World After by Susan Ee

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?

Review

This book was well worth the wait, it didn't fail to live up to the promise of the first book & it is well written as you would expect from Susan Ee.
We get an insight into what happened to Penryn’s sister & despite the fact that Paige has been forever changed after her 'surgery', Penryn sticks by her. Penryn is recovering from her encounter with the scorpions in the Eyrie basement, and while she does so in the rebels camp the other campmates try to kill the ‘monster’ that Paige has become, resulting in a bloodbath and Paige once more disappearing. So Penryn once more must leave the safety of the camp to search for her sister

Raffe was missing for the first half of the book, although glimpses of him where there.The relationship between Penryn and Raffe isn't the focus of World After, and she doesn’t waste time mooning and pining for him. Penryn is too busy living through the angel apocalypse to spend too much time thinking about Raffe. It so refreshing to have a romance that doesn’t overwhelm the whole plot and doesn’t descend into a cheesy horrible angel romance.

I loved Penryn in Angelfall, and I loved her even more whilst reading World After. She is the type of heroine that I admire, she is tough, family focused and incredibly brave. As Penryn’s character develops there is much more revealed about both her background and what happened to Paige before the angel apocalypse, which explains so much about her character and why she acts the way she does.

This is a dark, post apocalyptic novel and World After jumps straight into the action, as with Angelfall, I couldn’t put it down. World After is dark creepy, imaginative and more than a little spooky, there were parts where I was literally cringing with the horror of some of the things that happened. Susan Ee has a wicked imagination for bringing nightmares to life, and I loved every single moment.

The book is well written, pacy and one you won’t want to put down. The one and only issue I have with World After is the wait until the next book in the series, which is due out 12th May 2015. If you haven't read Angelfall yet do so as you won’t be disappointed, and I would highly recommend reading all three books together, and not have to wait like I did.

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