Glass Ceiling

Rating:
Summary: Romance...
Review: Jane Walker does not recognize the glass ceiling as defeat. She intends to make it an opportunity. She hires an unorthodox consultant to help her achieve success in the import business.

Robert Sinclair likes to leaven his work with play. Whether its Blues or Bach, he finds ways to enjoy life. This attitude challenges Jane as they arrange a buying trip to East Africa.

Before their journey is over, Jane discovers unfamiliar emotional territory. She must learn that some barriers to achievement exist within, that happiness does not depend on perfect solutions, and that true success must satisfy the heart as well as the head.

Rating:
Summary: Me Jane, You Tarzan
Review: Why do guys read romance novels? Well, this didn't look like a romance novel and I was about 50 pages in when I figured it out.
So what to do? I know what's going to happen, so how will the
author get there?

Set mostly in Seattle (placing jazz at a Queen Anne Hill bistro that's never heard of jazz) the novel has the usual amount of deceit, et cetera, and the men all wear hats that are either very, very white or very, very black.

But the major shortcoming of this book is that the central character, Jane, sounds much more interesting than the author lets her become. Putting all the good lines into the mouth of her anima "Kate", the author makes the Jane character the colorless victim of events around her.

It's an acceptable first novel, but I hope to hear more from Jane next time out.