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Title: Gabriel's Woman
ISBN: 1575666987
Author:
Robin Schone
Publicate Date: 2001-09-01
Publish: 2001-09-01
List Price: $15.00
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Paperback
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1: So much like the first book I felt I was having a Deja Vu
I like the Authors writing style and enjoyed this book but felt so many lines were literally word for word repeated from The Lover I felt I had already read it. I found the motivating factors that moved the characters through the story hard to believe. The only thing I will say that differs from the first book was the "Angels" sexual disfunctions and Gabriels inability to allow himself to be touched. This made for some different erotic situations. I am glad I read it although it wouldn't be at the top of my list to recommend.
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2: I Loved it!
It has been A while since I've read this book but it is one that is not easily forgotten. I was wary at first because I didn't know if I would be able to understand or appreciate the relationship between Gabriel and Michael. I quickly overcame that wariness. Michael is the man that Gabriel grew up with on the streets when they were orphans. They were both forced to become prostitutes. Gabriel was A prostitute for the men and Michael was one for the women. Gabriel has since become A wealthy man and has given up prostitution and sex altogether .The relationship between the two friends became estranged when Gabriel was kidnapped and raped by A man who looked like Michael, and Gabriel was forced to enjoy it. Gabriel feels shame and anger at what has happened to him. His feelings towards Michael is bordering on hate and hero worship. All he could think about is revenge. Victoria goes to his brothel to sell her virginity because she is destitute. Gabriel see's it as an opportunity to draw his enemies to him. He never thought that she would end up healing, and loving A man like him, or that he could open his heart enough to fall in love himself.
My wary feelings on reading this book totally disappeared after reading the first few pages. I was hooked and could not put the book down for A second. When I found out more about Gabriel and Michael's relationship I understood why Gabriel felt the way he did about Michael. Any apprehension that I felt about their relationship was washed away when I saw how Victoria was healing him from all his demons. This book was extremely entertaining! I loved every minute of it! I only wish that the hero was A little bit younger [he was 40] and that it had A more conventional ending. Give this book A chance, you won't be disappointed! By the way, the love scenes were great!
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3: Will blow your mind AWAY
Most people will focus on the sexually explicit parts of the book, as to why you should read this. Yes, those parts are really great, but that's not what the book is about. It's about redemption. What do you do when you look in the morrior and don't recongize your own face? What do you do when all hope in finding one person who will understand the depths that a person will do just to survive is gone?
Most people think there was a sexual relatonship between Gabriel and Michael. I completely disagree. They have a bond, that goes beyond any friendship. That is what the book helps us to understand. A bond that in true essence is so pure, but extremely fragile. Someone beyond evil has taken their relatonship and twisted and contorted it to make is seem unclean.
Read it. You'll love it
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4: TOP NOTCH EROTIC THRILLER!
If you're looking for a sweet romance, this is not it.
I didn't think any book could have a more emotional ending than the Lover or Outlander. Was i ever wrong! Gabriel's Woman was so gut-wrenching that I had to stop reading several times. But it's even better than the Lover. It's about Michael's friend Gabriel and it also continues Michael's and Anne's story (from the Lover) and tells you what happened to them. It had some really horrifying parts, though. I'd call it an erotic thriller rather than a romance. The sex is very graphic and hot, wet, grunting sweating sex, not the romanticized kind you often find in romance novels. You'll find no polite euphemisms here. If you are highly sensitive or easily offended you probably won't like it. But it really plays on the emotions and if you liked the Lover I think you'll love Gabriel's Woman. What I found particularly touching was the friendship between the two men Michael and Gabriel and how they are willing to lay down their lives for each other. Since this is the story of Gabriel trying to track down and kill his rapist, there are also some disturbing descriptions of male rape as well as some rather grisly violence.
Overall, it was disturbing, touching, emotional and very very good. Not for the faint of heart, though. The descriptions of sex are very realistic and graphic and there is considerable violence, some of it graphic and grisly. A real emotional roller-coaster ride.
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5: Extremely Dark
If you read the prequel to this book , the Lover, you are already familiar with Gabriel and Michel de Anges. As thirteen years old, the boys met while living on the street and were taken in by a prostitute who taught them to be high demand prostitutes, Michel the dark haired for the women, Gabriel the fair for the men. Gabriel is still haunted by his days as a prostitute and by being raped by two mysterious men who raped and mentally tortured him. He cannot abide the touch of others, for the trauma was so intense. His friend Michel has killed one of the men, but Gabriel still searches for the other. He knows if he doesn't find and kill the man, the man will end up killing him. Now years later, he owns the House of Gabriel a high class brothel. He also rescues and employees down and out prostitutes and gives them a way out by offering them honest employment as servants. One night a woman comes in cloaked and mysterious and offers her virginity to the highest bidder. The starting bid is exactly the same amount Gabriel was sold for years ago. He outbids everyone and takes the women into his private quarters. He doesn't know if she is an innocent victim or a paid assassin. He soon realizes Victoria is a former noblewoman who has been terrorized and turned out into the streets and is now being used as a pawn to get to him. Victoria is terrified of her own sexuality, her father raised her to believe sex is sinful and women are sinful creatures. Gabriel and Victoria soon see redemption is available in each others arms, but can they put their fears aside to allow the healing?
The problem with these books is they are labeled as romances but they are too dark and violent to be in that category. I can handle dark, but sometimes the author goes into areas that are unexplained to the reader and you spend so much time trying to figure out what's going on that you kind of lose enjoyment in the story. These stories had so much potential but just feel short of being great.
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