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Girls Love Travis Walker (2013)

by Anne Pfeffer(Favorite Author)

3.82 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1483956962 (ISBN13: 9781483956961)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Createspace

review 1: Nineteen-year-old Travis has that charm that women find irresistible but sexy isn’t everything; his father’s a jailed felon, his mother a deadbeat, and they’re about to be evicted from their crummy apartment. Work is messing with his schooling. Travis is an amoral love ‘em and leave ‘em kind of guy who suddenly becomes rather confused when he meets a gal who can resist his charms. But the past has a habit of catching up with one. How does he persuade this gal he wants more than a roll in the hay with her? In the meantime he needs to finish school and find a permanent job before he faces life on the street. I keep reminding myself that this book was written by a woman. There is a great deal more here than a high school romance. My only complaint is that the storyl... moreine wraps up in a supposed happy ending all too quickly and easily. Life isn’t that simple and generally doesn’t come with fairytale endings.
review 2: "No way out."“If you fail, it’ll be your own damn fault!”Girls Love Travis Walker - what story do you expect with such a title? If you expect an easy romance in which a heartbreaker guy will find his match, you're wrong. This is the second book when the title tricks me, but luckily, I liked both books one more than the other.Travis, contrary to the image that he puts up, is not the usual lady’s man type, without a care, not even the one about finding out who will be his next victim. Yes, he is a no strings attached lover, but he is fair and honest with his conquests that should know from the beginning how it works. What not many people know or rather almost nobody know, are the problems he has to face. Problems that he needs to cope alone. Why alone? Because here, the pride and the prejudice have completely different faces and applications. Travis is a fighter, but he is too young for what life has merciless booked for him, trials that could kneel and despair even an adult."I would have to suck it up and stay alive."Thus, contrary to what you could think such title would bring, we will get Travis’ forced maturation. He fights to exhaustion, but in spite of everything he does, his successes are temporary and seem insignificant. All that he prevails is destroyed by the previous decisions, decisions that at their making not only seemed to be the best solution, but truly the only one. His thoughts are sincere, his judgment appropriate to his condition. The author manages to convey very well Travis’ evolution. As his physical beauty and the attractive way that he acts were declared from the beginning of the story, the reader will discover step by step his inner beauty. Young Travis is still attracted to the "needs" of his age, to the desire to have fun. The heaviness of these desires (and how he wants to meet them) gradually changes in his mind and this change occurs naturally. In fact, the naturalness, the credibility of everything that happens along with author’s style and sensibility, is one of the trumps of the story. All that it happens (to him), the exponential afflux of his problems and the growth despair are possible in the real world and there is not even a moment for you to feel that something is exaggerated.“When I first saw you, I thought you were both the handsomest and the saddest boy I’d ever seen.”In the same time with his “social” story, it takes place Travis's love story. A love story that starts not at first sight, on the contrary, but one in which the feelings grow up and acquire solid foundations. The romance doesn’t lack of ups and downs given the reality of Travis; as I said, the pride and prejudice have here other applications and effects.In addition, wreathed in an appealing story, the author manages to make a subtle social critique and to give, without being in any way intrusive, some tips regarding our day young people's lives and their mores. Who knows how to read will find enough aspects to consider for their future decisions.The story flows smoothly, but like a river that receives tributaries and whose bed is in danger of no longer support the flow and it will have to bite the banks. And the banks are in fact parts of the soul and even of the body of Travis. There is a crescendo, there is a desperately climax and a denouement that can be ... any.The duty, pride, love, prejudice and fear of it, the desperation and a poor, poor hope will be the coordinates of the life of the one that all the girls love.I liked it? Certainly. Do I recommend it to you? Of course!"Fall down seven times, get up eight." less

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