Review: Definitely His Type
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 27, 2013
This was an amazing, emotional, tear-inducing romance. And it definitely lives up to the series title.Brooke and Travis are definitely complete opposites of each other--she's chaotic and he's orderly; she's almost always in a hurry and he's totally mellow; she's so self-conscious and he's so confident--that I wondered, from the very beginning, how they could possibly fall for each other.And, yet, they did.This book is simply overflowing with emotions. Brooke's inability to see how beautiful she is, is made painfully evident throughout the story. Her lack of confidence in herself (as a person and as a woman worthy of a man's love) is warranted by a past that, honestly, was so damaging I couldn't help but hope and pray that she would be able to move past it by the end of the book. Travis' insistence, to anyone who cared to believe him, that he was simply being a good neighbor, a good friend, a good pseudo-big brother was genuine...but only at first. His continued denial that Brooke could possibly be more than a friend wasn't lost on anyone, and it wasn't long before I was wishing I could smack him so he could see what was right in front of him: the one woman he couldn't live without.And I absolutely loved three specific things about this story: the depth of emotions and character personalities, the characters' devotion to Christianity, and that Christians aren't without normal reactions. Ms. Crane did a superb job of weaving in Christianity without it being overwhelming, of showing that a God-fearing man can lust after a woman, and that it is possible for that man to walk away before the situation was beyond either of their control. That Travis' brain went straight to the gutter after one of Brooke's innocent remarks made him much more real and relative for me.After all, readers should connect with the author on some level, at some point.Thank you, Ms. Crane, for writing such a fantastic sweet Romance. This is a story I will definitely read again, share, and recommend.