This follow up to Hush Hush was leaps and bounds better than the original. In fact, I was not even sure I was going to give Crescendo a shot, but I heard such good buzz about it. In Hush Hush, I felt that the characters were not developed as well as they could have been and Patch seemed a bit too one dimensional. In Crescendo, Fitzpatrick made me fall in lust with Patch,,, and I could see how Nora fell in love with him.