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Susan Ee
Listed as one of Time Magazine's 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time'An explosive, pulse-pounding journey' - Star'The new Young Adult fantasy phenomenon' - GraziaIt's been six weeks since the angels of the apocalypse destroyed the world as we know it. Only pockets of humanity remain.Savage street gangs rule the day while fear and superstition rule the night.When angels fly away with a helpless girl, her seventeen-year-old sister Penryn will do anything to get her back.Including making a deal with the enemy.
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Author
Susan Ee
Pages
320
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Published Date
2013-04-11
ISBN
1444778528 9781444778526
Ratings
Google: 5
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"This story was nothing like I pictured dark and adventurous while slowly learning the world around. It's great when a book locks you in just in the first chapter. I was so intrigued wondering why the Angel's are here and why they are destroying humanity. Just something about this book drawing me in so completely. I'm sick of the know it all romances were everything goes as planned I'm not even sure this is considered a romance but a bulb is slowly blooming. Plenty of things to be explained I can't wait to read the rest of the series."
"This book follows Penryn who is in the angel apocalypse. After her disabled sister is kidnapped by angels, she teams up with a fallen angel - the enemy - in order to find her sister and get her back.
I would say for the most part I did like this book. The plot was gripping enough to stay interested in what was going on. The story was interesting to say the least and did hold my attention.
Aside from that though I more so found this one to just be okay.
The characters were bland overall. Penryn as a protagonist more so read as a knockoff Katniss Everdeen with no personality. She was more one dimensional as a character so it was hard to care about her all that much.
Along with that, it felt like every other female character we were introduced to in this book was automatically an enemy to Penryn and usually after the love interest Rafe to some capacity. It just felt like every other female character was villianized in some way. Maybe that changes in book 2 but I don’t know.
The romance was kind of lacklustre. I’m not sure if it was trying to go to the love triangle vibe between Rafe and Obi but I could totally be wrong on that one. Enemies to lovers is very hit or miss with me and this is one of those times it unfortunately missed the mark. It’s not the worst in the sense that I could see the characters liked or at least respected one another but sorry to say I don’t like seeing the characters kiss and then for the love interest to say he still doesn’t like her afterwards. I also couldn’t completely see any shift with Penryn’s feelings but maybe she’s just dealing with a lot so that could be it. While we somewhat have an omission of feelings at the end of the book, I have a feeling that Rafe will just go back on all of that come book 2 but maybe I’m wrong.
Overall this was okay. I haven’t decided whether or not I’ll be picking up the sequel but I guess time will tell."
"This was a pretty interesting book but it was also a very big change in direction for me. I wanted to try and expand my horizons to more supernatural, action suspense because my favorite TV shows are Buffy and Angel. As far as I’m concerned it did deliver but I think I would have appreciated it more if it was a little more mature in terms of characters."
"so this was cute it’s part of a series so be prepared to not get all the answers at the end of the book. It’s taken place during the apocalypse and the end of the world era so they’re basically trying to survive. The characters are adorable but we don’t get the full development btw them so it’s frustrating at times lol hence the problems that come with the end of the world. kinda #enemiestolovers "
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