I did not find Gabriel appealing at all. The way he steamrolls right over Pandora, disregarding anything she tells him in favor of what he thinks is just too much for me to stomach. When he forced her to waltz – I truly wanted that scene to end with her being sick right in his dumb face. I like Pandora a lot, I loved her in the other books, but she is just slightly immature and Gabriel finds that….hot? He is turned on by her innocence and childish ways, and while I’m sure that’s true of many men especially for the time period, it is not, in my opinion, worthy of a romantic hero.