A Gargoyle’s Delight by Naomi Lucas

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

For centuries I have suffered.

Solidified and silenced, all because I failed to destroy what I was created for.

Except now, after so long… There is a female. One who always seems to be by my side. Day after day. Night after night.

She talks to me. Touches me. Tells me things. She shares stories of a world I no longer know. She is a reprieve from my punishment. A sweet delight. She liberates me from my solitude.

But when I rise, my adversary seizes his opportunity, and she’s caught between us. He only wants her to get to me.

She isn’t his. And I’ll do anything to protect what’s mine.

A Gargoyle’s Delight

Strange Gargoyle!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙💚💜❤️
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎
Character development: 😟🙁☺️🤓
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Summer – she is a tour guide at Hopkins Museum of the Strange. The museum is a tourist trap that has things like a dragon’s tooth, jars with animals like the cerberus rat and fairy carcasses, haunted dolls, and a giant stone gargoyle statue. The gargoyle statue stands behind the customer service desk and welcome’s everyone to the museum. It seems to get bigger at times when the shadows are just right. Summer knows the entire back story of the gargoyle’s mysterious history. His silent non-judgmental companionship is the best Summer has had since she returned to her hometown.

The Story: The gargoyle predates the Middle Ages. His history is that nobody knows who sculpted him before he was in the possession of John Motismo, a magician and supposed warlock. He found fame in the early 60s. John Motismo included the gargoyle in his show, in the finale, he would bring the statue to life. At one point John Motismo went crazy and pooped blood over the statue saying he needed to free it.

One day after Summer closes up for the night, she pats the gargoyle statue as she talks to it, when she feels a sharp pain and sees that she has cut her hand on the statue. When she looks at her hand later, the cut is mysteriously gone. Later that night at home, she has an erotic dream about a cold stone phallus, but when she opens her eyes, nothing is there. She hears someone speaking to her and can’t understand what is going on. She tries to warm up the phallus with her mouth and opens her eyes to find the museums gargoyle is in her bed. Though he is gone when she wakes up.

The Hero: Zuriel – he is nearly a foot and a half taller than Summer and twice her size. He has been solidified for centuries since he failed to do what he was created for, vanquishing demons. He has been standing guard not really sentient until Summer came to work at Hopkins. All his previous owners have been evil men who wanted his power but needed to know his name. When he finally wakes, he sees Summer as his owner and knows that the demon Adriel is close.

This book was a strange one. Since Zuriel all the sudden had a package when he never had one before, he wasn’t quite sure what to do with it. From my point of view, it was downright silly and unnecessary, not really funny as it tried to be. Though when all that got finished, the story wasn’t bad. I did like the characters and the storyline about Adriel needing to get Zuriel’s name in order to get his power.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via Dual narration. It was narrated by Cassandra Miles and John Masterson. Cassandra has a voice that sounds like she is a small person. I am not really sure what I mean by that, but it is a sort of childish voice in a way. I had to check to verify I didn’t accidentally increase the speed on my audiobook. She is good at doing other voices though. John Masterson had s fro voice and speaks in a broken tempo which works well for a Hero just coming out of his stone prison.

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