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True Colors

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For long term fans of JAK - please be aware that this is a reissue of one of her oldest books #91 of the Temptation serials.

I read anything that is published by Ms. Krentz (as Krentz, Quick or Castle). And her MIRA books are short and often quite good (I liked "Between the Lines". "True Colors" wasn't that bad, but I become tired of Jamie's indecision about who to trust about halfway through the book. I almost put it down because I couldn't take her whining again and the whispers to herself as to what to do. But... finally she trusts (at a critical moment, thank goodness) and all is right. It was a diverting read for an afternoon, but definitely not a keeper.

Great idea........starts off with a lot of good conflict...but....

Cade spent two months romancing Jamie at the same time he was investigating her employers. The investigation blows up, causing Jamie and her employer, Miss Isabel, to have to face the press and investors angry over losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in Miss Isabel's brother's schemes. Cade arrogantly thinks he can say his investigation and using of Jamie to gain information had nothing to do with their romance. GRRRRRRRR

That was the first bad point, but figured you could work with the premise. But instead of learning from it, he continues in the same smug, arrogant, know it all attitude, treating Jamie like he knows more about he than she does herself, and simply because he took her to bed, he owns her. He even smirks that she is likely going to come crawling to him, because she got her pregnant!

Sorry, this one really sucks. Jamie is a wishy-washy character than lets the arrogant guy run all over her and you really end up not liking either of them, and possible downright hating HIM. I don't know any woman who could have loved this guy.

Saying it was dated might cover these sins of woe, but frankly, I did not like this one when it was first published. This sort of jerk was no acceptable back then, and he certainly is not acceptable today.

Especially - DO NOT pay the hardback PRICE!!

Jamie Garland feels betrayed and used by Cade Santerre when he catches her employer's brother in a financial scam.

The arrogance of the hero, Cade Santerre, was annoying. The heroine, Jamie Garland, kept telling Cade that he was having trouble accepting that he was a romantic hero, while insisting that he had trampled all her romantic dreams. Since this is a reissue, this may have been when Ms. Krentz was transitioning her heroes from being totally alpha males, but, the veneer of romantic male just didn't take. The characters caused the storyline to just galumph along.

Maybe it is because this is one of Krentz's earlier works, but I was totally disappointed in both Jamie and Cade's characters. The lack of creativity in Jamie made her come across as a simpleton and like unable to make her own decisions. Cade seemed as border-line mental abuser of women. This is strickly my opinion

I checked and re-checked the copyright date of this one several times, and it remained 1986. I can only believe it came from some time warp at least 30 years earlier.

Peanut-butter (yes, with the hyphen) is a delicacy and comes in a carton in the refrigerator. Toasters are such high-tech and presumably expensive items that the heroine's wealthy (and not otherwise eccentric) employer doesn't have one and instead uses a 'toast rack' in the oven. Self-serve gas pumps are annoying and rare. A clue to the mystery is some "recording tapes" and apparently the "machines" for listening to them are pretty high-tech/expensive/otherwise rare because only the wealthy employer has one. Those are just the things I remember off the top of my head.

I'm a contemporary of the heroine--that is, in 1986, I was 25, about the same as the heroine. We'd had toasters and peanut butter in jars ever since I was a small child. We also had 'cassette tapes' and 'tape recorders', and believe me, my family was firmly lower-middle-class. No cutting edge technology in our house. Self-serve pumps were around ever since I learned to drive--though some privately owned stations still had full-service pumps, you didn't see them often.

The anachronisms were bad/confusing enough, then you had the characters. I admit, this was a novelty: BOTH the hero and the heroine were TSTL (too stupid to live). Obviously, they were meant for each other.

The hero persists in believing that the heroine is pregnant despite ALL evidence to the contrary. The heroine hires him to find out if her employer's brother really did commit suicide, but then refuses to let him see the letter the brother sent her employer THE FREAKIN' DAY BEFORE HIS 'DEATH' because 'it might be private.' ::headdesk::

And then there was the straw that broke this camel's back: the incessant whining from both of them about 'you don't TRUST me.' GAH.

The only saving grace here is that the writing--that is, the way the words were put together--was okay.

This is not one of Jayne Ann Krantz better books. The plot was too convulted and inner conflict that character was feeling was too long and drawn out. It took away from the storyline.

Her heart was on the line- Jamie Garland loved working for Miss Isabel. Her job often threw her into the company of the most fancinating people... like Cade Santerre. From the start, he made no secret he desired her. And only last night he tenderly made love to her... A morning visit from the authorities changed everything. And angry over Cade's apparent betrayal, Jamie sent him away. But weeks later a question still burned within her-one that could only be answered by seeking out Cade.

I "discovered" Jayne Ann Krentz (aka Amanda Quick, aka Jayne Castle, aka Stephanie James and so on)a year or so ago. I am reading as many of her older books as I can get my hands (or eyes) on. So far, she has not written a book I have not enjoyed, no matter what name she is writing under.