you can trust me. 5 SOLID GOLD STARS
With your body, your heart, and your spirit. WHOA!! What a GOYLETASTIC story!! I ABSO-FANG-LUTELY love, Love, LOVE EVERYTHING about it! There is humor, tears, scary moments, outraged ones, happiness, sadness, grief, betrayal, secrets, love, friendship, family, and even more for you to discover as you read through this story. The roller coaster ride of emotions that the characters go through is overwhelming at times for them, let alone how it affects me! And then when you add Faith's gift for storytelling into the mix, that roller coaster ride becomes even more rock-solid intense & even more rock-hard powerful!! I cannot help but become so immersed into these Stone Society books that the real world around me disappears, only to be replaced with this future world where these STONETASTIC Gargoyles live, play, love, mate for Happily Ever After in. Or at least they hope it is a Happily Ever After! wink I love that I can connect with the characters, that I BECOME the characters living their story alongside them and even AS them!! That alone should speak volumes about how SHIFTASTIC the books are as well as just how awe-inspiring and astronomically talented Faith truly is! I LOVE this story & series so much, it is almost IMPAWSSIBLE to list all of the reasons or describe just how much, but I will try to do it justice! I LOVE how complex, deep, involved and rich that this series is! With all of the characters, their potential mates, full Gargoyle shifters, half- shifters, siblings, there is a LOT of stories just begging to be told! Oh wait! Maybe that is me begging! :) The multiple story lines that criss-cross over, under & through the main arc of each book not only strengthens each book, but also the series as a whole, making me oh so very eager and impatient for the next book! and the next one, and the next one… I love that this book backtracks and tells everything from Sophia & Nik's point of views that was going on 'behind-the-scenes' so to speak, during the past couple of books. Especially when key or major moments from the other books are referenced in this one, expertly matching & tying the timelines & stories together. In my opinion, this story has been a long time coming - which I think is pure genius on Faith’s part to do it this way! - and GARGOYLE-OH-GARGOYLE it was soooooo worth the wait!! Once again Faith has blown me away with the Stone Clan!! And can I just say that EEEEEEEK! I LOVE how these Shifters both full & half keep evolving!! NEVER can you say that they are set in stone, never changing with the times (what’s that phrase about a rolling Stone gathers no moss?) or as needed in order to help, find & protect their mates & family! There is NOTHING that they won’t do when it comes to their mates & family! ahem SAY WHAT?!? Book 5 already?!? I fell in love with this series with Rafael - technically before he was even released!! - and while I thought it rock solid perfection then, Faith has expertly SCULPTURED this series into one SHIFTACULAR Gargoyle Stone PERFECTION of EPIC PROPORTIONS that pulls me in deeper & deeper with each book!!!! With Faith’s phenomenal talent and genuine gift it is easy to become all but instantly absorbed into each book and to become addicted to this series. The part that stands out to me, that I think is a very key element to the WOW FACTOR of this series, as well as – to me - what makes this series rise above ALL others, is that while each book is a full-length novel (WHOOT!) filled to the brim with GARGOYLE DELICIOUSNESS, no part of a story is sacrificed for another, there is absolutely NO errors, no character or plot “adjustments” done to tie in something from book 1 to book 5 (for example), each book flows into the next one beautifully, the continuity, enrichment and depth is there for every single character, plot, storyline and book. This means that there are lots of characters to meet, know & love, mates to be found, families to build or reunite, lots of adventures happening, multiple storylines, and so much more! Now you may think that by having so many characters and plots going on at one time it may get to be too much, too overwhelming, too confusing or hard to follow, but you would be WRONG! OH SO VERY WRONG!!! I just find that all of this combined into one series, is so rare these days and so I felt it important to point it out. In my humble opinion, I truly believe that the reason that all of this is so GARGOYLETACULAR is quite simply because of Faith Gibson and her phenomenal talent and genuine gift. Not that there is anything “simple” about it! I am utterly, wholly and completely consumed by this richly deep & STONETABULOUS series, mind, body, spirit and soul! I have 2 ... not complaints per se, maybe comments... I love, Love, LOVE this series so much that I *almost* wish I hadn't discovered Faith & her Goyles until the series was a lot further on. Now before you all think I have lost my marbles, let me tell you my other... comment ... the suspense of waiting for their mates to be found, discovered or accepted is KILLING ME!! I am such an impatient reader it drives me nuts waiting on Nik to find Sophie... and because I am such an impatient reader, it is also KILLING ME to have to wait for each book to come out!!! So I guess I should clarify this - they are NOT complaints, they are NOT really comments - they are COMPLIMENTS of the HIGHEST GARGOYLE CLAN ORDER that I can give! *kneels down, fist at my heart and with a bowed head “My Queen”* Which is why I like to think that that very reason is THE BEST PROOF of just how ASTRONOMICALLY TALENTED Faith is! Not only is she beyond talented, but she is also genuinely gifted too!! That very combination is why The Stone Society has a ROCK SOLID place in my heart, on my virtual bookshelf as well as a prominent feature in in my swag display! Or rather it will when I make my swag display! ;) Faith is one of my heroes with whom I am beyond elated to also call my friend!! There isn't anything more precious or priceless than that, in our world or the Stone Clan’s!