Angelfall by Susan EeMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
In Angelfall the apocalypse has begun with angels destroying society. When seventeen year old Penryn's sister is carried off by an angel she has no choice but to team up with a badly wounded angel named Raffe to try to get her back.
This book has been completely haunting me since I finished it. Of all of the paranormal themes that have become popular (vampires, werewolves, etc) angels have been my least favorite. Since most authors seem to stick with the "angels are good" narrative the stories just seem predictable and boring. This book, however, completely amazed me. I thought the imagery was haunting... from the beginning of the book with one angel feather drifting down to the last scene, the author crafted pictures in my head that are not going to leave me anytime soon.
Like most Young Adult books this book involves a love story but I thought that it progressed more naturally and believably than most. While the book never explains why the angels have caused the destruction of the world, I don't know that the why matters. I was so completely invested in the excitement and horror of the post apocalypse world that it ceased to be important how the world got that way.
The first thing I did once I finished this book was look up whether a sequel had been released and I was shocked to read that this book was self published. I read a lot of published books that are absolutely horrible so I am floored that a book this well written and engrossing did not have a publisher. Books like this make me grateful for how easy it is for writers to self publish these days.
I do feel the need to provide a warning about the graphic nature of some scenes in this book. While it is classified as young adult (probably due to the narrators age) there are several extremely violent and grotesque scenes involving children that might be too graphic for readers of a certain age.
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