Monday 21 May 2012

Review: Strange Angels (Strange Angels #1) by Lil St Crow

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?

I'd had this book on my TBR pile for quite a while. It was definitely something I wanted to read but something else would always catch my eye and I would forget about it for while. Well nothing else did this time. I liked it right from the off. The tone and the pacing felt just right. I really liked Dru. She's tough, savvy, and didn't whine and moan like some lead characters do. It reminded me of Supernatural, only with a female lead. Obviously there's nothing wrong with that, I love Supernatural - I then read other Goodread reviews that said the same thing. I took to Graves right away as well, but I can't believe that he took everything in his stride as well as he did. Dru's reaction to her dad dying and then coping with the events afterwards were more realistic.

I would have liked more dialogue. This is my first time reading Lil St Crow so I don't know whether this is just her style, but I felt that the long narration sometimes had me biting at the bit. Don't get me wrong, I actually did liked the narration. Dru's voice was great but so much of it in a continuous chunk was a little monotonous at times.

Then things started to go a little airy. Around 60% of the way in, so slightly over the halfway mark, it just kinda started to lose it. The characters started to really annoy me. It was like the Author got to a certain point and thought shit! What now? Then threw everything together no matter how ludicrous it sounded. It was either that or someone else started writing it. I really had to force myself to finish it. I couldn't believe my quickly my feeling towards this book changed.

It was on it's way to earning itself 5 stars, but I just totally disconnected from the characters and the story. It saddened me as I was really enjoying it. However, it did kinda settle again right toward the end. I liked it more than I didn't so I'm definitely going to continue with the series.

Right, time to go empty the dishwasher ;)

Rating: 3/6 - it was ok

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