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3.39 AVERAGE
3.39 AVERAGE
I have loved every single one of Alex Norths books, and I couldn’t wait for this one.
Katie has lived a charmed life. On the cusp of graduation, she had big dreams, a devoted boyfriend, and a brother who she loves dearly. Everything is perfect, until one day a violent stranger changes the fate of her family forever. Years later, Katie is still full of guilt but one day she gets a call her brother has gone missing. Detective Laurence Page is facing a gruesome crime. Everything points to two cold cases.
Alex North has done it again - This book was awesome and intricately written! It was an amazing psychological suspense book that I couldn’t stop listening to. It was wonderfully atmospheric and full of chills. The mystery and family drama added to the thriller aspect, and it worked well together. I did find the book wonderful, except the ending could have been flushed out a little better as it seemed very abrupt. I will say that while I loved this one when I read it in print. The audio was not my favorite but I read it again in print and really enjoyed.
If you’re looking for a book that you won’t want to put down, then check this one out now.
Huge thanks to MacMillan Audio, @macmillanaudio, and @netgalley, for providing me this audio and additional thanks to @CeladonBooks for mailing me this great package to review.
Katie has lived a charmed life. On the cusp of graduation, she had big dreams, a devoted boyfriend, and a brother who she loves dearly. Everything is perfect, until one day a violent stranger changes the fate of her family forever. Years later, Katie is still full of guilt but one day she gets a call her brother has gone missing. Detective Laurence Page is facing a gruesome crime. Everything points to two cold cases.
Alex North has done it again - This book was awesome and intricately written! It was an amazing psychological suspense book that I couldn’t stop listening to. It was wonderfully atmospheric and full of chills. The mystery and family drama added to the thriller aspect, and it worked well together. I did find the book wonderful, except the ending could have been flushed out a little better as it seemed very abrupt. I will say that while I loved this one when I read it in print. The audio was not my favorite but I read it again in print and really enjoyed.
If you’re looking for a book that you won’t want to put down, then check this one out now.
Huge thanks to MacMillan Audio, @macmillanaudio, and @netgalley, for providing me this audio and additional thanks to @CeladonBooks for mailing me this great package to review.
As an Alex North fan I was excited to read another of his works but this just..isn’t it for me. Far too confusing, with too big of a cast of characters that were never developed enough for me to truly care about them or what happened to them. Having finished this book, I genuinely can say I’m still not actually sure what it was about or what I really read.
A serial killer and religious fanatic abducts little girls and makes them into “angels”. He also can predict the future and writes it all down in a book. He is caught and his two traumatized sons are adopted by different families.
Jump to 2017, a millionaire is murdered and a “book” is stolen at the time of the murder.
This was a hard synopsis to write and doesn’t even include the main characters of the story, Katie, a truant officer, her brother Chris who was scarred as a boy by a man trying to steal his face and the two investigators of the present day murder.
There was a LOT going on here. A LOT. I think this book needed maybe 50-80 more pages to really flesh out the mystery. The foundation of this story has very good premise, families and secrets and trauma and forgiveness. The title of the book, The Angel Maker, was mentioned but really never discussed. The relationships of all the main characters were very hard to keep straight as their stories progressed, overlapped and intertwined.
I still enjoyed it, but I felt it was just too much in too few pages. More was needed to make this a very good book.
Thank you @NetGalley and @Macmillan.Audio for sending this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own.
Jump to 2017, a millionaire is murdered and a “book” is stolen at the time of the murder.
This was a hard synopsis to write and doesn’t even include the main characters of the story, Katie, a truant officer, her brother Chris who was scarred as a boy by a man trying to steal his face and the two investigators of the present day murder.
There was a LOT going on here. A LOT. I think this book needed maybe 50-80 more pages to really flesh out the mystery. The foundation of this story has very good premise, families and secrets and trauma and forgiveness. The title of the book, The Angel Maker, was mentioned but really never discussed. The relationships of all the main characters were very hard to keep straight as their stories progressed, overlapped and intertwined.
I still enjoyed it, but I felt it was just too much in too few pages. More was needed to make this a very good book.
Thank you @NetGalley and @Macmillan.Audio for sending this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own.
I put off reading this book because of all the reviews that said it was too complex to follow…it’s intricate, but not hard to follow lol. Maybe it’s worse as an audiobook. This left me with so many unanswered questions and really felt incomplete. Why was Michael Hyde fixating on Katie’s family? Why do we only slightly mention the Angel Maker and don’t go into any detail about the angel-making when it’s the title of the book? Who even slashed up Alan? Wasn’t that part of the main mystery (unless I missed the answer to this somehow)? Interesting premise, not enough character development to care about any of the characters, not enough tying together of all the stories, not enough wrapping up of the loose ends, and honestly not enough focus on the things that should have been more important.
dark
emotional
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
While at times I was confused by the different characters and timeline, this book captivated me. I read it within a span of 3 days. It is quick, relentless with a satisfying ending. I can’t wait to read more from Alex North.
DNF-ing this one, unfortunately. A third of the way through, and I realized, I am either paying zero attention or it's very convoluted or both...
This isn't really the kind of book I always enjoy reading, and the style is very of its genre - stark and blunt, a lot of telling and summary and not a lot of nuanced emotional exploration. A lot of clunky dialogue, too. But that's at least partly the genre for you. The story itself was very up my alley, though; I was worried that it would be a lot more gritty and hardboiled than it was, with some weak hand-wavey thing about the killer's ability to see the future, but there really IS a lot of clairvoyance going on, a lot of weird unexplained supernatural culty stuff going on. Accepting it for what it was, I really dug it and I even missed sleep a few nights to stay up reading.
The only things I have a problem with are
The only things I have a problem with are
Spoiler
Michael Hyde's place in the story and why he attacked Chris, and the actual angel-making. It feels like those were parts of an earlier draft whose roles in the story were diminished later on, but North never actually took them out of the book. I don't know, when a book is called The Angel Maker, call me a ghoul but I kind of want to know what angel-making entails. And also why poor Chris almost got his face sliced off instead of just stabbed.
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
N/A