Penryn & the End of Days Books in Order

Penryn & the End of Days is Susan Ee's breakout trilogy, a fast, dark mix of apocalypse fantasy, survival story, and slow-burn angel drama. The series begins after angels descend on the modern world and smash ordinary life to pieces. Instead of opening with kings, prophecies, or chosen ones, Ee starts with a teenage girl trying to keep her family alive.

That girl is Penryn. She is seventeen, living in Northern California, and carrying more than any teenager should have to carry. Her little sister Paige uses a wheelchair. Her mother lives with severe mental illness. When angels seize Paige, Penryn's goal becomes brutally simple: get her sister back. To do that, she ends up teaming with Raffe, a wounded angel whose wings have been cut off. He wants to be made whole again. She wants her family. Neither really has a reason to trust the other, but both need the partnership.

That uneasy alliance is the engine of the series.

The first book, Angelfall, sends Penryn and Raffe through a wrecked California toward the angels' stronghold in San Francisco. The next two books, World After and End of Days, widen the story into something much bigger. Paige's fate becomes more complicated, the angels' plans grow more disturbing, and Raffe's place among his own kind starts to matter as much as Penryn's fight on the ground. The trilogy keeps raising the stakes, but it does not forget the original emotional core, a sister trying to bring her family back together in a world that keeps breaking people apart.

The setting does a lot of work here. Ee places the end of the world in familiar Bay Area streets, schools, and highways, which makes the damage feel close and immediate. Street gangs, resistance fighters, cults, and frightened survivors all crowd into the picture. Because the landscape is recognizable, the fantasy elements hit harder. Angels are not distant symbols in this series. They are a military force, a religious terror, and a reminder that the old rules are gone.

The tone is grim, but the books move quickly and never wallow. There is horror in them, and some scenes get genuinely unsettling, yet there is also sarcasm, momentum, and a strong thread of family loyalty. Penryn is the kind of lead readers tend to remember because she is practical, angry, funny, and not waiting around for rescue. Raffe brings a different energy, disciplined, dangerous, and often dryly amused, which is why their back-and-forth carries so much of the trilogy's spark.

Read these in order.

Each book picks up the fallout from the one before it, and the bigger revelations land best when you watch them build step by step. If you want a series that mixes ruined cities, monstrous angels, fierce sibling loyalty, and just enough romantic tension to keep things sharp, this is where Susan Ee is most likely to hook you.