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Gabriel's Inferno
by Sylvain Reynard
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When I started to read this I didn't know at all what to expect. The Divine Comedy has been on my to read -list since high school.
I pretty much whooped when I loaded up the book to my reader and noticed that it's almost 500 pages. Yes! Finally a real book and not just some pathetic 250 page novel.
One of the first things that came into my mind after the first pages was pure irritation towards Julia. All that shyness and nervous lip biting made me want to scream her to get a grip. When Gabriel takes her home and critizises the appartments poorness, I mean Jesus H. Christ girl! You're just going to take all that without a comeback?! Yep, maybe shed some tears afterwards. Argh, so very frustrating.
I was very intrigued at the beginning (and a whole book actually) when Gabriel thought himself as Dante (note to self: I really, really need to read The Divine Comedy). Well later on it explained itself, and when you think of it, it's actually makes perfect sense.
Gabriel was "sort of an as*hole" the whole introduction time. The only one who could put steel against steel was his sister. And what's with that her being a calamity?! Referring her as a little girl. What a caveman! Oh whatta nerve that guy has! So arrogant, irritable, teethgrindingly... sexy.
After Gabriels drunken episode at The Vestibule (as he called it) and Julia caring and cleaning after him .. after those several apologetic voice messages he left for her - begging, crawling even for a one conversation. She gives him a total cold treatment, but still, STILL dares to ask 'Gabriel is telling me good-bye?' She's really more naive that I thought.
Yep, and her naiveté just keeps growing. She goes for these "counter attacks", but when questioned later on: 'Umm, I don't know why I did/said that'. I would have borrowed one of Gabriels bowties already and strangled her by myself. She really doesn't think through at all what she let's out of her mouth.
Gabriel and Julia both bathe in their own selfpities. Thinking they are never good enough for each other. All this gave me very pained, frustrated and desperate feelings. It hurt to read about it.
The book wasn't infested in sex, as I feared. No wait, there is sex, but no actual coitus (excluding the ending). And I loved it! The mere descriptions of a kiss, touch or embrace was so well written, that that was the sex. No need for coitus. Picturing how he kisses her gently makes the stomach (and everything below that) clench. It was so gooooood <3
"When a man kneels before a woman, it's a gesture of chivalry. When a woman kneels before a man, it's unseemly." ~Gabriel
Damn, I think I just felt for this guy! :D AND there's second book waiting *doing happy, oh so happy, dance*
When I started to read this I didn't know at all what to expect. The Divine Comedy has been on my to read -list since high school.
I pretty much whooped when I loaded up the book to my reader and noticed that it's almost 500 pages. Yes! Finally a real book and not just some pathetic 250 page novel.
One of the first things that came into my mind after the first pages was pure irritation towards Julia. All that shyness and nervous lip biting made me want to scream her to get a grip. When Gabriel takes her home and critizises the appartments poorness, I mean Jesus H. Christ girl! You're just going to take all that without a comeback?! Yep, maybe shed some tears afterwards. Argh, so very frustrating.
I was very intrigued at the beginning (and a whole book actually) when Gabriel thought himself as Dante (note to self: I really, really need to read The Divine Comedy). Well later on it explained itself, and when you think of it, it's actually makes perfect sense.
Gabriel was "sort of an as*hole" the whole introduction time. The only one who could put steel against steel was his sister. And what's with that her being a calamity?! Referring her as a little girl. What a caveman! Oh whatta nerve that guy has! So arrogant, irritable, teethgrindingly... sexy.
After Gabriels drunken episode at The Vestibule (as he called it) and Julia caring and cleaning after him .. after those several apologetic voice messages he left for her - begging, crawling even for a one conversation. She gives him a total cold treatment, but still, STILL dares to ask 'Gabriel is telling me good-bye?' She's really more naive that I thought.
Yep, and her naiveté just keeps growing. She goes for these "counter attacks", but when questioned later on: 'Umm, I don't know why I did/said that'. I would have borrowed one of Gabriels bowties already and strangled her by myself. She really doesn't think through at all what she let's out of her mouth.
Gabriel and Julia both bathe in their own selfpities. Thinking they are never good enough for each other. All this gave me very pained, frustrated and desperate feelings. It hurt to read about it.
The book wasn't infested in sex, as I feared. No wait, there is sex, but no actual coitus (excluding the ending). And I loved it! The mere descriptions of a kiss, touch or embrace was so well written, that that was the sex. No need for coitus. Picturing how he kisses her gently makes the stomach (and everything below that) clench. It was so gooooood <3
"When a man kneels before a woman, it's a gesture of chivalry. When a woman kneels before a man, it's unseemly." ~Gabriel
Damn, I think I just felt for this guy! :D AND there's second book waiting *doing happy, oh so happy, dance*