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Book Review: Walking Disaster – Jamie McGuire

Posted on May 20, 2014 | Leave a comment

Published April 2nd 2013 by Atria Books

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Walking Disaster narrated everything that happened in Beautiful Disaster but this time, it was told from Travis perspective. Both books are nearly identical (except for this book’s epilogue) so if you want to start reading the series – you can start with either although I highly suggest you start with Beautiful Disaster.

I actually find Travis’s perspective more interesting than Abby’s ( although I was totally raving about the first book after reading it). Here, we see everything through the mind of Travis and his rough, bad-ass boy facade. And of-course, we don’t have Abby’s quite annoying habit of being stupid. It’s also a given that we see more of the Maddox Family – learn more about them especially the things that made them stronger. In this book, you will also discover the history behind Pigeon (Travis’s nickname to Abby).

You see, I’ve raved about Beautiful Disaster like crazy but If I’ve read this one first, I think I will find this much more fun. As interesting as it was, it gets kinda repetitive but I still enjoyed it. So if you’re like uber-addicted now with these two – you better get a copy of this book.

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

Book Review: Beautiful Disaster – Jamie McGuire

Posted on May 19, 2014 | 1 comment

Published May 26th 2011 by Jamie McGuire

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Can I just tell you guys how I totally adore this book? I’ve read it non-stop in a day and I just couldn’t get over it – not just yet. The story was narrated by Abby Abernathy as a freshman college student in a new place and finding herself getting involved with Travis Maddox – a guy who’s everything that she was trying to escape from her past.

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 wants—and needs—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

Travis is such a character. He’s very relatable, funny, charming, romantic and obnoxious at times. He’s what “realistic- boyfriend characters” are made of. Abby Abernathy on the other hand was a very annoying biatch. Don’t get me wrong though, I loved her character but most of the times – she’s borderline annoying because she’s so dense! At some point of the book I’m like, “WTF? Do you even have a brain girl?” I gotta love her back-story though but ‘am quite disappointed that that part of the book was way too short.

The story was almost on a normal scale – reality wise. The secondary characters are also well-written. The most exciting amongst them are the Maddox Brothers themselves (which I’ve already know that a book was about to be released starting with Trenton! Yay!)

This was overall a very good read. It was mostly romantic that sometimes its borderline cheesy but hey when it comes to the business of love, who isn’t?

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars