This was one of the best series I've read in a long time. After reading FSOG, I went searching for "similar" books to get my fix. Read the Crossfire series which I *loved*, but then decided to try these out. Based on the name I assumed it was going to be a corny romance with tons of illicit sex scenes. 
 Not so. Sylvain Reynard captures the essence of people's souls when she writes. I have never felt so connected to characters before...ever. Her writing style is amazing and she is beyond talented. 
 Then you get to the story. It's essentially plotting up to be a story about an illicit affair between a student and a professor right? Well, not really. 
 I felt like I was reading a historical fiction but set it modern times. The love that blossoms between Gabriel and Julia very much speaks to an old soul. Their connection to each other, poetry, academia, Julia's faith and compassion, and Gabriel's courting of her takes you back to a place in time where you had to work to win a lady's heart. 
 The first book sucks you in to who the characters are but the second book is where they bloom. Honestly, the story could have stopped at Gabriel's Rapture but I am SO glad that it didn't because the continuing story in Gabriel's redemption shows the true changes that each of the characters made throughout the books. 
 The sex scenes in all three books are incredibly tasteful. This book is a love story, it's not even remotely on the same level of "erotica" that FSOG or the Crossfire series is. 
 Trust me, even if you don't like romance- read this series. I cannot say enough how touching this story was. Going well beyond their love story, the story of people as expressed through the eyes of this writer is well worth the read.