Stone Guardian by Danielle Monsch (Entwined Realms Book 1) (Male/Female Romance)

This is a review of Stone Guardian by Danielle Monsch. This is an urban fantasy male/female romance. This is book 1 in the Entwined Realms series. 

While I read this book and enjoyed it, I don't really feel drawn to read the rest of the books in this series as they are about different characters than the ones in this book.  I would have liked to see more books about the two characters in this book. There is a short story that follows this book about the two main characters that is laughingly called book 2 when it is only a few pages long. It is hardly a novel and is pretty much strictly one big sex scene that is pages and pages long. So I will leave that up to you if you want to pick that one up after reading this one.

We meet a young high school teacher named Larissa that is born on the day the magical realms and the Earth Realm collide. This is known as the Great Collision. Being born on this day makes Larissa special but she doesn't discover this right away. Larissa is attacked by zombies on the way to her father's house. She is saved by a gargoyle named Tarek. Larissa doesn't know why she was attacked and neither does Tarek but they decide to investigate and see if they can find out why she was attacked. Tarek was watching Larissa and following her to protect her because he was given a prophecy by The Oracle where she told him Larissa needed to be protected because the future of his clan depended on her.  Larissa is attacked yet again by Orcs this time. Once again Tarek saves her.  Soon after the attack Larissa is attacked for a third time. After the third attack they are still no closer to finding out why Larissa is being repeatedly attacked. While Tarek is away handling business within his clan, Larissa is kidnapped by the Guild and summoned by The Oracle. Tarek wages an attack and gets Larissa back.

Larissa gets kidnapped yet again this time by a necromancer who plans to destroy the Earth Realm and bring back the magical realm as it once was and he needs Larissa to do it. Tarek and the Guild rush in and manage to rescue Larissa and thwart the evil plans of the necromancer.

Tarek gives up his clan in order to be with Larissa but his clan remains loyal to their leader and they join him in bringing the gargoyles into the modern age.

My recommendation: If you like urban fantasy with a little bit of romance mixed in read this one.