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Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow
May. 29th, 2011 11:36 pmThe Blurb On The Back:
If Dru can’t survive until sunrise, the game’s over …
Dru knows that The Real World – peopled with ghosts, suckers and zombies – is a frightening place. She’s ready to kill first and ask questions later, so it’s going to take her a while to work out just who she can trust.
Dru Anderson has been ‘strange’ for as long as she can remember, traveling from town to town with her father to hunt down things that go bump in the night. It’s a weird life, but a good one – until in an icy, broken-down town, a hungry zombie bursts through her kitchen door. Dru is going to have to use every inch of her wit and training. Can she stay alive long enough to fall for one – or both – of the guys hungry for her affections?
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Lili St Crow’s YA urban fantasy is an okay read, but Dru never gripped me as a character and key revelations about her take her too close to Mary-Sue territory for my taste, while the inevitable love triangle between her and two male characters has been done elsewhere too many times before. There’s a lot of set-up to the book, which I don’t doubt will pay off in later books, but I’m not interested enough to read on.
Thanks to Quercus for the free copy of this book.
Dru knows that The Real World – peopled with ghosts, suckers and zombies – is a frightening place. She’s ready to kill first and ask questions later, so it’s going to take her a while to work out just who she can trust.
Dru Anderson has been ‘strange’ for as long as she can remember, traveling from town to town with her father to hunt down things that go bump in the night. It’s a weird life, but a good one – until in an icy, broken-down town, a hungry zombie bursts through her kitchen door. Dru is going to have to use every inch of her wit and training. Can she stay alive long enough to fall for one – or both – of the guys hungry for her affections?
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Lili St Crow’s YA urban fantasy is an okay read, but Dru never gripped me as a character and key revelations about her take her too close to Mary-Sue territory for my taste, while the inevitable love triangle between her and two male characters has been done elsewhere too many times before. There’s a lot of set-up to the book, which I don’t doubt will pay off in later books, but I’m not interested enough to read on.
Thanks to Quercus for the free copy of this book.
