A review by siria
The Wild Road by Marjorie Liu

2.0

Total fluff, but it passed the time while I was waiting for the tax workshop to open this morning—I mean, it's a romance novel in which the hero is a gargoyle! Can you think of a better way to spend a Saturday morning? Said hero—Lannes—makes the kind of deeply stupid choices that one normally expects of a heroine in a romance novel, but he's quite likeable and pretty well-adjusted despite that. (Trin: I'm sure you'll be glad to know that he drives a vintage 60s black Impala.) The plot is even more of a hot mess than is usual in Liu's books (I'm still not entirely sure how or why either the initial incident or the denouement occurred), I'm still waiting for a non-hetero couple to have an Instant Soul Bond, and the heroine seems rather a non-entity (then again, she is an amnesiac), but as mindless escapism, The Wild Road works just fine.