When I use the word “trashy” I’m not being derisive. Like the cliché that I am, I signed up at the beginning of the year and yet I haven’t actually gone. I’m beginning to suspect my recent trashy-lit reading spree is a way to avoid going to the gym. Surely I can find a more edifying use of my free time. (I mean that figuratively I don’t really eat chocolates.) So much so that when I take stock of the amount of “trashy” lit I consume in a week, I find it a little disconcerting. I love genre fiction and, as of late, I’ve been devouring romance novels and frothy chick-lits like chocolates. One glance at my Goodreads page will confirm that. If the above excerpt from Gariel’s Inferno isn’t the clunkiest, most contrived paragraphs you’ve ever read in your life, you have to tell me what books you’ve been reading.
Julia thought about this and hoped for her friend’s sake that the Hardy novel approximating the Rachel Clark experience was more Mayor of Casterbridge than Tess of the D’Urbervilles or, God forbid, Jude the Obscure. “Yes, because I have the feeling there are elements of Thomas Hardy lurking below the surface. We’re a twisted mix of Arthur Miller and John Steinbeck, with a bit of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy thrown in. When the sweet and innocent Julia Mitchell enrolls as his graduate student, his attraction and mysterious connection to her not only jeopardizes his career, but sends him on a journey in which his past and his present collide.Īn intriguing and sinful exploration of seduction, forbidden love, and redemption, Gabriel's Inferno is a captivating and wildly passionate tale of one man's escape from his own personal hell as he tries to earn the impossible-forgiveness and love.“My family is like a Dickensian novel, Julia.
He uses his notorious good looks and sophisticated charm to gratify his every whim, but is secretly tortured by his dark past and consumed by the profound belief that he is beyond all hope of redemption. From New York Times bestselling author Sylvain Reynard comes the first novel in the Gabriel's Inferno series, a haunting, unforgettable tale of one man's salvation and one woman's sensual awakening-NOW A FILM FROM PASSIONFLIX!Įnigmatic and sexy, Professor Gabriel Emerson is a well-respected Dante specialist by day, but by night he devotes himself to an uninhibited life of pleasure.
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