True Colors

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Summary: Classic Jayne Ann Krentz- nice setting for story
Review: From back of book:
Bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz paints a sensual , suspenseful story that sweeps from Santa Barbara to Big Sur, rich with the true colors of love.

For two months, Jamie Garland had fallen in love- with a lie. Cade Santerre was every woman's fantasy- until the mask came off in a scandal that left Jamie shattered. Cade had pretended to be someone he wasn't. Worse, he'd used her in his elaborate attempt to catch a man he believed was a crook and a swindler.

Though Cade's suspect had escaped, Cade was still around- raw, masculine, overwhelming, He had some unfinished business with the man who had conned his innocent sister, and he needed Jamie's help. But Jamie had som unfinished business , as well: to find out if the man she'd fallen in love with really existed.

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Summary: OH wow....where to start :-(
Review: 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 [is bad]. Jamie is a wishy-washy character than lets the arrogant [person] 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 [person].

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!

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Summary: OH wow....where to start :-(
Review: 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!!

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Summary: Not a keeper
Review: 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.

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Summary: beyond disappointment
Review: 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

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Summary: Not The Best
Review: 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.