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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Makes Your Heart Pound!, April 19, 2003
I knew this book would be good because it was written by Diana Palmer(okay, maybe I'm being a bit biased)Yet I didn't expect to not be able to put down the book and that my heart was pounding with each turn of the page. "True Colors" is filled with a lot of emotion. You read as Meredith Ashe grows from a naive girl to a strong women. Unfortunatley her strength is geared towards revenge on Cy Harden, the father of her child. She plans to punish him for the past by taking over his company. Cy, who had no idea he had fathered a child, too late realizes how he had been manipulated by his mother into thinking that Meredith had betrayed him. And seeing her after all these years, Cy still has a need for her, but is it just a physical need or a need born of love? Yet when everyones true color is out in the open would it be enough to save the love between Cy and Meredith? You won't want to put down this book till the very end, even then, you'll want to go back to read it again. I hope you get a copy of this and enjoy.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I really liked it!, May 15, 2005
If I hadn't read the terrible reviews here first, I might have given this a 4 star on face value. But because I was prepared for a relatively poor book, and was so pleasantly surprised, I'm giving this one an extra point. I admit upfront that I am a HUGE Diana Palmer fan. I am attracted to, rather than offended by, her alpha males who make many mistakes on their way to happiness with an ultra-patient heroine. Her books are fantasy - they don't make real men like her heroes, so I have more sense than to expect them to act like the men I meet everyday. As much as Cy is an extreme alpha stereotype, so Meredith is smarter, tougher and more forgiving than the average romance heroine. If you want realistic people in your romance novels, there are plenty out there, but those bore me beyond words. Palmer's stories, and this one is among the best, entertain because they are so different from anything I have ever, or will ever, experience. As formulaic as they are, the formula works for many of us, and that's what keeps us reading her. True Colors is a great Palmer tale, as long as you aren't trying to make it into a Nora Roberts book.
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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
fine boardroom romance, November 13, 2004
This review is from: True Colors (Mass Market Paperback)
Six years ago, pregnant teenager Meredith Ashe is run out of Billings, Montana by Myrna, the mother of her lover Cy Harden. Myrna paid Tony Tanksley to rob her family safe and accuse his lover Meredith as his accomplice. Cy believed his mother and Tony over his girlfriend. Meredith refused to take any money from the Hardens and returned Cy's gifts to Myrna.
Multi-millionaire businessman Henry Tennison meets a distraught Meredith wandering Chicago and takes her under his wings. The lonely older man eventually marries Meredith and raises her son Blake as his own. He taught her how to wisely invest, but not too long ago Henry died.
Needing mineral rights that Cy `s firm owns and to sell her recently deceased aunt's home, Meredith returns to Billings. The attraction between her and Cy remains heated and guilt racked Myrna knows she did wrong. However, Meredith is not a frightened teen, but is a confident woman who informs Myrna her price to leave town is the truth. As she works a hostile takeover, her brother-in-law Don spins a double cross and Cy realizes something is not right between the two women he loves. All comes to a head when Myrna faints upon seeing Blake.
Though having a Falcon Crest and Dallas feel to the plot, fans will appreciate this fine boardroom romance as the lead couple remains in love yet neither trust the other because Cy chose his mother's "truth" over his beloved's contention. Though Don seems foolish in his power grab to eliminate his highly regarded by the board sister-in-law that could cost his company millions, fans of second chance at love soap opera romances will enjoy this fine tale of revenge.
Harriet Klausner
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