Name: The Gargoyle
ISBN: 9780307476234

Andrew Davidson

Awakening in a burn ward after being horribly burned in a terrible car accident, the cynical narrator is visited by a beautiful and enigmatic sculptress of gargoyles who tells him that they had once been lovers in medieval Germany.

The Gargoyle

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I fell in love with their relationship but it was quite slow in the first half of the book.

LIMEKI 

I read this book in three phases. The first, was noted by a slow pace waiting to get hooked. The second, I began to see why my friend recommended me this book. The third phase I was desperate to keep reading. What starts as a bleak tale of tragedy involving a schizophrenic psych patient  turns into a wonderful, magical-realism tale of what it means to live. 

Scott Taylor

Fran Lewis

It was very different and unexpected. Lots of graphic detail, maybe too much at times.

Sian Wadey

This was one of the most amazing books I've ever read. I'm not much for love stories, I find them all a bit schmaltzy, but this was beyond a love story. It was epic, the characters were fantastic, especially Marianne Engel, and the protagonist was an anti-hero of sorts. The author did everything to make you dislike him but he still found a way into your heart. I recommend this above every other book I have ever read. It's incredible, out of this world and will keep you hooked right through to the end.

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.

Kirsty Dyer

The Gargoyle is up there in my top 10. I found it emotional, deep and inspiring. I loved the writing and the story behind the characters. The idea of overcoming hardship in life is one that I think most people struggle with so to read something that displays that so eloquently and with such empathy was, in all honesty, heart warming. 

Amazing writing style, but I think the people around đe just hyped it too much do I had bigger expectations.

remi valade

Quite long to start, with its strange setup (main narrator is in the present days, while the second one tells story from the past that seems unlinked), but I really enjoyed it.

Nicole Neuman

The mesmerizing story of one man's descent into personal hell and his quest for salvation.

On a dark road in the middle of the night, a car plunges into a ravine. The driver survives the crash, but his injuries confine him to a hospital burn unit. There the mysterious Marianne Engel, a sculptress of grotesques, enters his life. She insists they were lovers in medieval Germany, when he was a mercenary and she was a scribe in the monastery of Engelthal. As she spins the story of their past lives together, the man's disbelief falters; soon, even the impossible can no longer be dismissed.

The Gargoyle

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