When Katie Shaw was in high school, her brother, Chris, was attacked by a stranger. Years later, Katie is married to her high school boyfriend, and they have a child of their own. She constantly lives in guilt by what happened to her brother all those years ago. Then she gets a call from her mom that her brother has gone missing. Detective Laurence Page is investigating a murder that leads him to two old cases: Christopher Shaw's attack and a serial killer who could see the future.
The Angel Maker is marketed as a thriller. To me, it reads more as a mystery with some thriller elements. Despite the hype this novel has been receiving, I was not a fan. This novel was all over the place. Katie, Chris, and Laurence's stories were easy to follow, but then the story goes on all kinds of weird tangents that made no sense at all. I really wanted to stop reading because I honestly had no clue what was going on, but I continued on. I finally made the connections to figure out what Alex North was actually trying to do with this hot mess of a train wreck novel. The ending was very anticlimactic for me as I had already figured the main "twist" out. The whole "supernatural" vibe just didn't work either. It just wasn't developed well enough. This novel left much to be desired.
The Angel Maker is marketed as a thriller. To me, it reads more as a mystery with some thriller elements. Despite the hype this novel has been receiving, I was not a fan. This novel was all over the place. Katie, Chris, and Laurence's stories were easy to follow, but then the story goes on all kinds of weird tangents that made no sense at all. I really wanted to stop reading because I honestly had no clue what was going on, but I continued on. I finally made the connections to figure out what Alex North was actually trying to do with this hot mess of a train wreck novel. The ending was very anticlimactic for me as I had already figured the main "twist" out. The whole "supernatural" vibe just didn't work either. It just wasn't developed well enough. This novel left much to be desired.