3 Stars 
 I feel sorry for Susan Ee, I really do. A lot of readers, myself included, thought that Angelfall was pretty phenomenal. I believe that I used the word "perfect". With expectations that high, there's only really one place you can go. 
 World After was not perfect. World After is another book to throw onto the disappointing sequel pile. 
 If you only read the blurb you could be forgiving for thinking you had accidentally picked up Angelfall. Read: 
 When a group of people capture Penryn's sister, Paige, thinking she's a monster, the situation ends in a massacre. Paige disappears. Humans are terrified. Mom is heartbroken. 
 The plot of this book is the real disappointment. The book is Penryn looking for Paige - again. Besides that, before Paige even went missing, the beginning of the book is just nothing. It's just Penryn kind of flailing around, not doing much with not much happening. You're almost 25% through the book before something interesting happens - and even that is not that interesting. Then when the search for Paige begins - again - there really doesn't seem to be any of the urgency that there was in the first book and there is no Raffe to make it interesting! 
 Speaking of Raffe - you get probably 75% of the way through before he and Penryn are reunited! Obviously, that's something everyone is looking forward to, so you would want to capitalise on that a little, but it's just too drawn out. By then the reappearance of Raffe is not enough to save this book. 
 When I think about it in terms of what this book has contributed to the overall plot of the series - why are the Angels here, what do they want, how can they be defeated - this book really contributed basically nothing. Maybe two or three clues or snippets of information that could have been delivered in one sentence, not an entire book. 
 The positive of this book is that the characters are still wonderful - thank God. It's still the same, feisty, believable, funny Penryn, the same old sexy, loyal, confused Raffe, and Paige is half developed as a new monster girl and Mom is such a laugh as well as a modern representation of mental illness. There was just nothing much for them to respond to - again, SUCH a shame. 
 One thing Ee is wonderful at, and I really appreciate in reading the End of Days series, is that Penryn never does anything out of character and her goals throughout the series have always been consistent with her character. The same can be said for Raffe. Penryn never forgets her main goal, always finding her sister, and nothing can sway her from it (not even a sexy angel). This makes me worry that Penryn and Raffe will never get together! Raffe has spent his entire existence dealing with the consequences of Angels fraternizing with Daughters of Man and I can't see him falling for Penryn - even one who saves his life so often. This thought makes me sad! Every time they are together I am like: 
 Anyway, despite this disappointing nothing book, I will still be reading the next installment. I feel like there is A LOT to be resolved so it has to be juicy to tie up all those loose ends.