Angelmaker

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Becca says:
I enjoyed Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway. I was immensely drawn in from the start, and continually intrigued by the paths the story was taking. Based on the first half (or more) of the book, I didn't necessarily expect the turn our protagonist Joe Spork took, and I'm still not sure how it felt to me - almost like two parallel story lines converging into one; a little unexpected, maybe a little clunky, but ultimately it ran smoothly. Joe Spork from two realities meeting and morphing into one like Firestorm.The characters were a lot of fun. Edie Banister is an incredible, strong, ferocious character made even better by the fact that she is elderly by the time we meet her. The flashbacks to her younger life were some of my favorite parts of the novel, and I think Nick Harkaway could create a world around her. To me, she makes Joe Spork look like a toy. Billy Friend is basically Captain Jack Sparrow. Or at least, in the audiobook version, sounds exactly like him - that circular way
... of talking, bolstered up by intelligent words, all strung together to say nothing of much consequence, but still convince you of something all the same. I adored him. The plot begins as fiction and mystery, then morphs into sci-fi in a way that you almost don't perceive at first, and wind up totally buying into, and then tosses on gangster culture just for good measure. Fun! Was this the best book I've read this year? No - I've read some great ones that would be hard to beat. Did I enjoy it and would I recommend it? Totally!
MelAnn says:
I appreciated the Dr. Who meets The Rook meets Good Omens farsical, vaguely steampunk, very British humor-infused whimsical nature of this soft science fiction book, but it just couldn't hold my interest. It started slow, and other than Edie and Frankie, I didn't really care for the other characters enough for the bumbling steampunk/spy/thriller part to matter to me. I left it unfinished about 2/3s through.
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