"Help an Alien get home for Christmas."

Well, its not every day that Sarah Jacobson goes to the mall Christmas shopping and is stopped dead by a sign reading, "Help an Alien get home for Christmas." Sarah as always felt like the odd man out, and being alone for Christmas just reinforces that. She has a few friends but they have their own families to spend the holidays with. Sarah's not going to her brother's and his wife's and feel like an inferior, so she decides to stay home.

Sarah is no longer alone. Sarbal (Gabriel) cri Rabor has decided to spend time with Sarah. True, he's not from Earth but why let a little thing like a few trillion miles come between two mates. Gabriel is going to release Sarah's powers that have laid dormant all her life. Sarah is having some very nice dreams. Gabriel keeps sending her very risqué images of what they could be doing together. While this unnerves Sarah, it also titillates her. He then makes a deal with Sarah that while he is here he will abide by Earth customs, if Sarah will follow the custom of his people when she is on his planet.

GABRIEL'S GIFT gives the reader an alternative to how we came into being. It shows that we are not the only intelligent life in the universe. GABRIEL'S GIFT also leaves open how the Alien race came into consciousness. The reader can take this story many different ways. As a light-hearted purely science fiction fantasy, a spicy love story, or delve into questions of how we came into existence. Whichever way you take GABRIEL'S GIFT, it's a nice story.

If you are looking for moresexmoresexmoresex, this is not the story for you. Ms Berry has spent more time around Sarah's impressions and thoughts. About the only thing I had objection to was the derogatory word used for a woman near the very end of the story. In my estimation the whole sentence could have been eliminated, and the word was uncalled for.

Sensuality: Oral sex, Descriptive sex. Rating: PG.

Reviewed by Hunter McKenna
Courtesy Sensual Romance Reviews
Posted December 19, 2003

Summary

Estranged from her only surviving relative, Sarah Jacobson faces a lonely Christmas. But when she goes to the shopping mall for some last-minute presents, her life takes an incredible turn. A beggar with a tin cup stops her. He carries a sign that says, Help an alien get home for Christmas.

The man with the sign looks enough like Brad Pitt to be a clone. And he's well-dressed and charming. Sarah can't decide if he is some sort of rip-off artist trying to make money off the Christmas spirit, or a kook. The last thing she suspects is that he's really an alien who wants to seduce her.

To get rid of him, she gives him a dollar and unknowingly begins the mating ritual on his home planet where a man cannot court the woman he loves until she gives him a gift. This alien wants to court Sarah, and prove that the human species is capable of reaching the heights of sexual fulfillment. Soon Sarah finds herself experiencing bliss with a lover that can touch her body and her mind. But will she climb into his cocoon for the ultimate experience?