Heart of Stone (The Stone Series Book 1)

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Rem discovers his time travels have a cost, and he plans to stop with this final journey. He learns from his past mistakes and recognizes that the journey is more important than the destination. Rem has changed from the first book in the series and grown through his time travel journeys. He is more likeable and relatable. Rem and Eve have a clean romance that survives and spans across Rem’s time travel. I also veryyy charmed by Bartholomew Desfrene, the secondary character who flirts with Theophilus and gets Henry jealous. He was very charming and genuinely good and it made Henry's subborn pettiness so much more fun haha. Everything I believed was nothing but a lie.The strangling grip of chaos squeezes until I can’t breathe.I don’t know who I am anymore.

What room is there for funeral and weddings when there are an endless number of conversations between Henry and Theo to be rendered in careful and loving detail? Much better to spend paragraphs ruminating on the thoughts each man has for the other than to waste time with anything so foolish as new business ventures, much better indeed.Rembrandt's look and associates may have changed, but his primary goal has not: to use the time-travel watch to regain his old life, the life where Eve was his wife and Ashley his little girl. He's still hoping that they are not lost to him forever. But his hopes have taken a beating; his efforts, thus far, have been fruitless. Yet he tries, over and over. If his own personal efforts (well, and also the knowledge he's gained about events in all his trips across the space-time continuum) can't regain him the life he has lost, what will? There’s nothing better than a series that keeps you on your toes, and The True Lies of Rembrandt Stone does exactly that! It’s the perfect, stunning conclusion to Rembrandt Stone’s story. After five hops through time where Stone struggles to solve cold cases and fix the world around him, his story wraps up here – and it won’t happen in the way that you expect. I had dreams and aspirations, none of which included a man by my side. Been there, done that. Then I forgot my cellphone, and all of my carefully laid plans went to hell. Heart of Stone (12A)". BBFC. July 25, 2023. Archived from the original on July 25, 2023 . Retrieved July 25, 2023.

I don't know what it is, but I have learned that I can live with the past mistakes much easier than without the blessings of today.” HEART OF STONE concludes this character's journey in trying to repair his future while somehow escaping danger for him and those he cares about. Full of suspense and action, as well as a touch of inspiration and romance. Fans of the series will definitely enjoy this final installment! Warren pens a tightly written suspense novel that engages the reader from the beginning and holds their interest until its conclusion. This is the last novel with Rembrandt and while the reader will miss him, they will be satisfied with its ending. Heart of Stone is filled with hope, suspense, action, faith, and plenty of twists! The plot twists will keep the reader on the edge of their seat, especially in the final chapters.There are just so many details I loved, from Theophilus’s love of the rain to the cat interrupting an almost kiss to Henry’s care and concern about power dynamics and consent in all areas of his life. This is closed door, which feels true to the characters, but there are also erotic drawings and dreams. This is a lush, deeply realized world with chemistry and feelings galore. The ending made me smile so big. Just a perfect epilogue in every way. Over the course of this book there grows in the heart of the vampire Henry Coffee an enduring affection for the way his new secretary deftly sidesteps any questions he does not wish to answer (which is, to be sure, most of them). And in me, too, as I devoured Heart of Stone over the course of just a few days, there grew real affection for the way this story deftly avoids it's own plot. Historical/paranormal with neurodivergent gays in love, and so much goddamn yearning (I only wished for more time when they were actually together but like!!! Excellent anyway). I love Theophilus Essex so much 😭💕 This book. This story. I have been trying to put all the pieces together since book one. I mean how in the world was Rembrandt going to get his happy ending? And would it look the same as the very beginning? It's extremely hard to talk about this installment of the book, well any of them honestly, without giving spoilers. So, I'll just say this - this ending was better than I could have imagined. I mean, there were moments I was barely breathing, but for good reason. The way the characters were all brought together, how the bad guys were found, the story behind why everything had happened, and even a surprise twist that I just kind of sat there for awhile smiling about.

I read this book in one sitting because I HAD to know what happened to my friend Rem, but also because this is edge-of-your-seat storytelling. And if you have any emotional investment in these characters or this story, you simply cannot quit it.This is an excellent example of a queer story written well in part because it's by a queer author. It's easy for a cishet author to try to queer a traditional romance story by taking classic beats like a meet-cute and a third-act breakup and making them between people who are not cishet -- taking the old thing and giving it a new paint job. But the beats of a queer romance may be quite different, especially in a historical setting. There's a subtle process of not only finding out whether the other party is queer, but also finding out whether they even know that queer is an option. I have read some lovely gay romances by straight writers, but there's a fundamental truth to stories written by people who inhabit the experiences they are writing that is nigh-upon impossible to duplicate from the outside. I also love how Rem's faith evolved, especially through this story. You could see through each story that Rem is being pulled in so many directions, but Hope is what seems to elude him. I appreciate how the authors incorporated God revealing himself to Rem through so many situations and people! Rembrandt sums it up so well in these words: “A thousand tiny things…but I can’t change them all, every choice I make is a choice to change something else in the future. I don’t know what it is, but I have learned that I can live with the past mistakes much easier than without the blessings of today.” Man, I wish more romance novels was written like this one. This book is the epitome of slow burn romance and while I could wish for a slightly earlier resolution (more on that later), I still gotta say I loved the slow burn. For all its supernatural and period trappings, this was at its heart (hah) a novel really about two people trying to fall in love from a great distance, and how they overcame each hurdle along the way.