I first discovered Nick Harkaway the author when I was browsing through the Seattle's excellent, Elliot Bay Book Company, and stumbled upon his excellent The Gone Away World. I loved this book immensely. my review of TGAW. I loved the blend of post-apocalyptic setting, with Nick's humor and excellent story telling. Nick defies description and Angelmaker is no different.

This time the setting for Angelmaker is more current and accessible but instead of post-apocalyptic, he manages to work in elements of Steampunk and the clockwork world. He even works in flesh eating zombies, although they're not proper zombies like we typically think of them, they're the kind of zombies only Nick could create.

As enjoyable as the story, plot and characters are (I even fell in love with the old blond pug dog hero, and I hate pug dogs), the book is a marvel to read because Nick loves to write. He loves words and always finds the most amazing words to use. I would guess Nick had more fun writing this book than any writer should because it's apparent in his writing.

This is the best book I've read in years. If this book doesn't make several top selling lists and win several awards then it will be a great travesty.

The greatest surprise about Nick thought is probably the fact that he's so accessible online. He's all over the place on his blog, on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook.