Rating: 3.5/5 
 ***Spoilers hidden*** 
 I decided to read this book because of the amount of people that really enjoyed it. For some reason, I just find myself unable to get really into angel books. While I liked this book, I didn't love it. 
 This book is told from the perspective of Penryn several weeks after the angels came and destroyed nearly everything. She's struggling to provide for her disabled sister and her schizophrenic mother. At the beginning of the book, she comes across several angels cornering another angel as they gang up on him and cut off his wings and leave him for dead. Penryn feels the need to help this angel, but as she does, another angel takes her sister and flies off. This book focusses on Penryn's journey to recover to sister from the hands of the angels. 
 This was quite an interesting concept at first. I haven't ever read a book where angels were the destroyers and were the ones causing the apocalypse. The concept itself was intriguing, but I was bored for the first chunk of this book. Nothing was really happening, but thankfully it picked up soon after. I really liked Penryn as a character and how she didn't rely on others to take care of her, because she herself was usually the caretaker. I found Raffe really interesting, and I liked how while he was usually serious, he had a fun side to him as well. I also appreciated how there wasn't really romance in this book - I mean, it's the apocalypse, so it wouldn't have seemed very realistic. 
 While I enjoyed a lot of stuff about this book, I didn't like how some parts seemed predictable and a bit unbelievable. (view spoiler)[ I made the connection between the name Raffe and Raphael almost immediately. This is probably thanks to being addicted to Supernatural, but it didn't make for much of a surprise when it was revealed he is the archangel Raphael. Also, I find it a bit strange how nobody realized she was alive. I get that she was paralyzed, but it's not like her heart wasn't beating or she wasn't breathing. Also, it's said that Raffe has extraordinary hearing, so why couldn't he hear her breathing? (hide spoiler)] I also found some things a bit confusing and I didn't like how some questions went unanswered, but I guess that's why there's more than one book. (view spoiler)[ What happened to Paige and those other children? What were those scorpion thingies? Why were they there? I'm still really confused about that. (hide spoiler)] 
 While it took me a while to get into, I can't deny that this was a good book, and that many other people would probably enjoy it a lot more than I did. If you enjoy the standard book about angels, I'd probably recommend you give this one a try because it is quite different from the average angel book. I'll probably be reading the second one this summer.