Review: End of Days (Penryn & the End of Days #3) by Susan Ee

End of Days (Penryn & the End of Days #3)
by Susan Ee
Publisher: Skyscape
Release Date: May 12th 2015

Rate: Enjoyed it (4 stars)

Synopsis:

End of Days is the explosive conclusion to Susan Ee’s bestselling Penryn & the End of Days trilogy.

After a daring escape from the angels, Penryn and Raffe are on the run. They’re both desperate to find a doctor who can reverse the twisted changes inflicted by the angels on Raffe and Penryn’s sister. As they set off in search of answers, a startling revelation about Raffe’s past unleashes dark forces that threaten them all.

When the angels release an apocalyptic nightmare onto humans, both sides are set on a path toward war. As unlikely alliances form and strategies shift, who will emerge victorious? Forced to pick sides in the fight for control of the earthly realm, Raffe and Penryn must choose: Their own kind, or each other?

I have recently started this series, Penryn & the End of Days, basically because when I realized that these books were out in the market I didn't know what they were about (I must have hit my head or something). And then this past month I bought the first and second book and I thought I would combust if I didn't read the third book. I have to thank Amazon Publishing for spoiling me so much and sending me an ARC of this book.

End of Days is the conclusion to Penryn & the End of Days series. The book pretty much is about Penryn and Raffe trying to cast out angels from Earth and stop this biblical apocalypse, while trying to stop the imminent war. 

I devoured this book. I couldn't stop reading because I needed to know what happened. My level of obsession was so high that this series have become one of my favorite this year. But once I finished I felt a bit disappointed. All the three books were progressing into a Raffe and Penryn climax that when it came it was all finished. Like "puff". 

Don't get me wrong, there's more romantic contact in this book than in any other book and their relationship it's like it's going to explode from the tension between these two, but I wanted my happily ever after - in all Susan Ee style, of course - to last enough to keep me satisfied and with that feeling it gives a mind-blowing book that you're unable to read anything else for a few days (I was going to write weeks, but who am I kidding?).

So one of the things I liked about this book is that the romance between Raffe and Penryn, as I mentioned before, finally progresses to a level where you are basically devouring the book to have more of those moments. Because you have basically lived for those moments, building the tension along with the characters in the two previous books. And it's oh so magical... I just wish we had hundreds of pages about those moments only.

The writing was outstanding as the other books. I simply have to bow to those authors who have the ability to mingle romance, danger and humor all together. And I simple loved Penryn as the heroine and main character in this series.

The story has a good pace, leading the reader to the awaited finale, and a good plot. However, I was hoping for more. I have to admit that Raffe's past was a plus in this story and having Raffe's angels back, too. And even the finale, with the war and all that, was a good one and I, at least, didn't expected to end up like that. But like I said before there was no mind-blowing ending.

I rated this book with four stars because despite not reaching that level of mind-blowing epicness I was looking forward to, the story is a terrific one. The characters are the badass heroes and antiheroes every story should have and the writing is excellent. Moreover, Penryn &the End of Days is one of those series you wouldn't mind re-reading over and over again. It would feel wrong not give the story more than three stars.

I will definitely miss this series, Penryn and Raffe and all their apocalyptic adventures.

Susan Ee is the author of the bestselling books in the Penryn and End of Days trilogy, Angelfall, World After and End of Days. Her books have been translated into over 20 languages and her short films have played at major festivals. She used to be a lawyer but loves being a writer because it allows her imagination to bust out and go feral.

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Until the End (Sea Breeze #9) by Abbi Glines

Until the End (Sea Breeze #9)
by Abbi Glines
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Release Date: October 28th 2014

Rate: Loved it (4,5 stars)

Synopsis:

The backstory that fans have been clamoring for—how Rock and Trisha fell in love—is the final installment in the Sea Breeze series from New York Times bestselling author Abbi Glines. And don’t miss the sizzling Epilogue, where Abbi wraps up all the Sea Breeze couples’ stories!

Trisha Corbin always knew how to hide a bruise. With her momma’s boyfriends unable to keep their hands off of her, she had no choice. And as long as it meant the guys wouldn’t go near her little brother, Krit, it was worth it. But her days of dreaming that Prince Charming would ever come rescue her are far, far in the past.

Rock Taylor always had a plan. Through football, he would rise above the life he was born into. A full ride to play for a major college team was within his reach—assuming he didn’t let anything get in his way. But scoring a date with the hottest girl in Sea Breeze was proving harder than expected. Trisha Corbin was every man’s walking fantasy, and she wouldn’t even glance his way. 

When Rock finally does get Trisha in his truck, it isn’t for a date. It’s because he picks her up on the side of the road, beaten and bruised and walking to the local hospital. Before Rock knows it, football is no longer his life. Trisha Corbin is. And he’ll do anything to save her. And keep her.

In addition to Rock and Trisha’s love story, this special novel contains the wrap-up stories of all your favorite Sea Breeze couples: Sadie and Jax, Marcus and Low, Cage and Eva, Preston and Amanda, Jess and Jason, Krit and Blythe, and Dewayne and Sienna.

Until The End is the conclusion of the Sea Breeze series. For us fans must be a sad moment in our reading life, but I can tell you that you won't be disappointed with the story. It would make up for not having our favorite characters in the following books written by Ms. Glines.

In Until The End we get to read how Rock and Trisha got to be the sweet, golden couple we have met in all the Sea Breeze books. We have read comments about them in the previous books, but we didn't know how they started or the real story behind all of it. So it's pretty awesome to see how the first Sea Breeze couple started. Plus it gives us readers an insight of how the boys started as friends and also where the girls who already knew the boys stood where they were all in high school. Moreover, we get to see Krit as a teenager, something that made us love him more!

But the book does not end with them. As their story of how they end up together gets to its end, we start to get glimpses of all the characters' lives after their happy ending in the multiple Sea Breeze books. So this is your chance to see how your favorite characters are doing and have an epic finale of ten years after their individual stories. I can tell you one thing as a Sea Breeze fan: epic. Simply epic for a series finale. 

I can't express with words how much I was fangilring while reading the book and as I kept reading, the book started to get better and better and with each new "story", a new insight into our favorite characters' life together and their happily ever after. I think the author did a wonderful job and gave a sneak peak of what her characters life are after fighting and getting together. 

With each distinct voice for each character and the beautiful written we are all familiar with, I wouldn't think of a better way to give an ending to a series like a tribute like this. 

And the Until The End ending? Swoony, amazing and brings the fangirl that every fan/reader of Abbi Glines' books have inside themselves. That ending needs to happen! Like I would do anything to have a series like that! Please, Ms. Glines tell me it's going to happen or else I think I might combust!

It's sad to let go all the amazing characters in the Sea Breeze series and I would have been crying, like ugly crying this Christmas, if it were not for the lovely tribute and the mind-blowing ending. I'm not giving anything away and if you want to know what I'm talking about, you need to read Until the End. And if you have not read the Sea Breeze series... What? Are you crazy? You need to start them like right now. Leave everything you are doing and prepare yourself to swoon over romantic and epic stories and hot, sexy and reformed bad boys! I'm telling you this series are a must read and ones you don't mind re-reading from time to time.

Since publishing her first novel Breathe in May of 2011, Abbi has also released The New York Times bestselling Seabreeze Series which includes Breathe, Because of Low, While It Lasts, Just For Now and Sometimes It Last, The Existence Trilogy that includes the USA Today Bestseller Ceaseless. New York Times and USA TODAY bestsellers The Vincent Boys and The Vincent Brothers. Last but not least her most popular series to date, Rosemary Beach which includes The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers Fallen Too Far, Never Too Far, Forever Too Far, Twisted Perfection and Simple Perfection. Her newest book scheduled to be released on December 17th, 2013 is Misbehaving (Seabreeze).

When Abbi isn’t locked away in her office typing away she is hauling her kids to and from their many social activities. You could say her second job is the Glines Kids personal chauffeur. It’s a rather illustrious job.