Annie's Rainbow

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Summary: iceD tea, thank you
Review: This book was a great first draft. As with all first drafts, it needed some polishing, and some filling in. The author had a great plot, but, not enough details. I wanted to know how she struggled and what all she went through to succeed in her business, instead we read that she opens her business on a shoestring and boom, she's rich and owns stores everywhere. The "urst" element was there, (unrequited lust), but was taken a little bit too far and began to get a bit tedious. I would have given this book three stars except that for several chapters the author kept mentioning "ice tea", over and over. Now one grammatical error is understandable, but to keep saying it over and over again really gets on one's nerves and takes away from the story. Why not serve lemonade or bourbon, at least she could spell it.

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Summary: You've got to be kidding!!
Review: This is a biography of Annie's life, not a romance novel (let alone a love story) Annie finds the answer/shortcut to all her and her friends dreams. But after they start the business on a shoestring and it takes off like gangbusters, why did she keep the money?? She is supposed to be best friends with Jane and like a daughter to Elmo, but in keeping the money, ends up putting them through heck. She meets a guy and he brings out the flirt in her and she verbally throws herself at him. And the sappy guy doesn't know what to do with her. PLEASE! So after a fight they spend the next 10YEARS!! thinking about each other, wanting to be with the other, doing business together, the whole time they never speak a word or write a letter. (they do business through her brother and his sister) By the time they meet again they are in their mid to late 30's, they are in Hawaii and spend 3 days trying to find each other. Finally they end up meeting at his house and he's acting like a virgin bride while she's trying to entice him. And he still doesn't know what to do with her. He starts talking love and marriage and she is agreeing with him, the whole time she is thinking "I'm not in love with this guy, I can't marry him, I need to get up and leave" After 10 years of him on her mind she decides sex is all she wanted?? At that point I was so aggrivated I read the last page and found her with someone else. That was all it took for the book to find the trash can. Then I had to dig it out so I could return it to the library. Thank goodness I didn't spend any money on it!!

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Summary: Hope the other books are better!
Review: This is my first F.M. novel and I really was disappointed with it. The main character Annie didn't have any reason to keep money stolen from a bank. Especially after her business took off so quickly. Putting her "best friends" Jane and Elmo through such trama as suspects having the stolen money for such a long time is way too selfish for me. Annie made tons of money, so why keep the money at someone elses peace of mind? I also thought Annie was portrayed as more of a business shrew than a savvey one. I also found it unreal after a one night stand with her coffee supplier, Parker to wait 11 years to get back with him? Even though Annie finally gave the bank its money with interest, ( 12yrs+ later) I don't find this woman anyone I'd care to call "friend". I'm going to try one more book of F.M's and try again. And then again there's always Elizabeth Lowell, Johanna Lindsay, Catherine Coulter and Virgina Henley to keep me in Romance Novels.

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Summary: I was not impressed at all.
Review: This was my first F.M. book and will probably be my last. I thought the story idea was a good one but was not very well developed at all. I don't know Annie any better at the end than I did in the beginning. I thought the dialog was very poorly written and confusing. Instead of back and forth normal conversations, the characters talked in large chunks often asking questions, then answering other's questions, and asking more questions all in the same breath. Most of what was said was pretty corny as well. I am truly disappointed.

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Summary: Not the best...
Review: This was my first Fern Michaels book after hearing people rave about her, and I don't know if this was just a bad one or if all of hers are like this, but ANNIE'S RAINBOW wasn't that great. Fern tries to make Annie an interesting character, but I really didn't care what happened to her. Fern's writing is also a little offbeat. ANNIE'S RAINBOW did have a unique storyline. Don't go spend money on this one; borrow from a friend.

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Summary: Another wonderful Fern Michaels book!
Review: This was such an interesting story I got caught up in it from the first page. What I like about this author's books are the characters because they seem so real. It's like I know them personally. This was one of those "think" books like Finders Keepers. I read it in one sitting and couldn't put it down. I think I would have acted just like Annie. That's what I mean about the characters being so real. This is an other keeper for my shelf.

Olivia Randall