An Up All Nighter and A Page Turner: World After (Penryn & the Ends of Days, #2) by Susan Ee

World After (Penryn & the End of Days, #2)

by Susan Ee

Genre: Young Adult, Angels, Fantasy

Release Date: November 19, 2013

Publisher: Skyscape

Source: Bought/Own Copy

Links: Goodreads | Amazon | Author's Blog

Synopsis:

In this sequel to the bestselling fantasy thriller, Angelfall, the survivors of the angel apocalypse begin to scrape back together what's left of the modern world.

When a group of people capture Penryn's sister Paige, thinking she's a monster, the situation ends in a massacre. Paige disappears. Humans are terrified. Mom is heartbroken.

Penryn drives through the streets of San Francisco looking for Paige. Why are the streets so empty? Where is everybody? Her search leads her into the heart of the angels' secret plans where she catches a glimpse of their motivations, and learns the horrifying extent to which the angels are willing to go.

Meanwhile, Raffe hunts for his wings. Without them, he can't rejoin the angels, can't take his rightful place as one of their leaders. When faced with recapturing his wings or helping Penryn survive, which will he choose? 

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Review: 

If there’s one thing I am sure about dystopian novels, it’s that creating a sequel that will live up to its predecessor is a very difficult task which is why I was really WOW-ed by World After. I didn’t really expect that much from World After. Being the hopeless romantic I am, I did expect some steamy scenes from Raffe and Penryn, but never did I expect that I would be awake at around 12 am just so that I can continue reading World After. I even set my alarm clock to 3 am just so that I’ll have enough time to finish it before I went to school. World After is that good.

World After starts of where Angelfall left. Separated from Raffe, Penryn, along with her mom and her sister Paige, are now with the resistance. With her sister looking inhumane, people try to capture which leads to Paige leaving the resistance and Penryn out in the World After in search for her.

Once again, Susan Ee manages to deliver us a book that stands out in the angel genre. World After is certainly a must-read if you’ve read Angelfall. It gives us an explanation about the things that were left unanswered in the first book and leaves us questions to look forward to getting answered in the next book. Its pacing is a bit slow, for me. I am not really fond of the pacing, but in this book, it really works well because it gives us just enough time to absorb each moment.

I love Penryn in Angefall, but I love her more in World After. I mean, who doesn’t? She’s so frickin’ awesome! She’s not a damsel in distress but a kick-ass! She uses what she has to her advantage and thinks before she acts, though not always. I also love her banters. They were so funny that I couldn’t contain while I was reading it, so I had to laugh out loud.

We don’t really get to see much from Raffe in the first half of World After. I’m not going to lie. I did miss him, but we do get some flashbacks of Angefall from his POV, thanks to Pooky Bear, his sword, so I didn’t entirely feel Raffe-less. Though I may have smiled during some of those flashbacks, nothing beats Raffe’s presence. Once he gets reunited with Penryn, I swear you’ll be smiling the whole time like I was!

I also love the secondary characters in this series. All of them are interesting, but mom has got to be my secondary favorite character even if I do have mixed feelings about her. I think she is by far the most interesting character in this series, even more interesting than Raffe and Penryn (I’m sorry, but it’s the truth!). There are so many things to know about her and I was kind of hoping that those things will be revealed in this book, but, sadly, we only get a few, so I’m really looking forward to knowing more about her in the third book.

Overall, I think World After is, without a doubt, worthy of being the sequel to Angefall. Its plot will surely keep you awake until you’re finished with the book. It has less romance than Angelfall, but the action in the book makes up for it. If you’ve read Angefall, I highly recommend you continue with World After! If you haven’t, you can always read Angefall first and then World After.

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