Reseña: Rafael (Stone Society #1)

Rafael (Stone Society 1)

by 

Faith Gibson

360 pages

(first published November 16th 2014)

ASIN:B00PR6158S

Edition Language: English

Series: Stone Society #1

Warning: This book contains explicit language as well as detailed (HOT) sex scenes.

There’s a new species of shapeshifter in town…
Raphael Stone is the King of the Gargoyle shapeshifters. His family, The Stone Society, has ruled the Americas for over seven hundred years. As an architect, he has spent the last thirty years helping to rebuild New Atlanta since the near Apocalypse. As King of the Gargouille, he has spent those same thirty years protecting his city from the dregs of society.
Kaya Kane is the New Atlanta Chief of Police. At thirty-six, not only is she the youngest, but also the first female Chief the city has ever had. She has dedicated her life to keeping her city safe. When a multiple homicide brings her face to face with the elusive Rafael Stone, her life will never be the same.
Rafael, Stone Society Book 1, introduces you to a new world filled with Bad Ass shifters and the mates who love them. 

My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Mi primera impresión es que se trata de una mala copia de la Hermandad de la Daga Negra. O sea, ¿con eso del Rey y sus Hermanos...? Además de una trama con cientificos locos haciendo experimentos y además con ganas de vengarse.

Esta es una serie nueva asi que el primer libro esta repleto en demasia con un monton de nombres y relaciones que a uno le deja confundido, es como si quisiera presentar todos los personajes a la vez e ir ganando lectores para los 30 y tantos libros que tendra la saga o algo asi (de hecho no secuantos son pero ya van sus pocos, uno por cada Hermano y su pareja. ) Ah y no todos son hetero, sino que hay un par de gays. ¿Ven que se parece a la Hermandad? Bueno, alv erda es que eso eres de mi unica pareja/alma gemela/etc viene creo de los vampiros Carpatos de Christine Feehan, que tambien tienen un rey ....

Rafael es una gargola cambiaforma, le salen alas, garras, piel cuasi impenetrable, etc, pero aparte de ser casi inmortal es de lo mas normal, es un arquitecto que oculta su edad, pues va por los 500 años y algo más y de pronto se queda patidifuso cuando conoce a la jefa de la policia, queanda investigado unos asesinatos de unos VIP.  Todo dentro de un complot que abarca clones, cientificos locos, fugados, hijas perdidas, muchisimos enredos e historias viejisimas (literalmente) que se van desentrañando.

Este es un mundo que estuvo al borde del colapso, hubo una serie de explosiones que casi partieron Estados Unidos por la mitad, y hay unas bestias mutantes que nunca jamas salen en los libros pero si que cuando las atrapan las ponen en prision y que las gargolas mantienen a raya aunque el resto de la poblacion humana no lo sabe...¿ah?

Lo unico bueno es que la protagonista Kaya, es mayor de 30, es descrita como maciza y algo amachada, y el rey, Rafael Stone tambien como macizo.

Bueno, la saga no me impresionó aunque hay un par de titulos que probablemente ojearé porque me he quedado con curiosidad de algun personaje.

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mi review original en inglés:

first impression: A bad copy of Black Dagger Brotherhood. I mean, the King and the (view spoiler)[half-blood (hide spoiler)] Brothers? Plus some kind of evil scientist making bad experiments with a grudge.

This is the kind of free stuff I found in my reader sometimes, atracted originally for the 'Gargoyle' part of the deal . In this case are shifters gargoyles! A first.

The female MC is a police chief, described herself as tomboy thick. And the male tall and also thick.

The plot involved the one-mate thing so cherished for paranormal romance somehow. The guy is old as dirt and she is in their late 30s .

Oh, and after put some sort of post-apocalipctic vibes with explosions and dividing America in half, literally, there are no more explanations after that.

The Stone Society was a family of Gargoyle shifters dating back hundreds of thousands of years. Rafael’s family, the Di Pietros, migrated from Europe over four hundred years ago, right before the civil war broke out. When his father was slain in a coup to take over the throne, Rafael became King since he was the oldest son. Once King, he took on the less formal name of Stone.
Their Clan was the largest in the Americas with Rafe having several brothers and cousins living in New Atlanta with him. He regarded those closest to him as his inner circle and called them all Brother.
The females of his kind were almost extinct. It had been years since a new shifter was born; fifteen to be exact.

As this is the introductory book, the author feel compelled to put a fair ton of characters in display, too much names and no so much background. The big problem to me is the repeat of actions , short dialogues keep repeating the same thing of others characters already said, again and again. Mmm, even to me, to mention the writting is alarming, this read as some amauteur writter , stilted and without good editing.

No bad idea (for pnr as others books of this style - adult) , but poor executed.

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