*insert drum roll here* Book Review Two

I think is is due time for another freaking-awesome book to be put into the light. While i am reading many that i will be doing future reviews on, this one is more along the lines of something I would never picture myself reading, nor liking... but the cover was pretty cool to look at, so I bought it.

The book opens with a cynic, physically handsom, and very sexually adept man (he was in the porn industry), who dwells in modern life, and has no moral compass. While he is driving along a road he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows coming from the trees. As he tries to advoid them he crashes into the ravine below and suffers horrible burns over much of his body, including the "money maker". While recovering in the burn ward, undergoing the tortures of the damned that he believes himself to be, he waits for the day that he can leave the hospital and commit the carefully planned suicide he has been plotting since his first day in the CCU. 

To spoil his plan, a clearly unhinged, but beautiful gargoyle scupltress by the name of Marianne Engel shows up and insists that they were once lovers in medieval Germany. In her tale, he was a badly injured mercenary and she was a nun in the monastery of Engelthal who nursed him back to health. She tells him other stories of deathless love in Japan, Iceland, Italy, and England, and he finds himself having something to look forward to, besides the morphine. 

But the pull of his past sins become even more powerful as his perscription becomes addictive, and Marianne receives word that she only has twenty-seven sculptures left to complete-then her time is finished.

 The Gargoyle is the Inferno of our time, it will make you think the word "karma" as more of a sentence than a belief. But it will have you hoping and wanting the impossible. Just proves that sometimes, you should judge a book by its cover.