Summer time is for romance so before I left for my long summer vacation (benefit of being on maternity leave) I spent some time on goodreads looking for something good and I stumbled upon “Beautiful Disaster” by Jamie McGuire.
From Goodreads:
The new Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn’t drink or swear, and she has the appropriate percentage of cardigans in her wardrobe. Abby believes she has enough distance between her and the darkness of her past, but when she arrives at college with her best friend America, 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 charming college co-ed. Intrigued by Abby’s resistance to his charms, 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’ apartment for the same amount of time. Either way, Travis has no idea that he has met his match.
“This book is like crack” says Torie on Goodreads and I can’t agree more.
It’s not healthy for you (and you know it) but it’s impossible to stay away until it’s OVER .
Everything about this story is really quite absurd, not that I have anything against this per sè but while reading Beautiful Disaster I wasn’t feeling good about myself and especially about feeding my brain with this material, it can’t be good and yet it’s very good and juicy in all the right places.
Travis Maddox is uber sexy, fully aware of his hotness, a fighter who wants to major in criminal law, one of those “larger than life” character, nothing is subtle about his personality and I usually don’t like this sort of hero (the sort that always behaves as expected, the two-dimensional hero) but somehow you can’t help sympthazing for Travis .
Abby Abernathy is supposed to display some kind of complexity, truth is I found her quite annoying.
Beautiful Disaster isn’t a character-driven novel, it’s a relationship-driven novel and considering how many contradictions you can find in this story I will say that the title is PERFECT.
So why did I recommend this book in my previous post (a mention that intrigued Janicu who after came up with her review … do yourself a favor and read it!)?
I do think that if you have to spend a few hours on a flight or waiting in a doctor’s hall Beautiful Disaster will distract you completely, if you are feeling bored it will surely help to ease the feeling (more like dissipating it) , it’s juicy.
Your brain won’t like it but your guts will appreciate it so there must be something good in here 🙂
Em
Emily and Her Little Pink Notes 
Yup, what you said. 🙂
Oof, I am so glad they changed the cover to one of a butterfly in a jar (that’s the cover of the one I downloaded). The tongue one is creeping me out a bit.
ha! I love your review and completely agree. The entire time I was reading it I was like “WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME? I LOVE THIS!”
The cover freaks. me. out. it is so terrible.
I read the book this morning and couldn’t agree more. I shouldn’t have enjoyed the book so much but I did. All the weird, messed up, over the top things worked for me in a great way.
Btw, I love the cover. It’s messy and weird, just like the story.