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Title: Strange Angels (Books 1-5)
Author: Lili St. Crow
Genre: YA Paranormal
Spoilers: Nahhhh . . . not really.
Overview:
Dru Anderson wakes up each morning with one goal: to survive another day. She has what her grandmother called “the
touch”. This comes in handy when you are
traveling across the country with your dad, hunting ghosts, wolves, vampires,
and the occasional zombie. Now that her
dad has entered the zombie category, Dru has a choice to make: Does she kill him for good or allow him to
live undead and kill her and everyone in his path? With her mom gone, her dad a vampire and her
best friend a werewolf, she has since learned her own blood is not entirely
human.
It's a good thing Dru Anderson is quick on her feet, because
the people (and I use this term very loosely) chasing her are not slowing down,
and one vampire in particular will not stop until he has her blood on his
incisors. When her best friend is captured,
Dru’s worst fears have come true. She
doesn’t think twice when she sets out to bring him back in one piece, at any
cost. Dru’s training kicks into
overdrive when she is face-to-face with her best friend’s tormentor and her
mother’s traitor.
My Opinion:
If you can just hold my hand through this, we’ll all be
okay. Strange Angels is, hands-down, one
of my favorite paranormal YA series.
Dru, Graves, and (okayyeahI’lladmit) Christophe are amazing characters
you can get lost in. Although Lili St.
Crow is not an amateur author by any means of the word, from Strange Angels
(Book 1) to Reckoning (Book 5), you can feel—not just read—the growth of the
author in the characters.
Throughout all of
these books, I was holding my breath until the end . . . and in the end the whoosh of breath I exhaled was out of
awe and frustration, but I’ll get to that in a minute. Dru is, for lack of a better phrase, a
certified ass kicker. And you know
what? It’s about friggin’ time. Throughout several YA dystopian novels we see
strong heroines who kick ass without bothering to take names. But I have found this is rare in the paranormal
genre. Sure, the main female characters
are essentially strong in their own right, but Dru is simply a sharp diamond in
the center of fragile glass. She’s
tough, but she has her moments when you wonder if she’s finally going to
break. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good
love story. Strange Angels has this
element, but survival is at the forefront of everything.
Now. Let me get into
the reason why I was awed and frustrated at the ending without giving away said
ending. Although there is an epilogue,
we never really find out what happens!
Oh. My. Stars. I don’t even . . . I just . . . what in the
world . . . can we just have a min—noooooooo!
A book series that has an open-ending drives me insane. But even now, long after I have finished the
series, I’m still thinking about it.
Well played, Miss St. Crow. Well
played.
I lovedlovedloved this series. I hope y’all will take a little time and
check it out. My advice: don’t forget to breathe.
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