Book Review: Strange Angels (Strange Angels #1) by Lili St. Crow

 

Title Of Book: Strange Angels (Strange Angels #1)

Author: Lili St. Crow

Publisher: Razorbill

Rating: 3 Stars

Level: Young Adult

Genre: Fantasy, Urban Fantasy 

Source: Paperback - Purchased

Summary From Goodreads: 

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 with whatever—or whoever— is hunting her?

My Review:

Strange Angels is the first book in the Strange Angles series.  I believe that this is the first book that I have read of Lili St. Crow’s.  I started to read it and honestly thought oh no I am not going to enjoy this and might not even read past the first chapter.  BUT thank goodness I did because I was so wrong in not wanting to move past the first chapter.  I thought it was going to be about something entirely different and it turned out to be a good book.

 

Dru is a sixteen year old girl that lives with her dad.  They move around a lot from state to state because he is a hunter of things that go bump in the night.  Her mom and her grandma who were both special to her have both passed away.  Dru doesn’t really have any friends and doesn’t like to go to school because she moves around so much so why bother.  Dru does say what she is thinking even though it might be a little too much sometimes.  The story has them living in a midwestern town where winter is in full effect to which Dru is not a fan of.  One night her dad goes out hunting as he usually does but it’s when he returns that things go from bad to worse.  It’s only about a couple chapters in that the story starts to get really interesting.  On day at school she meets this teenage guy named Graves who she thinks is a bit odd.  It’s during class when she puts a hex on her teacher that sets the story in motion.  Dru knows some things like hexes and putting items along doorways to get the creatures of the night out.  But there is so much that she doesn’t really know about herself.  Who she really is and what she will one day be capable of.  There is another character that she meets that once again changes what she thinks she knows but I don’t want to give any spoilers away.  By the end I started to really like Dru and started to understand her a bit more.  I like Graves too, he is an interesting one who becomes protective of Dru do to some action packed circumstances.

 

The author doesn’t provide a lot of information about the characters backgrounds in this first installment but she did set up a great story.  I am looking forward to finding out more about the story and these interesting characters.  Overall a good read that I enjoyed.