Title: Gabriel’s Fall
Author: Sandrine Gasq-Dion
Series: sequel to Second Time Around
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Length: Novella (95 pages)
Publisher: Skull Blaster Publishing LLC (December 12th 2014)
Heat Level: Moderate
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥5 Hearts
Blurb: This book is a short love story about the power of love. It is preceded by Second Time Around but can be read as a standalone. It contains homosexual relationships.
Gabriel is a keeper of souls. He has been watching over them for millenniums. But one soul is different — the first time Gabriel holds it in his hands, he knows it is remarkable. For this soul causes something inexplicable.
Gabriel feels.
Falling for a human isn’t possible; but when that soul grows into Luke Lawson, Gabriel can’t contain his growing feelings. Not knowing where to turn or what to do, Gabriel keeps vigilant over Luke and is surprised repeatedly when Luke knows he’s there.
It isn’t possible. But it’s happening.
As time passes, Gabriel’s feelings for Luke intensify, and Luke’s heart reciprocates. Can love overcome everything?
Can Gabriel truly fall?
Product Link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00QYEFU56
Reviewer: Tams
Review: This is the second book in a series that should be read in order to recognize characters and traits you would otherwise miss.
The angel Gabriel is a keeper of souls that likes to bend the rules. He already had to clean up an angel in trainings mess when he let the wrong man die, sending the soul back to earth to be with his beloved. His job is to protect, nurture, and be the guardian angel of his charges, the souls he is charged with protecting. He doesn’t feel, doesn’t touch, doesn’t love… until now. His latest charge is different from the start. Gabriel can feel the soul inside him, he can hear his charge in his mind, and this should not be possible.
As time flies by Gabriel watches his charge, Luke, grow from an infant to a child then an angry teenager and, eventually, into a man. The problem is, as Luke grows, so do Gabriel’s feelings for him. The very fact that Gabriel feels anything for Luke at all defies logic for the angels. He continually blurs the lines between what he is and isn’t allowed to do. Going above and beyond to ensure Luke is safe. And stranger still is the fact that Luke can actually see Gabriel, another impossibility.
Luke has grown into a strong, fierce man. He is a football star, a soldier, a devoted son and a loyal best friend. But he has never been able to find that one man that he could love, he has never been able to open his heart to anyone except his Guardian Angel, Gabriel. He can sense when Gabriel is close, he has talked to him and slowly fallen in love with the angel that held his very soul in his hands. But there are rules that cannot be broken, and if they are there are consequences that one rule breaking angel has not considered.
Oh but this book made me cry, and laugh, and cry some more. It was beautiful, amazing, passionate, and just fanfuckingtastic. I was so enamored with the character of Gabriel, the twink angel with curly blood hair, amber eyes, and button nose. But it was his spirit and depth of feeling that endeared me to him, his utter need that was crushing him, his need to feel Luke, to just touch him once. My heart broke for him when Luke was a boy and lashed out at his guardian, blaming him for his father’s death.
But time heals all wounds and as Luke grows into a man and becomes wiser in the ways of life and of the world, he comes to realize that Gabriel couldn’t have saved his father. He also comes to realize that the reason he has never been able to love another is because his soul was claimed from the moment it was created in heaven, he was claimed by Gabriel.
I am in awe of SGD’s prowess when it comes to the human spirit. It is always evident in some way in all her books. I especially love the way she squeezes the word ‘but’ into the most random place, but it always makes perfect sense after you’ve read the sentence, and you know you are reading an SGD book, just with that one word oddly placed.
A story rich with love, passion, tenderness and the amazing power of soul mates. A must read for fans of the genre, fans of SGD’s work, or just anyone that needs to read a story that will make them laugh while crying and leave a huge smile on their face.