The Color of Secrets

Posted on 13 June 2018 by Lindsay Ashford

Everyone has secrets, but some can change your life forever In the midst of the Second World War, Eva receives the devastating news that her husband is missing and presumed dead Neither wife nor widow, she lives in a numb state of limbo until, in the heat of an English summer, she meets Bill, a black American GI Despite their vastly different backgrounds, neither can deny the love that overcomes them in the frantic weeks that follow, when every day could be their last.After Eva discovers she s pregnant, Bill is shipped off to join the D day fight, leaving her alone in a bigoted world As her mixed race daughter, Louisa, grows up, how far will Eva go to keep her safe and bury the past And how far will Louisa go to uncover the truth New Read [ The Color of Secrets ] author [ Lindsay Ashford ] – kino-fada.fr I really wanted to like this book The writing was not terrible and the premise was a bit different than your typical historical fiction set in the 1940s I will try to avoid spoilers, but I found that the author had a tendency to write out characters without really explaining what happened, and killed off others way too easily It was almost as if she did not feel like coming up with a way to resolve the problem and just eliminated someone Most of the personal growth the characters experienced I really wanted to like this book The writing was not terrible and the premise was a bit differen...I loved this family saga set in the midst of the Second World War.Eva learns that her husband, and father of son David, is missing and presumed dead Neither wife nor widow, she lives in a numb state of limbo until, in the heat of an English summer, she meets Bill, a black American GI Despite their vastly different backgrounds, neither can deny th...I found this book at the library after I had had a bad day back in March I went into the library to print out some mailing labels I think and had wandered over to where they had books people donated sitting on shelves that you could buy My eyes landed on the spine of this one had seen it earlier by chance but had no money out at the time to get it Even then, something about this book called to me I put it back on the shelf and forgot all about it t...The premise of this story fascinated me A woman in WWII England, whose husband has been missing, possibly dead for two years, falls for a black American soldier A baby results How does this affect the future generations What happens is when her husband shows up I love a good scandal, especially when it doesn t involve me sheepish grin This one disappointed me though, mainly due to the total lack of love and passion between the heroine and her black GI She s attracted to him instantly, I g The premise of this story fascinated me A woman in WWII England, whose husband has been missing, possibly dead for two years, falls for a black American soldier A baby results How does this affect the future generations What happens is when her husband shows up I love a good scandal, especially when it doesn t involve me sheepish grin This one disappointed me though, mainly due to the total lack of love and passion between the heroine and her black GI She s attracted to him instantly, I got that But it wasa oooh this is so wrong it s hot thing than real attraction at least that s the impression I got They exchange very little information between the two of them before they re doing the horizontal mambo This is not a love affair.After Louisa s birth, some characters begin a...I can t say that I enjoyed this story I was expecting an interracial romance and I got yet another story where the white woman disavowed the black man in the face of tragedy and hardship So I was disappointedI am not going to lie I didn t finish the book I got to 60% of the book before I decided that I had already given it too many chances, and I really didn t care how it was going to end The idea was appealing to me the union of two people with very different background in Britain during the 2nd World War , but in reality the book is nothan a escape fantasy romantic novel gone terrible wrong Spoiler Alert Even from the introduction it s pretty obvious that Eva s husband is not dea I am not going to lie I didn t finish the book I got to 60% of the book before I decided that I had alr...I don t usually write a review for a book I ve stopped reading, but in this case i need to make an exception While the subject matter held possibilities interracial love affair in WWII England i was so gobsmacked at the sheer awfulness of the writing that i had to put it down after 100 pages I wish I could say that it was simply the usual complaint of modern sounding dialogue out of place in historical fiction But not one line in this novel sounded like it would actually be spoken by a huma I don t usually wri...I fell in love with the concept of this book, it had such a romantic vibe from the very start, despite the grim setting of the war And after finishing it in record time, I can only say my infatuation has not faded The Color of Secrets is a stunning novel.Immediately we are immersed in the 1940 s where we meet Eva, our beautiful heroine whose husband is missing in the war, and presumed dead On a spontaneous night out with her sister, she meets Bill, an American GI We witness Eva s real stru I fell in love with the concept of this book, it had such a romantic vibe from the very start, despite the grim setting of the war And after finishing it in record time, I can only say my infatuation has not faded The Color of Secrets is a stunning novel.Immediately we are immersed in the 1940 s where we meet Eva, our beautiful heroine whose husband is missing in the war, and presumed dead On a spontaneous night out with her sister, she meets Bill, an American GI We witness Eva s real struggle with her overwhelming attraction for Bill because of her complicated situation, and the shocking fact that Bill is black a scandal in her small town if there ever was on...Lovely book about the consequences of secrets throughout generations of a family This is a love story of the kind that many experienced during World War II lonely GIs off fighting in a strange country, finding romance with white women, the mixed children that resulted and the search for identity these children undertook and the bigotry they encountered This is a particularly touching story and very well written The secrets that start from fear and shame grow and intertwine the lives of thre Lovely book about the consequences of secrets throughout generations of a family This is a love story of the kind that many experienced during World War II lonely GIs off fighting in a strange country, finding romance with white women, the mixed children that resulted and the search for identity these children undertook and the bigotry they encountered This is a particularly...I really wanted to like this book, because the promised story sounded interesting, but I was totally disappointed The concept itself was promising, but the characters were really shallow and some of them just disappeared through the read without any explanation I believe it ...

13 June 2018

Lindsay Ashford