Beautiful Disaster - Jamie Mcguire - Book review

RATE:★★

Pages:400

Author: Jamie Mcguire

Published: August 2012

The new Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn’t drink or swear, and she has the appropriate number of cardigans in her wardrobe. Abby believes she has enough distance from the darkness of her past, but when she arrives at college with her best friend, her path to a new beginning is quickly challenged by Eastern University's Walking One-Night Stand.

Travis Maddox, lean, cut, and covered in tattoos, is exactly what Abby needs—and wants—to avoid. He spends his nights winning money in a floating fight ring, and his days as the ultimate college campus charmer. Intrigued by Abby’s resistance to his appeal, Travis tricks her into his daily life with a simple bet. If he loses, he must remain abstinent for a month. If Abby loses, she must live in Travis’s apartment for the same amount of time. Either way, Travis has no idea that he has met his match.


I have just finished the book and I am just writing what's in my head.....Spoilers...


When I started this book it was a solid 5 star. I would say about the first 80 pages I enjoyed. Then it slowly started getting bad from 4 star and then 3 star and after I finished the book that's when I started really thinking about what I had read and that's why it's a two star.

I don't know where to start....Let me give praise to the author for bringing out a lot of emotions from me, they were frustration, anger, being annoyed and enjoyment at the beginning.

But I also think to myself that either she is brilliant that wrote this fictional relationship that is so dysfunctional or

The author is insane; I thought she was insane....Like reallly.

Spoilers.

Let's talk about Travis, he is CRAZY, to me he isn't hot, sexy but I imagined this BIG guy who thought he could do anything or control her. Like when he broke everything in his house because she was leaving and when he cried and made a scene in the cafeteria and his violence. It's not romantic but it's abusive. And somehow Abby would find herself in trouble and need him to fight her battles...It was too much...Like she couldn't talk to any guys at all.

Parker, I liked him, at first they made parker seem like a spoilt brat who was boring but Travis is toooo much, too me in the end he was needy, desperate and sad....that's not sexy or attractive. No. I also felt sorry for Parker in the end because he took her out for dinner as friends and here comes Travis saying come to my fight and she leaves Parker…Like how rude. Honestly, and then she gets mad after.

Abby, I hated her in the end, the way she forgave him like that was annoying because if you have an argument with someone it is a bit weird in the beginning after making up and then you work it out but they just bushed it under and acted like everything was normal. It annoyed me.

America and Shep they broke up and they made up in a club where each guy that would dance with Abby Travis would pull away and threaten...even though they were not together....like really who does that.

Ohmy gosh, what annoyed me was she had this bet with him and so they slept in the same bed and she was going on dates with Parker. Who does that, Parker is stupid for even trying and if she even liked him she should have gone home. Second after they broke up he said to her "oh, you promised you would cook turkey for my family." Something like that and then she actually went to pretend to still be with him to cook turkey and guess what happened after....ew. She could have easily said no.

Another thing was how they felt like they were royalty because somehow the whole college was surrounded around their relationship.....like who gives a fuck....it was too much.

I had to force myself to finish this book, it was that annoying.. But the ending was as disappointing as the book.
The problem I think for me here was that the author tried to make the fact that Travis was a hot guy who ran through girls like a train something special because he didn’t see her as one night stand because she said no to him. So they had to prove their love because they went through the fire’s, the mob, parker and violence but they still ended up happily ever after but it was simply Tooo much love that it was crazy, insane and scary….Like she needed a restraining order scary.

If it was me I would have gotten her to break up with him for good and maybe meet a good boy who isn't so messed up.

That relationship isn't healthy at all and I couldn't be in a relationship with someone with so many mental problems. Travis needs help. That would also be my alternative ending.

This book is messed up. That's all.