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Title: Color Me Jazzmyne

Author: Marian L. Thomas

Narrator: Lucinda Gainey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-29-09

Publisher: Hudson Audio Publishing

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Rape is often the "hush" word in our society, and yet Naya Mona opens her voice through the pages of Color Me Jazzmyne and allows each listener to hear her pain, feel her emotions, and understand the journey she takes as she confronts a son she never got a chance to name.

How do you tell your son that your father is his? How do you explain what color is Jazzmyne? When a father's touch is no longer innocent, how do you find the strength to push past the pain? These are the questions that will face Naya, these are the questions she will answer each time she steps on the stage and becomes Jazzmyne, the Jazz Singer.

Critic Reviews:

"Color Me Jazzmyne" is an unconventional, yet fascinating first novel by Marian L. Thomas. A true reading pleasure. The book is written in a kind of free flow, stream of consciousness style that one can hear her melody singing through the pages." (Jeneke Lesak for RebeccasReads)

"Color Me Jazzmyne is a book that every woman ought to read at least once. Through the eyes and voice of Naya Mona, author Marian Thomas has given readers the opportunity to do some introspective thinking while reading about challenges that make us who we are today." (Carol Hoyer, PhD, Reader Views)

Members Reviews:

great beginning

I recently had the opportunity to participate in a book discussion with the author, Marian L. Thomas; therefore I purposely waited to review the book before reviewing. I had never before heard of this great storyteller (who by the way only writes clean fiction, which is quite admirable). My first thought was to give the book a four, simply because there were so many unanswered questions and I was disappointed in the way the story left me hanging. But after learning how this story was conceived and first written when the author was a teen and that it's the beginning of a sequel, I immediately found hope and downloaded "My Father's Colors," book two. Readers, I think you will love this book. It's difficult and dark, yet offers light in the unexpected.

Great plot!

I thought the plot was great. The subject of child abuse and incest may seem like it has been flogged by the media but considering how evil it is and how much damage and havoc it wreaks in the lives of those involved, it deserves continued attention in my opinion. Sub plots focusing on the music industry and how it is not for the faint at heart or the naive were also quite welcome. All in all, thumbs up for the story-line.

That being said, the narrative style did not really work for me. While I felt like Naya Mona was speaking to me and I felt that connection somewhat, I did not feel a connection between her and the other characters. The narrative style is said to be the least engaging writing style and I guess this rang true for me in this case. It was telling rather than showing is how it came across to me and I felt it took away from it. I didn't have to deduce anything from watching it unfold because I was being told. But then again, that's just me, a non-poetic person. Now, if that was a movie script in which it would fade from her talking to actually showing scenes of what happened inbetween, that would be perfect for me.

However, I would still love to read the sequel but I hope it is not written in the exact same style. I hope it's a story and not a narration of a story.

Heartfelt

I definitely felt the pain of Naya Mona.