{"id":21838,"date":"2023-04-01T20:35:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T00:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=21838"},"modified":"2026-03-22T10:24:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T14:24:57","slug":"color-of-you-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/21838","title":{"rendered":"Color of You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/40CvLRY\">Color of You<\/a><\/em> (2017) <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/mystery\/Poe_CS.php\">C.S. Poe<\/a> (A Lancaster Story)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/40CvLRY\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Color-of-You.jpg?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Color of You\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Color-of-You.jpg?w=333&amp;ssl=1 333w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Color-of-You.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHis voice was just so flippin\u2019 gorgeous,\u201d I said, sighing a little. \u201cI\u2019ve never heard an amber voice. It was smooth and flowed like blues music.\u201d Sound-to-color synesthesia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>When you look a certain way, a lot of men expect you to behave the part. Society had been pressuring me to act submissive to fit my non-alpha-guy appearance since I was a teenager.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The one thing that had actually been disconcerting was the knowledge that Felix felt it necessary to turn down a date because of how he perceived himself. Those scars. Like they somehow made him unworthy of my attention or interest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Publisher: Emporium Press<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Color of You (2017) C.S. Poe (A Lancaster Story) \u201cHis voice was just so flippin\u2019 gorgeous,\u201d I said, sighing a little. \u201cI\u2019ve never heard an amber voice. It was smooth and flowed like blues music.\u201d Sound-to-color synesthesia. When you look a certain way, a lot of men expect you to behave the part. Society had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[194,668,292,8,196,148,41,26,56],"tags":[50,180,544],"class_list":["post-21838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-5-10","category-comfort-read","category-ebook","category-mystery","category-novella","category-queer","category-reread","category-romance","category-sexual-content","tag-boinking","tag-c-s-poe","tag-mm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-5Ge","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13298,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/13298","url_meta":{"origin":21838,"position":0},"title":"Color of You","author":"Michelle","date":"July 12, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Color of You (2017) C.S. 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