Review: Stone Cold (Monster Prey Mates, #1). ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Stone Cold by H.B. Jacks

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Three massive stone gargoyles. Monsters all. And now I belong to them.

I didn’t ask to be rescued. I was doing fine on my own, even if I had just lost my job, dumped my ex and taken a wrong turn down a dark alley.

So when Cararr thinks I need saving and sweeps me up in his huge claws, what am I supposed to do? Say no to this damaged, vicious and sweet as candy gargoyle who only wants to prove to his mates he’s worthy of their love?

Mates who include Viriroz, one growly grump of a gargoyle, all dominant and possessive, and the sinful Garaz who looks at me like he wants to eat me. Whole.

These are powerful monsters with a dangerous job to do, protecting the human world from the things that slither in the dark, but they need a final female mate to complete their roost and produce their heirs.

All of which means I have to decide whether to stay with these delicious, feral males who love to share a bed and each other, or whether to condemn the rest of the world the world to the darkness.

But I have to make the choice, because the war is coming and it might just rip us apart before we even begin.

Spicy, sweet and delicious paranormal romance from HB Jacks featuring three massive stone gargoyles and one human female. No cliffhanger, always a HEA. For mature audiences only.
Stone Cold

Three gargoyles and a lady!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💜❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌎
Character development: 😟🤭☺️😘🥰

The heroine: Lara – she has worked for Winners & Sons Solicitors for years and after having a relationship with Christian Winners which ended badly, she has been fired. She found out that he was a very bad person after finding that he cheated on her, but she also found some damaging information on his computer which she copied to a thumb drive. He has had someone watching her since then and now he has fired her. She is definitely afraid of him.

The Hero: Viriroz, Carrarr & Garaz – Gargoyle Knights of the Winged Order. They fight demons and nightmares from the Underworld. They are animate stone but are still mortal to a degree. They live in castle Storm, in the Between (between the Lowerworld and the Upperworld, where humans live). They try to keep the demons out of the Upperworld and throw them back to the Underworld.
Viriroz – he is the alpha of their roost. He carries more responsibility than the other two on his shoulders and has to keep them all in fighting shape.
Carrarr – he was injured badly a few months ago, his wing especially has been slow to recover, and he was speared in the heart. He can’t speak but can purr. He knows what he wants to say, but when he tries to talk, it won’t come out.
Garaz – he was found not too long ago by Viriroz after leaving another roost where he dared to defy his Alpha and he was abused and tortured. He can no longer purr like the others.

The Story: On the day Lara is fired she goes to take out her trash and someone or something is out in her alley behind her house. It growls at her and has glowing eyes and though she knows Christian has someone following her, she thinks whatever is after her is even more dangerous. When suddenly she is lifted into the air. She wakes up at castle Storm with three stone Gargoyles over her. They tell her they have claimed her, and she can’t return home.

The story is different and interesting. I liked the fact that there is more than one villain (Christian and the demons). Also, I both liked and hated the fact that this is an MMFM (the male gargoyles are with each other as well as with Lara). I liked it because it was super steamy but didn’t like that they have such an established relationship when Lara was brought into it. In some ways, it seems that she was only brought in because she can give them babies, not because they really wanted or needed a female. Also, in some of these monster books the lovemaking is super messy. I mean much more messy than in real life, it seems a bit gross when you are reading it, not sexy like I think its meant to be.

What I do really love about gargoyle books is that every new book or series is pretty unique. There is no real origin story or standard lore for gargoyles like there is for shifters or vampires where every vampire book is similar except for certain aspects like can they go out in the sun and for shifters do their clothes magically disappear and reappear with a shift or do they have to be naked, so they don’t rip their clothes. In this book, the gargoyles don’t shift into human form, they look like stone but just have a really thick skin which can be punctured and is animate.

This is like a standard fantasy novel where the protagonists go on a journey, and they face some difficulties along the way. I really enjoyed the journey and the conflicts. The character development was pretty great. Each of the three gargoyles had distinct personalities and were endearing in their own way. The world building was also very good, there were a lot of different monsters along the way from demons, to vampires, to witches and warlocks, to orcs and elves and even fairies. I also love the fact that this is a standalone reverse harem romance, there just aren’t enough of them with good storylines.

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