(First posted Sept. 30 2009)
Dru Anderson has been “strange” for as long as she can remember traveling from town to town with her father to hunt things that go bump in teh night. It’s a weird life, but a good one-until it all explodes in an icy, broken-down Dakota town, when a hungry zombie busts through her kitchen door.
Okay so when I read the back I thought, um okay. I guess I’ll give it a go. But I was pleasently surprised at how much I enjoyed this book. Dru is a little annoying in the beginning and she repeats things in her head quite a few times throughout the beginning of the book, for example, like how the snow carries sound differently. Now, having read the book I understand that there is significance in a lot of what Dru explains, yet it was still a little irksome because I felt like I’d read it before. Deja vu.
This is a fast paced story filled with vampires and zombies and werwulven, amongst other things. I liked how there were bits of what we know from books and movies, like silver bullets and such but Ms. St. Crow also added a lot of stuff I’ve never heard of that made this story unique. Set apart. Like the djamphir and loup-garou and svetocha. It was all very interesting to read about.
I enjoyed the three main characters, like I said Dru was a little, I don’t know, I just didn’t connect with her in the beginning. I liked Graves straight away, but really wish I knew his first name :) I don’t know but you’d think it would have been a question Dru’d have asked. He’s funny and endearing. I always like the nerdy, underdog I think. Although I wouldn’t say Graves is nerdy. I liked Christophe as well because he’s cocky, but in a rightful way. I mean he does know more than the other two and they do need him. I like that he puts her in her place yet there seems to be something going on with him in response to Dru.
And now for a few of my favourite quotes...
I put my head down, barely aware I was screaming like a goddamn cheerleader in a horror movie, and ran for my life.
“I keep telling you, first ones free.” (to me this is resonant of “as you wish” in The Princess Bride.)
“Why can’t I have a normal girlfriend?” he asked the air over his head. “I finally meet someone I like and she turns out to be crazy. Oh, well.”
“Girlfriend?” I half-choked, almost spraying snot out of my nose.
I can’t wait until Betrayals is out. I’ll be devouring that one too.
