Review Angelfall (Penryn and the End of Days #1)by Susan Ee
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Review Angelfall (Penryn and the End of Days #1)by Susan Ee
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 giril, 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 eachother to rely on for survival. Together, they journey towars the angels’ stringhold in San Francisco where Peryn will risk everything to rescue her sister, and Raffe will put himslef at the mercy of his greatest enemies for the chance to be made whole again.
Let me start by saying this: Susan Ee is absolutly brilliant! The way she writes is captivating. I couldn’t put the book down the first and second time I read it because the characters, the story, the scenery and the feelings are so real that at times I have to pause, breathe and remind myself that it’s just a book, I’m not living in it, because every fighting sequence I felt the same adrenaline the characters were feeling, their fear, their insecurity, their vulnerability, everything the characters were going through, you were there with them. Oh the fighting scenes. Susan did and incredible job writing the action sequences. All the disciplines she had to research in order to give life to this badass 17 years old girl surely paid well.
We have Penryn Young, the protagonist, who’s life has been far from perfect, situation that made her grew up too early. She has a mother with mental illness and a sister with a physical disability she had to look after, even more now, since the world has become a giant chaos. Reading this books was pure pleasure and pain because I was able to understand Penryn and completly relate with her, because this whole thing she will put herself through is because of family. She is willing to sacrifice herself to save her sister, she will do whatever it takes to get her back and that’s the thing I love about this book, the main point in the story is to get Paige, Penryn’s little sister, back and that’s it. She never loses her focus, she doesn’t get distracted from her goal.
Now you may ask, where’s the love story? The slow burn relationship between Penryn and Raffe (Ship name: Raffryn) goes along with the story without being the main thing. Yes, it is so important, but it doesn’t eclipse the fact that Penryn has a mission, with every bump in the road, she never gives up, because she needs to save Paige, that’s what big sisters do. Every decision she makes she does it thinking about her little sister.
Raffe. This angsty angel is a delight to read. He is very closed about what he feels, but as the story progresses, he starts to show a little bit more of himself at times. He is in this journey with the same destination, only for a different purpose, which with lead him and Penryn on a adventure through the woods and abandoned houses in search for food and shelter, praying to get to San Francisco in one piece. Raffryn is perfection, the banter between Raffe and Penryn is priceless, both of them are so full of sarcasm and wit, you will find yourself laughing at loud sometimes. Also the tension, you can feel it in every word they say to each other and every time they have to save eachother’s backs, because it’s them against the world. They create this bond, this partnership that will lead them to the most incredible adventures, where they can only rely on one another.
Another great thing? WE DON’T HAVE LOVE TRIANGLES IN THIS BOOK.
All in all, this book is amazing, a masterpice brought to us by Susan Ee, everything is well written, every single character in this book is interesting, every single one.
Would I recommend this book? Yes, a gazillion times yes.
Rating: 5/5
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