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Beautiful Disaster: A Novel [Kindle Edition]

Jamie McGuire
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3,495 customer reviews)

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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 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.


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"Beautiful Disaster is insanely addictive. Beautifully sexy, beautifully intense, and beautifully perfect. Jamie McGuire has written a damn good book." —Jessica Park, author of New York Times bestseller Flat-Out Love

About the Author

Jamie McGuire is the author of the New York Times bestseller Beautiful Disaster and The Providence Trilogy. She and her husband, Jeff, live with their children just outside Enid, Oklahoma, with three dogs, five horses, and a cat named Rooster. Please visit JamieMcGuire.com.

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  • File Size: 869 KB
  • Print Length: 434 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1476719071
  • Publisher: Atria Books; Original edition (July 12, 2012)
  • Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B008JMKN4Y
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  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #329 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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284 of 339 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing and fulfilling June 25, 2011
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book centers on a new college student with a hope to stay out of trouble. Of course the first thing that happens is that she catches the eye of the school "bad boy".

I enjoyed the dynamics within the first half of the book, even how the sexual tension between Maddox and Abby was sometimes unbearable.

This is not a book about perfect love, and happily ever after. Don't get me wrong, the ending wrapped everything up with a pretty little bow. However, the relationship was so raw and emotional that the rollercoaster that was their relationship became quite stressful. By the end of the book I just wanted them to stop fighting! I believe the ending was a bit hasty, and the epilogue a bit silly.

However, the plot about Abby's past is truly creative and unexpected. I am not used to books about dysfunctional and unhealthy relationships. If you are sick of Twilight harmony and love, this book encapsulates everything human about a relationship. The love, tears, sex and fights. There is a relatively good understanding of reality, with some strands of a life that most of us are unaware of.

If you like lust, illegal college fight nights, poker and of course good sex, I would tell you to take a chance on this one.
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214 of 256 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Not For Me November 24, 2011
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book is not for me. Now, I realize that I am in the minority here, because if you look on Goodreads, over 1400 people gave this novel five stars and absolutely loved it, but I'm not one of them. This just goes to show that different people like different things; we all have different tastes, and that's okay, because it makes us unique. I may love a novel that my best friend absolutely hates, and vice versa, but that doesn't mean either of us is wrong, only that we have different likes and dislikes, different opinions. That being said, I really didn't care for this novel. In fact, it really turned me off, mainly because I know someone just like Travis Maddox, I've been in Abby's shoes, and it's not a pretty thing--it doesn't end well. I think I spent a majority of this novel sitting there yelling at Abby to get the heck out of there, and for Travis to get some therapy. I know, it sounds terrible, but Travis is so unhinged, physically destroying things when he doesn't get his way, that it was nerve-wracking to read about. I felt like Abby was in danger throughout the entire novel, and even though things turn out okay, anyone as needy as Travis is dangerous, in my opinion, especially when alcohol is in the mix.

Abby is trying to outrun her past, but in the end she seems to be right back where she started, making bad decisions and throwing in her lot with someone who I, personally, don't think is the best person to hang around. Yes, this is fictitious, and McGuire has tailored her story to go a certain way, making it almost fairy tale like in the end, but I felt like it was unrealistic, mostly based on my own personal experiences with my own Travis Maddox, so my bias tainted my reading of this novel. I am not an extreme feminist, by any means, but I am an independent person, and watching Travis control Abby as he does throughout the novel really irked me, again, based on personal experience. Because of this, I had a difficult time reading it and, therefore, can only give it two stars.
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399 of 496 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid this book - it sends the wrong message! March 8, 2012
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
At first I thought this book was addicting. Then I took a step back and actually THOUGHT about the characters. There is something about using your brain that puts things into perspective. The relationship was beyond dysfunctional. I could not condone how they treated each other. Travis was not hot, sexy, or anything in between. He is a possessive VIOLENT man who has no redeeming qualities. If you put his character in the real world he would most likely be a date rapist/serial killer. I think that people who claim he's a great guy, just because he is so in love with Abby, need to start using their brain as well. This is a YA book, and I'm scared that it will send out the wrong message to young girls. Guys like Travis aren't the ones you should aspire to be with. There is a difference between a bad boy and a violent, co-dependent one. Sorry for my rant, but I just couldn't look past it, and I hope that others see this point as well.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars A new fav book and Author
This book kept me awake all week! I couldn't stop reading until late in the night...after a week of exhaustion I'm finally done and can't wait to start Walking Disaster... Read more
Published 1 hour ago by Shelli M.
5.0 out of 5 stars WOW is all I can say!
Holy wow!! I loved this story the whole way thru! Abby & Travis deserve each other! I wish there was a lot more to their story tho!!
Published 6 hours ago by angie
5.0 out of 5 stars Another hit!
Jamie McGuire did it again! This book was everything I expected it to be and so much more!!! It was really refreshing to see the story from Travis's point of view.
Published 11 hours ago by stefany filyaw
3.0 out of 5 stars A simple love story!
The friendship between the characters was lovely and adorable!! It would have been great if there was some suspense added to the love story..
Published 17 hours ago by TheMandavas
3.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps, Just not my 'cup of tea' of idea of Love
As I look at the reviews already here for Ms. McGuire's book, I see that I am in the minority. I found Beautiful disaster a difficult book to like, however well-written. Read more
Published 2 days ago by Janet
5.0 out of 5 stars I love it
Great book; I could not stop reading it. I wanted to put myself in this book and fall in love all over again.
Published 2 days ago by Erica Hinton
5.0 out of 5 stars Best Ever!!!
This book exceeded all expectations and I could not put it down. I have also read it over and over again because I couldn't get enough.
Published 2 days ago by N. Tanguay
5.0 out of 5 stars JRobb
Was hooked from the start, shared in the joy and tears, even after reading it three times. All great books should be read over& over without "skipping" over any of its parts.
Published 3 days ago by J Robb
5.0 out of 5 stars Well written story
This was a really good, well written story. You loved the characters and wanted them to get together and stay together.
Published 3 days ago by KCB
5.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't put this down!
A crazy romance, literally crazy!! The characters can get a little frustrating with their constant fighting, however I thought it was a great story line with just enough drama. Read more
Published 3 days ago by Sarah Graham
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New York Times best selling author Jamie McGuire has penned the Providence series and contemporary romance Beautiful Disaster. She lives in Oklahoma with her husband and three children. She is an RT(R), a graduate of Autry and Oklahoma Northern College, and a full time writer.


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Email from Amazon --- What do you make of it?
I also received the same email and I agree with you. Why should I send back my perfectly good copy that I paid 2.99 for so I can turn around and buy it again for 7.36? Is it because the book is so popular that now they want to get more money out of us?
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this is wrong what there doing with jamie mcguire,i purchased beautiful disaster ,dont want new verison, so you can make more money,i buy alot of books from amazon,i dont like this practice.
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Was Beautiful Disaster originally a Twilight fanfic?
Im not sure about Beautiful Disaster. Ive never heard that it was fanfic, so I dont think it is. The Office was the fanfic version of this one...Beautiful Bastard. Read more
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