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Okay. I read this book much earlier in the year and I'm only getting around to reviewing it now.
This is one of those book I'd seen SO MUCH hype about, and I was so excited to read it. I love angels and mythology stories and dystopians so mixing it all together sounded like a great idea.

Angelfall is about a girl called Penryn, who's trying to survive the end of the world. Angels have descended on Earth, ravaging the population and causing widespread destruction. When the angels kidnap Penryn's sister, she teams up with a rogue angel, Raffe, in order to try and rescue her.
It's kind of a hybrid of Supernatural and The Walking Dead, actually[.

Okay. I quite enjoyed this but at the same time I don't feel like I enjoyed it as much as others did ?

POSITIVES:
I found the characters to be super enjoyable! I really loved Penryn as a hero. She's smart, resourceful, sassy (but not rude or cold) and realistic. She does what she needs to do to survive and I admire her strength of character and her bravery.

Raffe was a fun character. I enjoyed his dynamic with Penryn, and I especially enjoyed the mystery surrounding him and the other angels. I liked the exploration of angel politics and I liked that his characterisation was based upon biblical depictions of Angels as warriors rather than the popular culture depiction of angels as fluffy and cute.

I REALLY liked all the things about the Angels culture and social structure. I liked the supporting characters, especially Tweedle Dee and Dum.

I really liked how dark this was, and how it was gorey and gritty without being overly horrific. It was both fun and dark which was cool.

NEGATIVES:

I was not the biggest fan of the romance. I found it really awkward and I honestly didn't even see the chemistry. To me, Penryn was WAY too young. (view spoiler)[ I mean, if Raffe is actual Raphael from the Bible then he's at least 2000 years old and in all likelihood much older. Now, if Penryn had been a bit older (like, even in her 20s) maybe I could have gone with it but she's SIXTEEN YEARS OLD and I just fund it a little weird ?? Like I just could not get past this (hide spoiler)]

I found some bits of the story a bit "overdone". I mean, sister needs to save sister - never seen that before in Dystopia amirite. ???? And idk just the whole thing was sort of, been there done that. But it was okay I didn't HATE IT and there was enough originality for me to skim past it.

Anyway, overrall I'd give this a 3.5. At the time, I have it a 4 but looking back this story doesn't excite me, you know? Like I've not been tempted to pick up the nest two books at all. This was a fun for me but I didn't love it so I'm giving it a 3.5 for really liked some bits of it but overrall I liked it and didn't love it