Penryn & the End of Days
#2164.10 in the official ranking · full ranking
Books 3 books Status Complete 2011–2015 Reading commitment Medium Susan Ee Last reviewed 2026-10-24
Overview
Susan Ee's Penryn & the End of Days trilogy is set six weeks after the angels of the apocalypse descended to demolish the modern world: street gangs rule the day, fear and superstition rule the night, and angels hunt humans. Seventeen-year-old Penryn, trying to keep her disabled sister Paige and their mother alive in the ruins of San Francisco, sees Paige kidnapped by angels, and allies herself with the enemy, Raffe, a warrior angel who lies broken and wingless in the street, to get her back. Begun as a self-published ebook in 2011, Angelfall became a USA Today bestseller and was named among TIME's hundred best fantasy books of all time.
Urban fantasy, Dark fantasy · For YA
Core Canon: Reading Order (3 works) counts toward ranking
Penryn & the End of Days Susan Ee
| Work | Year | Internal chron. | Canon | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Angelfall; First self-published as an ebook in 2011; the ISBN recorded is the Skyscape (Amazon Children's Publishing) print first edition of 2012. | 2011 | 1 | core | 4.10 (199,620 ratings) |
 | World After | 2013 | 2 | core | 4.14 (108,640 ratings) |
 | End of Days | 2015 | 3 | core | 4.05 (74,110 ratings) |
Susan Ee's trilogy of the angel apocalypse.
Quick answers
- How many books are in Penryn & the End of Days? Penryn & the End of Days's Core Canon is 3 books.
- What is the reading order for Penryn & the End of Days? Publication order, starting with Angelfall. Full list and years in the Core Canon table above.
- Is Penryn & the End of Days finished? Complete (2011–2015).
- How much reading does Penryn & the End of Days take? Medium reading commitment (estimated from 3 Core Canon books).
- How is Penryn & the End of Days ranked? #216 in this site's official ranking, based on 382,370 reader ratings across 3 Core Canon books. See the full ranking for how this is calculated.
Why is it ranked #216?
Ranked #216 in the official ranking.
- Average reader rating of 4.10 across 3 core books.
- Backed by 382k reader ratings.
- Remarkably consistent across the whole series: all 3 rated core books rate within 0.09 of each other.
- Less than 0.01 behind #215, The Dark Tower (a finer tie-break level decides the order).
- Below the top-10 average of 4.45.
Why explore this universe?
Highly rated · 3 books · Complete · 382k ratings · Ranks #216 overall
Good choice if you want a moderate-length urban fantasy universe that's already finished, so there's no wait for the next book.
Reading order
Publication order (3 Core Canon books)
- Angelfall (2011)
- World After (2013)
- End of Days (2015)
Documented internal/story chronology is recorded for every Core Canon book here, and matches publication order exactly, with no divergence to show separately.
Awards (verified)
- No awards found for this universe.
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Official resources
Research details
Ranking metrics: weighted average 4.10 across 382,370 ratings on 3 Core Canon books. See Why is it ranked here? above for the full breakdown, or the full ranking.
How do we know this?
Admission: Canon extension: Penryn & the End of Days (Susan Ee) and The Grey Land (Peadar Ó Guilín) accepted 2026-10-23
Sources: (see source tier definitions)
- Series page on the rating platform (ratings and years with titles) Tier 2
- Romance.io (series listing with publisher descriptions) Tier 2
- Wake County Public Libraries catalogue (first edition record and summary) Tier 2
Last reviewed: 2026-10-23
Rule: Core Canon = Angelfall (2011), World After (2013) and End of Days (2015).