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Jan 07, 2012

Lucy rated it:

Dru Anderson's life is deeply entangled with the paranormal. She's got a bit of the 'touch' from her father's side of the family, which amounts to a sixth sense for supernatural creatures and a little bit of something extra from her mom's side of the family as well. She uses these gifts as her father's helper in hunting and killing supernatural creatures that prey on humans.

Dru is also pushing a midlife crisis even though she is technically written as a teenage girl. She called ever More...

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Dec 19, 2011

Kira rated it:

Welp, I'm eating my words now.

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Dec 02, 2011

Thomas rated it:

To surmise my thoughts on this book, this series has serious potential. It was sort of like a mix between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Twilight and City of Bones. While the book itself was a slow start to hopefully something even better, by the end of the book I was heavily anticipating the next novel, Betrayals.

The book is about Dru, whose father is a hunter of sorts - except he hunts otherworldly beings in the Real World. Dru is pretty confident about her living situation until a z More...

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Feb 08, 2012

Judith rated it:

I realize that I cannot keep doing this to myself, reading books I do not like, that is, for the pure sake of getting it done. Because doing so just happens to be a waste of my time. It has taken me forever just to get 70 pgs into this!! I started another book after dumping this entirely, Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi and it is brilliant! At 70 pgs with Mafi's book, I never wanted to stop. With Strange Angels I always wanted it to end.

And make no mistake, I'm not hating without a reaso More...

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Nov 25, 2010

Mariel rated it:

I wanted this to be something other than it was. What I really wanted was Supernatural the show but with a teen girl. Frailty with one kid. Dru grew up hunting the big bad thing in the dark. Her dad allowed her to be put into those situations but in a half-hearted way. Care, one way or the other (I'd prefer the scary way). The revenge angle was watered down. Dru's motives were boring old inherited. Dru summed up: I'm gonna do what I wanna so buzzzz off. It could have been girl versus un-nature. More...

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Feb 27, 2011

Kristi (The Story Siren) added it

I liked this one, fast paced, action packed, paranormal page turner, er... urban fantasy.

The story was interesting. Dad and daughter engaged in a battle with all things that go bump in the night. This was something new for me. Not sure I understood why her Dad would put himself in harms way, when he is her only living family member, but I guess that just adds to the story.

Initially Dru annoyed me, I don't know exactly what it was but by the end of the story she'd grown o More...

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Dec 31, 2009

Laura rated it:

Strange Angels inhabits the same world as "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and Wicked Lovely (and a host of others). Dru (short for ?? - we never learn exactly) is special, seeing and hearing things in the Real World that the rest of us cannot see or hear. She and her father move a lot - so often that Dru doesn't always unpack when they get to a new home.

The only school class we see includes a very nasty teacher (and Dru's telling the teacher off is one of those "I wish More...

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Nov 24, 2009

Mishel rated it:

I haven't read any of Lili St. Crow's other novels yet but they are on my list and I'll get to them eventually. So I'm not familiar with her writing but I felt Strange Angels was a pretty good start to this YA series.

I found myself a little hesitant about Dru in the beginning. Her and her father have been jumping around from place to place ever since her Gran died. He's a hunter of all paranormal entities that go bump in the night and has been doing so every since Dru's mother died More...

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Nov 08, 2011

Jessie (Ageless Pages Reviews) rated it:

Strange Angels is my first entrance into the world and novels of the prolific author behind the Strange Angels, Dante Valentine, Jill Kismet and Hedgewitch series. I had high expectations for such an apparently creative and verbose author - some of which were met (I didn't hate Dru upon reading her, no ridiculously obnoxious love triangle ~~yet - I know it is coming don't spoil me!~~, not a total whitewash of the cast, great descriptions, interesting twists on vampire mythology/lore, the entire wulf More...

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Sep 22, 2011

Book Chick City rated it:

This is the first book in a new series by the author of the adult series featuring Dante Valentine. The story started of a bit slow for me and it took quite a lot of patience to keep reading and get to the good stuff, but it did come, eventually. A few chapters in and the story opened up. The scene with the Zombie bursting through the door had me gripped.

Initially I felt there were too many internal thoughts from Dru and not enough dialogue, which was the main reason I found this boo More...

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Jan 05, 2011

Theresa rated it:

I keep going back and forth on whether I liked this book or not. There were many things I did like, but just as many that I didn't.

LIKES:
* Graves - A very cool character. I almost wish HE was the main character

* The Mystery - What the hell is going on? :)

* Christophe - Another cool character.

* Dru - As the main character, she is pretty cool. Very realistically written most of the time... she goes through the shock and depression of having ba More...

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Apr 23, 2011

Alethea rated it:

http://bit.ly/rnslDru1 << Kimberly's review on RNSL

Hoping this will wash the rotting flavor of Forest of Hands and Teeth from my (reading) lips...

Ok! That worked.

Dru is likeable enough, though she's no cuddly-wuddly protag. She's deadly with a knife and though a little nervous around guns (usually her dad's the gunslinger) she knows what she's doing, in theory. Yet she's not 100% standoffish and anti-social (as Mary is in FoHaT). She seems to react reali More...

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Feb 14, 2009

Kim rated it:

Strange Angels is a fun start to a series that will appeal to any fan of Cassandra Clare or Scott Westerfeld . . . or the movie Underworld, which it more closely resembles. St. Crow delivers a tightly-written, fast-paced, novel full of paranormal action that exceeds the expectations set by the blurb on the back. I went in expecting the usual vampire/shifter/girl love triangle. And I got something so much better.

Despite the vampires, werewolves, zombies, etc. that inhabit St. Crow's w More...

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Feb 23, 2009

Sarah rated it:

Why do people who didn't watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer just assume that people who did were all about the werewolves and other monsters? That is not why Buffy has such a big fan base...most of us liked the human elements, the real-ness of the show, the characters.
So when someone told me I would like this book b/c I liked Buffy, well, humpf. Ugh...bad characters, stupid plot, and WHYYYY do people feel the need to re-spell words in their own mythology? Werewulf? please. This book was so ann More...

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Feb 14, 2010

WilowRaven added it

Have to say, I was a little skeptical at first - Zombies? Monster hunters? My first thought was, darn it, another cheesy horror book. I was so wrong! Not in the least bit typical. Yes there are zombies, as well as other baddies but the story is amazing! Some new twists on old ideas. The action is fast paced with enough real life scenarios to hold your interest. I really liked Dru's inter voice - funny at times, always truthful. She is tough but isn't immune to the things that are happening to he More...

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Jan 27, 2012

Milena rated it:

First off? Possibly one of my favorite books EVER. And I've read. A. LOT. Of books. Okay? Second? What the hell's not to like? It's hysterical, edgy, and most of all - realistic.

Er, well, not with the vamps and werwulfen and all the things that go bump-in-the-night, but the whole "I just wanna get the hell outta this place and find someone I know who can help me" type of deal. I HATE it when some books are all going off and doin' things and it's like, Oh my GOD that would N More...

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Jan 13, 2012

Katrina rated it:

okay, i'll give it to you guys straight. i didn't like this book.

its annoying and i'm damned if i have to listen to dru whine on and on about how unfair life is one more time! i mean seriously, i was expecting a kick-ass paranormal, strong warrior, not some girl who keeps clinging to guys like a hopeless romantic! okay okay, i know i'm not being fair but hey? what can you do? this is just my opinion.

its also saying something about the book when, since the first time i started More...

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Jan 11, 2012

Madison rated it:

This book is about a girl who's mom had died and she was left with her father.One evening she was left with 15$ and her dad was at his "Job" and she bought pizza and heard someone scratching at the backdoor.All of a sudden she opens the curtain and see's a...Zombie she runs up stairs and starts to freak out she opens her dads gun safe and gets a gun and she hears the glass. She puts the bullets in and she can hear the zombie trying climb up the stairs.Then...She shoots the gun right at More...

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Dec 14, 2011

Liyana rated it:

I like reading about girls who kick butt, but the things Dru has to go through even from the start? Wow. A hunter, she's somone who doesn't open up to outside people (meaning everybody) but she has to after her dad turns into a zombie and attacks her, and she kills him.

And that's just the prologue.

She's all alone, but lucky for her there's Graves, a classmate who took her under his metaphorical wing. After a lifetime of being close to her family members, I thought Dru grew up More...

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Oct 04, 2011

MaryAnn rated it:

If you are a fan of the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" television show, you are going to love this series by Lili St. Crow. This is not your typical girl has tradegy, enter boy, fall in love kind of story. This book (heck, the entire series!) is an action packed adventure., chock full of girl power. Fans of "The Vampire Academy" book series will appreciate the continuity of information St. Crow uses in her novels. You'll have to check out those books to to understand. Describ More...

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Sep 29, 2011

Erin rated it:

I really enjoy the Strange Angels books, mostly because of Graves, and I've ready every single one of the four books that have been published so far, AND I've read two of Lilith Saintcrow's series for adults...but Lili St. Crow is a terrible wordsmith, and sometimes it's difficult for me to get through her writing.

Okay, having gotten that off my chest, let's focus on the positive. The first chapter of this book is absolutely brutal in the best possible way. On the strength of this cha More...

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Sep 22, 2011

Kale rated it:

Slow start, Strange language

I love a good paranormal read. By the end of this one I was intrigued enough to see where it would go, but it started off rocky. The beginning of Dru's story was as slow as molasses, and for some reason it didn't feel like I was moving through the pages as fast as I thought I was, I would read two pages and it would feel like ten. I find that I don't like the heroine Dru as much as I should. I was really offended by the author's ethnic descriptions of Grav More...

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Sep 17, 2011

Melissa Paranormally Romanced rated it:

Okay so I read the first couple of chapters when I was first started reading Vampire Academy because it was on the last pages as a promo. I read them and I remember I didn’t want to keep reading. So I decided never to be interested in that book. Now there was two particular blogs that I follow and that shall remain nameless that Raved about this book. They said it was almost as good as vampire academy and it has to be read because it’s so good. SO I thought maybe I misjudged the book. So whe More...

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Sep 03, 2011

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Strange Angels tells the story of Dru Anderson, a teenage girl with “the touch” who travels around with her father hunting paranormal creatures. Kind of like what Sam and Dean from Supernatural do. Minus the hotties, of course. The story Kicks off when Dru’s dad gets zombified and tries to kill her. with nowhere else to go, Dru heads to the mall where she runs into Graves, a classmate she skipped More...

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Jul 21, 2011

Sam is currently reading it

I had this book recomended to me by a girl who ADORES all things paranormal, and a die hard twi-hard. To be fair, I'm the one who got her hooked on it, even though I've since gotten into other things. But without the mention of vampires here, and the fact the the GIRL was the one actually doing the work here was cool. And zombies. Awesome.

This woman has some major purple prose. Which is fine, once in a while, but it's overused here. Everything is overly described and drawn out. It' More...

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Jul 19, 2011

Emma rated it:

I wasn't terribly impressed with Strange Angels.

It's far from the worst paranormalromantictwilightwhatever book out there. Far from it. However, it's also far from the best.

It had a lot of potential to be pretty good; it's about a zombie slayer, right? Sort of. But it should have been good.

Really, it wasn't. I thought it was pretty flat. Dru keeps talking about the Real World and how it compares to the Normal World (or somehting... I can't remember exactly wha More...

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Jun 29, 2011

Book Rants rated it:

I've only read one other by this author but I already know I will keep buying books by Lili St. Crow. I gotta give St.Crow props for writing this with the same feel as a adult novel. I have seen many a author who write a YA novel after writing adult novels then the YA novel is dumbed down or there is less of the author's selves in them. Especially in the violence department. Night Shift (by Lili St Crow) had all the action and violence I tend to crave in an Urban Fantasy and I honestly did not t More...

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Jun 01, 2011

Clee rated it:

Irgendwie hatte ich mir mehr von diesem Roman versprochen, zumal die amerikanische Autorin Lili St. Crow ja kein Neuling auf dem Buchmarkt ist, sondern mit Dante Valentine und Kismet schon vorgelegt hat.

Am meisten Bauchschmerzen hat mir wohl die Protagonistin Dru bereitet, von der es hieß, dass sie von ihrem Vater zu einer knallharten Kämpferin ausgebildet wurde, und die dann doch die meisten Zeit am jammern ist. Wie passt das zusammen?
Ich bin mir sicher, selbst der Wind zwischen More...

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May 20, 2011

Shwetika rated it:

The book's great ... I first picked it up coz I thought the name's interesting . But as soon as I started reading I was sure I won't be able to put the books down and so it was . The story is interesting and all But the thing I like most about the book was writing . I just loved the writing style and then the whole "real world" thing and the way Dru handles it..
Well Here's the story

Dru Anderson, She is a teen age girl born with"the touch" i.e some speci More...

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Mar 09, 2011

Avery rated it:

If I had to describe this book in one word? Sheer fantabulousness (okay, so that was two words, but you get the point). This is hands down one of my most favourite book series ever and I seriously cannot get enough of it (I think that this is my 7th or 8th time reading it).

Typically when a book is slow in giving me answers I find myself getting more and more frustrated and oftentimes find that that frustration affects my rating of the book, but I don't find myself experiencing that wit More...

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