Book Review: Betrayals (Strange Angels #2) by Lili St. Crow

 

Title Of Book: Betrayals (Strange Angels #2)

Author: Lili St. Crow

Publisher: Razorbill

Rating - 3 stars

Level – Young Adult

Genre – Fantasy, Urban Fantasy

Source – Paperback (own)

Summary – From Goodreads

She’s no angel...

Poor Dru Anderson. Her parents are long gone, her best friend is a werewolf, and she’s just learned that the blood flowing through her veins isn’t entirely human. (So what else is new?)

Now Dru is stuck at a secret New England Schola for other teens like her, and there’s a big problem—she’s the only girl in the place. A school full of cute boys wouldn’t be so bad, but Dru’s killer instinct says that one of them wants her dead. And with all eyes on her, discovering a traitor within the Order could mean a lot more than social suicide...

Can Dru survive long enough to find out who has betrayed her trust—and maybe even her heart?

My Review

Betrayals is the second installment in the Strange Angels series.  I liked this book but I didn’t love it.  The first part of the book was a bit of story building about the Schola and the second half was more action filled.

This one picks up where Strange Angels left off.  Dru and Graves have arrived at the Schola but it’s not the one that Christophe thought they would be going to.  This one is really out in the country and it’s all boys both wulfen and djamphir.  While there are a few that like her most of them do not.  The teachers are only allowing her to take basic classes, not really teaching her anything and not teaching her to fight.  Dru also has another problem, someone at the Schola wants her dead. 

While she spends her days sometimes attending class and trying to figure out the truth of what is going on and trying to figure out who wants her dead, she is also wondering where Christophe is.  He does show up throughout the story but not as much as I would have liked.  Graves is doing a lot better than he was in the first book.  Here he is among boys that are somewhat like him.  His character starts to develop more throughout the book and he is more of a leader and take charge type of guy now.  No matter what happens he is always there for Dru.  Graves and Dru seemed to become even closer by the end. 

The last part of the book was more exciting for me with a lot of action.  There is a lot of unanswered questions both from the first one and now with this one.  I am looking forward to reading the next book to see what happens.