Hello lovelies long time no blog.
I'm not even going to begin to apologize for my lack of posting but I'm back now so let's forgive me for this long overdue post!
So I just literally finished the book "Beautiful Disaster" by Jamie McGuire. Holy smokes this book was Ahhhhh---Mazing. I would easily give it 5/5 stars. I purchased this book on Amazon for my Kindle for 7.59. Now you may be thinking that's a bit pricey, and normally I'd agree, but this book is worth every penny! It's 404 pages long so you're getting WAY more than you paid for. I'm going to run through a few of the things I LOVED about the book and some of the things I wasn't crazy about (I'm also writing this post because my friends and I decided the other day that we wanted to start a book club and this is the first book we'll be reading and i needed a place to jot down my notes).
Things I loved:
- Abby and Travis's relationship. Although to many they were a disaster, something about them just made you want to root for them. It didn't matter if you knew that they physically could not be together, you were still somehow pulling for them. For example, travis is known on campus for being the raining one-night-stand champ, yet once he meets Abby he's willing to completely change his life for her. Even though at times Travis is a bit possessive and obsessive of Abby, I still somehow loved him and could only hope for a Travis Maddox of my own.
- The writing: I loved how Jamie McGuire wrote this book. I could not put this book down. I'm normally someone who values their sleep and I was seriously considering pulling an all nighter because I wanted/needed to know how this book was going to end. Even when I went to work today I couldn't stop talking about this book. For me any book that you can't put down is easily a 5 star kind of book!
- Conflict. Spoilers................................................................................. Even though you know every book has a point where something has to go wrong, this book had so many twists and turns you weren't sure what was going to be the breaking point for this relationship. Just when I thought Travis couldn't do anything else to piss off Abby, he does it.
Things I didn't love:
- The typos. The book had a decent amount of typos, which always annoys me. I'm not perfect, but if you're charging someone to purchase a book, I would think that the publishers would have been able to pick up on some of those typos. One of these days I'm going to highlight every typo in a book and send if back to the author, free of charge just to show how an average person can pick up on these mistakes. I wouldn't mind if some of these authors would send me the manuscripts a head of time, just so I could help them!
- The violence. Travis is a bad boy who partakes in an underground fighting ring. Clearly Travis has anger management issues, but he's always fighting someone and always beating their face into a bloody pulp. Sometimes the violence seems justified, but other times not so much.
Like I mentioned about I loved this book. I would definitely recommend it and would re-read it. In April ,Jamie McGuire will be releasing the same story from Travis's perspective which I'm interested in reading called Walking Disaster. I think the next book will be reading is 10 years later by Hoda Kotb
Until next time......
