{"id":602,"date":"2008-06-21T21:38:53","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T01:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=602"},"modified":"2021-05-31T07:51:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T11:51:04","slug":"heart-of-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/602","title":{"rendered":"Heart of Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heart of Stone<\/a><\/em> (2007) C.E. Murphy<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I inadvertently picked up the second book in this series, so being me, I had to go back and find the first book in the series, and by then I’d gotten sucked into the Repairman Jack<\/a> series and the Commissario Guido Brunetti<\/a> mysteries, and pretty much forgot about this series. But after taking a break from those two series I found this and decided it was time to check it out.<\/p>\n

Margrit Knight is a lawyer for Legal Aid, her on-again off-again boyfriend is a cop, and when she speaks to a man wanted for murder, her life gets very complicated, very quickly.<\/p>\n

I liked Margrit a lot. She does stupid things, but her heart is in the right place, which is how a rich girl ends up working at Legal Aid I suppose. I also like he she recognizes that she can’t necessarily reconcile the contradictions in her life–especially how race affects her job and her personal life.<\/p>\n

I also really liked how the supernatural element was done in these books. I won’t say more, because I really don’t want to give away any part of the series. I’ll simply say things didn’t go the way I expected, and that was a nice change. (Don’t read the back! It gives too much away! I didn’t read the back until after I read the book and I’m glad!)<\/p>\n

Although there is kissing and there are threats of boinking, no boinking actually occurs, which was another nice change of pace for a supernatural fantasy. Though there is a fair amount of yearning. <\/p>\n

The mystery surrounding the murders and the character she meets through the course of the book was also good, although there wasn’t much of a chance of being able to guess “whodunnit”. But that’s fine with me.<\/p>\n

So Heart of Stone<\/em> is an interesting supernatural fantasy. I enjoyed the main character, although I think she could have had one or two more weaknesses, and been less enamored of Alban, but all in all I enjoyed the book, and recommend it without reservations.
\nRating: 7\/10<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heart of Stone (2007) C.E. 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