{"id":1558,"date":"2009-08-01T21:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:31:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:31:19","slug":"strange-angels-by-lili-st-crow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1558","title":{"rendered":"Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365106269263850322\"<\/a>Let me start off by saying I was pretty sure I wasn’t going to like this book. I’m at near-saturation for vampires and werewolves, and I never was that fond of zombies. But when the writing is this clever, the characters this real and likable, and the plot has so much non-stop action, even a premise I don’t like can turn into a book that I, in fact, do.<\/p>\n

Dru Anderson has spent much of her life moving around, following her father, who is a hunter of…things. Supernatural things with bad intentions. Like vampires and zombies and stuff. Imagine if Buffy was, instead of a perky teenage girl, actually a protective dad with an arsenal that would rival that of a small Central American nation. And then there’s Dru, sixteen years old, with a sixth sense that her grandmother called “the touch”–for all the good it’s done her, since her mother and grandmother are both dead. <\/p>\n

And now, her dad’s left for a mission, and hasn’t come back. She’s stuck in this snowy northern town that’s nothing like the Southern states she’s used to, and her only friend is a weird goth-y kid named Graves–who, to my delight, was depicted as half-Asian…and then, to my confusion, this fact was harped upon repeatedly, but I have to say, that’s my only real complaint about the book. It has a reasonably fresh take on the whole hunter-of-supernatural-evils genre, and presents characters that inspire a lot of sympathy and intrigue. Its hidden strength, too, is that it depicts the process of coping with loneliness and loss with a great deal of sensitivity and depth. I’d say, if you liked Cassandra Clare’s City of Bones<\/i> books, or Holly Black’s dark faerie tales, you might enjoy this one. And it’s the first in a series.<\/p>\n

Buy Strange Angels<\/i> from an independent bookstore near you!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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