rereadand it was just as good the second time around!
Soon to be a major motion picture!
I think I can safely recommend this book to anyone who likes any of these genres or categories :
SciFi postapocalyptic world in ruin
Paranormal angels and demons
Romance okay, so there wasn't actually one yet, but there is the hint of something forbidden to come
Survival amp Adventure stories
Horror, Gore and Macabre twists
YA books that DON'T read like a YA no angst, no teen drama, age is irrelevant
Basically, Angelfall was all kinds of success.
Well done, Ms. Ee.
Right off the bat, this book had me when the action started immediately, I'm so sick of dystopia/postapocalyptic books that are filled with wordy sentiments, It's the end of the world people, shit should be hitting the fan,
It was awesome enough when Penryn and the angel were on the run out in the wilderness, fending for themselves.
. . but then they ended up in San Francisco at a's themed club It's as if this author ransacked my brain to know what I'd want to read about.
The last portion of the book lost me for a moment by taking a trip into the bizarre.
Don't get me wrong, I was still hooked, Not once did this book become boring, I think I wish that I had been warned a bit first that the book was going to go from an action/paranormal/postapocalyptic/budding romance can I somehow combine these to make an entire new genre to a horror story taking place in a sexually charged nightclub.
Because that's what we were dancing with in the last part, I'm not even complaining! There just might have been a moment where my brain started doing a brief reaction of Does Not Compute! Then I recovered and continued with the awesomeness of this book.
If you're looking for something different from the standard YAPNR fare, and like a bit of grit and darkness as well, then do get yourself a copy of Angelfall.
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Well, I guess I got schooled again.
Clearly I can't hold on to this particular reading prejudice against selfpublished books any more, because here it is, a selfpub that is not equal in quality to similar books released by major publishers, but, in fact, better than probablyof those books.
sitelinkAngelfall is a competentlywritten and competentlyedited novel,
If you are a fan of UF and postapocalyptic adventure stories like sitelinkBlood Red Road and sitelinkUnder the Never Sky, there is hardly any doubt you will enjoy sitelinkAngelfall.
It is a dynamic, practically unputdownable, even though very familiar, story, A pair of beings a human girl and a wingless angel in this case ally to achieve their separate goals.
They are reluctant and unnatural partners in sitelinkAngelfall's world almost completely destroyed by angels, But, of course, they learn to respect and trust each other, I am not going to elaborate any further, You get the idea, I am sure,
Everything I am fond of in novels of this sort is there: selfreliant, courageous heroine who loves her family and is ready to sacrifice everything for them check romance secondary to survival check action, gore and moderate violence check a unique, fresh and twisty mythology Ee does something rather interesting with the angel lore here check.
Some compare sitelinkAngelfall to sitelinkDaughter of Smoke and Bone, but I personally wouldn't go that far.
These two books are completely different beasts that only have a word "angel" connecting them, sitelinkDaughter of Smoke and Bone is a more literary, more complex and better written work, whereas sitelinkAngelfall is a more commercial, easier to digest story, and I see nothing wrong with that.
Give me more good genre fiction!
There is only a couple of things that bothered me in this novel.
First, I feel there had to be a tad more information about the angelorchestrated apocalypse, You see, the attack happened aboutmonths prior to the Angelfall's beginning, but the description of it is very murky, as if it happened centuries, not weeks before and nobody remembers the details anymore.
I have only the vaguest idea of what exactly happened and how it unfolded, I wish this was addressed better in the novel, Actually, some infodumping about the apocalypse in the beginning of the book, in the barest and slowest part of it, would have been quite appropriate.
And again, connected to the samemonths postapocalypse timeline, the human civilization seems to have digressed too severely over this rather short time.
Surely, considering that a huge percentage of human population has been wiped out, there is still enough canned food in ruined WalMarts to prevent people from doing some very atrocious things they do in this story for food.
Plus, the main character's survival skills appear to have developed too quickly as well,
Other than that, there is nothing to complain about, really, sitelinkAngelfall is certainly a pageturner and it gets better and better as the story progresses, I am not surprised everyone who's read this novel is so excited about it and its sequel, sitelinkAngelfall is a stellar entertainment, Now I only wish I had an opportunity to hold a hardcover of it in my hands, How and why this book was never published the traditional way is a mystery to me, 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 seventeenyearold 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 halfstarved 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.
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Dear publishers,
Why do you publish so many bad books I won't even bother to mention them, you know there are plenty, while wonderful stories like this one have to be selfpublished for us to be able to enjoy them
All I have to say is that this book puts some of you at shame.
I wonder if this book would have been better if edited, or if it would have been turned into a boring commercial story as many others out there.
I usually don't pick up many angelbooks to read, as I find then not quite original, mostly repetitive and usually plain boring with the good vs.
bad battle where, how could it be any different, the good shinny angels usually get to easily win.
This is not the case
Of course, if you search through my reviews you will also find a few interesting or at least entertaining angelbooks too.
Now, back to Angelfall I'll start with this statement/quote:
“Angels are violent creatures.
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“So I noticed. I used to think they were all sweet and kind, ”
“Why would you think that Even in your Bible, were harbingers of doom, willing and able to destroy entire cities.
Just because we sometimes warned one or two of you beforehand doesnt make us altruistic, ”
So maybe it is just that we as in 'me and probably the author' think on some aspects somehow alike, maybe it is because I always thought that religion is the most manipulative weapon of them all and I finally stumbled upon a book that showed it right.
Maybe it is because I was sick of all the fluffy reads with the good shinny angels and I needed something different, or realistic, or creepy in a complete awesome way or maybe it is just the fact that the story was so full of surprises that made me like it even more.
The fact is that I really loved every bit of it, and I have to give a big thanks to all my GoodReads book friends, because without them I probably wouldn't have found about it.
So thanks you all, you are the best!
There were so many things I liked about this story and the characters, that made it hard for me to point to it and say: "hey, this is the reason I liked it this much!"
The dynamic between the main characters was so damn good in my opinion.
There is no love at first sight, there are lots of action moments, so many verbal fights, and so much mystery to add up to beauty of it all.
I liked how Penryn was constantly helping Raffe saving his skin, or wings, or his life for a matter of fact, and I liked how he was at first grateful, and by the ending he started to care for her keep in mind that i didn't use the word 'love'.
In a world as cruel as that one, it felt right not to have a big romance in the middle of it all.
Their relationship was more than that it was about gaining eachother's trust, and helping out each other, and fighting together but for very different reasons.
It was more about survival and less about emotions, but what can I say, in this way their story got strait to my heart.
Reading this book felt more like tasting a drink, It made my head spin, and left me wanting for more,
It didn't give all away and there are so many questions about Penryn's mother who didn't seem so crazy in my opinion, and I am sure she will have a lot to do with what comes next, about Penryn's ability to use an angle sword, about her sister and Raffe that seem to share a bit of the same destiny, about the war between the angels and the humans it's only the beginning, and I have so many scenarios in my head, I can't wait to see which one is THE ONE.
All in one, a great book and an amazing way to start the reading year,
I only have one thing to tell you: pick it up and read it, I bet you will like it a lot!
And, BTW, I hate how every book in the world is compared to The Hunger Games.
. get a grip people, there are nothing alike and as a proof, there's no guy waiting for Penryn at home, LOL :p
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i am becoming so flippin obsessed with angels.
guardian angels. fallen angels. doesnt matter. i am living for these stories lately and this is definitely one of the best one i have read.
not only is this giving me total bad boy toughness which is a must for me in the form of swoonworthy raffe, but this also is serving major dystopian end of the world realness.
most angel stories i have come across are the hidden in plain sight kind of angels.
not these ones. these are the harbingers of the apocalypse and i couldnt be happier, it just gives the story that much more of an edge and dangerous feel to it, the stakes are higher and the angels are so hotter,
i seriously cant wait to continue this series, and if anyone knows of any similar books/series so
that i can crush on more angels, send the recommendations my way!!
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AAAAAAAAAAARRRGHHH!!!!!!
THIS, BOOK. IS. INCREDIBLE.
OH MY GOD,
I'm, like, shaking from the utter epicness and badassery that is this gem of a book.
I mean, HOLY CRAP. A PERSON CAN ONLY TAKE SO MUCH AWESOMENESS, THIS IS OVERKILL.
I'M SHAKING. LITERALLY. THE BOOK IS THAT GOOD,
OH. MY. GOD.
Okay, Whew.
I need to lie down, . .
Several minutes/hours/whatevers later, . .
Woo, Okay. deep breath So. Most of you people are probably like:
But I just can't help it, Dx I mean, oh my God, you guys, This
Like, literally, this is the best PNR YA book I've ever read, I can honestly say that,
For those of you who haven't gotten this book, please get it, For those of you who do have this book yet still hold off on reading it.
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READ IT!!!!!!!
Okay, I'm done .