6/9/2023 0 Comments Angelfall![]() They’re trying to escape to the hills, with Penryn pushing her sister in a wheelchair and her mother pushing a shopping trolley laden with rotten eggs. And in the world Penryn has to contend with, that could well be true. In the once prosperous Silicon Valley, Penryn – named after an interstate junction – is trying to stay alive whilst looking after her seven-year-old sister Paige, and her mentally unstable mother who is convinced that she’s being hunted by demons. Small patches of survivors are fighting each other for food and gangs are roaming everywhere. ![]() It’s also post-apocalyptic, which is usually a winner with me, and at times it makes Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials trilogy look almost fluffy. The book is dark, chilling, fascinating and utterly riveting. I started this young adult thriller early in the evening, read continuously until nearly 2am and then finished it the following morning. It happened to me at the age of eight with The Hobbit when I read for most of the night under the bed covers by torchlight and it’s happened again with Angelfall. ![]() Every now and again a book comes along that gets its talons into you and just won’t let go. ![]()
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