Review: Heart of Stone by Christine Warren

From bestselling author Christine Warren comes a thrilling new series about a young woman caught between a rock and a hard place—between gargoyles and demons…

Ella Harrow is trying to carve out a normal life for herself. Well, as normal as an art geek with psychic abilities can hope for. As museum docent and gift-shop manager, Ella is able to keep her distance from people—and her powers in check—while surrounding herself with the artifacts she loves. But how on earth is she supposed to act normal when a thousand-year-old statue on the museum’s terrace suddenly comes to life?

Heart of Stone

Not your ordinary gargoyle, Kees has been asleep for eons, waiting for a portent of evil to wake him from his slumber. Kees isn’t a vision; he’s a bat-winged guardian created to protect the world from the seven demons of the Dark. Somehow, Ella triggered his reawakening. Maybe the demons have been unleashed? Maybe his heart is finally ready to be chiseled open? The fate of the world isn’t carved in stone…yet.

Series: Gargoyles #1
Release Date: December 31st 2013
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Source: Manic Readers
Reviewer: Elizabeth
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Reviewer’s Thoughts

I read a few of Christine Warren’s books before and I’ve really enjoyed them. I liked the concept of a gargoyle and took a chance on the book. Needless to say, I was disappointed.

The heroine in this story is attacked by a wealthy contributor to the museum she works at. The guy attacks the heroine and then the heroine’s boss shows up to stop it, but her boss just tells everyone to forget the situation that happened and move forward. Move forward? Really?

The heroine has some psychic powers that would have helped her fend off her attacker but she doesn’t use them. I guess she’d rather be attacked and killed instead of unleashing her powers, especially when she is attacked a second time that night and STILL doesn’t use them. I lost all respect for her after that.

Then, a gargoyle comes to life and saves her and THEN she uses her powers on him, which was useless by the way (eye roll). The heroine doesn’t like the way the gargoyle looks so he transforms himself into a sexy guy. The heroine is speechless and forgets everything else but the “stud muffin” in front of her. The gargoyle/man explains to the heroine that the one that attacked her was sent by someone more powerful and that she needs the gargoyle man to teach her how to defend herself from the next attack. And that was only within the first thirty pages of the book, it just went downhill from there.

The heroine’s character was not believable nor was the chemistry between her and the gargoyle man. I couldn’t relate to the characters so I couldn’t enjoy the storyline. The book had promise but the delivery fell flat for me. Unfortunately, I think this is where the author and I part ways. This is not a book I could recommend.