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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. "Strange Angels", definatley on my top ten favorites list, adventurous, dangerous and romantic. Dru Anderson is one fierce girl. Fighting zombies, vampires a.k.a "suckers", etc Most everything that is in your nightmares. Dru Anderson lives with her dad, but when something happens and she starts to live by herself, things start to get weird. Dru is a bold, draring adventures girl who is trying to rid the world of evil nightmares. As the main character and protaginist, she must figure out what will happen, and she needs to get the facts now. ( )Kearsten says: This. Was. Awesome. Dru Anderson's been traveling with her dad for years, hunting down and killing the sorts of things that go bump in the night. After an ugly time in Florida, Dru and dad have settled in a small Dakota town and her dad seems to be gearing up for another fight, but this time he tells her to stay home. When he returns, it's not him anymore, and Dru has to kill the zombie that was once her father before it kills her. Dru's gotta figure out what's going on quick, before the monster that killed her father, then resurrected him, gets her. And she has to do so with the help of a determined pretend Goth kid from school, all while her previously mild psychic ability seems to be...growing. Dru is a strong, smart girl who's scared outta her wits. She's sick with what has happened to her father (not to mention what she was forced to do to him), and terrified by the persistence with which the faceless bad guy is chasing her. Her emotional roller coaster feels very authentic, and Graves, the boy from school who helps her out and ends up getting dragged into the whole mess, is kind and admirably resilient. This story is fast-paced, scary, exciting, intriguing and bad ass. Definitely recommended!!! 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. This. Was. Awesome. Dru Anderson's been traveling with her dad for years, hunting down and killing the sorts of things that go bump in the night. After an ugly time in Florida, Dru and dad have settled in a small Dakota town and her dad seems to be gearing up for another fight, but this time he tells her to stay home. When he returns, it's not him anymore, and Dru has to kill the zombie that was once her father before it kills her. Dru's gotta figure out what's going on quick, before the monster that killed her father, then resurrected him, gets her. And she has to do so with the help of a determined pretend Goth kid from school, all while her previously mild psychic ability seems to be...growing. Dru is a strong, smart girl who's scared outta her wits. She's sick with what has happened to her father (not to mention what she was forced to do to him), and terrified by the persistence with which the faceless bad guy is chasing her. Her emotional roller coaster feels very authentic, and Graves, the boy from school who helps her out and ends up getting dragged into the whole mess, is kind and admirably resilient. This story is fast-paced, scary, exciting, intriguing and bad ass. Definitely recommended!!! Lili St. Crow generally writes dark, intense novels for adults. She is an offbeat writer, whose novels are a cross between cheap pulp fiction and arty film noir. In her first book for young adults, her style is muted and flattened. Strange Angels is still a dark novel, but St. Crow has lost the edge that makes her writing intriguing instead of bad. The characters are not as interesting, and the plot tends to spasm uncomfortably, like a dying fish. Particularly angsty teens may still enjoy this book, but all in all it is not a page turner.
St. Crow does a terrific job with the material. Dru's a likable, believable teenager: capable but not perfect; a bit sulky, but so would any kid be if they were thrust into her life. The plot's fast-paced and inventive. And there are all sorts of nice touches, like the boy Graves who squats in a shopping mall, or the way Dru finally deals with a bullying teacher.
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