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White Chocolate
That's what Taylor James' first love used to call her, referring to her creamy skin, blond hair, and mixed heritage. But that was before he dumped her without any explanation.
Now years later, Taylor is a hot TV journalist who made her mark by going undercover to expose a violent white supremacist group. And she's agreed to marry her boss, the powerful owner of the Wolf Television Network.
But that's if she survives until the wedding. The white supremacists are out of jail now and they want revenge--Taylor's blood. Yes, coping with death threats is hard--but not as hard as the reappearance of her first love, who wants her back.
Now years later, Taylor is a hot TV journalist who made her mark by going undercover to expose a violent white supremacist group. And she's agreed to marry her boss, the powerful owner of the Wolf Television Network.
But that's if she survives until the wedding. The white supremacists are out of jail now and they want revenge--Taylor's blood. Yes, coping with death threats is hard--but not as hard as the reappearance of her first love, who wants her back.
- GenresFiction
384 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published May 1, 1998
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April 18, 2018
SPOILERS, but none that aren't telegraphed in the first 38 pages:
I love the premise for the book, and I really had high hopes for a thriller built around race relations, set in my home state. Unfortunately, the writing quality just didn't meet my standards.
In the first 38 pages, the main character, Taylor, mentions her childhood boyfriend 11 times. The relationship is long gone, but whether she's undercover, or envying her college friend who married her first love, she is clearly obsessed with him. There are lines like "Not everything is meant to be. I'll be just as happy with Phillip." You gotta feel sorry for Phillip, because she's probably fantasizing about Julian when she's in bed with Phillip. Even her mom's in on the decade-gone Julian, talking about wedding cakes with her daughter with the snide "We love the white chocolate because it reminds us of that cute nickname Julian used to call you, but since you're not marrying him as we'd all hoped, we wanted to check with you first." So, what do you think, is Julian going to come back into the story?
With high school-like prose, and the main character being a reporter whose long-gone ex is a national television anchor and whose fiancé is a super-rich older man (he has teen kids) who was the result of an affair his mom had, but whose dad raised "his wife's love child as his own rather than suffer the shame of cuckoldry and divorce in 1948," well... I actually didn't make it past page 38.
I did have to satisfy my curiosity, though. Did the oft-mentioned Julian resurface later in the book? Of course he did! I opened the book randomly to page 281, with a scene that I would have expected in a book that I would have sneaked a peak at in high school if I'd been able, with phrases like "rock-hard rod," "impaling," "magic wand from which tiny stars floated." I flipped a chapter or so ahead - and she's throwing her engagement ring at her fiancé because he's cheating on her... Pot calling the kettle black? When I was going to write this review, I went back to find the section I quoted, but had a difficult time finding it with all the other times she was hooking up with Julian. I can enjoy a sex scene, or a bunch of sex scenes, but I was expecting the book to be a "riveting thriller" as it describes itself in the jacket blurb, not 50 Shades.
I'm going to keep the book, because we have a signed copy, and I collect signed books and antique books, but I'll hold off on finishing reading it until I've made the mental crossover that it's romance novel, not a thriller.
I love the premise for the book, and I really had high hopes for a thriller built around race relations, set in my home state. Unfortunately, the writing quality just didn't meet my standards.
In the first 38 pages, the main character, Taylor, mentions her childhood boyfriend 11 times. The relationship is long gone, but whether she's undercover, or envying her college friend who married her first love, she is clearly obsessed with him. There are lines like "Not everything is meant to be. I'll be just as happy with Phillip." You gotta feel sorry for Phillip, because she's probably fantasizing about Julian when she's in bed with Phillip. Even her mom's in on the decade-gone Julian, talking about wedding cakes with her daughter with the snide "We love the white chocolate because it reminds us of that cute nickname Julian used to call you, but since you're not marrying him as we'd all hoped, we wanted to check with you first." So, what do you think, is Julian going to come back into the story?
With high school-like prose, and the main character being a reporter whose long-gone ex is a national television anchor and whose fiancé is a super-rich older man (he has teen kids) who was the result of an affair his mom had, but whose dad raised "his wife's love child as his own rather than suffer the shame of cuckoldry and divorce in 1948," well... I actually didn't make it past page 38.
I did have to satisfy my curiosity, though. Did the oft-mentioned Julian resurface later in the book? Of course he did! I opened the book randomly to page 281, with a scene that I would have expected in a book that I would have sneaked a peak at in high school if I'd been able, with phrases like "rock-hard rod," "impaling," "magic wand from which tiny stars floated." I flipped a chapter or so ahead - and she's throwing her engagement ring at her fiancé because he's cheating on her... Pot calling the kettle black? When I was going to write this review, I went back to find the section I quoted, but had a difficult time finding it with all the other times she was hooking up with Julian. I can enjoy a sex scene, or a bunch of sex scenes, but I was expecting the book to be a "riveting thriller" as it describes itself in the jacket blurb, not 50 Shades.
I'm going to keep the book, because we have a signed copy, and I collect signed books and antique books, but I'll hold off on finishing reading it until I've made the mental crossover that it's romance novel, not a thriller.
June 19, 2018
Powerful book about human acceptance.
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