Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel's Inferno #2) by Sylvain Reynard

She is not my equal; she is my better. She is my sticky little leaf...

After my re-read of Gabriel’s Inferno, I naturally dived head-first into Gabriel’s Rapture. The sheer beauty and intensity of Gabriel’s Inferno—the exceptional story telling and emotion filled plot left me feeling a little overwhelmed so I was really left with no choice but to go straight from Inferno to Rapture.

Rapture picks up where we left off in Inferno. Gabriel and Julianne are in Florence and waking up after their first night together. Whereas Inferno was just that—intense, heat searing from the page—Rapture feels more painful and torturous. There are chapters of painful emotions and situations that left me feeling frustrated and irritated with Gabriel, which is perfect story telling seeing as that’s exactly how Julianne feels. There’s no doubt that you’ll feel it too during this book.

I felt like the heat in this book had been taken down a notch or two which isn’t a bad thing. As their relationship develops, so does the urgency to be intimate, but I did miss Gabriel’s insane ability to seduce from the pages.

After a very emotional back and forth throughout the duration of this story, it ends in a very sweet and almost naively innocent way. It seems The Professor has settled down and found his gentle softness … is it wrong I miss Emerson the ass?

I'm giving this instalment 4 stars.

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