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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Gutsy and action-packed, May 14, 2009
Dru Anderson and her father live an unconventional life; they travel across the continent, tracking and killing dangerous supernatural things. Thanks to her father, Dru is a physically strong, and due to her time spent with her superstitious grandmother, psychically strong as well.
At first, this new town in the Midwest is nothing new, and her father's unwillingness to allow Dru accompany him on his hunts familiar. But when he doesn't come home alive, Dru is forced to face reality. She's not as capable as she once thought, nor as smart. There are things about the night and the Real World that her father never revealed to her. And if she hopes to make it until morning, she'll have to draw upon everything her father and grandmother ever taught her and learn to trust.
Strange Angels is a fresh take on a popular subject in YA literature, showcasing a heroine that is strong, gutsy, and fallible. Fans of the TV show Supernatural will be happy to dig into this Pandora's Box of creepy-crawlies, blood-suckers, werwulfen, hexes, and many other assorted paranormal creatures and enchantments. Each supernatural creature possesses its own unique characteristics within the novel which makes Strange Angels stand apart from the mundane. St. Crow's writing is solid and wonderfully descriptive, and she skillfully balances out the novel with action-filled scenes and memories from Dru's past, transforming her world into a tangible and comprehensive one. Though she has a tendency to repeat herself in suspenseful scenes, St. Crow does an admirable job creating and building fear and apprehension. Her characters are well-rounded, the setting vivid, and the action scenes suspenseful: the perfect makings for a stellar new series that will spellbind readers and leave them begging for more.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Outstanding! (Dru Anderson #1), May 20, 2009
Sixteen-year-old Dru Anderson and her father travel town to town hunting "Real World" bad guys like blood suckers, wulfen (werewolf), and occasionally zombies. Dru's father has trained her well in self defense, weapons, and anything else he thought she may need. Turns out for Dru that it is just the beginning of what she needs to know. When her dad is killed, his corpse is reanimated and sent to kill her. Having to put down a zombie made out of her father's body is traumatizing enough. But Dru was never told about her real heritage. Her genes make her very special and she is beginning to bloom into her powers. Unfortunately it also makes her a blinking neon target for every Real World creature. One ancient night creature in particular is hunting her, the very one that killed her mother long ago and her father recently.
On her side, Dru has Graves, an orphan teen who has recently been bitten by a wulfen, and Christophe, a half-human vampire hunter. Both guys are interested in her affections and neither will let Dru walk into the upcoming battle alone. They just might help Dru to survive the week, if she can keep from killing them herself.
***** Move over Buffy! You have met your match with Dru. Or at least Buffy will once Dru gets fully trained. This is the first book in the Strange Angels series. No cliff hanger ending to irritate readers. This story ends in a place that will leave you satisfied but eager for the next installment. Lili St. Crow is a pen name for the award winning author Lilith Saintcrow. I did not know that as I began reading, but once I found out I could see the similar writing style. Though the series is for teens, adults will be just as hooked. Dru is taking names and kicking major butts! *****
Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Like Supernatural without the fun, September 4, 2009
For whatever reason the review I wrote before has gone poof so I'll repost my opinion.
The only good thing I can say about this book is that the author has a way with creating a certain atmosphere in it. Unfortunatly that isn't what I read for exactly. I'm a person who has to like or at least understand a character for me to get into their POV. It's and important factor when you're dealing with first person pov, IMHO, and I just did not like Dru. Like so many "urban fantasy" heroines in books these days she was the jaded, angry, generic badass female with no discernable sense of humor. She was rude to Graves for no apparent reason other than that he had the audacity to take an interest in her.
I gave up shortly after we're introduced to Graves, not because I disliked his character, but becasue it pissed me off the careless racial comments and the flippant use of the term "half-breed" to describe Graves. I'm not sure what the point of her repetative inner narrative about his ethnicity was, but it came off as offensive and uneccesary to me. Perhaps I'm reading too much into it in some people's eyes, but as a biracial person, whose been referred to in those sorts of terms before, I was suprised and angry to read this in a book, especially one aimed at a younger audience.
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