The Gargoyle | Andrew Davidson | Amazingly Good Book!!!

The Gargoyle | Andrew Davidson | A very intriguing and compelling book

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The Gargoyle

	The Gargoyle Andrew Davidson Doubleday, 2008 - 480 pages average customer review:based on 132 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time.

On a burn ward, a man lies between living and dying, so disfigured that no one from his past life would even recognize him. His only comfort comes from imagining various inventive ways to end his misery. Then a woman named Marianne Engel walks into his hospital room, a wild-haired, schizophrenic sculptress on the lam from the psych ward upstairs, who insists that she knows him ? that she has known him, in fact, for seven hundred years. She remembers vividly when they met, in another hospital ward at a convent in medieval Germany, when she was a nun and he was a wounded mercenary left to die. If he has forgotten this, he is not to worry: she will prove it to him.

And so Marianne Engel begins to tell him their story, carving away his disbelief and slowly drawing him into the orbit and power of a word he'd never uttered: love.

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Amazingly Good Book!!!

This book was amazing: the stories within the story, the characters and the way Andrew Davidson describes everything was beautiful. You can tell he is going to be a very successful writer, especially since this is his very first book! I can't wait to read book 2, 3, 4.....etc!

A very intriguing and compelling book

This book fits into a few different genres. It is, in part, a historical fiction novel. In part, it is a love story. And finally, it is also a bit of a mystery. I think all three parts work well together, complementing not overshaddowing each other.

The book chapters jump back and forth from the present to one of many pasts. It also moves around different parts of the world, including Japan, Iceland, Italy, and Germany. Though some do not like this style, I think it really helps to keep the reader interested from the variety.

The writing is good, though sometimes it seems that the author plays a bit too fast and loose with grammar rules. But, still, it does not really detract from the overall enjoyment of his word choice, for example.

In terms of the mystery part of the book, there does seem to be an element of The Da Vinci Code type of thing in the book, especially as there is some sense of the religious in the entire story.

While the novel is thoroughly engaging, it has the issue that many books do: the end cannot live up to the rest of it. That is a problem with The Gargoyle as well. Davidson could, perhaps, have done more to flesh out the reveal at the end, making the last chapters more substantial. For this, I would probably give it a 4.5 if I could. Still, the book is so interesting to read and there is enough of a resolution at the end that it deserves high marks. But it is certainly not for those who need all strings tied up at the end.

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Entrancing book...I could not put it down

I am not a student of English or history, so I can't say if this book qualifies as a "great novel." I can say, however, that I read this book over the course of a few days, making sure to read a few pages, paragraphs, or sentences whenever I got the chance. I put aside the other fiction book that I was reading and made sure to finish "The Gargoyle" as soon as I could.
I will not recap the novel (as it has been done before, and better than I could ever hope to do), but I will simply say that it was engrossing and un-put-downable (if that could ever be a real word).

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Disturbing addictive read

Just finished this book. We will make this a read of the month for my bookstore for romance & new age fiction readers. This book is about personal exploration, reflection and life making this solid read for those looking for a new circle.

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