Book: The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
Description:
On a dark road in the middle of the night, a car plunges into a ravine. The driver survives the crash, but his injuries confine him to a hospital burn unit. There the mysterious Marianne Engel, a sculptress of grotesques, enters his life. She insists they were lovers in medieval Germany, when he was a mercenary and she was a scribe in the monastery of Engelthal. As she spins the story of their past lives together, the man's disbelief falters; soon, even the impossible can no longer be dismissed.
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Rating: 5 stars
Review:
I thought this story was absolutely amazing. I just couldn't put it down it had me hooked with the first page. The story started with a guy getting into a very bad car accident resulting in him being badly burned. Once he is recovering at the hospital he meets a strange woman, Marianne who takes an interest in him. Because she believes they have shared past lives but despite his unpleasant mood and the doctors trying to keep her out she continues to visit him. The story progresses from there with Marianne and the nameless guy's present lives becoming entangled.
Marianne was the light to this dark tale. I thought she was a great addition to this book because it contained a lot of dark and terrifying moments especially in the life of the nameless guy. The past life stories that Marianne told were romantic and sad but were needed to prove her point.
In the end, it had you wondering if Marianne's stories were real.
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