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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 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 euphamisms 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.

I LOVED this one. You can't help but feel for Gabriel. I found it very emotional...I even cried.

A little more graphic and violent than everyday romance novels, but very well written and great character exploration. I would reccomend trying this author at least once, but she might not be for everyone.

Good book!

I love Gabriel. After I finished the first one, I was excited to see the story continued with another book. I think of all the MANY books I've read with hero/heroine baggage, Michael and Gabriel's was the worst. However, I never found it tedious, as it can be sometimes. Maybe it's just me, but the way Schone writes these stories gives the impression that something supernatural is going on. But it's not... just a sick reality... and the men who survived it to find love.

I found this book to be quite confusing. It takes a while to figure out what's going on and with whom. This is not a typical romance book. There's nothing romantic between the hero and heroine. This is also not a happy book. There's a gloom that hangs over much of the book even to the end. This is a story about male prostitution and its effects on one man in particular. Expect to read a book with a lot of mental trauma and angst.

The author write like this.

She writes one simple passive sentence paragraph.

Then she leaves a big space and writes another sentence.

Her style of writing requires you to read a sentence over again to figure out what's going on, and the last sentence has to be much longer than the sentences that preceded it.

The hero in this book had every right to be troubled, but his characterization was so lacking that I didn't understand him well. There's also no heat or chemistry between the two main characters. While there are some explicit sex scenes, I didn't find most of them to be particularly erotic at all. The one really erotic scene involved two people other than the main characters. I'm all for smutty scenes, but it was very difficult to believe that a well-bred Victorian woman who was a virgin at the beginning of the novel would indulge in, a matters of days after losing her virginity, some of the more kinky sex acts described in the book. The author's style turned me off from reading any of her other books.