Review: Interesting Premise
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 19, 2012
I thought this book was a decent offering from Ellora's cave. Synopsis can be found in other reviews. I'm really TRYING not to use any spoilers, since this is a short read, so if you need me to clarify, please ask in the comments.I enjoyed the premise - GARGOYLES! AS SHIFTERS! The characters themselves were pretty generic - Cray was a nice guy/gargoyle. Loretta was a rich heiress just looking for love in all the wrong places.As far as the plot went... it was ok. I felt the whole "Max" episode could have been delved into a bit more. It was very cut and dry though "this happened then this happened then this happened then done." Also the staging of a dramatic scene was a little confusing as everything (I'm guessing was happening at once) could not have happened. Or perhaps just needed to be cleaned up a bit to make it make more sense [EXAMPLE (not from book)- if I'm on a roller coaster going very fast and there's missing tracks ahead, the passengers and I would not be able to hold a rational conversation in a light airy tone and buffer my nails at the same time]. The great finale I felt was super quick and "the great revelation" at the end completely soured the heroine for me. "The great revelation" seemed really pointless/unnecessary/inappropriate for the story and made me really just think the h was one dumb selfish beesh, which is sad because I had liked her well enough until that point. It was also very random and just thrown in there for a quick HEA wrap up.Refreshing premise, the romance scenes were nice, certain plot points/situations needed to be tightened a bit, definitely a quick light read.