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Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1)

Susan Ee

Start date: May 2, 2012

Finish date: May 30, 2012

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Sep 25, 2012 Jessica rated it really liked it

Shelves: favorites, next-to-read, young-adult, urban-fantasy

I don't read very much YA literature. As a fan of adult genre fiction, I find much of the category to poorly done. I've read the Hunger Games, a book which obviously shares much in common with Angelfall. And yet that book rated only middling well for me, but I loved Angelfall!

I'm a big fan of angel stories. I've always thought they were creepy, and I like the way it subverts common perception in our society. So the plotline of this seemed meant for me, as we have a destroyed Earth, laid to waste ...more

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Nov 29, 2015 Nancy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: paranormal, on-kindle

I loved the whole premise of the book, to the extent that for several years I have wondered whether there would be mileage in writing a book where the archangels came to earth. Well, this has proved that yes, there is definitely mileage and this is a brilliant example of it. I really loved the characters, I loved how Raffe was an agnostic angel (that made me laugh, it was brilliant), I loved Penryn and I really enjoyed the way that the world was only explained piece by piece. I think this was a ...more

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Jun 04, 2013 Jules rated it really liked it

Shelves: paranormal

I can't believe I liked this book, but I did! I liked it in the same way I love The Walking Dead. There was action, danger, and gore. If I have one beef with paranormal books it's that they seem to be romance novels with furry or fanged protagonists. Despite the potential inter-species love conflict (what else is new) the romance was minimal, which is the way I like my fantasy novels. I like my DNA human, thank you.

I'm a little uncomfortable with the author employing actual archangels as charact ...more

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Apr 19, 2025 Heather rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, suspense-thriller, paranormal, ya, kindle-unlimited, family, ku-free-audio, uno-books

This reminded me a bit of When Gracie Met the Grump, although I guess it should be the other way around since it was published more than a decade before Gracie...

So looking at it 14 years after publication, I probably have a more critical eye than if I had read it earlier. I have so many unanswered questions, but I will give the author the benefit of the doubt and assume she answers them in the next book. And as for the teenaged Mary Sue protagonist... she is definitely a product of her times. ...more

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Feb 14, 2013 SarahSmith rated it really liked it

Very good beginning to what I hope will be a long running series. The characters were very interesting and the story was a page turner that was very hard to put down. Definitely looking forward to more.

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May 17, 2013 Kari rated it it was amazing

Shelves: young-adult-fantasy

I loved this Book. Susan Ee has done a wonderful job of creating a post-apocolyptic story with angels, archangels, humans, demons and San Francisco! I found the book interesting, engrossing and I didn't want to put it down. Some of the images in my own mind from the discriptions of mutilated bodies bothered me but it lent to the story telling overall. I strongly recommend this book to all. ...more

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