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The Color of Trouble
Book by Davis, Dyanne
185 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 1994
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February 24, 2012
Words can't describe how utterly rubbish this book was. A ridiculous heroine, an equally ridiculous hero, a crap plot, a cookie cutter 'other woman' who said things like "Did you really think Jon was going to be satisfied with dark chocolate when he could have me?" Seriously, who the f*ck says sh*t like that??? And angst, oh so much effing angst. Enough already! Aaaaarrrggghh!
Two hours of my effing life that I won't be getting back any time soon. Annoying!
Two hours of my effing life that I won't be getting back any time soon. Annoying!
March 31, 2010
Imagine if at the age of eighteen you met your soulmate. No seriously....take the next few moments and think about it. I'll wait.
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Now, being young and subject to idealism you decide to take on the world rather than deny the fact that this is your soulmate and there will NEVER be another for you. EVER. After all when the two of you are in the same room you can achieve the highest sexual pleasure without ever touching or saying a word. A mere look is more than enough.
Now let's complicate matters with the fact that you're both college students of different races living in the south. So what if it's the 90's? Black men call you a sell-out and daily your man comes home fresh from either kicking butt or getting his kicked. His Mother proudly calls you a nigger and your parents have disowned you for being with a red-necked cracker. They are pretty sure he's got you strung out. Otherwise, why would you disgrace your race? With both of you working yourselves half to death, you can just barely afford spaghetti living off of your love is about all you can do. That is, up until you find your man in the arms of another woman. Even his proclamation that there's nothing going on and he's being blackmailed means nothing to you. His profession of love means even less. You've had enough. You love him with every fiber of your being, but you've had enough of love that blinds you to everything but the object of your affection. Even when falsely accused of a crime he did not commit you assume that what he needs more than your love is your absence. So, you leave and are welcomed back into the bosom of your family.
Seven years later you have the perfect life. You've got the love of your family, a great job and you're engaged to a doctor who loves you. You love him, but not the same. After all love should not hurt. With him you can have not only the continued love and affection of your family, but the chocolate brown babies you want and desire. Children that not only know where they belong in this world, but your parents can love. However, a bad business decision a few years earlier returns to haunt you and with it comes the boy your left behind.
Whose prejudice are you really fighting here?
Theirs or yours?
The Color of Love by Dyanne Davis (Indigo Love Spectrum - Genesis Press) is quite honestly one of the very best books I've ever read regardless of genre. The characters and their lives pull you in even when you don't want to be pulled in and just when you think it can't get much deeper it does. And to tell the truth, had I a clue there was a man out there as miserable as the Hero (Jonathan Steele) all because of the love of a woman, I would search him out and forget it wasn't me he was looking for while consoling him.
Readers of any and all genres regardless of their preference for the "packaging" that their hero and heroine come in will find this book to be all that you could ever want in a romance novel. Do NOT hesitate to purchase a copy of this book today. Tomorrow it very well may be near impossible to locate a copy other than at the library...should you be so lucky.
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Now, being young and subject to idealism you decide to take on the world rather than deny the fact that this is your soulmate and there will NEVER be another for you. EVER. After all when the two of you are in the same room you can achieve the highest sexual pleasure without ever touching or saying a word. A mere look is more than enough.
Now let's complicate matters with the fact that you're both college students of different races living in the south. So what if it's the 90's? Black men call you a sell-out and daily your man comes home fresh from either kicking butt or getting his kicked. His Mother proudly calls you a nigger and your parents have disowned you for being with a red-necked cracker. They are pretty sure he's got you strung out. Otherwise, why would you disgrace your race? With both of you working yourselves half to death, you can just barely afford spaghetti living off of your love is about all you can do. That is, up until you find your man in the arms of another woman. Even his proclamation that there's nothing going on and he's being blackmailed means nothing to you. His profession of love means even less. You've had enough. You love him with every fiber of your being, but you've had enough of love that blinds you to everything but the object of your affection. Even when falsely accused of a crime he did not commit you assume that what he needs more than your love is your absence. So, you leave and are welcomed back into the bosom of your family.
Seven years later you have the perfect life. You've got the love of your family, a great job and you're engaged to a doctor who loves you. You love him, but not the same. After all love should not hurt. With him you can have not only the continued love and affection of your family, but the chocolate brown babies you want and desire. Children that not only know where they belong in this world, but your parents can love. However, a bad business decision a few years earlier returns to haunt you and with it comes the boy your left behind.
Whose prejudice are you really fighting here?
Theirs or yours?
The Color of Love by Dyanne Davis (Indigo Love Spectrum - Genesis Press) is quite honestly one of the very best books I've ever read regardless of genre. The characters and their lives pull you in even when you don't want to be pulled in and just when you think it can't get much deeper it does. And to tell the truth, had I a clue there was a man out there as miserable as the Hero (Jonathan Steele) all because of the love of a woman, I would search him out and forget it wasn't me he was looking for while consoling him.
Readers of any and all genres regardless of their preference for the "packaging" that their hero and heroine come in will find this book to be all that you could ever want in a romance novel. Do NOT hesitate to purchase a copy of this book today. Tomorrow it very well may be near impossible to locate a copy other than at the library...should you be so lucky.
March 30, 2016
I hated this book. I'd give it zero stars if I could. Kari was a weak stupid bigot and Jon was a weak stupid man. Flat and cartoonish main and secondary characters and a ridiculous plot does not a good story make.
April 26, 2020
Excellent book, need a sequel to this book.
June 21, 2012
I will be honest, I had seen this book several times, but was reluctant to buy it because I wasn't sure I was ready for it. I am so happy I finally bought and read it. It is excellent, but difficult to take at the same time. It deals with a real issue that we want to pretend does not still exist, RACISM!!! The thing that makes this story so difficult is it will make you reflect on bigotry from all angles.
Jon and Kari are from a small town in Alabama, where they did the unthinkable. They fell in love. Jon is white and Kari is black, which is not just taboo among white society, but also black society. Ms Davis does an excellent job of enlightening the reader of the many hidden but ugly faces of prejudice. In the beginning, Kari and Jon are torn apart by a carefully constructed plot on his mother's part. Kari is made to believe that Jon never really loved her, but was just rebelling and the evidence is pretty damning.
Fast forward seven years, Kari and Jon both have seemingly moved on with their lives. Kari is even engaged to a successful Black doctor, there's just one problem he's Archie Bunker and George Jefferson times two. Kari doesn't like this side of him but she is convinced she can help him to change, once they are married. Her parents are upstanding Christians, who simply believe there's nothing wrong with not wanting their daughter with a white man. That shouldn't make them bigots right?.....Wrong!!
A legal mistake from Kari's past causes her to cross paths with Jon again. The love they thought they had moved past is still there, as strong as ever, but so is the unfinished business and hurt. Kari is determined to marry Steven even though she is still very much in love with Jon. Jon realizes he never has nor never will stop loving Kari and tries to make her understand that love has no color. Along the way Kari must also face her own bigotry, which she doesn't believe she is guilty of possessing. She just feels her life will be easier, if she marries one of her own. How can she be a bigot, when she was in love with, lived with and planned to marry a white man? Through self reflection Kari discovers she has own set of prejudices and she realizes she can never be truly happy with a man who simply has the right skin color, but is it too late for her and Jon?
Like I said in the beginning Ms Davis does a excellent job of exploring the many facets of prejudice in this book, while giving the reader a heartfelt love story. I don't believe you can read this book without examining your own prejudice views, if you are honest with yourself. I applaud Ms Davis for this excellent and enlightening story. It truly left me feeling reflective and maybe even changed. I now know what views I am guilty of and what I need to change within myself, for that I am an truly grateful. I loved this story and would love the read more about this couple.
Jon and Kari are from a small town in Alabama, where they did the unthinkable. They fell in love. Jon is white and Kari is black, which is not just taboo among white society, but also black society. Ms Davis does an excellent job of enlightening the reader of the many hidden but ugly faces of prejudice. In the beginning, Kari and Jon are torn apart by a carefully constructed plot on his mother's part. Kari is made to believe that Jon never really loved her, but was just rebelling and the evidence is pretty damning.
Fast forward seven years, Kari and Jon both have seemingly moved on with their lives. Kari is even engaged to a successful Black doctor, there's just one problem he's Archie Bunker and George Jefferson times two. Kari doesn't like this side of him but she is convinced she can help him to change, once they are married. Her parents are upstanding Christians, who simply believe there's nothing wrong with not wanting their daughter with a white man. That shouldn't make them bigots right?.....Wrong!!
A legal mistake from Kari's past causes her to cross paths with Jon again. The love they thought they had moved past is still there, as strong as ever, but so is the unfinished business and hurt. Kari is determined to marry Steven even though she is still very much in love with Jon. Jon realizes he never has nor never will stop loving Kari and tries to make her understand that love has no color. Along the way Kari must also face her own bigotry, which she doesn't believe she is guilty of possessing. She just feels her life will be easier, if she marries one of her own. How can she be a bigot, when she was in love with, lived with and planned to marry a white man? Through self reflection Kari discovers she has own set of prejudices and she realizes she can never be truly happy with a man who simply has the right skin color, but is it too late for her and Jon?
Like I said in the beginning Ms Davis does a excellent job of exploring the many facets of prejudice in this book, while giving the reader a heartfelt love story. I don't believe you can read this book without examining your own prejudice views, if you are honest with yourself. I applaud Ms Davis for this excellent and enlightening story. It truly left me feeling reflective and maybe even changed. I now know what views I am guilty of and what I need to change within myself, for that I am an truly grateful. I loved this story and would love the read more about this couple.
February 20, 2017
The book was so good but the Heroine was terrible, almost made me dislike the book she was a terrible person.
October 11, 2010
I really liked this book but i felt like the story was kind of dragged on and longer than it had to be. Plus the ending was kind of mushy, well at least it was for me and i felt weird reading it. so i wanted the ending to finish quickly. But i liked it how the story already started from the beginning. it wasn't like an intro to what happened and stuff and i wished there were more books like this. i didnt really have any problems with any of the characters in this book other than the female lead character, Keri. i didnt really like her a lot for some reason, but i just felt she was dead and had no emotions. Even when the author wrote what they were thinking and feeling i still felt she was like a zombie.
i really liked this book because it had lots of themes and there was a lot of conflict between the individual and the society, which has been a big topic to talk about in school. There was also racism and how a mixed baby would look, in this case a half-white, half-black baby. You don't know how they'll turn out to be but i understood how the parents felt in this situation because after all you want your grandchild to look like you but i don't think color is everything people should always be looking at.
i really liked this book because it had lots of themes and there was a lot of conflict between the individual and the society, which has been a big topic to talk about in school. There was also racism and how a mixed baby would look, in this case a half-white, half-black baby. You don't know how they'll turn out to be but i understood how the parents felt in this situation because after all you want your grandchild to look like you but i don't think color is everything people should always be looking at.
January 16, 2011
Started reading this, but the poor writing quality prevented me from getting past the first chapter. There was no rhythm to the back-and-forth between the heroine and her white lover boy, and the circumstances that caused the breakup and the subsequent argument was so woodenly and repetitively presented that I could not buy into it at all. Will not finish.
March 31, 2009
My favorite Dyanne Davis book. Hands down. The love between Jonathan and Carrie was very strong and I felt for them.
July 23, 2011
This was a wonderful story.The author did a wonderful job of showing that racism isn't about the color of the person who carries it inside of them.
March 28, 2012
I enjoyed this book a lot. It was so real and passionate. Highly recommended to interracial romance readers and really any reader who enjoys romance!
April 18, 2012
Her first and best! Love knows no boundaries and waits for the right one.
April 9, 2015
I loved this book a little slow in the first couple of chapters and I did want to choke Kari. But I still enjoyed it.
August 16, 2017
Very good even though the book needs a good editor. Ms. Davis uses too many words to get her point across. The editor should have helped her with that.
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