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

Susan Ee

Start date: March 1, 2017

Finish date: March 31, 2017

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May 08, 2012 Angela rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: angels, must-read, favorites

I think I'm about to cry and get all emotional over Raffe. He reminds me of Will from The Infernal Devices series. ...more

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Feb 08, 2012 Emma rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, on-my-ipad, reviewed, book-boyfriend

If you're only ever going to read one paranormal story in your life, let it be this one.

What I absolutely love, love, love about this book is that it's about bad angels! I mean, we've always seen angels as pure innocence, messengers of God, whatever else... but never as the deliverance of a massacre! The angels are the bad guys here. They're the one killing the humans they apparently were once supposed to watch over. I just cannot get over how much I adore this! I know, that sounds pretty horrid If you're only ever going to read one paranormal story in your life, let it be this one.

What I absolutely love, love, love about this book is that it's about bad angels! I mean, we've always seen angels as pure innocence, messengers of God, whatever else... but never as the deliverance of a massacre! The angels are the bad guys here. They're the one killing the humans they apparently were once supposed to watch over. I just cannot get over how much I adore this! I know, that sounds pretty horrid, but it's BOOM! New! Refreshing! I know we've all heard of bad angels before, but this brings it to a whole new level.

And of course, we've all read our fair share of fallen angels. Raffe is just... sigh... He's my perfect Valentine's date. I simply love him. He's so surprisingly human for a celestial being. And this quote just says it: "A sense of humor is one more thing I don't think angels should have. The fact that his sense of humor is corny makes it even more wrong." Raffe is FUNNY. In a sarcastic way. And who ever thought angels to be sarcastic? There's more to him that I'm sure you'll love, but I'll let you find out for yourselves!

Penryn makes an awesome MC. She's strong. She knows how to fight! (One thing I'll always be jealous of is people who actually know how to fight. I wish I knew how to defend myself!) And the whole time, she's on the mission to find her sister. Paige, crippled at a young age, presumably by her mother, was taken away by the angels when Penryn interfered with a civil fight. Paige is the reason Penryn saves Raffe time and time again and lugs around his wings for leverage. And that kind of determination is admirable, but I guess that's what fuels most MCs in situations like these.

Thing about Angelfall is that it doesn't start when the apocalypse happened. It starts after. I think it was exceptionally genius because we're not overwhelmed with attacking winged devils (of course, there is a lot of action throughout this nevertheless). And there is a lot of gruesome scenes in here. I don't mean to sound like a sadist, but it was awesome! It was just the perfect combination of post-apocalyptic paranormal romance! Angelfall had everything I could ever wish to read.

I just cannot believe I got all that for .99 cents on Amazon. NINETY-NINE CENTS. It makes me tear up to think that I had to spend $15 on a horrid school book that was barely 100 pages and was horribly tedious, when I could've gifted away 14 of these lovely copies of Angelfall... But seriously, just one dollar, and you will get so much more.

So there it is guys. This epic, adrenalin-fueled story about angels gone bad, and one particularly sexy fallen angel is not to be missed!

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Dec 21, 2012 Katherine Draper rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I am not a big fan of the fallen angel story line. Honestly there have only been a few in this genre that I can stomach. But this one was a pleasant surprise! I enjoyed it. It wasn't over the top cheesy... it didn't have that horrible glaringly cheesy love story component... it was action packed and suspenseful! A great "apocalyptic" book. ...more

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Mar 29, 2012 Kimmarie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: apocalyptic-dystopian

enjoyed this one very much! I can not wait to read the next ones. The story is definitely not what I was expecting, it was way better. The Angels have declared war on humans. We just don't know why and the story unfolds in such a way that I'm dying to know why, what, how and who declared it. ...more

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