Reviewer: Lori Graham
Title: Sweeter Savage Love
Author: Sandra Hill
Publisher: Love Spell/Dorchester Publishing
ISBN: 0-505-52212-8
Release Date: August 2006
Genre/Sub-genre: Contemporary yet Historical Paranormal Romance
Year/Setting: Current/US and then Tennessee/1870
Overall Rating: 4.5
Sexual Content Rating: Sexual
Language (Profanity) Rating: Extremely Mild
Violent Content Rating: None
Sandra's Website: www.sff.net/people/shill/
Dr. Harriet Ginoza is a psychologist in nation-wide demand. Her career couldn’t be going better as she has just published yet another best seller. This one on women’s fantasies and it has even caught the attention of Oprah. After an afternoon taping a show with her, Harriet boards an Amtrak train headed for New Orleans from Chicago in order to speak at a gathering there. She is so tired but sleep is eluding her.
Harriet doesn’t believe what is happening to her. After all a woman who knows as much about the mind’s workings as she does should be able to control her dreams. However, for the last few weeks, her dreams have become quite the fantasy and they are all about one man who is quite adept at "forceful seduction." This man doesn’t exist and she really doesn’t want this scenario so she should be able to stop these dreams from happening. Unfortunately, not even the good doctor seems to be succeeding.
Finally, sleep is stronger than Harriet and it wins out. Not much time passes before Harriet’s dream starts with a lurch of the train and her man appearing right in her train compartment. Maybe the only way to truly excise the dream is just to give in and allow the dream to overtake her—you know quit fighting it. After all this rogue is quite good looking and appears to really know what he is doing.
On the other side of the equation, Etienne Baptiste is really wondering who this young woman is in his compartment and why she is dressed in such a strange way. As if that isn’t bad enough, she awakens and her way of talking is even stranger. This woman must been truly demented to talk the way she does, about the things she does. The majority of him wants to get away from her as quickly as possible. However, there is also the military side of him that has to complete a mission and he now wonders just how much she knows. Fate seems to have put them together for awhile and is sending them on a very interesting dance.
I have to admit I am an accountant by trade which makes me a bit logical—okay a lot logical. I think that is part of why I love to read and escape into the world of make believe so often and let that side of my brain just rest. So the logical part of my brain was saying this couldn’t really happen. A time warp doesn’t exist. But my creative side took over very quickly, silencing the logical side and loving even minute of the adventure.
I loved how Sandra Hill created an adventure full of intrigue, romance and even more so the comedy she put in it. I loved the interaction between Etienne and Harriet with just the speech patterns let alone everything else. So much of the way we talk today is just taken for granted but in another era…I really found myself chuckling. I also loved the way Harriet lived in denial for so very long that she was just in a really long dream. Talk about some interesting twists and turns in a relationship but yet illustrates how people are at heart the same from generation to generation.
Lori
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