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The Heroy Chronicles #2
Sweet Fire
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...
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...
220 pages, Paperback
First published November 10, 2000
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About the author
Saxon Bennett
53 books180 followersSaxon Bennett is an admitted bibliophile and has the bookcases to prove it. Her favorite book is Harriet the Spy. She grew up among the pine trees of Washington where she learned to be a Keeper of Odd Knowledge with a special liking for new words - the queerer the better. She has a penchant for inspirational quotes - the more motivational the better. A serious aficionado of pie, she also drinks a lot of coffee and tea - especially when she’s writing, which she does every day. Saxon is a parent and a wife—two things she never thought she’d be - and she writes blogs about her family in the style of Erma Bombeck. In her next life she wants to be a professional snowboarder. She likes to grow flowers and tend to her pond. Jelly beans, gummy bears and licorice are her favorite candies. An avid walker with a goal to walk every street in her small town, she hits the pavement each morning. To keep herself limber, she does beginner yoga. She’d like to learn to meditate but her mind is as restless as a squirrel trapped in a box. As an amateur seamstress, she is endlessly trying to create the perfect butch purse. Her favorite quote is “Man plans, God laughs.” Saxon is the author of fifteen novels. Her book Family Affair won the Goldie for General Fiction in 2009. She won the Alice B. Reader Award for her body of work in 2012. Her second book in the Family Affair trilogy entitled Marching to a Different Accordion won a Golden Crown Literary Award for general fiction in 2012. Her book In the Unlikely Event is the final book in the Family Affair trilogy. All her books are available at Amazon and Bella Books in both print and electronic format. She has also written two books with her partner Layce Gardner and they are More than a Kiss and Crazy Little thing. Check them out on Amazon.
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September 25, 2017
Mixed feelings on this one
I will say right away that I enjoyed this story for what it is. Nic is an adorable and ridiculously mature and intelligent child that contributed to the enjoyable cast of characters. Like the first book, this story deals with falling in love as well as our if love and having to let go and say goodbye. This said, there were several glaring innacuracies in the story that had me feeling irritated initially but downright angry by the end. It's one thing to have typos and grammatical errors throughout the book that should have been caught with even cursory editing, but it's quite another when an author writes a sequel and comes off as unfamiliar with the storyline from the first book. It bothered me just a little that only five years have passed between stories and yet somehow there is a child almost six years old (who I assume also spent nine months in the womb) that couldn't be that old yet even if she was conceived the moment her parents got together at the end of the first book (and I assume even just a little time had passed first). Ok, I can overlook that. Let's pretend it's only been five years. In the first book, Emerson was thirty two, so she must be thirty seven now. Since she is the same age as Rachel (I wish there was an update on her in this story), her friend she had taken as a first lover at age sixteen, Rachel's parents, Berlin and Katherine, must have been together for at least thirty seven years. However, in this book it was described as a twenty year relationship. At this point I was slightly more annoyed that the author is so far off the history she created. Later in this book Pamela recounts Hope breaking up with her as coming home drunk, telling her she was in love with Emerson and leaving her, how she broke a wooden cat while Hope spent the night puking and left with her duffle bag of belongings in the morning. This had me exclaiming WTF and wanting to throw my Kindle across the room. None of this is remotely close to the events layed out in the first book. I wanted to sit the author down and insist she (they?) read the first story. I'm just very frustrated that to read a book like this I need to overlook a lack of copy editing as well as editing for content. I like to get lost in a story, but this one has me backing up and trying to look at it from a distance only so as not to see the blemishes.
I will say right away that I enjoyed this story for what it is. Nic is an adorable and ridiculously mature and intelligent child that contributed to the enjoyable cast of characters. Like the first book, this story deals with falling in love as well as our if love and having to let go and say goodbye. This said, there were several glaring innacuracies in the story that had me feeling irritated initially but downright angry by the end. It's one thing to have typos and grammatical errors throughout the book that should have been caught with even cursory editing, but it's quite another when an author writes a sequel and comes off as unfamiliar with the storyline from the first book. It bothered me just a little that only five years have passed between stories and yet somehow there is a child almost six years old (who I assume also spent nine months in the womb) that couldn't be that old yet even if she was conceived the moment her parents got together at the end of the first book (and I assume even just a little time had passed first). Ok, I can overlook that. Let's pretend it's only been five years. In the first book, Emerson was thirty two, so she must be thirty seven now. Since she is the same age as Rachel (I wish there was an update on her in this story), her friend she had taken as a first lover at age sixteen, Rachel's parents, Berlin and Katherine, must have been together for at least thirty seven years. However, in this book it was described as a twenty year relationship. At this point I was slightly more annoyed that the author is so far off the history she created. Later in this book Pamela recounts Hope breaking up with her as coming home drunk, telling her she was in love with Emerson and leaving her, how she broke a wooden cat while Hope spent the night puking and left with her duffle bag of belongings in the morning. This had me exclaiming WTF and wanting to throw my Kindle across the room. None of this is remotely close to the events layed out in the first book. I wanted to sit the author down and insist she (they?) read the first story. I'm just very frustrated that to read a book like this I need to overlook a lack of copy editing as well as editing for content. I like to get lost in a story, but this one has me backing up and trying to look at it from a distance only so as not to see the blemishes.
January 4, 2018
Great for easy-to-read dyke content. The "five year old"character I corrected to an 11 year old character in my copy, because the author obviously doesn't know how to write children's lines. Everyone (unrealistically) gets a happy ending, which I can also take or leave.
July 28, 2016
Great book
Really think that this was a great book. I think that Pamela really grew and we got to see her come into her own and realize that she's never going to be a touchy-feely lovely person . I also enjoyed reading about Emerson and hope and seeing more of their life .
Really think that this was a great book. I think that Pamela really grew and we got to see her come into her own and realize that she's never going to be a touchy-feely lovely person . I also enjoyed reading about Emerson and hope and seeing more of their life .
April 2, 2014
I like this book better than its prequel, A Question of Love.
July 31, 2016
Great book except for the typos
I really enjoyed the subject matter and characters but there were way too many typos. Really needs and editor or proofreader.
I really enjoyed the subject matter and characters but there were way too many typos. Really needs and editor or proofreader.
June 15, 2018
This follow up in the Heroy chronicles I did not enjoy so much. It seemed a little repetitive lacking in back story and development for most of the characters. It’s more a variation on a theme than a sequel. Especially when compared got the excellent True Heart series where each romantic episode is different but within a close-knit, idiosyncratic and lovable community that grows together.
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