Becca Danvers worked hard to transform both her looks and her inner self. After too many years of shapeless dresses and staring at her shoes, Becca's learned to keep her chin up and nails manicured. But when the town's bad boy Colt Bonner returns to town, she feels too much like that child she tried to leave behind. Unfortunately, when she left behind the shapeless dresses, Becca also left behind her dreams, her stories, and her fantasies. When they were kids, it was the imaginative stories that kept Becca and Colt going in spite of the pain inflicted by their respective abusive parents. While Becca forgot those stories told long ago, Colt has never forgotten.
Colt's first line of defense is his anger. If he were honest, his anger is really directed at himself for spending too many years trying to overcome the legacy of the past. He heard of his father's death only minutes before getting on the back of a bull, and the subsequent accident threatens his ability to continue his career. Another bad fall like this one could put him in a wheelchair. He damns his father for dying before he could see Colt break his record. He couldn't return three months ago for his father's funeral, and now Colt plans to stay at his father's ramshackle house while he's still healing from the accident, and just long enough to spruce the house up so it will sell.
Until both Becca and Colt can reconcile the past, however, neither can have the future they each long for. Their struggle with inner demons, learning to be angry and to handle justifiable and necessary anger, gives THAT KIND OF GIRL a special pizzazz. While the plot is a bit slow getting started, the remarkable character growth in the second half of the novel rescues it from mundane and pushes it toward extraordinary. As the heroine wrestles with the past, gaining a fresh honest look at the mother she'd rather forget, the reader can't help but be caught up in her struggles. The mirror image, the hero's struggles with his father, reveals the incredible differences between the way men and women choose to remember and forget the past. Indeed, author Kim McKade's talent for characterizations makes THAT KIND OF GIRL a wonderful read. Highly recommended.
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- Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2001
