Heart of Stone (The Stone Series Book 1)

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This time, with help from some unexpected places, Rem doesn't have to go it alone anymore - and he just might pull it off. 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. He began the transition to publishing original work officially with the publication of his first novel, Heart of Stone in July of 2020. Both of them honestly drive each other in their professions but also in who they are as people and what becomes important.

One of my favorite parts of this book is the conversational writing style - I love the way Rem's inner narrative draws the reader into the story and helps us keep track of all of the timelines he has lived in past books. The letters truly stuck out like a sore thumb in the rest of the novel (both for their tediousness and for the peculiar writing and typing choices such as the use of itemized lists and for the brackets to specify actions—just like they did on tumblr back in the day). I may have said this on one of the other books, but I'm glad I didn't know about the series until all six books had released. I can't really speak to the ADHD or autism representation, because I have neither diagnosis, but it seemed very respectful, as well as affirming, in that both MCs love aspects of the other that society tends to pathologize. His vampireness is known within his household, as his servants - with whom he has longstanding, familial-type relationships - take it in turn to provide his daily, um, nourishment.I had to protect the woman I loved above all else—even if it meant keeping her locked in a gilded cage. He's just such a good character, and I loved how he didn't fall into the innocent naive autistic character even if you could somewhat read him that way at the beginning.

And I'm not sure that all the content that was included in the earlier novels was worth wading through to make it to this point. I was charmed by Henry's bright wit and shared alongside him a growing delight as Theo slowly revealed a wit of his own. Tiene dos personajes asombrosos (uno con TDAH y otro con autismo), un romance leeeeentooo pero bonito, diálogos muy bellos entre los protas (de esas relaciones que le ponen prioridad a la amistad antes de avanzar hacia algo más). But mostly this series made me cheer passionately for these people, these characters that have become like family to me.On Theophilus's side, the hesitation to act comes from a more banal, if no less important reason: he still believes Henry to be attracted to women, and fears that Henry's disdain for Dufresnes (which the reader knows is driven by jealousy) is in fact merely masked disdain for love and intimacy between men. Henry also fears violating Theophilus the way he was violated when he was made a vampire against his will; the two situations are in no way analogous, but reveal Henry's inability to come to terms with vampirism as something other than transgression and abuse. 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.

Time travel is always an interesting literary device and I wish there was a little bit more explanation about how it all works but I think the authors did their best to explain it in an understandable manner. There was cold cases to solve, romances to love, WHAT moments and me scream-reading at Rem to put the pieces to discover the Jackson killer (who I guessed correct in book 5 - may I be Rem's crime fighting partner? It is a love story all in conversation, with so much yearning and such sweetness, both in the story and in its telling.Es además un libro MUY calmado, no hay escenas dramáticas, ni peleas gigantes, tampoco cosas para llorar o sufrir. century gentle, slow burn gay romance involving a vampire and his secretary, with autism and ADHD rep, it seemed as if it could hardly be more up my alley if it tried.