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A review by horrorreaderweekend
The Angel Maker by Alex North
3.0
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.