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jacquibear's review against another edition
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
3.25
Content Warnings
Moderate: Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Sexual content, Torture, Medical trauma, Gun violence, and Blood
nicolewhopickedthisbook's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
This is definitely a twist on the YA dystopian genre. I honestly didn't think it would be as dark as it was for a YA novel. It starts off with a bang and doesn't stop. It's a sprint to the end and your adrenaline is going and there's just a hint of conspiracy to give it another layer. And that ending? gooseflesh and tingles on the back of my neck... yeesh!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Gore, Sexual harassment, Medical content, Mental illness, and Injury/Injury detail
kidnapping, dissection, and experimentation on childrenmim72's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror and Gore
Moderate: Violence and Ableism
rmorabia's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror
Moderate: Cannibalism, Gore, and Violence
Minor: Adult/minor relationship
ana24gs's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
funny
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
“I am not afraid of you, your kind, or your god.”
I liked the book. The characters were "x" but the book was entertaining and left you wanting to continue reading. But despite the action in the book, I couldn't take seriously the danger that the protagonists went through (until the end).
I think the reason why I could not take the danger seriously is the writing, certain lines, and certain dialogues were very painful to read and felt ridiculous. Plus, sexism is added in the dumbest way someone can add sexism to a story (and it doesn't make sense either). And there were a lot of scenes that didn't make sense, they could have been skipped and it wouldn't make a big impact on the plot.
The characters were fine, nothing new. Penryn is a strong, determined girl (with "I'm not like other girls" vibes) and she cares a lot about her family. All the decisions she makes are for the good of her family and she protects them at all costs. Raffe is fine, that is, but it did bother me, sometimes, how ungrateful he was to Penryn but "x" I kinda understood at the end.
I don't think I'll read the next book, although the ending of this one was good, I don't see myself enjoying the next one. But this was a fun time.
If you like action, a forced proximity relationship, dystopia, and a strong protagonist who would do everything for her family, then go for it.
⚠️ SPOILERS ⚠️
The only thing I can say is that the time they spent in the town (the one that is forming the resistance) was very ridiculous. I do consider that she needed to spend time there because that way she meets the twins who end up helping her find her sister, but why add sexism? Why? It seemed to me that there was simply no reason to be. They are at the end of time, IN A WAR, they need hands to fight and they decide that women will only clean their silly clothes, what? Wtf.
I thought that the ending was good, I felt the danger that the protagonists were in and you can feel that both are worried about each other. I also loved when Penryn found her sister, it was a very good scene. But the final scene was disappointing to me.
“Sometimes, as we’re stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good.”
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Sexism, Violence, and War
hellenalawliet's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
relaxing
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Content Warnings
Minor: Body horror, Gore, Kidnapping, Violence, and Medical trauma
shelbsies's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.0
2022 Rating: 4 stars
Somehow my mind had the audacity to erase everything that happened in this book from my memory, which is surprising because it's a very unique and interesting concept!
Apocalyptic, relatively grotesque, survivalist and fast-paced, Angelfall is a good time. Definitely the kind of book you want to and should binge to get the most out of it. I really loved the characters of this world in particular, and can't wait to read on about them.
This book started as a 5 star for me because it's fast to read, I got invested in the characters, and I love a good survival story. I knocked it down to 4 because the ending felt like too much at once. There were, in a way, two reveals that I wish had been more spaced out because it was a lot to take in.
2016 Rating: 5 stars
Somehow my mind had the audacity to erase everything that happened in this book from my memory, which is surprising because it's a very unique and interesting concept!
Apocalyptic, relatively grotesque, survivalist and fast-paced, Angelfall is a good time. Definitely the kind of book you want to and should binge to get the most out of it. I really loved the characters of this world in particular, and can't wait to read on about them.
This book started as a 5 star for me because it's fast to read, I got invested in the characters, and I love a good survival story. I knocked it down to 4 because the ending felt like too much at once. There were, in a way, two reveals that I wish had been more spaced out because it was a lot to take in.
2016 Rating: 5 stars
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cannibalism and Violence
once_upon_a_tome's review against another edition
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Violence
madarauchiha's review against another edition
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
0.5
I'll be honest: I only read this because the author is a person of color. As much as I love and demand #OwnVoices, I recognize that we shouldn't be restricted to writing about only our experiences of color. And nor should Black authors be restricted to writing only about Black experiences. I think it's rather detrimental to think Black authors or Authors of Color can't write about anything under the sun if we wanted to.
That said, sometimes it doesn't always work out that well. Like this book, for example. Oh god, this book. If you liked this book fuck you. You are embarassing, you're ugly, your blood is disgusting, cashapp me 50 million dollars as an apology.
There's a part where the self insert main character meets a female angel [who are super rare for some reason??? Why is there only one sexy bitch??] and we get that evil misogynistic trope of the mc being plain jane and unattractive and this female angel being everything she isn't. Like when will we stop pitting women against each other for the sake of voting male love interests?
The prose is godawful. This is shitty marvel cinematic universe rip off levels of bad. They banter so wittily and it's nothing like actual real live human conversation.
Speaking of, there's a love interest? I guess? If you squint, it's there. The author is trying to set it up as a forbidden love but like cmon. This is being telegraphed from 2 inches away from your ear. By the way: the main character is a 17 yo human earth girl. A child. A CHILD. INFANTE. BABY. Are you genuinely telling me this old as fuck, ancienter-than-ent-testicles angel is romantically / sexually attracted to this underage girl child? Disgusting. Fuck you susan ee. [idk if Ents have testicle but Tolkien is dead so I'm taking over lotr canon, tyvm]
I didn't like any of the characters. MC was so flat and boring, a very overdone character we've all seen in ya and even generic, poorly written fantasy. It's like a rip off of that hunger games girl.
The ableism! Oof! What a mess. The little sister character who is essentially the Fancy Lamp plot device [not calling her sexy, she's underage cmon] and the plot kinda tosses her here and there. Does she have a personality? Not really. She's repeatedly called cr*ppled, and that is also used to describe other people. They call her wheelchair bound, as well. Also she magicallybecomes no longer disabled due to heinous medical experimentation / torture so we are graced with that fantastically ableist and ageist trope too.
Oh and the mother character [did she ever get named?] is mentally ill. This unnamed mental illness makes her so violently crazy that 1 she abused her youngest daughter into permanent disability 2 plays with corpses 3 rampantly and randomly murders people 4 hears voices that she calls 'demons' and sometimes obeys them.
The plot doesn't occur until maybe the last 10 percent of the book. The rest is a walking simulator. The concept of angelic hierarchy is kinda neat, as is thescorpion children monsters , and I liked the plot twist with Raffe. I wish someone else wrote this book, with a heavy editor on hand. It could've been interesting. Maybe it was, back in 2011, but in 2021 it's not stale, boring, rehashes the same damn tropes we were already sick of back then.
My moonreader app says this took 0.72 hours to read, and yes I was clicking through the pages at, like, 1 per second. This book gets no respect or attention span.
Content warnings [probably incomplete bc fuck paying attention to this book]:
Minor: whorephobic language, racism in calling a lil white girl the next Dalai Lama what the fuck susan,
Medium: cannibalism
Major: gore, wing trauma, blood, amputation, child abuse, ableist c slur, dogs, misogyny, sexual harassment, body horror, child death, murder, slavery, medical gore, medical abuse, experimentation, torture,
That said, sometimes it doesn't always work out that well. Like this book, for example. Oh god, this book. If you liked this book fuck you. You are embarassing, you're ugly, your blood is disgusting, cashapp me 50 million dollars as an apology.
There's a part where the self insert main character meets a female angel [who are super rare for some reason??? Why is there only one sexy bitch??] and we get that evil misogynistic trope of the mc being plain jane and unattractive and this female angel being everything she isn't. Like when will we stop pitting women against each other for the sake of voting male love interests?
The prose is godawful. This is shitty marvel cinematic universe rip off levels of bad. They banter so wittily and it's nothing like actual real live human conversation.
Speaking of, there's a love interest? I guess? If you squint, it's there. The author is trying to set it up as a forbidden love but like cmon. This is being telegraphed from 2 inches away from your ear. By the way: the main character is a 17 yo human earth girl. A child. A CHILD. INFANTE. BABY. Are you genuinely telling me this old as fuck, ancienter-than-ent-testicles angel is romantically / sexually attracted to this underage girl child? Disgusting. Fuck you susan ee. [idk if Ents have testicle but Tolkien is dead so I'm taking over lotr canon, tyvm]
I didn't like any of the characters. MC was so flat and boring, a very overdone character we've all seen in ya and even generic, poorly written fantasy. It's like a rip off of that hunger games girl.
The ableism! Oof! What a mess. The little sister character who is essentially the Fancy Lamp plot device [not calling her sexy, she's underage cmon] and the plot kinda tosses her here and there. Does she have a personality? Not really. She's repeatedly called cr*ppled, and that is also used to describe other people. They call her wheelchair bound, as well. Also she magically
Oh and the mother character [did she ever get named?] is mentally ill. This unnamed mental illness makes her so violently crazy that 1 she abused her youngest daughter into permanent disability 2 plays with corpses 3 rampantly and randomly murders people 4 hears voices that she calls 'demons' and sometimes obeys them.
The plot doesn't occur until maybe the last 10 percent of the book. The rest is a walking simulator. The concept of angelic hierarchy is kinda neat, as is the
My moonreader app says this took 0.72 hours to read, and yes I was clicking through the pages at, like, 1 per second. This book gets no respect or attention span.
Content warnings [probably incomplete bc fuck paying attention to this book]:
Minor: whorephobic language, racism in calling a lil white girl the next Dalai Lama what the fuck susan,
Medium: cannibalism
Major: gore, wing trauma, blood, amputation, child abuse, ableist c slur, dogs, misogyny, sexual harassment, body horror, child death, murder, slavery, medical gore, medical abuse, experimentation, torture,
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexism, Violence, Torture, and Slavery
Minor: Pedophilia
eliterhate's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
This book made me feel things.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Gore, and Child death
Minor: Sexual violence and Sexism