It just so happens that a tragedy occurs when Katie Shaw decides to go with her boyfriend Sam and let her younger brother Chris walk home alone. I'm not going to even try to give you a synopsis, this book has a brother and sister who have become estranged as adults. The Angel maker is an atmospheric story about unrivaled sibling loyalty, a serial killer who can predict the future and a detective determined to put the pieces together. It’s a wonderfully-written book – Harkaway has a knack with the language that makes this huge novel very easy to read and enjoy.

I didn't realize how much I had missed North���s masterful storytelling until I began reading The Angel Maker. Joe soon finds himself the most wanted man in Britain and, with a somewhat motley crew – including a woman slipping towards the end of her eighties who might just be the only person alive who knows exactly what’s going on – he confronts the forces of the mighty Shem Shem Tsien, International Bastard of Mystery, in an attempt to save the world. It was its over descriptive nature of the storytelling, that often veers into I had no idea what was going to happen from one chapter to the next, and believe me I concentrated really hard on this book so it wasn't for lack of trying.

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He was straight up despicable, yet the events of the book seemed to confirm he was right since it never addressed the reason for why the book had power in the first place.

Although I found most of the book to be on the slower side initially, I was intrigued and had to know what was happening and how everything would play out. There is a backstory with all the characters that will play out in some surprising and shocking ways that I couldn't foresee and I always appreciate when I can't completely figure out a thriller's puzzles. Where Stephenson spends chunks of the book describing the technology and the cryptographic techniques, Harkaway finds himself with a much less solid proposition, cleverly avoiding any in-depth detail as to how the book, the bees, the attendant clockwork actually work. Page has a multitude of questions not least why Hobbes has been murdered and obviously who by but also why the murdered man has an obsession with infamous local serial killer, Jack Locke.

I did not enjoy the pov of a certain 2nd generation angel maker because he was a psychotic zealot with tunnel vision.The incident has far-reaching consequences not least the guilt carried by his sister Katie who feels she lets him down.