Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1) in Penryn and the End of Days Re-Read

May 20, 2014 Esha rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, great-quick-reads, dystopia

This is gonna be a long story so,
HOLD ON TO YOUR SEATS LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!!

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Okay so the story of Angelfall and little Esha begins when Esha was 12 years old. One fine day, Esha's dad decided to go out for some work. Her brother and she decided that it would be a great trip! You see, she really wanted to go the biggest bookstore in the city (her brother wanted to play at the arcade! Annoying little...) So we went and while running around searching for my brother a really extremely insanely attra ...more

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Jun 22, 2014 Lamar rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: owned, books-my-lovely-parents-bought, angel-books

Words can not and will never describe how amazing this book is. I could not put it down (literally). It's all you can look for in a book. ...more

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Mar 28, 2014 Sam Flores(: rated it it was amazing

At first, it was kind of boring. Then it started to get interesting. Now I can't wait to read World After. ...more

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Aug 26, 2014 The Glassed And The Furious rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fantasy, paranormal, dystopian

Oh yes, now this is what I have been looking for! What a wonderful book! What a magnificent story! Wow! I couldn't put the book down, I kept on reading and reading until I had finished it in one go.

I love Raffe, I love his humor, his personality, his mysteriousness, I just love him.

What I love about Penryn his her loyalty. It doesn't matter if it's for her sister or even the angel who simply became her unlikely partner, she's loyal and will kick anyone's ass if need be. The hardness of the wor Oh yes, now this is what I have been looking for! What a wonderful book! What a magnificent story! Wow! I couldn't put the book down, I kept on reading and reading until I had finished it in one go.

I love Raffe, I love his humor, his personality, his mysteriousness, I just love him.

What I love about Penryn his her loyalty. It doesn't matter if it's for her sister or even the angel who simply became her unlikely partner, she's loyal and will kick anyone's ass if need be. The hardness of the world around her has definitely left a mark on her but it makes her all the more interessting.
If there is one thing I was a bit disappointed by, it was that A) Penryn was only 17. I mean, she doesn't feel like a 17 year old teenager to me. She should have been older. In my opinion the only reason why she is that ages is because in young adult novels it seems to be an unwritten rule to have a teenager. And B) there is too little emotion to Penryn. Yes, she risks her life for her sister and Raffe, yes she doesn't care what happens to her but what does she feel? Where are her emotions? She felt a ittle too detached.

What I did like was the complete absence of her vanity and no detailed description of her looks. So far, in too many YA novels we get a thorough description of the heroine and of course she is tall and gorgeous and has such amazing eyes and ooh her hair! Here, the reader doesn't really know what she looks like - all we know she's short. And I love it that way. Then almost at the end, Raffe tell her she's beautiful. It's the first and only time such a comment is made.

I was also glad to see that this was no typical YA romance. The main characters don't fall in love with each other on the spot, there is no annoying and unecessary love triangle, there are two characters who end up together and as a reader we are drawn to the action filled story, wondering if Paige will be rescued and if Raffe will get his wings back, but the romance fades into the background.

This was simply amazing. When I finish this review I will immediately jumpt to the second installment. ...more

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Mar 26, 2014 Alex Martin rated it really liked it

4 full stars.

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When I thought this book was too detailed for my liking, it turned out to be for a reason. Even though I still feel that the story could have been a bit faster in some early and middle chapters, the last ones wrap up a very twisted, bizarre and surprising story. The romance is just what the story needs. Neither the center of the story and nor too butterflies-in-my-stomach all the time. If anything, it leaves you wanting more about the love side of the story ...more

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