Fel­low readers, are you ready to read a good romance?  With smok­ing hot chem­istry? About two peo­ple who come from two com­pletely dif­fer­ent worlds?  Let me rec­om­mend to you my fel­low read­ers, The Color of Love by San­dra Kitt. It’s an old favorite of mine that I’ve reread maybe, about a mil­lion times. I’ve read quite a few books from Ms. Kitt’s back­list. San­dra Kitt is a pretty solid writer. Her books used to get dis­cussed quite a bit in threads from read­ers look­ing for mul­ti­cul­tural romances.

Here is the plot sum­mary for you to review:

Leah Downey was a bril­liant young com­mer­cial artist mov­ing up fast on the Man­hat­tan career track. Jason Horn was a street-smart cop get­ting over a nasty divorce and an even more ago­niz­ing per­sonal tragedy. All the odds said they would never meet. But they did. Every­one they knew said they should break it off before they went too far. But they didn’t. Even though every­thing about them was dif­fer­ent… their pasts… their jobs… their worlds… and the color of their skin.…

I thought the con­flicts that Leah and Jason faced were the usual stuff. Her black friends and fam­ily didn’t care for her dat­ing a white guy and Jason’s cop  friend, who hap­pens to be black, doesn’t approve of him dat­ing a black woman. How they meet is very touch­ing and emo­tional. Jason had just lost his son and he was feel­ing vul­ner­a­ble the morn­ing Leah notices him on her step stool and offers him a cup of cofee. This brief exchange leads to a unlikely romance between two peo­ple who weren’t look­ing for a relationship. 

The author makes you feel as if fate brought these two wounded souls together. Both share a his­tory of hav­ing per­sonal tragedies in their life. The author addresses most of the typ­i­cal stereo­types of inter­ra­cial rela­tion­ships in a mat­ter of fact way. The stares, the com­ments, so on and so forth was noth­ing that was new or sur­pris­ing in how soci­ety views their rela­tion­ship. I was just men­tally check­ing each one off and was happy when the cou­ple addressed those issues and moved past it.  There is a sub­plot out­side the romance that is some­what sus­pense­ful. I won’t elab­o­rate fur­ther to spoil to your enjoy­ment if you decide to read this book.

What I love about this book is that the author makes you see beyond race.  What you see is two peo­ple who really care about each other. This book had many excel­lent points going for it: solid char­ac­ter­i­za­tion, great dia­logue, great plot, great chem­istry. Excel­lent chem­istry. Plus I love heroes who are cops. I was very engaged in this story. The end­ing is a bit too neat but then that’s romance and my only com­plaint. My grade, A. Excel­lent romance. This one romance that should not be missed. Go read it. Note: This book is out of print. Check your used book­store for a copy. Last I checked there were 6 used copies at Ama​zon​.com.

African Amer­i­can Survey

I know I am late in relay­ing this infor­ma­tion but if your an AA author, Karen S is putting together a sur­vey. She would really like to hear from you. As a reader, I am very inter­ested in her results. So, go. Do her survey.

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