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Sweeter Savage Love

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This is the story of Etienne Baptiste, the little boy from the first book. He is 31 years old now and just left the Civil War and imprisonment in Andersonville. He is on his way to complete a secret mission for the government one last time before he goes home for good, but Fate steps in and he runs into a woman named Harriet Ginoza. She is a famous psychologist from 1997. A weird twist of fate propelled her back 127 years. She thinks Etienne is the man in her neverending dreams of "forceful seduction". She has an obsession with Rosemary Rogers classic "Sweet Savage Love", first written in the 1970's. So she thinks he is Steve Morgan, the main character from the book come to "forcefully seduce" her once again. Soon she realizes she isn't dreaming and he isn't going to seduce her at all, hahaha. Etienne has many emotional scars from the war and is bitter. He doesn't need a woman interferring in his life. Soon Harriet comes to realize she was sent to help him with her modern skills in healing people's minds. The one thing she didn't count on was falling in love with the "male chauvanistic pig", as she would say. This story was funny as you would come to expect from Sandra Hill and she brings back my favorite characters from "Frankly My Dear..", it all blends well and will have you laughing and almost crying in parts. the funny thing about this book is, if you pay attention close enough and have already read Rosemary Rogers classic, "Sweet Savage Love", then you will pick up on the little quirks she throws into the tale with Etienne(which is French for Steve) and Harriet Ginoza(which she is referred to as Dr. Ginny), which are the main characters from Roger's book. All of Sandra Hill's books are hysterical and the men in her books are beyond sexy, they steam up the pages. =)

Tracy Talley~@

this book was excellent!! it was not only funny but steaming hot! sandra hill is a very good writer. i read this book awhile back but it's still one of my favorites. harriet and etienne are meant for one another and it takes him awhile to realize that. i highly recommend this book because it has plot to it and it will have you laughing out loud and breathless with desire.

This book sizzles. Harriet is feisty, sexy and intelligent. Etienne is....red-hot! The love scenes in this book are steamy, and get added to my list of "things I wanna try". (Just kidding!). Sandra Hill really knows how to hook a reader, and this book led to my rushing out and ordering more of her titles. The only thing that irritated me after a while was all the "dumb-men" jokes. I liked the interaction between Harriet and Etienne, and the secondary characters were fabulous. Cain and Abel deserve their own novels, and the witty repartee is excellent.

Harriet heals Etienne's war scars, and fights for the man she loves. She also heals the breach between Etienne and his daughter, and as a psychiatrist, she is well-equipped to do this. The plot is excellent, the dialogue flowing, and the humour excellent. A keeper, for sure.

I had read Rosemary Rogers stories with Jenny and Steve, so I really had an understanding of the characters referred to in this Sandra Hill book. I found the book to be one of the funniest, (laugh out funny) humorous books I have ever had the pleasure to read. I have to say this is one of my all time favorite books! If you haven't read it, pick up a copy because you won't regret it.

I was totally disappointed in this book. It took Harriet like 100 pages to figure out that it wasn't the present and that she was in the past. I couldn't believe that a woman who is supposed to be modern could actually believe that she was having a dream for more than 24 hours. It was a struggle to finish this book. Take my recommendation, don't waste your time.

Well i have enjoyed the Viking series of books by Sandra Hill so i was excited to find a book of hers that I hadn't read. This one is about an American hero after the Civil War. It was very funny in spots but I didn't really like the heroine in the story. She was too much. The Hero was wonderful and I loved the secondary characters and since I found out this is actually a sequel to "Frankly My Dear" I'll going to go back and read it.

This is a time travel book. The heroine, Harriet ids a modern psychologist who really seems to hate men, in my personal opinion. She has written a book on woman's fantasies and and has determined that it is wrong to have a fantasie about "forceful seduction". This is not rape but where the man seduces the woman into sex. She has preached against this but can't admit, even to herself, that she has these fantasies. She uses a famous book by Rosemary Rogers called " Sweet Savage Love" as a bad example.
Well when her train is derailed in modern times she awakens back in time in the year 1870. Where she meets the subject of her dreams Etienne. Etienne is undercover working for President Grant and at first thinks she is a spy so he must keep her close, very close.

The story has a lot of interesting turns and plots but when it all came to head it was a bit boring. I enjoyed the banter between the two main characters and I loved Etienne's two best friends, Cain and Abel. The book was enjoyable and I'm looking forward to reading the book leading up to it.

Sweeter Savage Love

Sequel to "Frankly My Dear" was excellent. Characterization and snappy dialog are Sandra Hill's strong points. I fall in love with ALL of Sandra's men, they are strong yet vulnerable and Etienne is no exception.

I particularly liked the repartee between Etienne and Cain and Abel. (How about a romance using either of these characters?)

The only downside to this novel was Ginny WOULD NOT SHUT UP. God love Sandra, who is the goddess of dialog... But this is the third novel where her heroines talk talk talk. I would especially expect a psychologist to listen more and talk less, but NO Ginny could power a boat with her constant thoughtless gabbing.

Despite the motormouth heroine, Sandra's book is an excellent-and funny- read. Well worth the cost of the book.

This is another one of those books where my husband turns to me and asks me what is so funny in a book that I am laughing out loud... very heartily. Entienne is definitley a "legendary lover". The humor was very good. I liked Ms. Hill's theme of jokes in this book. Some of it tended to be slapstick. That just made it all the funnier as images of a doctor bopping an alligator on the head with a paddle just to get her birth control pills back come to mind. The love scenes are hot. I liked Harriet's premise of forceful seduction because we all know that thoughts of forceful seduction are out there ! (even if it in our imaginations) The love between Harriet and Entienne, I thought was well done because sometimes love is just like that..Bam! and one day you realize that you are in love. Want to feel better after a bad day at the office? Sit back with this book and relax.

People were staring at me on the train while I was reading this novel. Not because of the really hot cover model, but because of the strange snorting sounds I was making while trying to stifle hysterical laughter. This book is really, truly howlingly funny, and Sandra Hill's comedy is based on the brilliant development of her characters. For romance readers, this is a MUST BUY.

I read Outlaw Viking by Mrs.Hill and I thought it was really good, but this book was excellent. It was well written and the jokes were something else.!!! I am so glad Etiene came to his senses at the end of the book and came for Harriet. This is an A+ book. I recommend it to anyone.