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47 of 51 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
wonderful romantic fantasy, September 1, 2004
In Dallas, six foot amazon Katie James enjoys running her firm James Real Estate in which she buys, restores, and sells old houses. Her latest acquisition is a dilapidated Victorian with a garden that contains seven statues displaying both genders getting it on. To Katie's chagrin, she is attracted to one particular carving, but on the other hand is pleased that he is stone as she feels men are annoying especially her older brothers.
However, she feels she goes off the deep end because she believes the statue whispers to her to kiss it. Unable to resist, Katie locks lips with stone only to find a giant of a flesh and blood male appear. Jorlan en Sarr explains that he was from another world who was cursed by his sorcerer half-brother Perlen de Locke but also magically transported to earth for his safety by his mother. As Katie helps Jorlan adapt to his new planet, he worries that Perlen's curse goes deeper as the person who freed him must willingly give her heart to him or he returns to stone permanently.
THE STONE PRINCE is a wonderful romantic fantasy that sub-genre fans will appreciate because of the strength of the heroine who takes no gruff from her siblings or the hunk from another planet. Jorlan actually starts off as an overbearing chauvinist who believes a woman's role is to only pleasure a man; Katie persuades him that a man's role is to pleasure a woman while also proving a female can protect his back. Some readers may detest the use of profanity and feel Katie needs a timeout, however, for the most part the foul language fits this charming story line.
Harriet Klausner
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61 of 70 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Hunk of a Statue Comes to Life, January 6, 2005
THE STONE PRINCE is a super fun read! It is also the first romance novel that made me laugh so hard I was crying, especially during one spectacularly funny, completely humiliating scene involving condoms and four overprotective brothers. I liked the author's breezy, open writing style. She really made the character of Katie, a modern-day house renovator, seem totally real (in other words, Katie had a lot of the same thoughts I think I'd have if a gorgeous statue came to life and was revealed to be a magic-wielding he-man warrior from another planet).
That said, there were some issues I had with the story, the most important being that it reminded me too much of WARRIOR'S WOMAN by Johanna Lindsey (published in the 1990s). Both involve modern-type girls with the ability to kick ass who fall in love with super-macho aliens (of the "women must submit and be protected" variety), and how each tempers the other. Jorlan even refers to Katie at one point as a "warrior woman." Still, THE STONE PRINCE has its own unique plotline, so while it has some similarities to WARRIOR'S WOMAN, it reads quite differently.
Anyway, issues aside, I rather enjoyed this wacky, fantastical love story between a girl and her alien prince charming. I mean, how can you resist a man who carries around a cooking spatula as a weapon? My recommendation: read it!
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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wish I had a marble god in my yard!!!, March 27, 2005
This is the story of Katie James and a marble statue-turned man, named Jorlan en Sarr. He hails from a distant planet where the grass is white and men are dominant alpha males who think that women have no say so in anything. This is the kind of contemporary-paranormal-romance that I love.
Jorlan was cursed by his extremely jealous half brother nine hundred years before. Katie buys this property with all sorts of naked statues all in a state of sexual gratification. Except for the one that she can hear tell her to kiss him. She is oddly drawn to this statue of pure male nudity, and kisses him one night...then she realizes that she is actually kissing a real life male!! This is where the fun comes in.
Gena Showalter is a genuinely unique author. She blends weirdness into hilarity and male chavaunism into, somehow, alluring attractivness. Joran and Tristan (the hero of The Pleasure Slave) are both overbearing pigs of men but in the progression of each novel, they start to realize that the way to an Earth bound woman's heart is tenderness. This book is extremely funny and a great read. I reccommend it to anyone with a sense of humor who loves an odd romance.
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