Carved in Stone Author: Vickie Taylor
Editorial RBA
ISBN: 978-84-96787-16 - 2
SYNOPSIS
are gargoyles, a race of immortals with the gift of transformation that has protected humanity over the years. But now must contend with something else ...
She could not forget what he had seen ....
When Rachel was six Vandermere not believe in monsters ... to that watched the death of their parents. Now, as a woman and as an agent of Interpol, believes he has the evidence necessary to prove the existence of supernatural creatures, but not yet dare to bring them out. And then, during one of his missions in Chicago, he meets an extraordinary man like never seen before-dark, handsome and mysterious loner.
He could not remember what it was ...
Although Nathan Cross looks human, hidden inside much more dangerous-a gargoyle. Created years ago to protect humanity from evil, Nathan and his race there in the dark, knowing that they are slowly disappearing. And when Rachel meets the desire he feels for her is overshadowed by fear of revealing their true nature.
And while Rachel is determined to discover the truth about Nathan, both must face an ancient evil force that will threaten their love, their lives ... and even their souls.
OPINION OF BETHLEHEM MARQUEZ
Predictable ... heavy ... tiresome ...
It seems that we have no good words for this book but, really, is yes. We are in a romantic story, undemanding that serves to entertain and lead to a different world than we're accustomed. That is what we expect, when reading paranormal romance, a genre that is becoming more fashionable and it's becoming harder to find original arguments, that is why many times we do things as different and original that we can fall the extravagance and, therefore, lack credibility, and that, in my view, is what happened to Vickie Taylor.
We will not go into detail in his writing, as it would hand in the fire by saying that all errors of style, referring to words repeated phrases are redundant and so forth-rather work of translation and not the author (c'mon, I believe that), however, there is nothing heavier than read a story in which words are repeated constantly, especially in scenes action and sex.
The argument itself is not bad, is quite original but not very credible. We are used to reading about vampires, werewolves and even the odd ghost, but had not addressed the issue of the gargoyles to date (at least me). But ... what is a gargoyle?
cornices in many Gothic buildings stand the figures of fantastic beings and devilish which function within the whole drainage. They are true works of art created by human hand and resemble dragons or snakes with open jaws and huge protruding fangs. Some have wings and horns, body of lion and fish scales. In many European cities have the gargoyles come to life at night and out to satisfy their hunger criminal. Some comics suggest that we may even become human-like beings in order to mingle with us and even protect us from any fatality, yes, when the night ends, they return to their place in the top of some buildings, and processing, the Again, in stone.
The argument is presented to us by Vickie different. Here, the gargoyles are not transformed into stone. Can be a point of originality or a kick to tradition as look-but as today everything is permissible and even vampires sparkle in the light of the sun instead of burning, we'll let go. What I can not miss are the things inconsistent and we're going commenting.
With reference to the gargoyles. I can understand, though I have a hard and long, which did not turn into stone (then it is not a gargoyle, but anyway ...) but I do not understand they are talking all the time of a terrible curse that forces them to become monsters and then it to be pronouncing a sentence to do so. Well, sometimes yes and sometimes no, do not understand it and also do not understand what the "awakening", that if he had respected the tradition, it could mean that "wake up" to life after being turned to stone, which does not happen here. Here, the "awakening" is the fact of becoming a monster, or put another way, the fact of letting out their true nature. But these are little things that maybe we can be misleading because of being poorly translated or that the author has made it very clear what he intended with this strange race of beings.
What I do not like is the whole context or situation itself, ie the girl is a cop, not a police any but a "super cop" as is Interpol. So far so good but to be from Interpol is very clumsy, always getting into trouble and even life-threatening thing that "boy" skipped. Where was he until now? What was she doing? How to resolve these situations? Nor do I understand that throughout the book she does not have anything else to do to fool with childhood monsters; that occurs, the Interpol has no more cases? What happened with your co-workers?
In general, as we have said before, is entertaining but very heavy to read on the subject redundant and repetitive so far as to annoy. But Vickie Taylor has failed to get hooked on the series. The characters are not clearly defined and the situations in which the characters are connected telepathically are not well defined although there is a good attempt. I have not found any character appealing enough to want to continue reading, which if I happened to other writers. If we put him shout readings, would put a 4. By the way, I go to the library so I keep the following in the series.
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