Since this semester is winding down to a halt, I
cannot wait to start reading for enjoyment again. Before the semester started I
read a book that I didn’t expect I would encounter or let alone read. This is a
recommendation if anyone wishes to read this book. I suggest it if you’re big
on fantasy or even the apocalypse.
Anyway, the book I’m suggesting is called Angelfall
(Penryn & the End of Days) by Susan Ee. It is going to be a trilogy! The
second book is already out and is already on my reading list (most likely going
to be read once this semester is over), and the last book doesn’t come out until
later this month. I work at a library so if no other patron has it on hold I
get first dibs!
A little about Angelfall, and I don’t want give out
too much detail, is that angels are taking over the Earth and creating an
apocalypse (or “The Last of Days”). Angels are pretty much being casted out of
Heaven and cannot return for unknown reasons. There are even gangs of angels.
My assumption is that they are all “Fallen Angels” like Lucifer was, but in the
story it doesn’t say, everyone is just clueless and trying to survive finding
food and shelter. Everything is in ruin (just imagine an apocalypse for a moment,
think of how ransacked buildings would be and deserted), and food has become so
scarce, dare I say, humans reduce to cannibalism.
The beginning the narrator lets you know that the
Earth has been under turmoil for six weeks since the angels fell. Penryn, the
narrator, is seventeen-years-old and watches over her sister Paige. (Honestly,
this sister and sister relationship reminds me of Katniss and Primrose from The
Hunger Games). Penryn’s sister is kidnapped by an angel and throughout this
trilogy trying to find her, doing all that she can to survive during this
disaster occurring. Penryn comes across a fallen angel named Raffe and ends up
saving him, in return she asks for him to take her where her sister is. I’ll go
as far as that because I feel I’ve already revealed too much of the excitement!
Susan Ee put the mixed the right amount of peanut
butter and chocolate together. There’s adventure and fantasy with a touch of
romance, and it’s presented in a new and different way of the apocalypse
compared to the constant zombie one people mainly recognize with. (Thank you,
Walking Dead—even though that is a good show, but it’s tiresome after a while
when more books come out like it). This book also gives the reader a mixture of
emotions of joyous, anger, sad… it kind of tugs at your heart and I like it
when an author can win my heart by putting me in the story.
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