Capture His Heart: Becoming the Godly Wife Your Husband Desires

Rating:
Summary: Disappointing
Review: My difficulties with this book may be due to the high expectations I had before reading it. The material is interesting but provides nothing we haven't heard before. It is based primarily on opinion and personal experience that cannot be generalized to the unique situations of others.

Rating:
Summary: Disappointing
Review: This was a good book, but could have been better. It is a good, but simplistic look at the needs and desires of a man, written for a woman. I bought this book for my wife, and the companion book "Capture Her Heart" for me. I found the latter book (for men about their wives' desires) to be outstanding and convicting, and hoped that the insights in this book (for women about their husbands' desires) to be equally outstanding and convicting for my wife.

The only flaw in the book is the author's praise for her own husband. In more than one place she describes the wife's need to be graceful in some area toward her husband, but then softens it with some remark about her own wonderful husband. Very subtley, it seems she uses her own relationship with her husband to note the desires of men, but then (as if knowing her husband will be reading the book more closely than others) comments about his goodness in this or that area. Why would wives (who are often overly critical toward their own husbands) need another see-why-aren't-you-more-like-that-guy example?

The only other minor criticism is that it would have been nice to have seen a more thorough list (even if not fully developed in the book) of the other deep needs and desires of men.

But this should not keep anyone from this very good book. It has a couple of major plusses. Offsetting what I have said is somewhat lacking (more thorough lists of surveyed men commenting on what they would truly need and want from their wives) is the benefit of having a nice, short book on the topic. So many relationship books tend to be so windy and dense that readers wanting some quick (but important) pointers may be discouraged. This book is short and can easily be read in one sitting (although the author discourages it for good reason). And although I feel the message to women could be more clear in places as noted, it still covers the bases in a helpful way.

I'd recommend this one. There seem to be twenty books about a wife's needs and desires, written to men, for every one book about a husband's needs and desires, written to women. I think this fills a needed void. I would also recommend to women (and men) John Eldredge's Wild at Heart. It also does not cover the list of how-to-please your husband topics, but does raise new points very well for most women to know thier husbands much, much better.

Rating:
Summary: Missing Some Keys
Review: This was a good book, but could have been better. It is a good, but simplistic look at the needs and desires of a man, written for a woman. I bought this book for my wife, and the companion book "Capture Her Heart" for me. I found the latter book (for men about their wives' desires) to be outstanding and convicting, and hoped that the insights in this book (for women about their husbands' desires) to be equally outstanding and convicting for my wife.

The only flaw in the book is the author's praise for her own husband. In more than one place she describes the wife's need to be graceful in some area toward her husband, but then softens it with some remark about her own wonderful husband. Very subtley, it seems she uses her own relationship with her husband to note the desires of men, but then (as if knowing her husband will be reading the book more closely than others) comments about his goodness in this or that area. Why would wives (who are often overly critical toward their own husbands) need another see-why-aren't-you-more-like-that-guy example?

The only other minor criticism is that it would have been nice to have seen a more thorough list (even if not fully developed in the book) of the other deep needs and desires of men.

But this should not keep anyone from this very good book. It has a couple of major plusses. Offsetting what I have said is somewhat lacking (more thorough lists of surveyed men commenting on what they would truly need and want from their wives) is the benefit of having a nice, short book on the topic. So many relationship books tend to be so windy and dense that readers wanting some quick (but important) pointers may be discouraged. This book is short and can easily be read in one sitting (although the author discourages it for good reason). And although I feel the message to women could be more clear in places as noted, it still covers the bases in a helpful way.

I'd recommend this one. There seem to be twenty books about a wife's needs and desires, written to men, for every one book about a husband's needs and desires, written to women. I think this fills a needed void. I would also recommend to women (and men) John Eldredge's Wild at Heart. It also does not cover the list of how-to-please your husband topics, but does raise new points very well for most women to know thier husbands much, much better.