Strange Angels

Reader reviewed by Library Lounge Lizard

Dad...Zombie. Mom...Long gone. Me?
Well that's the scary part. The "Real World" is a frightening place.
Just ask sixteen-year old orphan Dru Anderson, a tough girl who has
taken down her fair share of bad guys. She's armed, dangerous, and
ready to kill first and ask questions later. So it's gonna take her a
while to figure out who she can trust...

Ever since her
grandma died Dru has been traveling around with her father as he hunts
down things like zombies and vampires, entities the rest of the world
doesn't want to think about. After her dad leaves one night on yet
another hunting trip without her, she never sees him again. Well at
least not alive...as a rotting zombie bursts through her front door Dru
is horrified as she realizes it is her father.

With no one else
to turn to Dru hooks up with Graves, a kid from school who she soon
finds out actually lives in their local mall. When she is a attacked
again, this time by a werewolf, she knows something is up. Who wants
her dead? After tracking down a friend of her dads to find out exactly
who she can trust, Dru meets Christophe, a half breed vampire, a
djamphir(who happens to smell like apple pie.) What he tells her about
her mother and their family turns everything upside down.

I
REALLY enjoyed this book. It's one of those books that is action
packed! There is so much detail and action I had to slow down my
reading pace or I was going to miss something! Dru is a very compelling
character, she is strong yet you can see she longs to have someone in
her life she can really count on. Her relationship with Graves (the boy
in the mall) grows stronger through out the story. I like that kid, a
funny, smart-alec but you can see he really does care about Dru.
The
other charactors, Dru's dad, Christophe and a few others (don't want to
spoil anything!) we don't get to know too well, but with the second
book coming out (Betrayals) I'm sure we are in for a lot more details, action and gore! And isn't that cover coolio?

I
think this book would be okay for middle schools. I usually put a YA
sticker on books I'll check out to 8th graders only (not 6th or 7th
graders) a few cuss words, a little gore. Read on!