Flesh and Stone

Connor Rihyad is a gargoyle who believes in the old ways. The ways that disallowed women except for procreation and the birthing of sons so the gargoyles' souls could continue to live on. This belief is tested when he goes undercover in the Minnesota congregation of gargoyles and meets Mara, a human woman who is just as determined to fight for and protect the slaves they have taken as Connor is. Soon Connor finds himself not only playing double agent between two sects of gargoyles but he is torn by the knowledge he may need to choose between his brethren and the woman he is falling in love with.

Flesh and Stone is the second book in Vickie Taylor's growing gargoyle series. I continued to enjoy her mythology which was set up in the first show more book even though it was not really advanced in this one. Although I will admit I really didn't like Connor in the first book, Carved in Stone, I definitely found him more tolerable here. We also got to see quite a bit of Nathan and Rachel from Carved in Stone, which was nice. I did find some of the typos distracting, in particular there is one place where Connor is actually called Nathan by mistake. I'm not a perfectionist by any stretch of the imagination but that bugged me.

All in all I am enjoying this series and will make a point of reading the third book in the series once it comes out. show less

I really like this series. Shocked me, though, when the book started with the hero of this book killing the hero of the previous book! Yikes. Nice conflict for the hero between his way of life, which he fervently believes in, and his heart.