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Strange Angels (Strange Angels #1)

by Lili St. Crow, Lilith Saintcrow (Goodreads Author)

3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 · rating details · 19,862 ratings · 1,532 reviews

In Strange Angels, Dru Anderson has what her grandmother called “the touch.” (Comes in handy when you’re traveling from town to town with your dad, hunting ghosts, suckers, wulfen, and the occasional zombie.) Then her dad turns up dead—but still walking—and Dru knows she’s next. Even worse, she’s got two guys hungry for her affections, and they’re not about to let the fier...more

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Published May 14th 2009 by Razorbill

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May 20, 2010 Kat Kennedy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: kat-s-book-reviews

So I have this habit that drives my family nuts. My husband just accepts it now and even does it himself because he's just so used to it. I ALWAYS put the subtitles on when I'm watching a movie. It's not because I have a hearing problem or anything. But sometimes important words are muffled, or they're odd words that I understand if I see written but wouldn't understand if they've only been spoken. Sometimes the background noise is too loud to hear what people are saying or maybe I'm just really...more

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Feb 17, 2011 Lucy rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: paranormal, wasn-t-for-me, disappearing-parent-syndrome, coming-of-age, gloomy, romance, young-adult

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 every human bein...more 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 every human being her age 'kid' as often as she could. This was meant to sound jaded and world fatigued but it made me agonizingly aware this was written by an adult who saw all teenagers as being one step out of their diapers. I really do understand the intent here. Dru has seen more shit than you have, kid. Unfortunately, I didn't feel like I was reading about a world-weary teenager. It didn't work and it should've been edited out or tempered with other more teenage moments, of which there are few unless you count the ZITS.

The author goes through great pains to let you know that Dru is not extremely attractive. She's got zits and greasy hair -- so she is totally not a Mary Sue... but that's where the line begins and ends. Dru is borderline too stupid too live and she's one of very few supernatural girls in Saintcrow's mythos. Frankly, I almost preferred Bella Swan stumbling around in a world she was too small to play in to Dru's condescending look at anyone who didn't know about the 'real' world. Yeah, the supernatural world = real world and the rest of us live in the normal world.

I found the character annoying, which sucks because I really wanted to like her, but I couldn't. Dru doesn't give a crap about how she looks, because that's for normal girls. I really hate how Dru kept equating girls who gave a crap about their appearance as food for the things who bump in the night. There's a line between vanity and using zit cream or running a brush through your hair. It's a huge line! I don't know who the author was at Dru's age, but I wasn't one of the girls who had a mirror in their lockers and watched every calorie they consumed and still managed to run a brush through my hair without feeling shallow.

Beyond Dru, there were some writing quirks that annoyed me. For instance every fucking thing halfway mentioned in the novel had a smell. Okay, we get an explanation for why Dru's sense of smell is on overdrive (sort of), but it was still totally distracting. There was less scene setting so much as olfactory torture setting and if I had a nickel for every time she mentions how one of the boys in her love triangle smelled like pastries I could get the next three novels without dipping into my own pocket.

The minor characters were okay, although there weren't a lot. It was really just the love triangle. There were a lot of borderline racist comments made about the appearance of one half-Asian character. Who really calls people of mixed race "half-breeds?" Like, where is that socially acceptable? Every time she talked about his half-breed skin color I kind of wanted to strangle Dru. I have a cousin who is half Chinese (and half Irish from my uncle). As a baby he had beautiful copper colored hair and green eyes with an Asian slant. Saintcrow's description of Graves make all half one race and half another race children sound slapped together with broken bits and pieces rather than anything that could possibly be genuinely attractive (although she does say Graves might be pretty someday when he's 40 like she is -- okay she didn't say 40 but it's so effing distracting for her to keep saying when he grows up he'll be cute. NOTE FOR THE AUTHOR: SOMETIMES TEENAGERS ARE ATTRACTED TO PEOPLE THEIR OWN AGE. OH THE CRAZINESS). I say all half and half very specifically because while it was Graves being described it was still done in such a BROAD way that it came out as racist.

Also, some of the world building and character outlines are sloppy. I know this from reading the second book. I won't include the details here, but seriously sloppy world building. I suspect Dru having the touch on her father's side is something that ought to have been edited out when the direction of the store changed, but then the writer decided 'what the hell, I'll make her super special on both sides!'

What fucking ever. I'm so over the Supernatural!Supermagical!Vaginas! Listen, Paranormal authors, having magic breasticles had been done before (Rachel Vincent's Faythe, Kelly Armstrong's Elena, etc). If your character can't be special without being the ONLY ONE OF THEIR GENDER then perhaps your character just fucking sucks nuts.(less)

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Apr 14, 2013 Judith (Judith'sChoiceReads) rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: shape-shifters, zombies-dead-things, the-horribles, cover-lust, cheesy, drama-angst-filled, dysfunctional-homes, fail, no-plot-no-story, un-finishables

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In Strange Angels, Dru Anderson has what her grandmother called “the touch.” (Comes in handy when you’re traveling from town to town with your dad, hunting ghosts, suckers, wulfen, and the occasional zombie.)

Then her dad turns up dead—but still walking—and Dru knows she’s next. Even worse, she’s got two guys hungry for her affections, and they’re 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

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Nov 25, 2010 Mariel rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Prayers for rain

Recommended to Mariel by: Fascination street

I wanted this to be something other than it was. What I really wanted was Supernatural the show but with a teen girl. 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. Struggle with more tha...more

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Nov 09, 2011 Kira rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: awesome-heroine, ghosts, werewolves, zombies, ya, non-shitty-vampires, awesome-ya, i-hate-that-i-love-you, lolwut

Welp, I'm eating my words now.

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Dec 11, 2011 Jeann rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult

Strange Angels really grabbed me because it sounded like Supernatural (the show) - a girl and her father out to hunt evil beings of the night. Unfortunately, what resulted instead was nothing like Supernatural but more aligned with the Buffy vibe, only with a whole lot of other creatures of the night.

While there's no doubt that this book is written quite well, I quite a few gripes with the book that prevented me from enjoying it too much.

1. A bunch of teenagers who keep calling each other 'kid...more

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May 01, 2013 Anushka rated it 3 of 5 stars

Recommended to Anushka by: Mishma Nixon

Shelves: fugly-covers, wishlist, vampire-fiction, bitchin, ebook, me-likey, put-me-to-sleep, surprisingly-good, ya, reviewed, fantasy

Phew. It’s over. It’s finally over!
God, this book was SO boring. It was really slow paced and really trite. I had a hard time keeping my eyelids open.

In addition to being such a drag, it also had a very dull setting and a thin plot. As if that wasn’t enough, our heroine was a no-nonsense, extremely serious person whose idea of fun was blowing up stuff and both the male sidekicks were annoying the hell out of me.

The writing was fairly good but the character description was not. There wasn’t eno...more
Phew. It’s over. It’s finally over!
God, this book was SO boring. It was really slow paced and really trite. I had a hard time keeping my eyelids open.

In addition to being such a drag, it also had a very dull setting and a thin plot. As if that wasn’t enough, our heroine was a no-nonsense, extremely serious person whose idea of fun was blowing up stuff and both the male sidekicks were annoying the hell out of me.

The writing was fairly good but the character description was not. There wasn’t enough information given so it was really tough to imagine how the character looked like. Dru was said to have frizzy hair, Christophe had blue eyes and a good-looking face but that was it. No other details provided to get to know the character better. Graves was a Goth Boy so we don’t need any description for that, I guess.
The story is well, nothing really. Dru Anderson has “the touch”, she can sense supernatural creatures and that’s why her Dad trained her to hunt and kill them, to protect herself. But things start going south when her father goes on a hunting trip and doesn't return. Nothing much of significance happened till half of the book. The story moved a little bit forward when Christophe arrived but still, they did nothing except talking.

What I did like about this was that the girl was not whiny. She took action and never acted on impulse, she thought everything through before doing anything. Second, I appreciate that the author decided her character to be aware of the World. The idea of a guy coming up on your doorstep one day and telling you that you aren't human and there are supernatural creatures out there which makes the heroine go in a state thinking her world is turned upside down is utterly beaten up. But still there were some things that Dru found out along the way which did turn her world upside down but she was able to take it better than those clingy girls.

And the best part about this book – NO ROMANCE! *fist pump*
There could’ve been a love-triangle but there wasn't. Thank God for small favours! I think there will be in the future books but lets not worry about it now. All in all, it was a good book you can say. It is one of those books which irritated you but still you don't feel like giving it less stars. Plus, I think this series has lot of potential in store. I’ll definitely read its sequel someday and pray it isn't as boring as this one.
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Jul 31, 2010 Thomas rated it 3 of 5 stars

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 zombie infilt...more

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May 29, 2009 Kristi (The Story Siren) rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: books-i-own

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 on me. Graves on the othe...more

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Jan 29, 2009 Laura rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2009-mt-bookpile

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 I'd said that to my witch-teac...more

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Apr 09, 2012 Petra Sýkorová rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: czech, rc-review, vampires, young-adult

Kdyby nebylo Richelle Mead, která rozhýbala veškeré dění okolo téhle nové upíří série, nejpíš by Lili St. Crow zůstala jen u jednotlivých útržků příběhu. A to by byla veliká škoda, protože se mi tahle upířina moc líbí. Je totiž něčím jiná a chytlavá...

Autorka píše pod dvěma jmény - jako Lili St. Crow napsala sérii Andělé noci, která začíná vycházet u nás, a jako Lilith Saintcrow má na svém spisovatelském kontě série pro dospělé Dante Valentine, Jill Kismet a Watcher. Lili se narodila v Novém Mex...more Kdyby nebylo Richelle Mead, která rozhýbala veškeré dění okolo téhle nové upíří série, nejpíš by Lili St. Crow zůstala jen u jednotlivých útržků příběhu. A to by byla veliká škoda, protože se mi tahle upířina moc líbí. Je totiž něčím jiná a chytlavá...

Autorka píše pod dvěma jmény - jako Lili St. Crow napsala sérii Andělé noci, která začíná vycházet u nás, a jako Lilith Saintcrow má na svém spisovatelském kontě série pro dospělé Dante Valentine, Jill Kismet a Watcher. Lili se narodila v Novém Mexiku a lásce k psaní propadla v deseti letech. Momentálně žije ve Vancouveru ve státě Washington v domě plném koček a dětí.

Dru od svých pěti let, kdy jí zemřela matka, žila se svým otcem u babičky doma. Ale když jí zemřela i babička, začala s otcem cestovat z města do města... a zabíjet veškerou špatnou nadpřirozenou havěť Skutečného světa. Ty se totiž nejraději živí obyčejnými lidmi. Jenže když se jednou její otec vrátí z akce krapet mrtvý, přesto stále chodící, Dru ví, že na všechno zůstala sama.

A tak hledá místo, kde by se mohla na chvíli, než ta bolest v srdci přestane, schovat. Narazí na svého spolužáka ze školy, Gravese, který jí nabídne místo pro přenocování. Jenže jako by si Dru všechno nadpřirozené a nebezpečné samo vyhledávalo. Graves skončí pokousaný vlkodlakem a svět Dru se zase o trochu víc zašmodrchá. A jako by toho už tak nebylo málo, na scéně se objeví Chritophe, který je nějak zapletený do smrti jejího otce a který tvrdí, že Dru je velice, velice důležitá...

Knihu jsem v originále četla, tudíž jsem mohla porovnat, nakolik je český překlad věrný originálu. Před samotným čtením jsem měla z překladu poněkud obavy, jelikož jsem si přečetla několik názorů, v nichž si čtenáři na překlad spíše stěžovali. Dru totiž mluví dosti hovorově, slangově a spíš nespisovně. Není tomu tak ale celou dobu a její jazyk je opodstatněný.

Mně tedy vůbec nevadil a po pár stránkách jsem si na něj zvykla. Dokonce dávám oba palce nahoru za to, že překlad některých scén vyzněl přesně tak, jak by měl. Jediné, co mě trochu mrzí je, že došlo i k překladu polských slovíček do češtiny. Ta občasná polština dávala knize takový lehký šmrnc cizokrajnosti. Za mě určitě překlad na jedničku.

Příběh mě chytnul díky svému odlišnému pohledu na upíří světa vůbec svět nadpřirozena. V prvním díle se spíš víc seznamujeme se samotnou Dru a tím, jak se vyrovnává se svým životem. Dru jsem si okamžitě po přečtení prvních pár stran zamilovala. Není to typická hrdinka podobně zaměřených knih. Ano, ve Skutečném světě se pohybuje už nějaký ten pátek, ale vždycky v jejich likvidaci hrála pouze sekundanta. Hlavou všech operací byl vždycky její otec.

Děj má spád, prvky překvapení, děs i hrůzu a akčnost. Samozřejmě také dva představitele opačného pohlaví, po kterých můžete tajně vzdychat. Já osobně jsem se dosud nerozhodla, na čí straně stojím spíš.

Kniha mě i v češtině velice bavila. Zhltla jsem ji celou za jeden den a znovu prožívala tytéž pocity, jako při jejím prvním čtení. Za sebe dávám velice zasloužených 5 hvězdiček a doufám, že si budu moci brzo v češtině vychutnat i své oblíbené scény z pokračování.

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Jul 23, 2012 Genie rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: series-hope-to-be-series, kick-ass-mc

Strange Angels was a book that was hard for me to get interested in. The issue with the story is that some things are so over described that alot of times I just wanted to rip my hair out!! Then to the other extreme it felt as if I had missed something and I was flipping back to see why I was outta the loop. I guess for some it could be enjoyable I however am not really interested to read another one.

I will be updating this review soon!!

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Nov 24, 2009 Mishel Zabala rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: arc, to-buy

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 years ago. Dr...more 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 years ago. Dru is slowly learning what she can about hunting since her father only allows her to tag along sometimes as back up. She's got a gift, kinda like a sixth sense, or the "touch" as her Gran likes to call it. She does have skills in fighting and knows how to use a gun. But at sixteen, she's pretty much mad at the world when she's introduced. Having to jump from school to school so many times she longs to be normal.

At school Dru tries to remain as aloof as possible. It doesn't help much when she meets Graves, a half-Asian goth kid who wants to befriend her despite her reluctance. She tries to push him away but he's one persistent boy. Kinda like a stray puppy that keeps begging, Graves just doesn't refuses to take "No" for an answer. Despite all that there's just something about him that calls to Dru. It may be the fact that she just longs for a friend to confide in, but how can she possible tell Graves anything about her life?

Tragedy strikes after Dru's dad doesn't come home after one of his solo missions. Dru is left on her own and quickly becomes a target for all the paranormal boogiemen. She ends up relying on Graves whether she wants to or not. And Graves becomes deeply involved after he gets bit by a werewulf. So they are pretty much stuck together and Dru continuously blames herself for Graves' predicament.

Later on they are helped by Christophe, a half-breed vampire called a djamhir, who knows more about Dru than she could ever imagine. She doesn't want to trust him but he seems determined to look out for her... And it is here where I will stop with the summary and leave the rest for you to find out =) Evil I know lol

I do want to say that the beginning really didn't do a lot for me. While I liked the story, I didn't really get into it until the last third of the book when Christophe was introduced. Not that he was my favorite character - I just felt the story really came alive in the last part. While I didn't love the novel I'm probably going to be picking up Betrayals which comes out in November.
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May 20, 2013 Josheka rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: above-average, fantasy, ok-ok-read, supernatural, teen, thriller, wanted-to-strangle-the-heroine, werewolf

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Strange Angels was an ok-ok read for me. The author probably wanted to make it an action-packed novel with a kick-ass heroine, but I'm sorry to say that I couldn't find anything kick-ass about Dru.
She was just a self-absorbed, whiny brat who was too stubborn to consider anything else except what she believed in and what her daddy dearest told her to believe in. Throughout the story, Dru seemed to keep looking down on normal people who didn't know about the so-ca...more More of my reviews @ Reading 24x7

Strange Angels was an ok-ok read for me. The author probably wanted to make it an action-packed novel with a kick-ass heroine, but I'm sorry to say that I couldn't find anything kick-ass about Dru.
She was just a self-absorbed, whiny brat who was too stubborn to consider anything else except what she believed in and what her daddy dearest told her to believe in. Throughout the story, Dru seemed to keep looking down on normal people who didn't know about the so-called "Real World". Her views were painfully shallow and quite frankly, dumb.

There were several other issues I had with this book. The cover pic and the title didn't match the story at all. The summary was quite misleading as while reading it you might think that this would be a YA paranormal romance but it isn't. I couldn't find ANYTHING romantic in it. It's just the story of a dumb girl who has been killing supernatural stuff that goes bump at night for a long time and so she thinks she knows everything and when she's proved wrong, she whines. And gets annoyed. And does stupid stuff that made me roll my eyes A LOT.

I'm not saying there were no good parts in the story because there were. It's just that the number of issues I had with this book were more than the good parts. For example, I liked the slow and steady building of Graves' and Dru's relationship, and yet at the same time I literally hated Dru for unreasonably treating Christophe like crap. She just kept on ignoring the fact that if it wasn't for Christophe, she would've been dead several times already. No, she was too busy thinking of her petty problems to actually consider being a little more nice to him.

I also didn't like Graves that much. I guess, he was okay as far as the guy stuck in the love triangle (who's obviously not gonna be chosen in the end) goes. But I didn't find any quality of his that would make my like him. Honestly, he was just as shallow as Dru.

Another thing I didn't like was the repeated use of how everything smelled. Yes, okay I get it that the djamphir smelled like apple pie and the evil supernatural stuff smells like waxy,rotten o bad oranges with a bitter taste. You don't have to put it in again and again. It's disturbing and not at all fun to read.

I actually expected this book to be a lot more than I found it to be. It was pretty disappointing but hopefully in the next book, Dru will start acting a bit more mature and the story would be much better than this one.

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Jul 19, 2012 Adela Cacovean rated it 2 of 5 stars

"Altfel de Îngeri" este o carte pe care am precomandat-o de la editura Leda în urmă cu vreun an, dar de care nu m-am atins până de curând, având pe raft alte cărţi pe care doream să le citesc mai mult. Totuşi, i-a venit şi ei rândul în momentul în care am plecat pentru 3 zile în Ungaria şi aveam nevoie de o carte care să mă ţină ocupată seara, înainte de culcare.
La un rating atât de uriaş pe Goodreads, mă aşteptam să fie ceva super, mai ales că descrierea mă atrăgea (altfel de ce aş fi cumpărat...more "Altfel de Îngeri" este o carte pe care am precomandat-o de la editura Leda în urmă cu vreun an, dar de care nu m-am atins până de curând, având pe raft alte cărţi pe care doream să le citesc mai mult. Totuşi, i-a venit şi ei rândul în momentul în care am plecat pentru 3 zile în Ungaria şi aveam nevoie de o carte care să mă ţină ocupată seara, înainte de culcare.
La un rating atât de uriaş pe Goodreads, mă aşteptam să fie ceva super, mai ales că descrierea mă atrăgea (altfel de ce aş fi cumpărat-o?). Şi aşa a şi fost, cel puţin în primele capitole.
Dru Anderson şi tatăl ei călătoresc din oraş în oraş în căutarea şi vânarea creaturilor întunericului şi dezlegarea blestemelor. Ajunşi într-un oraş înzăpezit, totul se schimbă, pentru că tatăl ei, plecat singur la vânătoare se întoarce a doua zi... sub forma unui zombie dornic să o ucidă pe Dru, iar aceasta e nevoită să-l ucidă.
Dru Anderson ar trebui să fie o tipă dură, sau cel puţin aşa ne spun descrierile cărţii şi aceeaşi impresie ne-o dă şi personajul de-a lungul capitolelor. Mie, însă, nu mi-a plăcut de ea de nicio culoare. În primul rând, nu ştie niciodată ce vrea. Spre exemplu, pe de o parte ar vrea să aibă un adult grijă de toate, dar, pe de altă parte, când cineva cu mai multă experienţă i se iveşte în cale şi îi oferă ajutorul, Dru refuză să renunţe la controlul pe care îl are asupra situaţiei, riscând vieţile tuturor celor implicaţi.
Un alt lucru care m-a călcat pe bătături la ea a fost felul ei de a pune aceleaşi întrebări, dar aici e vina autoarei. Un acelaşi defect l-am observat şi la Graves, care repetă în mod obsesiv şi enervant aceeaşi frază care se presupune a fi amuzantă, şi care a şi fost, înainte să fie repetată după fiecare favor sau ajutor pe care i-l face lui Dru. ("Prima dată e gratis.") Apoi, înţeleg că e foarte afectată de moartea şi transformarea în zombie a tatălui ei, dar chiar nu era nevoie ca autoarea să dea copy-paste la aceleaşi replici rostite de acesta şi la care se gândeşte Dru de fiecare dată când are necazuri şi/sau e nevoită să lupte.
Lumea supranaturală e construită destul de prost, deşi autoarea are câteva idei destul de bune. Păcat că nu le-a valorificat. De ce spun asta? Pentru că de fiecare dată când trebuie să fie oferită o explicaţie mai detaliată, aceasta ori nu există, ori e foarte succintă. Nu aflăm prea multe nici despre vieţile personajelor prezente în roman, deşi probabil vom afla pe parcursul seriei şi tot ce ştim despre trecutul lui Dru e foarte vag, chiar şi pentru o persoană care nu îşi aduce aminte de prea multe din copilărie.
Mi-au plăcut, totuşi, câteva lucruri, motiv pentru care îi şi acord cărţii un rating de 2 steluţe din 5. Ideea bufniţei bunicii, prevestitoare de evenimente deosebite, în special rele, e foarte... tare. Scenele în care Dru o urmăreşte, ca pe o fantomă-călăuză sunt pline de suspans, lucru ce mi-a mai îmbunătăţit părerea despre carte. O altă treabă interesantă este separarea lumii supranaturale de cea obişnuită. Şi mai drăguţ e faptul că lumea supranaturală e numită cea Reală, deşi nu sunt sigură de ce mi-a surâs această denumire. Dar nu la asta voiam să ajung, ci la aşa-zisele localuri frecventate numai de cei care cunosc despre existenţa Lumii Reale şi la faptul că în magazinele de obiecte oculte se află şi lucruri oculte adevărate, deşi ascunse şi oferite doar anumitor clienţi - idee ce iarăşi mi-a atras atenţia, întrucât nu am prea întâlnit-o în alte cărţi de genul.
Cartea o recomand celor foarte pasionaţi de genul Young Adult şi pe care nu îi deranjează unele lipsuri, pe care le-am enumerat mai sus. Voi citi şi al doilea roman, pe care îl am de ceva vreme în bibliotecă şi sper că e mai bun decât acesta.(less)

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Jul 29, 2012 Abyss rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, i-own, paranormal, urban-fantasy, rc

Spolu s naším světem existuje i ten Skutečný a v tom se rozhodně vyplatí hlídat si dobře vlastní záda - zombie, upíři, vlkodlaci a jiná havěť - po krku vám toho může jít opravdu hodně. Dru Andersonová žije ve světě hrůz již od chvíle, kdy ztratila matku. S tátou míří od města k městu a snaží se alespoň trochu snížit počet pekelných zplozenců.
Do pozice lovné zvěře se dostane ve chvíli, kdy otec překročí práh jejich domu jako zombie. Dru se ani v těch nejhorších snech nikdy nezdálo, že by měla boj...more Spolu s naším světem existuje i ten Skutečný a v tom se rozhodně vyplatí hlídat si dobře vlastní záda - zombie, upíři, vlkodlaci a jiná havěť - po krku vám toho může jít opravdu hodně. Dru Andersonová žije ve světě hrůz již od chvíle, kdy ztratila matku. S tátou míří od města k městu a snaží se alespoň trochu snížit počet pekelných zplozenců.
Do pozice lovné zvěře se dostane ve chvíli, kdy otec překročí práh jejich domu jako zombie. Dru se ani v těch nejhorších snech nikdy nezdálo, že by měla bojovat o vlastní život právě proti svému otci. Vlnu otřesení ale velmi brzy nahradí podezření, a na povrch se dostává mnoho otázek, na které Dru nedokáže odpovědět. Tuší ovšem jedno, někdo - něco - po ní jde...

Mohl by se vrátit, říkala jsem si. Co když uvíznul někde ve sněhu? To se stává. Někde uvíznul. Nebo v něčem.
Tak volal a tys to neslyšela. Protožes byla tuhá.
Nebo se mu něco stalo.

Příběh Dru Andersenové dokáže své čtenářstvo rozdělit na dva tábory již během několika prvních řádků. Celý překlad je totiž laděn do nespisovné češtiny, čímž kniha získává ještě o něco větší ráz než její anglický originál - a to se i v něm autorka s ničím nemazlila. Kniha díky tomu opravdu působí více svérázněji a úsečněji. Mnoho čtenářů ovšem právě nespisovnost v knihách nevidí moc rádi, i díky tomu pak může jejich hodnocení nemálo poklesnout. K drsnému životu lovkyně-vše-možné-havěti, ale jednoduše patří - ono už jen když vyrůstá v motelových pokojích, je porůznu na cestách, a pro informace razí do barů plných ostrých hochů - bylo by opravdu s podivem, aby nám z hrdinky vyrostla načesaná a vzorně vychována dáma, co se již těší na svůj debutantský večírek. A na Dru se mi pak nejvíce líbila asi právě její lidskost - vyvíjí se - a že to s tou neohrožeností lovkyně ani trochu nepřehání.

... pokračování recenze - http://abyss-mystery.blog.cz/1207/and...(less)

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Jan 28, 2013 *Lily's Labyrinth* rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: paranormal, may, 2009, finished, 300pg, wolves, magic, zombies, vampires

Well I was looking forward to reading this book and was kind of disappointed. To me is was slow and boring. Nothing really exciting happened...sad

In the book we have Dru a human girl paranormal hunter with her dad, she has witch powers like hexing. There's Graves a gothic asian boy who helps Dru after he was killed and turned into a zombie. Graves was bit by a werewolves and he becomes half a were. Theres is also Christophe, he is a vampire, helps Dru by killing werewolfs, knows about her and he...more Well I was looking forward to reading this book and was kind of disappointed. To me is was slow and boring. Nothing really exciting happened...sad

In the book we have Dru a human girl paranormal hunter with her dad, she has witch powers like hexing. There's Graves a gothic asian boy who helps Dru after he was killed and turned into a zombie. Graves was bit by a werewolves and he becomes half a were. Theres is also Christophe, he is a vampire, helps Dru by killing werewolfs, knows about her and her family and helps her out with info and getting out of town.

Her dad was turned into a zombie, Dru had to kill it. Graves moved in with her, he's a foster kid, tall, dark hair and green eyes. Since her grandma died, Dru has seen a white owl, it shows up when there something good or bad about to happen. Christophe also moves in with her to protect her, they don't really like each other. He tells her, that Dru is also part vampire just like her mom, and someone, who killed her mom and her dad is trying to kill her too since there aren't any girl vamps left. Sergej is the Vampire killing everything and anyone, they want to find him and kill him. Christophe is part of the Order, like her mom was, August Dru's dads friend is also. Dru is attacked by a snake with wings Dreamsnatchers they are called, it was meant to kill her. Dru and Graves try to get away in her truck when wolfs appear and attack Christophe, they make it to a place where they're meant to find someone who could help but instead Dru finds her dads wallet and necklace, and the Vampire Sergej, he tries to attack her, the owl fights him, Chris shows up with wolfs and attack him, later when they get alway Chris says they were betrayed so he sets up a place where Dru and Graves could learn and train. A school. They get picked up by a helicopter and meet Cory another teen in the Order.

So this book was kind of boring to me. And it did get annoying how she said the same things over and over and over again, like we didn't get the first time she said it a page ago, shesh, yeah your dad was turned into a zombie, yeah you don't know by who, yeah you don't know what to do, yeah we get it. I kind of thought she would be stronger not just physically but mentally, she did go hunting with her dad alot so I thought she would be a kick ass girl, but no, she cried and complained alot, idk if to continue reading the series.(less)

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Nov 08, 2011 ☆Jessie☆ (Ageless Pages Reviews) rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: supernatural-fiction, owned-copy, series-ongoing, horror-zombies-gore, reviewed, 2011-reads, 2011-reviews

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3.5 out of 5

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, in...more

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Aug 13, 2012 Malxox ♥ rated it 3 of 5 stars

3.5 Stars!

I had a hard time putting three stars and not letting it reach four, just becuase it really was a good book, and I do plan on reading the others... But, I couldn't seem to just like it. It's hard to explain. But it's like at first I couldn't get into it--almost set it down at one point-- and I just couldnt get to anything good.
Then the good part came and I really liked it, and read quicker. Then it slowed again and I stopped for awhile. I would often tell myself to go read and not eve...more

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Mar 28, 2012 Anya rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: came-out, 2009

Finally finished, it took me some time. But considering that I'm supposed to learn for my tomorrows exam, not bad.

All in all the book wasn't bad, it just didn't keep me hooked, I will probably read the rest in the series but I give it some time. Now I'm looking forward to something else.

Dru wasn't bad character, no superhero girl who's gonna save everyone but the whole story lacked SOMETHING. If I really look at the whole book, there really wasn't much going on. Her dad died, she met "this kid"...more

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Sep 22, 2011 Book Chick City rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult, book-list-2009, urban-fantasy

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 book difficult...more

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Jul 22, 2009 Theresa rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy, ya, 2009

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 bad stuff happen to her and (somewhat) suffers the conse...more

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Apr 23, 2011 Alethea rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Buffy fans, but not if you're looking for big smoochies--there are none.

Shelves: zombies, vampires, too-short, series, sci-fi-fantasy, paranormal, ghosts, shapeshifters, fiction, boys-and-girls

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 realistically to things like kindness, th...more

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Feb 14, 2009 Kim rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: psychics, young-adult, zombies, action, vampires, shifters, arc, own

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 world, at the...more

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Feb 23, 2009 Sarah rated it 3 of 5 stars

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 annyoing....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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May 21, 2013 Aishwarya Hariharan rated it 3 of 5 stars

Strange Angels is a difficult book to categorize.

I loved: a) the plot, whatever little bit of it escaped Dru's horrible storytelling skills. It was original, it was different.
b) well, I hated the word 'dhampir' the first time I read it on the back of Bluebloods and I thought it would never change but it has. I am sure Lili St. Crow has a great world out there for us. If only Dru would actually ask someone about it. Honestly. I was literally begging her to ask Christophe. Something, anything. I...more

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Apr 05, 2013 Cassie Todd rated it 3 of 5 stars

I finished this book in two days. I gave it 3 stars because well...I finished the book. I'm a picky reader and have been know to put a book down mid-sentence so It was good enough for me to finish. However, I haven't decided if I want to continue reading the series.

The storyline is very interesting and the authors writing style is great. However, every character has the same vocabulary. It's a small detail but one that drives me crazy. In real life unless your like related or spend a lot of tim...more I finished this book in two days. I gave it 3 stars because well...I finished the book. I'm a picky reader and have been know to put a book down mid-sentence so It was good enough for me to finish. However, I haven't decided if I want to continue reading the series.

The storyline is very interesting and the authors writing style is great. However, every character has the same vocabulary. It's a small detail but one that drives me crazy. In real life unless your like related or spend a lot of time together, people don't talk like each other. The characters use "kid" too much. Not everyone says "kid" its not a common word that every common person uses. Then there is "my dad used to say" or "my grandma use to say". Which is fine when its one character says because thats how she thinks. But then Graves starts to says "my stepdad use to say". I mean how does everyone remember what their parents use to say I don't even half of that. And what about how many times does every character says "Jesus!".

Dru is also retarded sometimes. I hate it when I figure out the who did its and whys, chapters before the main character, and the whole time your reading your just waiting for the character to catch on. And to be honest I don't think thats how character is meant to be portrayed, because eventually Dru does say something that kinda implies she might have known but just hadn't thought to mention it. But it just makes the character come off as an idiot. Hopefully if I pick up the next book the author does a better job of making me aware that the character does know whats going and isn't oblivious.

And my last and final complaint is the author tends tells us things whether than show us. I felt that when Dru was depressed about her father. Dru kept saying she was upset over and over again. I was just like come on Lili use your describing words. Instead of "I'm sad about my dad" I want " as I rest my head on the table the idea of doing anything but cry seems impossible." (obviously I'm no writer) Thats all i want. I mean we can obviously infer she is upset about her dad you don't have to have the character say it over and over again.(less)

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Feb 28, 2013 Anna rated it 5 of 5 stars

I really liked this book. I read a lot of fantasy books, but this book has two very big pluses, that A LOT of the other books are missing.
First: Dru kicks ass! I like that. It's not like she's some kind of super-woman that can handle everyting without even blinking. No. She's a fighter. She fights even though it is difficult, even though she bleeds and even though the opponent is much bigger than her. I love books with tough girls as main character!
Secound: The book is full of unpleasent emotion...more

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Feb 17, 2013 Khanh rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: werewolves, vampires, urban-fantasy, ya, quest, paranormal, kick-ass-heroine, high-school, boarding-school, action

One of the more enjoyable YA paranormals I've read lately. The heroine has been trained for this her whole life, but holy shit she is a normal teenager (besides being knowledgeable of the paranormal world and stuff, ya know?). Her dad is killed, and so what if she's had training and they've been on the move for years? She's a kid, she's frightened out of her mind, emotional, and unsure of what to do next. Her friend Graves is a good sidekick. He's got flaws, but he's not a complete asshole, nor...more

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