A Book Review

 

:: A Book Review ::

 

We {heart} a Book Review from our friend Kimberly at Book Reader Chronicles. With summer just around the corner, we are excited to add these recommendations to our reading lists.  For additional reviews on the latest novels, please visit her site at www.bookreaderchronicles.com, or go and “like” her Facebook page!

If you’ve been browsing your local bookstore or walking through the aisles of Target or Wal-Mart, then maybe you’ve seen these book covers:

 

Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire was published last year to AMAZING reviews. This is Abby Abernathy’s story. Abby meets the college’s walking one-night stand, Travis Maddox and does everything in her power to avoid and reject him. Little does she know that he has his sights on her. Travis is a living, breathing sex-on-a-stick bad boy with the tattoos and attitude to back up his reputation. This is not a fairy tale romance with rainbows and ponies. There is violence, sex, a whole lot of cussing and so much angst that it makes you want to reach into the book and smack both of them upside their heads.

I adored this book and even re-read it multiple times. I fell in love with Travis immediately, especially when he began to call Abby by his nickname for her, Pigeon. There is something about reading a book about college-aged kids that makes you relive your early years.

Now once you finish with Beautiful Disaster, you can then treat yourself to Walking Disaster. This is not a sequel – Beautiful Disaster is a stand alone novel with a beginning, middle and end. Walking Disaster is basically Beautiful Disaster told from Travis’ point of view. This is not just a re-telling of the same story. You get a much deeper understanding of Travis and why he did the things he did in Beautiful Disaster. It is a fantastic companion novel and it makes you fall in love with Travis and Beautiful Disaster even more.

Now I LOVED Walking Disaster. I loved being inside Travis’ head. I loved hearing his perspective – I loved everything about this book. I did re-read Beautiful Disaster before jumping into Walking Disaster and I’m so glad I did. There were extra scenes scattered throughout the book so that it was not just a re-telling of the same story. The biggest extra I got was the Walking Disaster Epilogue. It really gave the conclusion to Abby and Travis’ story. Did I love the Epilogue…not really, but I think that is because I never wanted the story to end.

There is a reason these books made Jamie McGuire a New York Times and USA Today Best Seller. Believe the hype and buy the books! You will not be disappointed!