by Rosalyn McMillan
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A brutal struggle for power in the manipulative automobile industry pits white collar against blue collar. Champion Motors is shutting down plants and laying off their workers. Tensions are mounting and violence is erupting. Thyme Tyler, a beautiful black plant manager, is once again passed over for a promotion at Champion despite a Ph.D. and four faultless years of job performance. She is finally ready to claim a case of discrimination despite her white husband's admonitions. Khan Davis is Thyme's friend, a bright young blue collar worker at Champion. Khan's job is threatened by downsizing and her millionaire fiance has just married someone else without so much as a good-bye. The lack of lucrative overtime to go around and a fatal attraction between employees at the plant ends in murder. Khan is forced to choose sides between her friend Thyme and the solidarity of her fellow workers. Life altering secrets, pride, ambition, and lust drive these characters to grab what they can from life -- before the upheaval promises to change their relationships forever.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
 Don't Be Fooled--Not Really IR, 2006-07-13
If you are looking for a BWWM IR book with a HEA ending, this is NOT the book to buy. As a matter of fact, as I was reading this book, I got the not so subtle hint that the author (or her characters) were decidedly against IR relationships. I can't say I enjoyed this book. The marriage between the BWWM (secondary characters) ended in disaster--he was or had been maintaining a double life for many, many years while they were married. When "stuff" hit the fan, the relationship had nowhere else to go but down the drain. Not my favorite cup of tea.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 Informative Handbook, 2001-11-10
This book was more like an informative handbook at times, schooling readers on the ups and downs of working in the auto industry. The manipultive things going on were relative of just about any job and to that I could relate. I didn't like how the author jumped from a variety of characters. It was confusing at times and caused the book to lose focus. There was just too much going on, I guess. In any case, Rosalyn has a magical way of keeping readers interested in a book that if was written by anyone else would be a total flop.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 Bluesin', 2001-04-02
When I bought this book, I had no idea that this was Terry's sister. They certainly have different styles of writing. From other reviews or other books, I see she has a huge following. Maybe I need to read one of her other books. This one was okay, but I found it difficult to like, let alone care, for the main character. It has some very good parts to it, but the details about the auto industry just bored me to death. I suppose for those who live and work it, it was right on point. For those of us in the rest of the country, it was like okay, okay, okay, can we get back to the story at hand? However, it did have some nice twist near the end of the book.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
It's all in how the shirt is made., 2001-02-06
BLUE COLLAR BLUES had a lot of interesting moments, however, because of the technical aspects of the automobile industry, it slowed me down. The characters were slightly one-dimensional and there were moments where it seemed like I was reading a dime-store romance novel, due to the dialogue between certain characters. It also seemed to have spasms of time displacement. Certain pivotal scenes took place between chapters (sometimes between paragraphs) that the author had to inform the reader about because it wasn't inserted within the the story. It was a little like QUANTUM LEAP. Although this novel didn't affect me like ONE BETTER, it still had enough to offer.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Dumb, Dumb, Dumb, 2000-11-21
Unsympathetic, underdeveloped characters. Unrealistic and inaccurately portrayed situations. Flat, undescriptive, poorly written and seemingly unedited prose. This book read like its own first draft. Don't waste your time or your money.
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