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Penryn & the End of Days #1
Angelfall is a post-apocalyptic urban fantasy, where the remains of humanity are fighting for survival against angels who descended with a wave of destruction. I was quite intrigued by the concept; I’ve always been a fan of angel/devil mythos and enjoy stories that bring these judeo-christian ideas to life (Supernatural anyone?). We don’t get to delve as deep into the mythos in this book as I would like, and in fact it doesn’t seem like anyone really knows why the angels descended (not even the angels themselves). We do get a snippet of it at the very end, so I’m hoping that there will be more in the books to come.
It took me a long time to get into Angelfall. I was kind of underwhelmed by the main characters, whose personalities were pretty one-dimensional and uninteresting. Frankly, I found the first half of the novel kind of boring and didn’t really start to get into it until well after halfway through. For me, I think part of the problem is that apart from Raffe (and a quick cameo in the beginning), we don’t really interact with any angels until the end of the novel. Being that the big draw for me was the angels themselves, I think I was disappointed in the survivalist journey that made up the majority of the story. Once we got to the aerie, I became much more engrossed and the story finally started to grab me.
Overall, an okay start but I’m hoping that the rest of the series delves a bit deeper.