Published synopsis:
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.
Review:
Penryn is a seventeen year old girl who has found herself fighting to stay alive in an angel ravished world. As if that isn’t hard enough, she also has to look out for her schizophrenic mother and her paraplegic sister. Risking the night and what it may bring, the three make a dash for some type of safety away from the war torn, gang populated streets, but they don’t make it far. Penryn can’t save her sister from the angel who snatches her out of her wheelchair. Now, her only hope of finding her sister is to team up with Raffe, an angel whose comrades have left him wingless and dying in the street. As these reluctant companions journey together to San Francisco towards their separate goals, they find that the angels aren’t the only ones to fear.
Angelfall is a fast paced, post-apocalyptic story that sweeps you away into the lives of characters that are both sympathetic and likable even as the world goes crazy around them. Susan Ee does a great job portraying a world that is reduced to its most basic components. She shows us what happens in a world where there is nowhere safe to hide. Where cell phones, computers, televisions, and transportation are useless. A world where the humans who survive the battles with the angels have to then survive what has become of the world and its people.Prejudices must be let go because the world has been diminished to two sects - us and them, human and angel. There’s no room in the equation for anything else.But as in all wars, loyalty can become a gray area when the ones you love the most are involved.
Susan Ee swept me away into this world from the very beginning. Her writing style has the ability to hook you in and keep you glued to the book until the very end. The characters are vivid and her writing style is clean and concise. I enjoyed taking this journey into her dark world. There were just two things that kept me from giving this book an all out five stars. As I read, it was never really clear why the angels had attacked the world, nor what Raffe’s involvement had been. The other was a supernatural element at the end of the book that didn’t quite mesh with the rest of the story. This part was creative and unique, and it certainly made for an interesting ending, but nothing up to that point had given the impression that things like this were possible.
The ending of Angelfall isn’t neat and tidy. It will leave you wanting to pick up the sequel to find out what happens next with the characters; so I really hope one is coming. I will definitely be picking it up as soon as it comes out.
I give Angelfall 4 ½ stars.
Angelfall is a fast paced, post-apocalyptic story that sweeps you away into the lives of characters that are both sympathetic and likable even as the world goes crazy around them. Susan Ee does a great job portraying a world that is reduced to its most basic components. She shows us what happens in a world where there is nowhere safe to hide. Where cell phones, computers, televisions, and transportation are useless. A world where the humans who survive the battles with the angels have to then survive what has become of the world and its people.Prejudices must be let go because the world has been diminished to two sects - us and them, human and angel. There’s no room in the equation for anything else.But as in all wars, loyalty can become a gray area when the ones you love the most are involved.
Susan Ee swept me away into this world from the very beginning. Her writing style has the ability to hook you in and keep you glued to the book until the very end. The characters are vivid and her writing style is clean and concise. I enjoyed taking this journey into her dark world. There were just two things that kept me from giving this book an all out five stars. As I read, it was never really clear why the angels had attacked the world, nor what Raffe’s involvement had been. The other was a supernatural element at the end of the book that didn’t quite mesh with the rest of the story. This part was creative and unique, and it certainly made for an interesting ending, but nothing up to that point had given the impression that things like this were possible.
The ending of Angelfall isn’t neat and tidy. It will leave you wanting to pick up the sequel to find out what happens next with the characters; so I really hope one is coming. I will definitely be picking it up as soon as it comes out.
I give Angelfall 4 ½ stars.
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