The intrigue and tension amongst the angels provides some tantalising insights into their society. Her search takes her back amongst the angels, to the heart of Archangel Uriel’s plans and plotting, and eventually reunites her with Raffe.Īngelfall was always going to be hard act to follow, but World After very much rises to the challenge. Penryn is as determined to find her sister now as she was before, despite – or maybe even because of – what’s been done to her. When Penryn’s sister is attacked by people in the resistance camp, it ends badly, with numerous people dead and Paige missing again. Paige was subjected to horrific experiments while she was held captive by the angels and is regarded by everyone except Penryn and her mother as a monster, but it’s hard even for Penryn to see past her razor-sharp teeth and badly stitched together body. This is no fairytale, even though Penryn has been reunited with her sister.

Raffe has gone and Penryn is left amongst the resistance fighters who have just hit back against the angels' main aerie, causing chaos and destruction. Gradually, the effects of the venom that Penryn had been injected with wears off, but by then it’s too late. Raffe, the angel who had been 17-year-old Penryn’s companion in her search for her sister, Paige, thinks Penryn is dead and has handed her body back to her people. World After picks up immediately after the climactic events at the end of Angelfall, Susan Ee’s brutal and fascinating story of the earth’s apocalypse at the hands – or rather wings – of a legion of destroying angels.

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