Books by Sara Bennett
Sara Bennett used to write Medievals, some of which got good-ish grades here early on. I thought I'd check out one of her Victorian historicals to see if it had any promise. Frankly, my reactions were all over the map. The book veered from silly, to surprisingly interesting, to outright bizarre. It ...
If you choose to read Sara Bennett's Her Secret Lover, save yourself some time and start around Chapter 27. Shortly thereafter, the hero and heroine have the conservation that should have taken place long before. Don't worry, everything you really need to know is revealed and you will save yourself ...
Wallpaper is one thing, but when you plaster real historical characters right up against it, that crosses a line. No lesser personages than Victoria and Albert are depicted here with all the life and detail of your basic comic book. And I’m not talking the good ones either – think Archie and V ...
Reading this romance wasn’t a hardship, but in the end I never felt it was anything special or memorable. The notorious Madame Aphrodite, owner of one of London's most infamous brothels, hires Sebastian Thorne to track down an enemy who stole her three daughters away when they wer ...
Rules of Passion is the second in a trilogy about the Greentree sisters, who as children were kidnapped from their mother (a famous courtesan named Aphrodite), and found and adopted by Lady Greentree. Now grown, they have recently discovered the identity of their natural mother and have reestablish ...
Lessons In Seduction is the first in a trilogy about three sisters who were abandoned as children, but rescued and raised by the kind Lady Greentree. I enjoyed the story, but didn't find the characters particularly likable. Vivianna Greentree is a passionate reformer. She has never forgotten h ...
Since I am normally a fan of Medievals and the tumultuous period immediately following the Norman Conquest has always been a favorite of mine, I was excited about reading Sara Bennett's latest romance. Unfortunately, while Bennett is generally a very good wordsmith, her main characters never quite c ...
If the thought of one more Aye canna ken spoken by a man in a skirt to a red-headed, feisty female makes you groan, but you still love Scottish historicals, give the latest from Sara Bennett a try. There are clichés (the accent, the skirt, the red hair), but also plenty of new twists on some old, f ...
Once He Loves has nearly as many flaws as it has strong points, but the scale tips in favor of the book. Its premise reverses gender roles, which was a nice change of pace, and the hero and heroine were likable enough throughout the book. But there were some annoying features as well, such as the ...
If I'm reading a book that says "Romance" on the spine and has a clinch on the cover, but halfway through I have to skip ahead to the end just to make sure everything turns out all right, then I figure I'm reading a pretty darn good book. While Sara Bennett's sophomore effort, The Rose and the Shiel ...