From Amazon
A young man is fighting for his life. Into his room walks a bewitching woman who believes she can save him. Their journey will have you believing in the impossible. The nameless and beautiful narrator of The Gargoyle is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He crashes into a ravine and wakes up in a burns ward, undergoing the tortures of the damned. His life is over – he is now a monster. But in fact it is only just beginning. One day, Marianne Engel, a wild and compelling sculptress of gargoyles, enters his life and tells him that they were once lovers in medieval Germany. In her telling, he was a badly burned mercenary and she was a nun and a scribe who nursed him back to health in the famed monastery of Engelthal. As she spins her tale, Scheherazade fashion, and relates equally mesmerising stories of deathless love in Japan, Greenland, Italy and England, he finds himself drawn back to life – and, finally, to love.

Quite mixed feelings about this book. At the time of publication it had many positive reviews. I looked forward to reading it as I have had it waiting for some time. I felt slightly let down, as can happen when there has been a lot of hype. I didn't like the opening chapters at, no subtly just pure shock factor. I didn't mind the descriptions, it was that the whole opening didn't entice me in any way to carry on reading. I only kept going as I thought there must be more! I thought the rest of the story was interesting and and good in places but not really gripping. I did get to the end but I afraid the whole never really gelled for me, an ok read but no lasting impressions.

On someone's Wishlist.

amazing- thanks

Aligning my on line bookshelf with my virtual. Unsure when this was released.