Review: True Colours
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 04 28, 2013
I gave this story 1 star because I am giving the author recognition for a well-meaning, potentially good idea for a story.  That said, it was a very poorly executed story.  It is a terrible HEA; it has some potential as a crime story; however, no mystery crime story.  This story reminded me of a soap opera; perhaps the author is in the wrong business?This is a story about 2 h and 2 H; Alex and Sebastian and Caroline and Peter.  The author gave both sets of character's equal weight and did a poor job of character and story development.  The author  made Alex, who is a successful business woman and Sebastian, who is a venture capitalist, unable to have a simple conversation about the reason why they broke up when they were teenagers.  The author then spends the rest of the book with the h hinting at their relationship and angst, angst and more angst and displaced anger.  To me, this did not invite reader investment in the character.This author then spends approximately the entire book;  96% of the book, avoiding this conversation and spends 4 % of the book creating this conversation and an instantaneously HEA. Seriously?  Really?  In addition, the author spends approximately 1/3 of the book waxing on about interior design and architecture, blah, blah, blah....I was bored and skipped through many of her descriptions.  Some description would be appropriate;  however, this was overkill.  This does not leave room for a thoughtful development of the characters, which allowed for reader investment into the story.Now I see that the author is thinking about writing a sequel about Caroline and Peter.  Does the author really believe that once reading about Caroline a  cheating, vain, self-absorbed, egotistic,  selfish character and Peter a potential psychopath, that a sequel would be  enjoyable?  I think this author needs to go back to drawing table and start all over again.