** spoiler alert ** 
 I didn't start writing this review till I picked the book up halfway through reading after months of avoiding it. 
 And by the statuses I left while reading it, I was struggling: 
 Pg 54 - I'm starting to hate the MC, she's too Mary-Sueish. she just happens to know everything that she needs to and do whatever to get through...I mean, come on!!" 
 Pg 78 - Really thought I was going to enjoy This book, but have to keep myself from groaning at the ridiculously cliche parts." 
 Not onto the review 
 I got this book after hearing a lot of great reviews about it and I was super excited to get started. Then my excitement started to fade. 
 It got the stage where they characters are caught by a group of men...and that's when I gave up. There was too much detail on what one of the guys looked like that shouldn't be there when the MC is getting tied up. It's just all seems irrelevant and melodramatic for this to happen to the characters and I stopped caring...because even writing this, I haven't finished the scene, but I know they're going to get out of there unscathed like some super hero. 
 Wow... that is completely ridiculous- the men were just waiting for her to show up, because Raffe had half of the supplies...i mean, really? He could have left his other bag somewhere and they just presumend that his other half would come to the rescue. 
 "I'm somehow embarrassed to have Raffe witness this moment, but I'm not sure why." - Why would you be embarrassed and not know why you're embarrassed?? You'd know. 
 "His name tastes foreign in my mouth. Different, not bad" - what? 
 Yep, the main character is so annoying. She's a stupid little skinny teenager who starts a fight with a grown-ass man that's probably twice her size...why?? I know she thought she was going to get someone's attention, but FOR GOD SAKE!! I really wanted to throw the book away at this point. She's so stupid. 
 Also, there are certain things put into the book with absolutely no reason, for example: "He has sent a clear message to everyone in the camp that I am someone he has noticed."-- I just get where this came from, he sat her down to patch her up. She was just in the middle of a fight...where the hell did this thought even originate from? He only patched her up after she was stupid enough to get into a fist-fight. 
 "My hands, after only a day of scrubbing clothes in the washtub are swollen and red. I've heard of dry, cracked hands but never really knew what it meant until now. After only a few minutes o being out of the water, my palm has cracks that looks like someone took a razor blade and sliced the skin. It's freaky to se your hands all cut up, looking too dry to even bleed" - this description is atrocious compared to what we have gotten in the previous chapters. We got a whole day where there wasn't much described, everything was brushed over, and then beginning of the following chapter we get that monster of a description of her hands. 
 I'm trying really hard to like this book, but when Penryn throws the clothing at the girl and shouts "Did you not like that? I thought that's what you wanted. I mean, why else would you get all grabby with my man?" - I know she's supposed to start a fight with the girl, but I mean. She doesn't think twice about doing this, she doesn't question what she does or says...and I keep having to put this book down. I really want to read it, but this stupid melodramatic teenager-y behaviour is making it harder than it needs to be. 
 Also, we never got a description of the demons when they were attacking her, and because of this I was imagining up shadows attacking her, and it was quiet comical. For being a whole new creature in the book, I would like to know what they look like, what we're supposed to be seeing. 
 Why do we have to keep reading about her random, non-essential dreams? They add nothing to the overall story, okay. Yea, I get that she's trying to save her sister, but I would like the stories to have some meaning to the character. Like a memory from their childhood that gets ripped apart...not what we're getting. I'm hoping that they make sense later on in the series, but I have a feeling that they won't. 
 Penryn also asks herself way too many questions, it gets a bit obvious that the only reason that she questions anything is for the reader and not because the character is naturally thinking them. It's just a lazy-ass writer who wants to add in more details without any consideration to the story... Please....no...just no. 
 All the way through I thought that angel's wings were huge, feathery things, but then the angel can get changed and have them on without being squashed in the back of a jeep....how bloody big or small are their wings? I don't know anymore! 
 Also, why does she constantly have to keep reminding herself that Raffe isn't human??? It gets annoying, we know he's not human and she's prancing around with him for days and yet...she still has to keep reminding herself that he isn't like her...what?...he even has wings sticking out of the back of him...why the hell would she have to keep reminding herself of this fact? Is she really that stupid? Or does she have short-term memory lost when it comes to Raffe? 
 Penryn thinks in the most inconvenient places. Her sister just there up an angel with her teeth and is walking towards her and yet she thinks it's a good time to think deeply on where she heard a sentences or think deeply on her sister's new eating habits. People just do not think think like this in real life, and not seconds after being nearly killed and watching their crippled, probably now monstrous sister walk towards them. 
 Final thoughts 
 This book took on way too much. If it was giving more time to develop and better descriptions, it would've been amazing! When you think of an apocalypse, you instantly think EPIC, and this book wasn't epic. It's a whole angelic apocalypse...I mean, how cool is that? If it was written descriptively as other epic tails. I would have adored the living hell out of it. But it wasn't. It was written in 320 pages from learning about the characters to having a full-on war, and it failed. 
 The 3 starts is due to the fact that I liked the story behind the book, it kept me engaged, and I want to pick up the other 2- recently continuing a series after book 1 just hasn't been happening. 2 stars were taken due to poor descriptive qualities in the book and the over execution of what it set out to do.