Review: overpriced easy fun
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 4, 2011
If I had a penny for every review where I have written "This is good enough but it could have been so much better!", I should not be rich, perhaps, but I could afford an expensive gadget for sure.As I said elsewhere ("Crying for the moon"), Ms Madison has a knack for giving unexpected twists to common (and abused) supernatural lore. This time she hits bull's eye by creating an M/M romance where one of the lovers is a gargoyle, which is not only comparatively new but allows her to introduce a main very distant from the common "dark, handsome, brooding, conflicted vampire/werewolf" cliché.Rodney, the gargoyle, is refreshingly mild, warm-hearted and perceptive. He made all the right bells ring for me and I could not avoid falling for him.The story's main asset, its being original and refreshing, is unfortunately also its main problem: this story is extremely short, perhaps a one-hour read (and at $3,49 clearly overpriced), while the basic premise literally screams for more of everything. More pages, more characterization, more subtlety in plot development.I loved the characters and enjoyed their happily ever after, but the character of David (the other main) is hardly outlined if at all, how the two actually fall in love and why remain in the cloudy realm of the left-unsaid together with many details which would have greatly enriched this love story and made a little jewel of it.As it is we just have a very short, fun read... pity.