Helpful Score: 3
Book blurb:
Dru Anderson has what her grandmother called the touch. (Comes in handy when youre traveling from town to town with your dad, hunting ghosts, suckers, wulfen, and the occasional zombie.)
Then her dad turns up deadbut still walkingand Dru knows shes next. Even worse, shes got two guys hungry for her affections, and theyre not about to let the fiercely independent Dru go it alone. Will Dru discover just how special she really is before coming face-to-fang with whateveror whoever is hunting her?
Review:
Dru's mom died when she was young, and she ended up spending a lot of time with her grandmother and father. When her grandmother passes away, Dru must scour the country with her dad, a hunter, looking for paranormal beings to kill. With Dru's help using "the touch" her dad's hunts have been very successful, until one night when he goes without her on a hunt, and she fails to tell him about her bad feelings. With her father dead, Dru has to figure out how to survive on her own, decide who she can trust, and find the monsters responsible for her father's death. All this while watching her own back for whoever is hunting HER.
I really enjoyed Strange Angels, there is nonstop action which I love! Dru is a strong protagonist, but she also has her weaknesses like all teenage girls should have. She's scared and is determined not to let that show, even when she begins to feel vulnerable around her new friend Graves. St. Crow is a genius when writing intense and heavily emotional scenes. Her descriptions of the "real world" (no, not the reality show), which are shown through Dru's eyes, are dark, scary, and vivid. She has built a world full of intriguing creatures including; Zombies, Weres (werewulfen), Vampires (suckers), and all kinds of big and small monsters.
The only part that sort of got old was that Dru likes to repeat a lot of the same phrases or lines. Which I'm going to go ahead and say is because of the traumatic death of her father.
Overall Strange Angels was a very exciting book, and fans of Lilith Saintcrow's adult series will also enjoy her YA. I'm anxiously waiting to see what happens in book two of the Dru Anderson series.
Dru Anderson has what her grandmother called the touch. (Comes in handy when youre traveling from town to town with your dad, hunting ghosts, suckers, wulfen, and the occasional zombie.)
Then her dad turns up deadbut still walkingand Dru knows shes next. Even worse, shes got two guys hungry for her affections, and theyre not about to let the fiercely independent Dru go it alone. Will Dru discover just how special she really is before coming face-to-fang with whateveror whoever is hunting her?
Review:
Dru's mom died when she was young, and she ended up spending a lot of time with her grandmother and father. When her grandmother passes away, Dru must scour the country with her dad, a hunter, looking for paranormal beings to kill. With Dru's help using "the touch" her dad's hunts have been very successful, until one night when he goes without her on a hunt, and she fails to tell him about her bad feelings. With her father dead, Dru has to figure out how to survive on her own, decide who she can trust, and find the monsters responsible for her father's death. All this while watching her own back for whoever is hunting HER.
I really enjoyed Strange Angels, there is nonstop action which I love! Dru is a strong protagonist, but she also has her weaknesses like all teenage girls should have. She's scared and is determined not to let that show, even when she begins to feel vulnerable around her new friend Graves. St. Crow is a genius when writing intense and heavily emotional scenes. Her descriptions of the "real world" (no, not the reality show), which are shown through Dru's eyes, are dark, scary, and vivid. She has built a world full of intriguing creatures including; Zombies, Weres (werewulfen), Vampires (suckers), and all kinds of big and small monsters.
The only part that sort of got old was that Dru likes to repeat a lot of the same phrases or lines. Which I'm going to go ahead and say is because of the traumatic death of her father.
Overall Strange Angels was a very exciting book, and fans of Lilith Saintcrow's adult series will also enjoy her YA. I'm anxiously waiting to see what happens in book two of the Dru Anderson series.
Helpful Score: 2
This book is awesome. Everything that is real seems unreal is this book and yet, Dru takes us on a roller coaster ride as she loses her father and tries to avenge his death. Along the way, she meets Graves, a truly funny guy, who comes along for the ride and becomes her shoulder to lean on. Really liked this book a lot. Except...it made me really cold--lots of descriptions of snow in the Dakotas. I can't wait to read the next one.
Helpful Score: 1
Dru's father is a hunter of the things that go bump in the night. She's used to him being away and coming home in bad shape but when he shows up at the door dead(a zombie to be exact) she knows something has went terribly wrong. Now the people that killed her father are after her and she must figure out who she can trust with her life while also finding out things she never knew about herself.
I really enjoyed this one! The action grabs you at the beginning and never lets you go. I can't wait to find out more about Dru in Betrayals!
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I really enjoyed this one! The action grabs you at the beginning and never lets you go. I can't wait to find out more about Dru in Betrayals!
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Reviewed by Joan Stradling for TeensReadToo.com
As if being dragged from town to town and high school to high school weren't bad enough, sixteen-year-old Dru has to deal with ghosts, suckers, wulfen, and zombies.
When her father comes home from his latest hunt, things will never be the same for Dru. With her father no longer able to help her, she is left to fend for herself. And someone is out to get her.
With the help of her new friend, Graves, she manages to stay alive long enough for the mysterious Cristophe to find her.
But is he there to help or does he have other, darker motives?
STRANGE ANGELS is a fast-paced and exciting paranormal jaunt into Dru's life. Ms. St. Crow has developed wonderful characters and a plot that keeps the reader dodging wulfen and suckers right along with Dru and the others.
I look forward to the next STRANGE ANGELS novel.
As if being dragged from town to town and high school to high school weren't bad enough, sixteen-year-old Dru has to deal with ghosts, suckers, wulfen, and zombies.
When her father comes home from his latest hunt, things will never be the same for Dru. With her father no longer able to help her, she is left to fend for herself. And someone is out to get her.
With the help of her new friend, Graves, she manages to stay alive long enough for the mysterious Cristophe to find her.
But is he there to help or does he have other, darker motives?
STRANGE ANGELS is a fast-paced and exciting paranormal jaunt into Dru's life. Ms. St. Crow has developed wonderful characters and a plot that keeps the reader dodging wulfen and suckers right along with Dru and the others.
I look forward to the next STRANGE ANGELS novel.
Overall: If you want a recommendation for a young adult urban fantasy, I'd put this on the list. It has a serious, believable teen as a protagonist and the creatures that roam around in this book are really creepy. It's refreshing to read an urban fantasy aimed at teens that doesn't have a high school cliche as a main character because I don't recall knowing anyone really like that. Dru on the other hand is tough, but she's also vulnerable and scared and thinks that she's just a kid, and she is believable. This is the start to a very promising series.
Rather a different take on the whole vampire hunter thing. Dru, a hunter (sort of), is sixteen and totally alone when her father is killed. This is her coming of age story. The only problem is "what is she"? No one, including Dru really knows. Strange powers keep manifesting and she doesn't know why or how this is happening to her. Werwulfen (and a few other weird creatures) seem to be after her and her friend Graves (another loner from school who seems to be homeless).
When Christophe enters the picture, he tells Dru some things about herself and her family that she finds hard to believe. But it certainly seems to make sense considering what she's going through. When the shit hits the fan and Sergej appears, the fun really starts and the action is intense. A good start to the series with a wide open ending for many sequels.
When Christophe enters the picture, he tells Dru some things about herself and her family that she finds hard to believe. But it certainly seems to make sense considering what she's going through. When the shit hits the fan and Sergej appears, the fun really starts and the action is intense. A good start to the series with a wide open ending for many sequels.
Dru and her father fight paranormal creatures in The Real World. Dru must learn to make it alone when she is orphaned. Befriended by Graves, another loner, Dru sets out to survive a strange Dakota winter. 4 stars
I can honestly say that i deeply enjoyed this book...Dru has a great sense of humor and is incredibly determined, proving to be a strong heroine. If there is ever a fight you can always expect her to be the one it is over or the one that started it... I bought the first book and then went back to the book store the next day and bought the rest of the series...its addictive. The language isnt as deep and provoking as other books but it holds its own and kept me guessing. I came to fall for Graves a little bit faster than Dru did and was always wondering what would happen next... I thoroughly enjoyed this book and I think that as soon as this author comes out with another book I will be heading to the book store. Loved the characters though Im still not sure what i think about Christophe...
I was not able to finish this book because it irritated me so much. I made it 145 pages before I was disgusted with Dru that I had to put it down.
*Dru curses. A lot. Every other page it seems she says or things "goddamn". I don't mind some cursing, but it was fairly ridiculous.
*Dru calls everyone her own age "kid", which I guess is supposed to make her sound world weary, since she knows about the "real world" and everyone else lives in the "normal" world. But when she complains about people in a coffeshop who are talking on their cell phones, and it's obviously meaningless and frivolous (because, again, they don't know about the "real world"), I wanted to punch her.
*She is also racist. A secondary character is half-Asian, and she constantly refers to him as a half-breed. She even went so far as to say that he was lucky to not get the eyes most "half-breeds get stuck with."
I do not care what happens to Dru in this universe. At all.
*Dru curses. A lot. Every other page it seems she says or things "goddamn". I don't mind some cursing, but it was fairly ridiculous.
*Dru calls everyone her own age "kid", which I guess is supposed to make her sound world weary, since she knows about the "real world" and everyone else lives in the "normal" world. But when she complains about people in a coffeshop who are talking on their cell phones, and it's obviously meaningless and frivolous (because, again, they don't know about the "real world"), I wanted to punch her.
*She is also racist. A secondary character is half-Asian, and she constantly refers to him as a half-breed. She even went so far as to say that he was lucky to not get the eyes most "half-breeds get stuck with."
I do not care what happens to Dru in this universe. At all.
Everything changes for 16 year old Dru Anderson when her father leaves on a hunt and doesnt return. At least not as a human. Even though Dru and her father have been hunting other beings since her mother died, Dru has never been on her own, she has only used her special touch power to aid her father. Now she has no choice. Someone has changed her father into a zombie and that someone is coming after her next. Without knowing who she truly is and what her destiny is, Dru is left floundering until an unexpected helper in the form of a goth boy named Graves becomes her side-kick. The next savior to enter the picture is fanged and his name is Christophe. It isnt quite clear if Christophe is good or bad but Dru needs to know more about the supernatural world and he is the only one to give her that insight. There is something slithering in the night and it is getting closer so Dru will need all the help she can get.
I really enjoyed this first installment. I found myself cheering out loud for Dru. She is a very real character. Her vulnerabilities make her believable. It is a mix of Supernatural and Buffy, The Vampire Slayer and contains many great action scenes with the added mystery of why Dru is on the supernatural beings menu all of a sudden. This is great for the older YA paranormal lovers with caution to some that there are some descriptive gruesome scenes.
I really enjoyed this first installment. I found myself cheering out loud for Dru. She is a very real character. Her vulnerabilities make her believable. It is a mix of Supernatural and Buffy, The Vampire Slayer and contains many great action scenes with the added mystery of why Dru is on the supernatural beings menu all of a sudden. This is great for the older YA paranormal lovers with caution to some that there are some descriptive gruesome scenes.
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This is the first book I have read by Lili St. Crow & I loved it! I can't wait to start the next book in the series to see what is next for Dru. The story line is very good, it flowed smoothly, very well written & action packed.
I enjoyed this book and you will enjoy it if you liked the TV Series Supernatural.
Even though I'm an adult I really enjoyed this teen book. I think any teen would love this book. Be warned though, there is a good bit of foul language.
This was a slow book starting out. It took me a long time to get through it, but I didn't give up on it and I am glad I toughed it out. Dru is very reminiscent of the Winchester brothers of TVs Supernatural. She moves around a lot, lost her mother at a young age and has a tough as nails hunter father. I found so many parallels between the show and the book. However, Dru is only a teenager, she is girl, and she is practically alone.
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