Angelfall (Penryn & the
End of Days, #1) by Susan Ee
Publishing date: May 21st
2011
Publisher: Feral Dream
Rating: 5/5 stars
Book Description:
It's been six weeks since angels of
the apocalypse descended to demolish the modern world. Street gangs rule the
day while fear and superstition rule the night. When warrior angels fly away
with a helpless little girl, her seventeen-year-old sister Penryn will do
anything to get her back.
Anything, including making a deal
with an enemy angel.
Raffe is a warrior who lies broken
and wingless on the street. After eons of fighting his own battles, he finds
himself being rescued from a desperate situation by a half-starved teenage
girl.
Traveling through a dark and
twisted Northern California, they have only each other to rely on for survival.
Together, they journey toward the angels' stronghold in San Francisco where
she'll risk everything to rescue her sister and he'll put himself at the mercy
of his greatest enemies for the chance to be made whole again.
My Review:
I received this book for my
birthday from my best friend and until then I hadn’t heard about it. My friend
who gave it to me hadn’t read it but thought it looked interesting and decided
I could be her experiment guinea pig! I read it pretty much as soon as I got it
and could not put it down! I was so engulfed into the book and intrigued by the
plot and the characters.
Angelfall is set in a
post-apocalyptic world where there is an on going war between humans and
angels. The angels are depicted as bad guys in this story and they make the
humans live in fear afraid to leave their houses. The adventure first starts when
Penryn, her mother and her little sister Paige (who is crippled) are out at
night when they come across a group of angels cutting off another angels wings.
Penryn decided to help the angel to allow her mother and sister to run away but
whilst doing this her little sister Paige is taken by one of the angel and her
mother escapes. Raffe the angel who she helped save agreed to help Penryn find
her sister.
Penryn is the main character who we
follow around and boy do you fall in love with her. She is so love able, you
love the way she can fight and kick- ass, she is so determined and never losses
sight of her goal. Her sister is in a wheelchair, her mother has schizophrenia
and her father left them. These events have helped her grow her character and
made her very strong and independent.
Raffe the angel helps Penryn on her
quest and is a very mysterious character. We don’t know pretty much anything
about his past and it enjoyably annoyed me that we dont know anything he felt
or was thinking. He like Penryn is a very determined character as he could only
think about getting his wings back and on.
There wasn’t much romance in this
story but it shows mainly at the end. The romance is barley if there at the
beginning and as the story moves on it grows bigger and bigger. I think this
just shows Penryn’s and Raffe’s determination for their goals and how they
wouldn’t get distracted.
Ee has created an amazing magical
world and has created a new and unique perception on angels. The ending aroused
many different emotions in me and made me fall even more deeply in love with
the novel.
I cannot wait to read the next book
in this series!
This book is a must read for
everyone, DO NOT MISS OUT!!
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