Shades of Brown (Love Spectrum Romance) [Paperback]

Denise Becker (Author)

Book Description

Series: Love Spectrum Romance | Publication Date: December 1, 2003

Meg is a schoolteacher whose husband, Bill, was intent on killing her... but in a violent fight for her won life, she ended his. The murder is a secret, and Meg has moved back to her hometown to reunited with her adopted family. Meg's new life is wonderful; her family has welcomed her home, she is the favorite teacher at her old high school, and she has found love. However, because of her unorthodox teaching and interracial relationship, she has also made some enemies. When these foes discover Meg's murderous secret and make their own assumptions, she will have to convince all the people she loves of the truth.

Product Details

• Paperback: 248 pages
• Publisher: Genesis Press (December 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1585711101
• ISBN-13: 978-1585711109
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 4.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,632,898 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Cover is Totally Misleading, January 9, 2010

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Taylor "Ro": Book Critic - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shades of Brown (Indigo Love Spectrum) (Paperback)

Cautionary Book Review: Misleading Cover

Official "Ro" Reasoning:

I thought the heroines in Indigo Love Spectrum books were supposed to be black. The cover shows an interracial couple bw/wm. But the book is about a white woman and a black man, if a person doesn't read carefully they would have ended up buying something that they were not expected. That is not cool.

Redo the cover, it's horrible to blatantly mislead people.

Official "Ro" Rating: N/A (Cautionary Book Review)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Chyeah, January 8, 2006

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Cathi - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shades of Brown (Love Spectrum Romance) (Paperback)

Ok so the person from ARC bookclub or whatever. My guess is that you're book-retarded because quite honestly, how can the characters be shallow when many satisfied customers, myself included, found a depth in the character that really allowed us to experience what the character was experiencing. Plus, how could you figure out how they would handle situations and how the story would end if they are so allegedly shallow?
This book has all the aspects of every good novel compiled into one: comedy, romance, mystery, murder, mystery, etc.
It's a book that will really keep you on the edge of your seats with its constantly moving plot and laughing with the character's witty remarks.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who has been through a tragedy so they know how to stay strong, to anyone who has ever been in love, to anyone who has a crazy family, to any teacher, and to anyone who's just trying to find that place where they belong. This is an excellent book.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice Story !, July 17, 2004

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Mahogany Book Club "Mahogany Media Review" (Albany, N.Y.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shades of Brown (Love Spectrum Romance) (Paperback)

Shades of Brown
Denise Becker 5 stars

Meg is a schoolteacher with a violent husband until she kills him during a fight to save her own life. Wanting to leave the past behind Meg moves back home to be with her adopted family the Harrington's.

Meg went to live with her best friend Tory in high school after her parents died. The Harrington's are black Meg is white. Meg was always treated like family in the Harrington household, the oldest son Michael always treated her like a sister but he was secretly in love with Meg for many years.

As Meg and Michael build a loving relationship her past comes back to haunt her. The faculty at school doesn't like Meg's way of teaching and want her out. Meg finds racial hate notes on her car. When they dig into her past they find out about her husband Bill and try to fire her. But Tory comes to her rescue.

However Michael never knew what happened and he pulls away from Meg. No one in the family knew about Meg's abuse. Michael and Tory's brother Luther loves Meg but he doesn't want his brother with a white woman.
This was an outstanding story of love and family in a society full of racism.
I enjoyed this story. I especially liked that Meg was portrayed as a strong woman with a big heart. In most interracial love stories it seems the white woman is always naive or she somehow causes the black man's down fall.
Shades of Brown didn't do that. This was a true account of interracial love today and all that comes along with it.

Reviewed by:
Dawn
Mahogany Book Club
Albany, N.Y.