Review: End of Days by Susan Ee

6 May, 2015 Reviews 18 comments

This is a review for the much awaited conclusion of Penryn and The End of Days trilogy. I’m still waiting for this much awaited conclusion because I refuse to believe what I just read was it.

Nope

It’s not that End of Days was necessarily bad or poorly written. No, it’s not that. The writing is consistent with her previous novels and the novel itself was reasonably satisfactory. But I didn’t want satisfactory for the end of Penryn and Raffe’s journey.

This was supposed to be epic. Earth shattering. The emotions were supposed to be soaring out of control on a unicorn with no sense of direction except for up! This was supposed to be a roller coaster ride of emotions that doesn’t stop until everyone on it has puked on each other’s faces.

There was more emotion, sexual tension and drama in Angelfalls pinky finger than in End of Days’ whole body. Where did that raw emotional connection go? What happened with these characters that they are just so blasé about each other and that I am, in turn, blasé about them?

God, by the end of the book I was just like:

yawn

I’m not trying to be mean about this. I know it’s hard to really knock it out of the park, but that’s what this series deserved. It was owed so much more than this. I’m angriest because I know that Ee has it in her to wring truly powerful moments of raw emotion from her characters and readers. I felt it when Penryn was paralysed in Angelfall. I felt it when Raffe first realised Penryn was alive again in World After.

Yet I honestly can’t think of a single moment of End of Days that sticks out to me as emotive or heartfelt. No single moment where my heart ached for the characters or the situation. Not a single Eeism, which I define as a condition when you want to marry a book because it gave you so many feels.

This isn’t the review I wanted to be writing for End of Days. I kind of wish, now, that I had never read it and could keep going on imagining something more epic for these Starcrossed Lovers. Something that would do the story justice as a final book.

 

18 Responses to “Review: End of Days by Susan Ee”

    • Kat Kennedy

      I highly suggest giving it a try for yourself, yes. You may end up loving it. I’m just bitterly disappointed.

  7. Natalie M.

    Oh no. And I’ve been waiting for this to come out, so I can read World After and End Of Days back-to-back.

  8. Matt

    Yeah…. After loving Angelfall, World After really didn’t do it for me so I think I will be skipping this one.

  11. Kelly @ Dancing Through the Pages

    I haven’t read it but I got the first two books off of Netgalley and read them back to back and loved it two weeks ago because I knew the last one was coming out. I was really excited but now hearing this, I don’t know what if I should put off reading it or try to read it asap :/

  12. Ari

    Uhh, I really hope that i will enjoy it better. You make me scared a bit, but I understand your feelings 😐