Review: Gabriel's Rapture

Gabriel's Rapture by Sylvain Reynard


Description:
Professor Gabriel Emerson has embarked on a passionate, yet clandestine affair with his former student, Julia Mitchell.

Sequestered on a romantic holiday in Italy, he tutors her in the sensual delights of the body and the rapture of sex. But when they return, their happiness is threatened by conspiring students, academic politics, and a jealous ex-lover.

When Gabriel is confronted by the university administration, will he be forced to share Dante’s fate? Or will he fight to keep Julia, his Beatrice, forever?


My Thoughts:
This book picks up where Gabriel's Inferno left off. Gabriel and Julia are enjoying their time together in Italy, but eventually they have to get back to reality. The consequences that had The Professor so concerned in Gabriel's Inferno finally catch up with them. While dealing with those consequences, both realize they have more growing to do, both individually and as a couple. It does drag a big at the end, after the main conflict is over, but it is good to see how they deal with one another and get their happily ever after. Fans won't want to miss it.


My Rating: ****
Steam Factor: !!!!


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Review: Gabriel's Inferno

Gabriel's Inferno by Sylvain Reynard

Description:

Professor Gabriel Emerson, a specialist in Dante and the art of seduction, believes he has already earned his exile to the lower circles of hell. Since redemption is impossible, there is no reason to refrain from indulging in a life of pleasurable sin, using his notorious good looks and sophisticated charm as a means to gratify his every whim. But when he meets Julia Mitchell, a brilliant, lovely, and innocent grad student with the achingly familiar eyes of an angel, all of his cynical convictions are challenged. Her mysterious allure and the havoc she wreaks on his self-satisfied existence cause him to lash out at her, while her quiet beauty and innate goodness consistently undermine his control, tempting him beyond measure.

Despite surviving a traumatic childhood, nothing has shaken Julia’s faith that redemption is possible for everyone—everyone but her. Her unworthiness torments her, since the only man she will ever love has managed to forget her very existence, failing to even recognize her when they reconnect. Too naive to see that Gabriel’s hostility is a mask for his increasing obsession with her, Julia forces him to come to grips with his past while she continues to unwittingly torment his senses. His fascination grows into a dangerous preoccupation, for Julia is forbidden fruit . . .Will Gabriel survive the inferno, or will he succumb to the flames?

My Thoughts:

Gabriel is a university professor with a dark past.  Julia is a shy, quiet grad student in his Dante seminar and he is mean to her from the beginning.  Why does The Professor not remember Julia?  How do they know each other?  Who is he?  Who is Paulina?  These are all questions that will keep you reading until your eyes hurt.  It is a lovely, dark romance and the writing is beautiful.(Parenthetically, I must add that I love the snarky narrator who is almost like another character in the story.  Enjoyable to read.)

Yes, there is a sequel.  Gabriel and Julia's story is too complicated for just one book.  Don't worry, though.  The ending to this volume is satisfactory.  You won't be throwing anything after you've finished.  The only regret I have is that I did not get the print copy.  Some books you just have to hold in your hand so you can flip through it and re-read favorite parts.  This is one of those books.   

My Rating: *****

Steam Factor:  !!!!

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Where to find the author:

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