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Book Details: Written
by Susan Ee,
US Today best selling author. Publication November 19th
2013. 314 Pages. You can purchase a hard copy or digital copy at Amazon.
World
After Synopsis: Angelfall ends with everyone thinking Penryn has died. The angels
have created a creature that has the body of a man, a scorpion tail
and bug like wings. Penryn gets stabbed by one of these “locust”
with paralytic poison. Raffe believes that Penryn has died and
delivers her body back to her mother and sister.
World
After begins with Penryn regaining movement in her body and sitting up, frightening the people who see this. Her family is now traveling with the
resistance the group who attacked the Aerie at the end of Angelfall. The
resistance takes the group of survivors into hiding to their new
location, Palo Alto high school. Now with Paige back Penryn has a hard
time accepting how she has changed and doesn’t know how to act
like a big sister anymore.
The
resistance has been working on placing a surveillance system all over
the San Francisco area. Penryn and Obi, the leader of the
resistance, see Raffe with his new wings going after Beleil, a fallen
angel who stole Raffe's wings. To everyone but Penryn Raffe now
looks like the devil himself come to earth. Obi sends out a recon
group, which includes Penryn, to monitor the situation at the old
Aerie. The recon team discovers that all the angels shot down or
injured are moving and quickly healing from the attack leaving not a
single casualty for the angels.
Back
at the resistance Penryn starts to have very real dreams involving
Raffe and his sword. In a way his sword is speaking to her through
these dreams and teaching her how to wield it properly. She gets
quite the insight into Raffe’s past and how lonely a path he was
on. Penryn begins to really miss her relationship with Raffe and
wonders when she will see him next.
Paige
leaves her family back at the resistance because of her peculiar
situation. Penryn and their mother leave soon after to follow her
trail. While out searching they discover how many of these “locusts”
have been created and start seeing swarms of them in the sky,
hoarding people to their death. Penryn works hard to get back to her
sister and along the way has to overcome many obstacles and
distractions, always hoping she will see Raffe again.
My
Thoughts: World After is more exciting than Angelfall. In Angelfall the author had to build the story and
explain to the reader everything going on and why. World After jumps
right into the story from where Angelfall left off. You get to see
more of Penryn’s relationship with her family in this book, but while I was reading I just wanted Raffe to find Penryn and know
she did not die. When that finally happens I was so excited by how the
author describe both of their reactions that I just wanted more
interaction between the two.
The
plot is still a post-apocalyptic setting with some very grim and
horrific descriptions of the world and how people are acting, but it
just makes this book series so unique. Great series, I cannot wait to see
what happens next!! So far there is no information
about when the third book will be published.
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