotherly love. It's all of these and more. This is truly the most shattering, most beautiful love story I've ever read.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
December 6, 2021
Hush is tremendous. So raw, so touching … it left me speechless.
Hush is the last of the Tainted series, which describes the lives of four individuals who, as children, were kidnapped, then imprisoned and abused for years in a basement. It is not for the faint-hearted, nor for people affected by triggers.
While Tainted Love centres on Pax (and Vixen), and Whisper on Ken and Verna’s story… finally, Hush brings us Cliff’s narrative. All of them are raw, emotional and captivating, and each of the three angles gives a wonderfully unique perspective on a tragic story.
I would recommend reading them in order, although the three perspectives can definitely stand alone. What they give you is a heart-breaking story, with each one giving you different dimensions to love, loyalty and suffering ... and so much more. The characters are beautifully crafted and, in Hush, we finally get to see into the mind of mute brother Cliff … a man with so much to say, but with such difficulty communicating.
It’s difficult to find the right words to do justice to this stunning series.
Hush is the last of the Tainted series, which describes the lives of four individuals who, as children, were kidnapped, then imprisoned and abused for years in a basement. It is not for the faint-hearted, nor for people affected by triggers.
While Tainted Love centres on Pax (and Vixen), and Whisper on Ken and Verna’s story… finally, Hush brings us Cliff’s narrative. All of them are raw, emotional and captivating, and each of the three angles gives a wonderfully unique perspective on a tragic story.
I would recommend reading them in order, although the three perspectives can definitely stand alone. What they give you is a heart-breaking story, with each one giving you different dimensions to love, loyalty and suffering ... and so much more. The characters are beautifully crafted and, in Hush, we finally get to see into the mind of mute brother Cliff … a man with so much to say, but with such difficulty communicating.
It’s difficult to find the right words to do justice to this stunning series.
November 12, 2021
“ Having come into this world without a voice, I was given an even greater gift in return, my brother.”
Hush, the third, and last book in the Tainted Love Story series.
It brings us Cliffys story, Cliffy is mute but in no way quiet with his ways.
This book brings you a more in depth view into Cliffys relationship with his brother Ken and Verna, Kens wife.
We read Cliffys point of view, what he went through, his bond with family and his feelings towards Verna. You ain't ready for it.
R & C wrote another beautiful plot, having me gripped from the very start.
I loved the main character Cliffy and I will profess he's had my heart from book 1.
Verna and her sweet ways, the way she sees Cliffy and understands him, then there's Ken who's like a whirlwind, letting no one upset his brother.
This Series is one of my favourite of the year, and I was dreading the last book coming out as I knew this was the end.
R & C didn't disappoint, the emotions I felt. Damn. Heartbreaking, gritty and raw right to the very end.
Bring your tissues and leave you're at heart at home as it'll be broken.
Please take note of the Trigger Warnings and don't forget your tissues.
Hush, the third, and last book in the Tainted Love Story series.
It brings us Cliffys story, Cliffy is mute but in no way quiet with his ways.
This book brings you a more in depth view into Cliffys relationship with his brother Ken and Verna, Kens wife.
We read Cliffys point of view, what he went through, his bond with family and his feelings towards Verna. You ain't ready for it.
R & C wrote another beautiful plot, having me gripped from the very start.
I loved the main character Cliffy and I will profess he's had my heart from book 1.
Verna and her sweet ways, the way she sees Cliffy and understands him, then there's Ken who's like a whirlwind, letting no one upset his brother.
This Series is one of my favourite of the year, and I was dreading the last book coming out as I knew this was the end.
R & C didn't disappoint, the emotions I felt. Damn. Heartbreaking, gritty and raw right to the very end.
Bring your tissues and leave you're at heart at home as it'll be broken.
Please take note of the Trigger Warnings and don't forget your tissues.
July 26, 2022
In the life of a silent voice, lies a deep understanding of love. Those who simply Hush and listen with heart will come to know thoughts.
Such is Cliff’s perception, a story of a gentle man whose existence was sparked by a firefly.
R&C Christiansen had me mesmerized with the warmth Cliff exhibited for all that entered his world.
Such is Cliff’s perception, a story of a gentle man whose existence was sparked by a firefly.
R&C Christiansen had me mesmerized with the warmth Cliff exhibited for all that entered his world.
December 1, 2021
It’s a bold move, to write three books in a series which are essentially the same story but told by the main characters in their own words in each book. E.L. James did it (not very well, in my humble opinion,) but this… THIS is totally a different level. By the end of Book 2, you should be HUNGERING for this last instalment, the darkly tragic tale told from Cliffy’s point of view, of his short life after the kidnapping and abuse he, Ken, Whiskey and Verna suffered when they were growing up.
Stop. Come back. This ISN’T misery porn. The abuse is alluded to but there are no lurid details, no traumatic scenes replaying the horrors. By this book, we know the terrible things the four children endured, and how they coped with them – or didn’t cope, in Ken and Cliffy’s case. There are no sudden shocks. This is all about Cliffy’s way of coping afterwards, and the intensity of his love for Verna, his brother’s wife. It’s a dark love story in its truest form; heartbreaking, sexy and poignant.
Cliffy is mute, and his story has been told by Verna, Ken and Whiskey and Vixen, but he has never had the chance to express himself. In this book, we hear him for the first time; the man who cannot speak, cannot speak and cannot write. We learn he is intelligent, mathematically minded, even romantic. He expresses himself through anger and sex whilst his older, overbearing brother tries to control every aspect of his life in a warped effort to protect him. One of his biggest allies is Alecia, a bisexual rock chick who does her bit to relieve the constant ache Cliffy has inside him. She’s a great character who gives him the passion and understanding he deserves.
This has been an incredible series, a definite in my top 10 for 2021. You will fall in love with Cliffy, even as you know what the outcome is going to be. But don’t worry. He’ll be fine when he’s with his beloved Firefly. The ending is strangely beautiful.
Stop. Come back. This ISN’T misery porn. The abuse is alluded to but there are no lurid details, no traumatic scenes replaying the horrors. By this book, we know the terrible things the four children endured, and how they coped with them – or didn’t cope, in Ken and Cliffy’s case. There are no sudden shocks. This is all about Cliffy’s way of coping afterwards, and the intensity of his love for Verna, his brother’s wife. It’s a dark love story in its truest form; heartbreaking, sexy and poignant.
Cliffy is mute, and his story has been told by Verna, Ken and Whiskey and Vixen, but he has never had the chance to express himself. In this book, we hear him for the first time; the man who cannot speak, cannot speak and cannot write. We learn he is intelligent, mathematically minded, even romantic. He expresses himself through anger and sex whilst his older, overbearing brother tries to control every aspect of his life in a warped effort to protect him. One of his biggest allies is Alecia, a bisexual rock chick who does her bit to relieve the constant ache Cliffy has inside him. She’s a great character who gives him the passion and understanding he deserves.
This has been an incredible series, a definite in my top 10 for 2021. You will fall in love with Cliffy, even as you know what the outcome is going to be. But don’t worry. He’ll be fine when he’s with his beloved Firefly. The ending is strangely beautiful.
March 24, 2022
I knew that reading the prequel to the Tainted Love Trilogy, Hush, by the amazing RC Christiansen would hurt, but I didn’t expect it to reach into my body and take possession of my heart, tearing me to pieces only to leave me feeling more whole than I felt before reading it.
Verna, Ken, Pax and Cliffy— RC Christiansen has created four characters that are etched into my heart and that I know will never leave me.
I wish so desperately that I could go back, help Verna through her struggles, that I didn’t have to watch Ken and Cliffy take that final ride…
I want so much to protect Verna and Cliff, and even Ken, the loudmouth asshole who would die to protect his family, and who could never have been anything other than he is. How can his fate hurt so much?
But despite the hurt, the abject beauty of this type of pain is always worth it. Books like this move you, change you, make you see things swirling beneath the outer shell of people, of situations, of life.
RC writes so vividly that you feel the words in your gut. They resonate. They move you. They make you laugh out loud or crumple into a ball, trying not to weep once again.
There are lines in this novel so stunning that they stop you in your tracks, annihilating all other sounds until you finally exhale and take them in:
“I’m going home to my channel beyond the hush.”
Hush is a prequel and is more powerful once you’ve read the Tainted Love trilogy, but it’s written so skillfully, the backstory weaved throughout the piece so adeptly that you could get away with reading it as a standalone.
The entire series is a masterpiece and I know it’ll take me a while to recover from this one, but I wouldn’t take it back. The pain that these characters have endured, the type of pain that many have to endure, has to be brought to light and this author has done it in a way that could not be more moving.
Writing doesn’t get more powerful than this.
5 stars are not enough.
Verna, Ken, Pax and Cliffy— RC Christiansen has created four characters that are etched into my heart and that I know will never leave me.
I wish so desperately that I could go back, help Verna through her struggles, that I didn’t have to watch Ken and Cliffy take that final ride…
I want so much to protect Verna and Cliff, and even Ken, the loudmouth asshole who would die to protect his family, and who could never have been anything other than he is. How can his fate hurt so much?
But despite the hurt, the abject beauty of this type of pain is always worth it. Books like this move you, change you, make you see things swirling beneath the outer shell of people, of situations, of life.
RC writes so vividly that you feel the words in your gut. They resonate. They move you. They make you laugh out loud or crumple into a ball, trying not to weep once again.
There are lines in this novel so stunning that they stop you in your tracks, annihilating all other sounds until you finally exhale and take them in:
“I’m going home to my channel beyond the hush.”
Hush is a prequel and is more powerful once you’ve read the Tainted Love trilogy, but it’s written so skillfully, the backstory weaved throughout the piece so adeptly that you could get away with reading it as a standalone.
The entire series is a masterpiece and I know it’ll take me a while to recover from this one, but I wouldn’t take it back. The pain that these characters have endured, the type of pain that many have to endure, has to be brought to light and this author has done it in a way that could not be more moving.
Writing doesn’t get more powerful than this.
5 stars are not enough.
November 11, 2021
This book broke me in the way that only a good book can.
I found myself not wanting it to end - not wanting to come to the climactic ending, even when I knew full well what would happen.
I loved the relationship between Cliffy and Verna - I loved that he was seen.
Ken and Cliffy just added a whole other dynamic - a different layer to the whole damn story.
Cliffy's inability to talk made this book all the more heartbreaking and beautiful. What a paradox.
I sipped this book in small pieces - the feelings sometimes too much. Each word was so masterfully written that my heart had no hope of not getting involved in this tale.
I rooted for them even though I knew the outcome. I rooted for them even though it is just fiction. I rooted for them, even though everything within this book was an impossibility somehow.
Because they represent the misfits of this world - the underdogs - the ones who get looked over or mislabelled. And for that, my heart ached even more.
I am not okay after this story - but then, change does that to a person.
I found myself not wanting it to end - not wanting to come to the climactic ending, even when I knew full well what would happen.
I loved the relationship between Cliffy and Verna - I loved that he was seen.
Ken and Cliffy just added a whole other dynamic - a different layer to the whole damn story.
Cliffy's inability to talk made this book all the more heartbreaking and beautiful. What a paradox.
I sipped this book in small pieces - the feelings sometimes too much. Each word was so masterfully written that my heart had no hope of not getting involved in this tale.
I rooted for them even though I knew the outcome. I rooted for them even though it is just fiction. I rooted for them, even though everything within this book was an impossibility somehow.
Because they represent the misfits of this world - the underdogs - the ones who get looked over or mislabelled. And for that, my heart ached even more.
I am not okay after this story - but then, change does that to a person.
October 30, 2021
Hush
Damn this talented author for making me cry, and I was in tears on the bus. To begin this review, I started reading this book during an insanely busy time in my life, but whenever I had a break I was picking up my copy. I didn’t want to return to reality. I just wanted to keep reading.
Reading this book goes beyond any ordinary literary experience, this isn’t just a book, it’s a master piece. These characters are so real I kept thinking they were going to step out from the pages and say hello… or maybe other things. I’m sure Cliff would wave and smile.
I’ve read the Tainted Love trilogy and Whisper, I loved each of these, but it was incredible to see the story from Cliff’s perspective.
It’s almost impossible to choose a favourite, but Cliff is someone special. He says so much without saying anything at all. That’s the magic of this character.
I was delighted to learn more about him and the inner workings of his complex mind.
Cliff is amazing and so are all the other characters.
Great characters like this deserve an equally amazing plot.
Grab your tissues because you’re gonna need them.
This book has the darkness, but also light hearted moments that will surely warm your heart before it’s ripped from your chest.
This is truly dark romance at its finest.
Damn this talented author for making me cry, and I was in tears on the bus. To begin this review, I started reading this book during an insanely busy time in my life, but whenever I had a break I was picking up my copy. I didn’t want to return to reality. I just wanted to keep reading.
Reading this book goes beyond any ordinary literary experience, this isn’t just a book, it’s a master piece. These characters are so real I kept thinking they were going to step out from the pages and say hello… or maybe other things. I’m sure Cliff would wave and smile.
I’ve read the Tainted Love trilogy and Whisper, I loved each of these, but it was incredible to see the story from Cliff’s perspective.
It’s almost impossible to choose a favourite, but Cliff is someone special. He says so much without saying anything at all. That’s the magic of this character.
I was delighted to learn more about him and the inner workings of his complex mind.
Cliff is amazing and so are all the other characters.
Great characters like this deserve an equally amazing plot.
Grab your tissues because you’re gonna need them.
This book has the darkness, but also light hearted moments that will surely warm your heart before it’s ripped from your chest.
This is truly dark romance at its finest.
November 24, 2021
💙KU Read 💜
I recommend reading the Tainted Love trilogy and Whisper first.
Cliffy is my favorite, I just want to hug him tight. He is mute and so misunderstood. The only one that understands him is his brothers wife Verna. Ken thinks he understands what Cliffy wants, but he doesn't.
RC Christiansen wrote another heartbreaking story. Even though there is no happy ending, it was still amazingly written.
I love Liv, she is so sassy and adorable. I love her relationship with Cliffy and that she calls him the Shhh Man
I cannot recommend this series enough. It is a heartbreaking journey, but so worth it.
I recommend reading the Tainted Love trilogy and Whisper first.
Cliffy is my favorite, I just want to hug him tight. He is mute and so misunderstood. The only one that understands him is his brothers wife Verna. Ken thinks he understands what Cliffy wants, but he doesn't.
RC Christiansen wrote another heartbreaking story. Even though there is no happy ending, it was still amazingly written.
I love Liv, she is so sassy and adorable. I love her relationship with Cliffy and that she calls him the Shhh Man
I cannot recommend this series enough. It is a heartbreaking journey, but so worth it.
February 12, 2022
HUSH is the final book in the very wonderful Tainted Love trilogy.This is Cliffy's story and we get to know the beautiful man without a voice.He is loyal and he loves his bothers but his love for Verna shines throughout Hush.knowing how the story ends I treasured every detail written about Cliffy his sense of humour and his love for his family but the brilliant authors just know how to grab your attention it's the little things such as Clffy seeing his name in full written on the gun case just perfect.I loved this book but knowing it was the last in this trilogy was even worse.A beautiful ending to a beautiful trilogy beautifully written x
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October 25, 2021
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟/5
There are no words that can explain how I feel about Cliffy's POV. I cried the whole last quarter of this book and at least through half of the rest of it. There is so much emotion in this series and finally knowing Ciffy for who he is ... Well you gotta read it to feel it. I love every bit of this trilogy and can't wait to see what they come up with next.
There are no words that can explain how I feel about Cliffy's POV. I cried the whole last quarter of this book and at least through half of the rest of it. There is so much emotion in this series and finally knowing Ciffy for who he is ... Well you gotta read it to feel it. I love every bit of this trilogy and can't wait to see what they come up with next.
November 17, 2021
Hush, The Final Tainted Love Story
Cliff’s story left me speechless, it was emotional, dark and heartbreaking
This book completely gutted me so when you read this make sure you have your tissues ready !
This was a great addition to the trilogy and can’t wait to read more from this amazing author ❤️
Cliff’s story left me speechless, it was emotional, dark and heartbreaking
This book completely gutted me so when you read this make sure you have your tissues ready !
This was a great addition to the trilogy and can’t wait to read more from this amazing author ❤️
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