Strange Angels 1-14

Ok so I didn't do this book chapter by chapter and for this book it's pretty ok to do that.

See the chapters in this book are pretty short. We're talking about eight to maybe fifteen pages if you're lucky. It was really easy to get to chapter 15.

From chapter one you're introduced to a relatively normal sixteen-year-old girl. From the synopsis it's pretty hard to believe, I know. Dru worries about the same things we did in high school, hair, make up a female body, you know the usual lol.

Here's the difference: her father and her hunt things that go bump in the night. I know, I know, that line is so cliche but it's true. Lili St. Crow calls it different stuff but it's basically the same. They hunt vampires (suckers) and werewolfs (werewulf) and other random demons and nasties.

Dru's always been the assistant, never the brains or brawn of the duo. But when her dad busts through her kitchen door a zombie, Dru has to act fast. It's hard to kill your own dad even though it's not really him anymore. Somehow she does and leaves him rotting on their frozen living room floor. Dru never turned the heat on the night before while she was waiting for her dad to come home from his hunt.

With her father dead, what will she do now? Enter her new "friend", Graves. She made his acquaintance the first time she skipped school. He gave her a normal place to be at rest for a few hours. Except now she couldn't afford any type of normal. She was digesting killing her father, her father turning into a zombie. The biggest one was that she killed him. When Graves sat in front of her at the mall's food court, his company was not welcome.

Thankfully though he didn't pay attention to her attitude. Graves bought her food and gave her a place to hole up for a while.  Oh yeah and he did this with no questions asked. The break only lasted for a day though, come night time again trouble had found her again.

A burning dog "the size of a shetland pony" had found her in the mall. Thankfully it was after closing time and there was no one there but her and Graves but Graves had gone to someplace else in the mall. Dru had no idea what this thing was, nothing that they had ever encountered before with her dad.

While trying to dodge it she runs into a dumbfound Graves. The burning dog drowns in the mall fountain and behind Graves is a werewulf. Dru raises her gun to fire too slow and it attacks Graves. Sadly it bites him in the shoulder. She fires again and blows out the wolf's jaw, buying her time to get Graves and run.

Think Dru, think. She can' stay in the mall, she has an injured boy that's loosing a lot of blood and going in shock. Oh yeah and he can turn anytime within twelve hours because he was bit and "infected". Dru forces herself to go to the only place that will offer them any shelter: Her house. You know the one where she just shot her dad.

Once they got there and it was a long journey, Dru was so tired she wasn't thinking straight. She striped them both down to underwear and huddled under her blanket in her room. Classic way to fight hypothermia.

Of course she wakes up first and instantly starts thinking again. Need to tie Graves up, wipe down more and get something in her stomach. She wasn't impressed with the plan but it was all she had. If Graves changed she'd be in trouble and more than likely dead. Better to be safe and tie him up.

She wipes down, eats cereal and tried to think about what comes next when Graves wakes up. Needless to say it was an interesting scene, or it would have been for them if she hadn't had the gun in her hand the whole time she was asking questions. The last one asking if he's a virgin and the gun to his head. Yeah, Dru traumatized the poor boy. Satisfied though she untied him and went back downstairs.

So here's where we are in the book now. Graves comes to the conclusion that Dru isn't all that bad and sticks around to help her and asks her twenty questions about what's really out there. Dru is still trying to figure out what to do next. Though having someone with her that isn't abandoning her....at least yet makes her feel a little better.

The burning question in her right now is who hurt her dad and turned him into a zombie because it WAS done on purpose. This was no accident.

Introduction to Amberwood Prep Chapter Five

In this chapter everyone goes their seperate ways to do the job they were given. 

It's a tearful goodbye between Adrian and Jill for reasons no one yet knows. It definitely has our friendly alchemist Sydney intrigued. 

Mainly though we're introduced to the actual high school Amberwood Prep. By most standards it's a huge school with three secretions: east, central and west. 

East is the girls dorm while west houses the boys. Central is the best part, it's the academic building where all classes take place. Lucky them they get shuttles to take them from building to building so the kids don't have to put up with the heat. 

Sydney gets jealous of Jill and her guardian Eddie because of how easily they fit in. Alchemists are home schooled and never cover human interaction apparently. 

This is also where we meet Micah. Eddies roommate and a ghost from his own past. That's going to be explained a little later though. No one understands right now why Eddie is awkward around Micah. 

Sydney now has to get over her fears of being so close to a vampire for long periods of time. Jill being how she is, just sees Sydney as a friend. I don't think she actually understands the alchemist way. With that being said Jill actually treats Sydney as a friend and vents some of her drama to her. 

Jill doesn't think Lissa actually likes her because since they found out they were sisters, Lissa has barely said two words to her. Then she almost let slip what is between her and Adrian. When that happens things should get very interesting ;)