Sweet Fire [Paperback]

Saxon Bennett (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 2000

The best-selling author of The Wish List and Old Ties heats up the pages again with another hot, hilarious look at a community of women falling in and out of love. Welcome to Heroy, Arizona - the town with more lesbians per capita than any other place on the planet!

Bookstore owner Hope and sculptress Emerson have worked hard to put their painful pasts behind them and build a loving future for themselves and their daughter Nicole. But the return of Hope's manipulative ex-lover Pamela, and Pamela's beautiful new girlfriend, Aimee, soon generates enough dyke drama to set the whole town smoldering. And where there's smoke...

Product Details

• Paperback: 220 pages
• Publisher: Bella Books (November 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967775353
• ISBN-13: 978-0967775357
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,308,046 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Saxon Bennett was born and raised in the Northwest. She spent her youth skiing and milking cows to support her writing habit. The first book was completed when she was nineteen and everyday since Saxon has put pencil to paper.

With a Master's in English, Saxon traveled several states in search of challenges and new puzzles to unravel.

She has written twelve novels and intends to write many many more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Delightful, January 14, 2001

By 

Lesbian Reader (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sweet Fire (Paperback)

We've all dreamed of a place where lesbians outnumber everyone else, if only to fuel our private fantasies. Saxon Bennett creates Heroy Arizona for us and plops a manipulative ex-girlfriend that anyone can hate in the midst of a happily nesting couple starting a new life with their daughter. At times Sweet Fire is soap operaish, but I hardly think that's at all a bad thing in a book that is so funny, so sexy and so on target about what happens when a community of lesbians takes over a town. I enjoyed it beginning to end.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars ENJOYABLE READ!, August 15, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Sweet Fire (Paperback)

I'm a straight woman who found this book quite compelling. As a matter of fact, I abandoned Jonathan Frazen's totally boring THE CORRECTIONS in favor of SWEET DESIRE and thought it was a good decision.

The book zips along and I couldn't wait to find out how the predictable ending would be carried out. I particularly liked the loving community of women and the enchanting Nicole. Enjoy!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Will Pamela Never Learn?!?!, September 10, 2006

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K. Johnson (Twin Cities, MN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sweet Fire (Paperback)

This reader can't help but enjoy just about anything Saxon Bennett (also search under Bennet on some sites) writes. She's a master at bringing together a host of delightful characters and weaving their tale of six (or less) degrees of separation. This not only ensures at least one character for each reader to identify with, it also ensures a book well worth the purchase price because there is more than one story told.

In 'Sweet Fire,' the sequel to 'A Question of Love,' Bennett brings back the enigmatic artist Emerson, the newly-enlightened and liberated Hope, Hope's former unenlightened lover Pamela, Emerson's agent Lauren, and several others from the lesbian-dominated town of Heroy, Arizona. She introduces charming 5-year-old Nicole and Aimee, Pamela's current lover.

Although the foundation of the book is the lives of Emerson and Hope, this sequel centers around Aimee, Pamela, and Lauren. And, although Pamela is more of a supporting cast member than a headliner, her failure with women is the central plot element for this story. Well before the end the reader can't help but pity this character, but it's obvious she's her own worst enemy.

I'll not give away the best parts of the book. However, I will say it's another great story by the talented Bennett... one you'll not want to miss. Of course the prequel has to be read first -- this one does not stand alone. Highly recommended, Suggested accompaniments... a carafe of chardonnay with cheese and crackers...