Beautiful Disaster
A Novel
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4.3 • 568 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Now a major motion picture! The “deliciously intense” (USA TODAY) New York Times bestselling phenomenon follows a good girl drawn to a very bad boy...
The new Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn’t drink or swear and has the appropriate number of cardigans in her wardrobe. With the darkness of her past behind her, she believes her freshman year at college is the start of a new beginning. But then she meets Travis Maddox.
Lean, cut, and covered in tattoos, Eastern University’s Walking One-Night Stand is exactly what Abby needs to avoid. Intrigued by her resistance to his appeal, Travis tricks her with a simple bet. If he loses, he must remain abstinent for a month. If Abby loses, she must live in his apartment for the same amount of time. Either way, Travis has no idea that he has met his match in this “beautifully sexy, beautifully intense, and beautifully perfect” (Jessica Park, New York Times bestselling author).
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Love is a wild roller-coaster ride in this rom-com about challenging our assumptions. Seemingly prim and proper Abby left Kansas behind for an education, not a wild fling with an unpredictable bad boy. But she can’t take her eyes off Travis, a motorcycle-riding bare-knuckle fighter with a wild streak and a penchant for one-night stands—who’s surprisingly smart to boot. Abby is disgusted with Travis’ womanizing, and even a bet that lands them in the same apartment for a month can’t change that…at least, at first. We were holding our breath as the friendship between this unlikely pair grew, along with their attraction. Author Jamie McGuire keeps turning up the heat as this torrid and sometimes messy love affair takes on a life of its own. If you want a steamy pageturner that you won’t want to put down, check out Beautiful Disaster.
Customer Reviews
obsessed
my third time reading it, wishing i could read it for the first time again, i’m gonna be honest the movie is incredibly disappointing but i guess that’s how it goes, but the book is great 11/10 would recommend to those who love a good romcom and a main character with an actual backbone.
Meh...
It wasn't great. I liked how the characters were in the beginning of the story and I actually wante dot keep reading. But as it progressed, the characters started to loose their likability (America is awesome throughout though). The characters were not developed very well and jumped from one extreme to the other. The story was ok but also not well developed. Overall, just ok. Having read many stories in the romance genre, this doesn't even break my top 20.
Just plain disaster
I reviewed this book back when it was a free offering on iBooks (or at least certainly not $8.99), but my comments seem to have been deleted. I can NOT believe it is selling at that price. It's poorly written, the story is clumsily constructed, and the characters are annoying at best and dangerous role models at worst. The fight club thing just rang false with college students, and the protagonist doesn't have any character at all. She might as well not even be present for the sex scenes, and the constant threat of violence on the part of the "hero" is, as many women who've been on the receiving end of it know, neither romantic nor empowering. I seriously hope my daughter never makes such maladjusted, spineless decisions about romantic partners. This, like Fifty Shades and its ilk, isn't even good erotica in the BDSM vein, and there are certainly myriad other romance iBooks that cost less and are vastly more rewarding to read. Don't waste your money on this--try some Tina Folsom or Elizabeth Naughton if you want well-done bad boy stories.