The Gargoyle

by Andrew Davidson | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 9780385524940 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingBkind2bookswing of Clarksville, Tennessee USA on 11/2/2009
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Journal Entry 1 by wingBkind2bookswing from Clarksville, Tennessee USA on Monday, November 2, 2009

Amazon Editorial Review:
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.

Journal Entry 2 by wingBkind2bookswing at Clarksville, Tennessee USA on Monday, March 14, 2011
Wow - this is an astounding story. The narrator has been horribly burned and disfigured and has given up on life when Marianne enters his life. Marianne tells him that they have been lovers before and starts spinning tales of her previous lives. The story of his life now is interwoven with Marianne's tales from the past. So - is Marianne mentally ill, or his medieval lover? The theme of love across the centuries is totally believable, even when the narrator visits Hell.

Quote I loved:

"It's our scars that make us who we are."

Giving to a friend at work - then will make available if it comes back to me.

Journal Entry 3 by wingBkind2bookswing at Clarksville, Tennessee USA on Friday, June 29, 2012

Released 11 yrs ago (6/30/2012 UTC) at Clarksville, Tennessee USA

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Adding to the Fairy Godmother Bookbox - 30 wishes, at least 10 from US

Journal Entry 4 by imawinn2 at Neenah, Wisconsin USA on Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Taking this out of The Fairy Godmother Fiction Bookbox. I took this out just because the cover of the book looks so interesting and by your journal entry, I'm glad I did. Thanks for sharing, Bkind2books!

Journal Entry 5 by imawinn2 at Neenah, Wisconsin USA on Sunday, June 16, 2013
I had no idea what this book would be like. What a wonderful gem! I honestly hated to put the story down. This tale takes right off with the main character's terrible car crash due to a night of partying, high on drugs and alcohol. It is quite gruesome with the detailed description of the burning of this man's flesh and his treatment/recovery in a hospital burn unit. If you can handle such grisly imagery, then be ready to be transported on a fantastical journey of two souls traveling through time.

Our unnamed man is burnt to a crisp and grotesque. He hasn't much to live for and is quite cynical and bad tempered. A monster. While lying in his hospital bed, in walks a mysterious woman from the psych ward who tells him that she is Marianne Engel, a sculptress of gargoyles and that she is 700 years old. She then proceeds to tell our protagonist that he had been burned before and that they were once lovers in medieval Germany. Is she just crazy and delusional or does she speak the truth?

This brutal yet fabulous story is about love and redemption and one that falls into various genres. Fantasy. Romance. Horror. Historical fiction. I highly recommend taking a chance on this book.

“You'll swoop from incredible highs when you're just glad to be alive, to those lows when you wish you were dead. And just when you start thinking that you've accepted who you are, that changes, too. Because who you are is not permanent” - Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle




Journal Entry 6 by imawinn2 at Neenah, Wisconsin USA on Saturday, August 31, 2013

Released 10 yrs ago (8/31/2013 UTC) at Neenah, Wisconsin USA

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Putting this in emmejo's Otherworldly Bookbox. Happy Travels! Happy Reading!

Journal Entry 7 by wingerishkigalwing at Salt Lake City, Utah USA on Friday, September 20, 2013
Pulled from The Otherworldy bookbox. Sounds intriguing.....

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