This is not that Hush, Hush, the crappy YA angel romance novel by Becca Fitzpatrick which, from the reviews I have read, seems to be -- unbelievably -- even worse than Twilight both in terms of writing and in terms of vile "creepy pedophile stalkers who are also abusive control freaks are totes romantic!" messages. I know, I have trouble believing it myself, but since I could barely get through a few chapters of Twilight, I don't think I'm even going to try skinning my eyes on an even worse trainwreck.

No, this time I went cruising on Authonomy, which is basically a great big online slushpile, but unlike FictionPress and a zillion LJ communities, Authonomy is backed by an actual publisher (Harper Collins), so with their rating system there is supposedly a miniscule chance that if enough people like what you post, it might get looked at by an actual editor who might be interested in actually publishing you.

I decided to conduct a very scientific random sampling: I clicked on the first title that caught my eye. Since my first thought when I saw Hush Hush was, "Oh, this would explain a lot," that's the title I clicked on. But it turned out to have nothing to do with the aforementioned book. Instead, it's literary historical fiction. It is described thusly:

Molly O'Connor leads a normal life until the dramatic events of a night out shape her life forever.

After a night out with some friends Molly is attacked. With the events of that fateful night locked away in her memory bank Molly vows to try to forget about the past and move on with her life, however months later Molly discovers that she is pregnant, a terrifying situation for a sixteen year old to find herslf in, especially in a strong Catholic Ireland in the 1930's. As a result Molly's relationship with her family are put to the test, none more so than with her brother Donal.

Meanwhile with the war raging through Europe and the birth of her son Molly is plunged into a whirlwind of terror and depression, however a surprise awaits her.

This is a highly emotional novel that will have you smiling one minute and reaching for the hankies the next!!

Oh, dear. Yet another book where the author couldn't even write a grammatically correct summary. And that's a really awful summary, grammatical errors aside. I could write a page of crits just picking apart each sentence.

( When Irish eyes are bleeding )

Verdict: Fail, though I'm going to say that for something available for free, it doesn't fail quite as hard as The Pack.