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Betrayals: A Strange Angels Novel By: Lili St. Crow

"Hawthorn is deadly to //Nosferatu//, and even deadlier when wielded by a //Kouroi//. How much more deadlier, then, when it is wielded by you? Be good and I will show you how to use them. When it is safe and I can come back." -Christophe "...A vivid and dark world that will mesmerize readers." -Publisher's Weekly

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"We think she died on the steps, but Sergej hung her in a tree and...well. We didn't get there in time. Your father was long gone with you... We didn't even know about you until years later..." -Anna

"Dark, dangerous, and sexy!" -Richelle Mead: Author of //Vampire Academy//



I don't have a word for the way he looked. Solid. Comforting. Like he was the one piece of the world that was holding the whole thing up. I let out a small sipping breath, trying not the taste the smoke smell or the stink of danger in the air. That was another thing-everything smelled washed out. Insipid. Not as real as it should..... -Dru

"...Grabs readers by the throat, sets hearts beating loudly and never lets go." -KIRKUS

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MEMORABLE QUOTES 1. After weeks of being stuck in the Schola with no private time to herself and Graves preferring to spend time with his new wulfen pack where he is the Dominant, Dru is feeling quite lonely. Not only is she kept back in the boring classes in fear of her getting hurt by the stronger //djamphirs -// who are severely subject to her //Svetocha// blood, but she is also not allowed to wander outside in case of one of the frequent attacks by vampires against the Schola. The one person she wishes to see most of all is a suspected traitor against the Schola, Dru, and Dru's late mother who was killed by Sergej. Christophe. Dru can't believe him to be a traitor, but she thinks she might never see him again. One night, Dru is surprised when her lost friend sneaks into her bedroom window carrying two, wooden //Malaika// swords. The Hawthorn wood is poison to the vampires and he wants her to be able to protect herself. He believes something is going wrong at the Schola and that Dru might be bait for Sergej. After explaining, in part, the reason he was there, Christophe scales down her wall and disappears; leaving the two swords for Dru's protection.

2. The //Nosferat// attacks are becoming more and more frequent against the Schola. Every time the warning bell rings in the halls, the wulfen and //djampire// prepare for the upcoming fight. When that happens, Dru is watched over by one of the older //djampires//. Except for one battle where Dru was left alone without a guard and came face to face with Ash: the wulf who had turned Graves into the //loup-garro .// But instead of killing her, he killed the other attacking vampires and ran away. After being found in the woods by Graves, she was taken up to talk to the principle-like-figure, Dylan. But he had a guest. The Queen of the //djampires//: Anna, the last known living //Svetocha// besides Dru. Anna showed classified pictures to Dru to try and see what she knew about her mother's death. The pictures were of Dru's front yard in the house she lived in when she was five on the day her mother was killed by Sergej. She was hung in an old oak tree. It wasn't until later that Dru realized Anna was trying to tell her about Christophe, to make Dru think he was the traitor against her mother.

​3. On the day Dru was planning on escaping the strange Schola, it is once again attacked by vampires. Dru decides that the best time for her to leave the Schola is in the mist of the battle raging throughout the grounds. After saving Graves from a smoke filled room, the two of them ran through the now flaming Schola. As Dru and Graves enter the forest outside the Schola, they are met up with by a few other members of Graves werwulf pack. They know of a wulf compound that's a few miles away from the Schola. They are later joined by Christophe. He is very weak from the battle and he has to try and cover the small group. But in order to gain enough strength back to cover them, he must drink someone's blood: and Dru's the only one he can do so from. Unfortunately, her blood is very craze-inducing to djampires, but there is no choice and there is no time for Christophe to make it less painful to Dru. The pain was horrible and caused Dru to pass out. When she woke, everything seemed weird and out of shape, like she was looking at a 2D drawing. The only one that looked the same to her was Graves.

Pictures and Videos

1. This is a "movie trailer" that is based on the first book in the series, //Strange Angel////s.// I thought it was a good example for not only the first book but also this book as well. It doesn't give away anything that happened in Strange Angels that doesn't involve Betrayals. In both of the books, Dru is running from her parents killer, Sergej. Both of the books have a dark, eerie feel to them that I think is represented well in this video. The music in the background and the ominous cawing of the crow gives the idea that this book isn't a big love story. Graves and Christophe are large parts in not only the plot line but also Dru's life. Graves is her best friend who was turned into a werwulf and Christophe is the djampire son of her father's killer. Both of them are very important to Dru but, unfortunately, she must choose between the two of them. She must decide right because where one will be her help, the other just might be the person that betrays her to Sergej...

2. I think this picture is the best representation of this series and especially this book. The three main characters are perfectly represented in this picture. The girl standing in the middle is exactly how I imagined Dru. She looks like she is a reluctant half-blood vampire hunter out to save the world from the //nosferate//. The sword in the picture, to me, is like the //Malaika// swords that Christophe gave to Dru. The man in the picture is like Christophe: tall, brooding, strong. He looks like he would be there to protect the girl in the middle. He also looks just how Lili described him in the book. The wolf is the perfect figure for Graves. He was turned into a wulf by Ash when he was trying to save Dru. Now he is always at he side to protect her, even if it means his own death. In the picture, it seems like the wulf is in the background like Graves, yet at the same time, you can tell he is waiting to help.

3. In the first book, Dru's father is turned into a zombie because of Sergej. Zombies are the biggest tools of the Vampires and are frequently used to attack the Schola. They are unstoppable forces that have very little enemies and not much can kill them. This video is obviously filled with disgusting looking zombies. Even the music fits perfectly because it is very eerie and it talks alot about the evils of the night and trying to get away from them but at the same time there isn't really anything you can do to stop the evils, all you can do is run and try to fight. This is very true in the book because it is very hard to run away from something that is the oldest, the king of the vampires. Especialy when they have a powerful army of unstoppable zombies under their control.