The Color Of Trouble (Love Spectrum Romance) [Paperback]

Dyanne Davis (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 185 pages
• Publisher: Genesis Press (August 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1585710962
• ISBN-13: 978-1585710966
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,450,255 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I believe in true love and soul mates becasue I've been married to my soul mate for 36 years. We have one son, Bill Jr.

I worked for many years as a nurse until my husband encouraged me to take the time from working to try and fullfill my writing dreams. Our deal was for two years. If in that time I had not collected anything but more rejection slips I would return to work. Well two years came and more rejections. My husband said keep trying and I did. See why he's my true love?

Customer Reviews

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Does Love Conquer All?, September 26, 2003

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The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers (RAWSISTAZ.com and BlackBookReviews.net) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Color Of Trouble (Love Spectrum Romance) (Paperback)

THE COLOR OF TROUBLE opens with a bang, as Kari Thomas is confronted with every woman's fear. She walks in on her boyfriend of several years and another woman. This woman produces photographs of herself and Jonathan in the throes of passion. But what really hurts Kari most is the fact that this woman, like her boyfriend, is white. As a couple, Kari and Jonathan have lost friends, developed strained relationships with their respective parents, and at times have taken on what seems like their entire small town because of the fact that they are involved in an interracial relationship. These difficulties, coupled with the confrontation with the "other woman" are more than the relationship can bear.

We then fast forward several years. The couple has moved on with their separate lives in different states. Kari is now involved with a Black doctor named Steven, a man that her parents approve of and can help make her dreams come true without all the difficulties she faced in her prior relationship. Jonathan, on the other hand, is living for his work and the meaningless flings that occupy his personal time. When a surprising chain of events force the former couple to reestablish contact with one another, each of their lives are shaken to the core, and they both begin questioning their lives as they know it. The couple is forced to deal with issues that have lacked closure over the years, and each begin to wonder whether things are really over.

Dyanne Davis has written a heartfelt story about how life circumstances can often interfere with true love. As the book progresses, readers will find themselves asking, can love conquer all? The story was heartfelt and at times full of unimaginable drama. There are plenty of lessons wrapped up in this romantic story about love, forgiveness, and what it takes to make a relationship work. The two main characters were well-rounded and written in such a way that readers could empathize with them and really understand why they made the choices they did. For balance, Davis has thrown in a few characters that readers will love to hate. Check out THE COLOR OF TROUBLE for an entertaining read about real life issues with a dramatic flair.

Reviewed by Stacey Seay
The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love from the past returns, August 17, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Color Of Trouble (Love Spectrum Romance) (Paperback)

Kari Thomas hasn't been honest to herself for the last seven years. As a black woman, Kari believes being prejudice can't be a part of her personality. Kari doesn't believe she broke up with Jonathan Steele because of his white skin color. She also ignores that she's engaged to the successful, handsome, black doctor, Steven Anderson, because her parents approve of him. Steven can give her the beautiful brown skinned babies, Jonathan wouldn't ever been able to give her.

Jonathan Steele is a successful lawyer finally happy with his life and career. He isn't looking for love, nor does he want it. Kari Thomas ruined him of that emotion a long time ago. Kari Thomas and Jonathan Steele think their paths will never cross again. But Kari defaulting on a business debt brings Jonathan back into her life. Can they both overcome their past and find love again? Or is their love gone forever?

Dyanne Davis' writing style in THE COLOR OF TROUBLE, is superb. A very compelling and well-written book, Ms. Davis is able to bring her readers into the romance of the story without any problems. Her characters are well thought out and very realistic. Every emotion Kari feels from the hurt, anger and shock, the reader is right there with her. Hurt is Kari realizes she still loves Jonathan, but has to marry Steven to please her parents. She is angry at her parents for never understanding her love for Jonathan or accepting him as a part of her life. The last emotion I enjoyed feeling along with Kari is the shock when she realizes that seven years ago she did leave Jonathan because of his color skin. It is truly a pleasure to enjoy the writing style of Dyanne Davis. She has a gift for the written word.

I treasured Dyanne Davis', THE COLOR OF TROUBLE, a very vivid portrayal about interracial love. THE COLOR OF TROUBLE explores the trials and tribulations an interracial couple has to face. Kari, a young African American woman, struggles with wanting the love, respect, and approval of her parents. She is willing to stay with her fiance, Steven Anderson, a man who is supposed to make her life complete, to make them happy. Yet, Kari battles with herself because she is still in love with Jonathan Steele, her first love. Kari wonders how she can feel so empty, lost and alone at a time in her life when everything seems so perfect.

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The Color of Love, April 7, 2004

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M. Fleming "Rescueknight" (Some where in the Southwest, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Color Of Trouble (Love Spectrum Romance) (Paperback)

As you have read from the other reviews: this book is about Keri and Jon and their romance that dies when his mother and her parents plot against them.
Fast forward several years later and Jon is suing Keri after she gets mixed up in a resort scheme.
She decides to fight back and they come face to face again. They both want closure though he is more honest about why he wants to see her again.

But Keri is engaged to Steven and he has got MAJOR ISSUES on several fronts: interracial relationships between black women and white men, independent women and "pure" children.
Keri refuses to see these issues and convinces herself that she is not and never was a bigot (she had a relationship with Jon, didn't she?).

That is the crux of the story. The problems are these: several of the characters were not well developed. Keri was WEAK in big, block, capital letters; so much so that on several occassions I wanted to throw the book across the room. And you are being asked to believe in this day and age there would be this much angst between lovers in this situation.
But mostly, you are forced to ask yourself, "WHY?"

Why is she even bothering to look back if all she wants are those brown babies, and why is she not with some other black man, other than the idiot Steven and lastly why is she still listening to her folks when they have done so much damage?

Read this if you want to see what all the mixed reviews are about, but don't say you weren't warned!