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CAPTURE THE RAINBOW (Loveswept)

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An incredibly moving tale of love and trust. I couldn't put it down! Joel Damon is the distrustful and cynical movie director of "Desert Venture." Kendra Michaels is a fiercely proud and independent stuntwoman struggling to pay her crippled brother's medical bills. At first, Joel mistakenly believed Kendra was another aspiring little starlet using her body to get a part in his movie, and he's cynical enough to take what's offered. He then turns into a slave driver on the set when his 'Rainbow Lady' refuses to be his mistress. Joel has always been afraid to believe in anything because they've always turned out to be illusions, but then he discovers that nothing in his life's been real until Kendra.

This is an older style romance written back when it was acceptable for a virginal woman to hop into bed with a bossy unlikable alpha man she's just met because he looks sexy.

Don't ask me for names, you don't need them. I read this on audio and they have already escaped my mind. He's an arrogant movie producer. She's works as a stunt woman. From the moment he sees her he decides she's a starlet who will sell herself out to get a plum role. He gets what he wants and he wants her bad.

She's taken a pain killer and had some champagne so I guess her thinking was slightly impaired but before they barely have a conversation (he basically bosses her around & insults her) she is driving off with him to his "castle" where she gives him her virginity.

Sorry, but she wasn't impaired enough for me to buy into this and if she was it makes him an even bigger creeper.

I finished this book even though it did nothing but annoy me. The heroine keeps her "big secret" (which isn't really) from the "hero" in an attempt to keep her independence. I thought this was a silly plot ploy to keep them apart for a few more pages. It didn't help that we never even get to meet the heroine's brother who is a big part of her motivation for the things she does.

And did I mention all of the talking during the sex scenes? If the author isn't waxing poetic and moving mountains and describing rainbows, she has the hero spouting sickeningly sweet nothings to the heroine about her glorious bod. At one point she tells him to shut up and get to work and I had to laugh because I was thinking the same thing.

I could complain about this book for hours but I have to get some work done. If I had it to do over again, I'd read something else.

The story is a bit unoriginal, but it's still a good summertime short read. The heroine is a bit too goody-goody and unrealistic for a modern day woman and she protests too much. The hero is the typical Alpha male who has everything, but has never fallen in love. The ending works out a little too well . . . matches the rainbow on the cover. I've always liked Iris Johanson's writing, although I don't remember it being this fluffy. Overall, ok, but probably not worth the cover price. The book was a lot shorter than I expected.

Well, if your bosom swells when someone touches it, it might be time to go to a doctor. I am sure there is a difficult and obscure medical term for that. The sex scenes go to hell from the bosom swelling. There is too much touchy feely talking when really there should be only heavy breathing and bursting hearts. That is, if they really are crazy for each other as the author will have us believe. Also, he didn't notice at the time that she was a virgin? Really? And they had sex a multiple times that first time? Really??

The whole story is thin and preposterous. Sexy scenes are boring and absolutely unlikely. It was awful.

This book is part of the series of books that Iris johansen wrote during her Loveswept days. It's a great series reflecting her early style. I enjoyed them when they were first published but who knew Iris would become the iconic writer that she did..so it's nice to have the series complete again. Buying from the used book dealers that use Amazon has been a very satisfying experience and I recommend it to all book collecters and afficianados.