Oh my how I love this series. When I got this in the mail I immediately set this on my bookshelf. Why? I was too scared to open it. This is one of my favourite series and this is the final installment and I've seen some meh ratings for it, so clearly I was getting nervous about cracking this bad boy open. I shouldn't have feared though. This book was in Susan Ee's good hands and she delivered a crazy, yet satisfying conclusion to the Penryn & the End of Days trilogy. 
 This book had all the things I've loved from the previous two. Penryn is still the badass, kickass heroine we've all come to know and love. She's grown so much since the angel apocalypse started and it's obviously opened her eyes a whole lot. She's become more thoughtful and accepting, like for example, with her mother and the struggles that this woman has faced constantly. 
 One thing that has always made me have stronger feelings for Penryn is that she doesn't put her feelings for Raffe over everything else. I mean Raffe is great - smart, hot, funny, protective, you name it - but this is the end of the world. So often in YA the heroine puts so much into her love interest and disregards everything else. It's stupid and unrealistic. Penryn isn't oblivious to her surroundings. She knows what the angels can do and what they want to do. Death, destruction, apocalypse. Penryn knows humans are a flawed species but she wants to live, she wants everyone to live. Despite her love for Raffe (and despite how much I just wanted the two of them to run away and live happily ever after. Why oh why must everything be so heart-wrenching?!), she's aware of the improbability that they could ever be together the way they want to. And this is why I respect her as much as I do. 
 The conclusion of this story was equal in darkness and despair with the other books but I did wish there was a bit more oomph to it. I was expecting some major shit to go down but while the stakes were sky high, the final battle scene seemed pretty tame and over quickly. But the epilogue had me smiling like an idiot because not everything in the World After has to be completely devastating, thank god. 
 Also, I need to mention how HOT some Penryn and Raffe scenes were, WOW. But obviously I would've have liked there to be more because I love this couple so much. 
 Despite a bit of a lackluster finale, this book was everything I could've asked for to close out this trilogy. This is easily one of my favourite series and I'm going to miss these characters so freaking much. But they got a fitting ending and now I can do nothing but eagerly await whatever Susan Ee has next in store.