I'm sure we are all well aware of the 50 Shades of Grey Trilogy and the craze it created. I read the books and they were....okay. I thought the sex was too gratuitous and fantastical to be believable and I ended up caring more about their relationship than anything and so I by-passed the sex scenes.
Garbiel's Inferno is the first in a series by Sylvain Reynard and I have to say is WAY better that the 50 Shades books. Slightly more believable and has more realistic events in them. However, the issue I have with these types of books is that so many of them involve some rich guy and a lowly girl who supposedly needs "rescuing". Where are the books about a blue collar guy and hardworking woman who fall in love? I would fall in love with a blue collar man far sooner than I would a guy with a ton of money.
That being said, I loved this book. I loved their relationship. I love that it wasn't ALL about sex (SPOILER ALERT: they don't have sex until the last chapters of the book). As their tension builds you build with it and I loved that about this. It can be cheesy at times but for the most part it is an endearing book.
I recommend it over the 50 Shades trilogy.
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