Beautiful Disaster: A Novel Author: Visit Amazon's Jamie McGuire Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1476712042 | Format: EPUB
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"
Beautiful Disaster is insanely addictive. Beautifully sexy, beautifully intense, and beautifully perfect. Jamie McGuire has written a damn good book." —Jessica Park, author of
New York Times bestseller
Flat-Out Love"Characters, backstory, goals, motivations and conflicts are a great mix of angst, crippling inner demons and harsh real life. The pace has a rhythmic beat of two steps forward, four steps back as Abby and Travis grapple with their fierce attraction. Jamie McGuire writes with no holds barred. She writes with honest reflection on young people who move through life by their own rules...The entire cast lives hard, fights hard, and certainly loves hard. Deliciously intense." (
USA Today)
About the Author
Jamie McGuire is the
New York Times bestselling author of
Red Hill, Walking Disaster, Beautiful Disaster, and
The Providence trilogy. She and her husband, Jeff, live with their children just outside Enid, Oklahoma, with three dogs, six horses, and a cat named Rooster. Please visit JamieMcGuire.com
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- Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: Atria Books (August 14, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1476712042
- ISBN-13: 978-1476712048
- Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 1.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
This book is not for me. Now, I realize that I am in the minority here, because if you look on Goodreads, over 1400 people gave this novel five stars and absolutely loved it, but I'm not one of them. This just goes to show that different people like different things; we all have different tastes, and that's okay, because it makes us unique. I may love a novel that my best friend absolutely hates, and vice versa, but that doesn't mean either of us is wrong, only that we have different likes and dislikes, different opinions. That being said, I really didn't care for this novel. In fact, it really turned me off, mainly because I know someone just like Travis Maddox, I've been in Abby's shoes, and it's not a pretty thing--it doesn't end well. I think I spent a majority of this novel sitting there yelling at Abby to get the heck out of there, and for Travis to get some therapy. I know, it sounds terrible, but Travis is so unhinged, physically destroying things when he doesn't get his way, that it was nerve-wracking to read about. I felt like Abby was in danger throughout the entire novel, and even though things turn out okay, anyone as needy as Travis is dangerous, in my opinion, especially when alcohol is in the mix.
Abby is trying to outrun her past, but in the end she seems to be right back where she started, making bad decisions and throwing in her lot with someone who I, personally, don't think is the best person to hang around. Yes, this is fictitious, and McGuire has tailored her story to go a certain way, making it almost fairy tale like in the end, but I felt like it was unrealistic, mostly based on my own personal experiences with my own Travis Maddox, so my bias tainted my reading of this novel.
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No, no I will not start this off with a memorable quote or particularly witty comment from the book because besides the fact that there is nothing remotely memorable or witty in this book I will not give it the satisfaction. I am sorry and must make a disclaimer here. As a rule, I am not mean about books, I do not enjoy being rude about another person's work but this book I could not let slide. Preview: I found it offensive, degrading and overall a complete slap in the face to women everywhere which is why I will be so heated in my thoughts on this. I read this book roughly a week and a half ago and I am still enraged that I wasted my time. In fact, the more I think about it the angrier I get because I know people who love this book and that fact alone gives me the urge to go into a blind rage.
Anyways, I will write this and let out all my aggression and then be done thinking about this. WARNING: SPOILERS HERE...YOU'VE BEEN WARNED.
This book has so many things wrong with it I do not know where to begin so to summarize; Abby is a freshman at college, Travis is a sophomore and the resident guy who sleeps with everyone on campus. He fights in an underground fighting club where he beats the living daylights out of random other students for money. Classy guy already, right? So Abby is best friends with America who is dating Travis's cousin/roommate Shep, thus they meet and for some unknown reason after banging 90% of the student body he becomes enthralled with Abby who is immune to his, erm, charms? She tries to fend him off in a complete mature and rational way...when she sees him she purposely wears pajamas, no makeup and glasses...um, ok?
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