Published by: Hodder & Stoughton, May 23rd 2013
Genre: YA, Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopia, Paranormal
Pages: 326
Format: Paperback
Source: Purchased
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.
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
Angelfall is a haunting look at a future destroyed by angels. Penryn and her family are trying to escape a world turned dangerous with savage street gangs when an angel is thrown into their path and his wings are savagely cut off. Angels are deadly, creatures who have turned the world into a desolate wreck, but when Penryn's sister Paige is taken by one of the creatures, she makes a deal with the wingless angel to get her back.
Angelfall is dark, horrifying, and full of despair. It's a twisted take on the atypical angels as they're presented these days. The angels in this book are not benevolent, caring creatures - they are vicious warriors who kidnap children, destroy entire cities, and make life hell.
This book is addictive, exciting from beginning to end. The plot is driven by desperation and need, the world gritty and a terrifying place to be in. Penryn, the main character, is compelling and couragous, and it's almost always her loyalty and fierce determination that drives the plot and makes this story alive, something real and raw and bigger than fiction. Raffe is an intriguing antogaonist/MC/potential love interest. Nothing about him is simple or easy to determine. He's a thousand questions all wrapped up in a furtive personnality and the body of a ... well, of an angelic soldier.
I went into this book with moderate hopes. Firstly, I thought it was an urban fantasy. Secondly, I thought it'd be your general girl-meets-angel type story - romance, fluff, senseless decision making, you know, the norm. And thirdly, I did not expect such an amazing main character, a smart, amusing, and hopeless voice, or a world so expertly built by Susan Ee to be both familiar to those who read Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic and entirely unique.
This story will stay with me for a while, I suspect. Lucky the sequel is out soon! (Now all I have to do is scrounge for money...)
Characters ★★★★★
Setting/world building ★★★★★
Writing Style ★★★★☆
★★★★★
:D I love this book SO MUCH. I have so many fangirl feels. "I never kid about my demigod status."
ReplyDeleteRaffe is just a snarky little shit. Everything he says is pure gold. I don't see how anyone could read this book and not love him.
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