Redemption

by Veronique Launier

Overview

Aude Vanier is a sixteen-year-old rock star with a problem-stone monsters keep attacking her. And when they do, she finds herself chanting in a language she doesn't understand. Guillaume de Rouen has been stuck as a gargoyle on a church for the last seventy years, until Aude's chanting releases him back to his seventeen-year-old human form. An ancient Iroquois prophecy about the destruction of Montreal is coming true. Together, Aude and Guillaume can stop it. But Aude is the descendant of a centuries-old coven of witches-a coven that Guillaume failed to protect seventy years ago. This time, if they fail, the world will never be the same.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738731704
Publisher:	North Star Editions
Publication date:	09/08/2012
Series:	Hearts of Stone , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	360
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

About the Author

Véronique Launier is a single mother of two daughters. She grew up near Montreal, where she sets her debut novel, Redemption. She now lives in Ottawa, Canada.

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Editorial Reviews

To vampires, werewolves, zombies, pixies, merpeople, angels, demons and fairies, we can now add gargoyles. Guillaume has been affixed to a Montréal church since the 1940s, paying scant attention to the doings of the humans below, when a girl oozing "essence" is attacked and, astonishingly, awakens Guillaume and his three gargoyle companions, who revert to their original, human forms. Aude, 16, is predictably freaked out by the attack and the strange voices, chanting and drumming she hears in her head, but she shakes it off so she can concentrate on her band, Lucid Pill. Glacially, Launier reveals the gargoyles' back story (created 800 years ago, they are the protectors of a line of female witches, or "essentialists," thought to have died out) and current dilemma (the Iroquois "Prophecy of the Seventh Generation" tells of a time of apocalypse, when "stone monsters"--not the gargoyles, different stone monsters--rampage and other bad stuff happens). The narration alternates between Guillaume's past tense and Aude's present tense, as they agonizingly figure out what is happening (kind of) and realize they love each other. Frustratingly, Aude's rejection of her French heritage (she prefers to be called Odd) goes unexplored, along with numerous other plot threads. The promise of the compelling opening chapter goes unfulfilled, as the debut author struggles with voice (would an 800-year-old French gargoyle really say "you guys" and "anyways"?), sentence structure and storytelling. Skip. (Paranormal romance. 12-16)

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