rate_review Reviews

Quite agree that gargoyles are under-used; although Pratchett is the obvious exception, in which they were characters who had evolved to look the way they did so as to trap passing pigeons in their mouths. A type of strategy in common with venus flytraps. It's a nice idea for a story, that some is thinking of jumping and the meet a gargoyle who makes them change their mind.

I am not overly fond of the present tense in fiction, and think would probably be easier to read in past tense (although that's a personal opinion, and other people may disagree). Also, there are some concepts that do not seem to make sense: if the gargoyle can move, how have him and Lydia been separated and if he can find her headstone, how does he not know she has died? I would have chosen to end the story at the point where the girl and the garoyle are dancing around the roofs. If you want to add a twist of ironic tragedy, she could slip and fall to her death during this: the irony being that he originally stopped her from falling, but she fell anyway as a result of his intervention.