Beautiful

Jamie McGuire

Jul 2012 · Beautiful Issue #1 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this eBook

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).

Ratings and reviews

Heartfelt, relatable, realistic. In this touching book Jamie McGuire captures a love story between two young people going to the same school. Travis is your regular playboy until he gets mixed up with Abby and it changes both of their worlds. The characters are relatable in the fact that they share a lot of the same struggles of others their age.

Beautiful Disaster was honestly better than I expected it to be. I read some reviews that weren’t so flattering but I wanted to try it out for myself and made sure I came into it with an open mind. Abby and Travis had a pretty dangerous and very codependent relationship. The title is so appropriate. It’s like these two were made to mess up each others world. I often forgot Abby was only 19. She’s pretty mature for her age even though a lot of times I felt like she was destined for a terrible path. I didn’t care for the end too much; it seemed a little rushed, maybe even a bit forced. I don’t know if their age made it less believable but the things they went through together honestly felt like a lifetime worth of issues rather than several months. The angst was off the charts leading up to the final chapters; my heart was definitely pounding a bit. I was very curious as to why Travis was the way he was and I guess I can accept the explanation, felt like there would have been more to that as well though. It honestly took me awhile to get used to the Pidge or Pigeon nickname but it grew on me even though it’s totally weird. I liked Travis even though he was all over the place at times. I didn’t mind Abby, I was curious about her past of course. While I wasn’t the biggest fan of Parker I liked the added drama him being around brought. I caught myself getting angry with Travis in the beginning some but I couldn’t justify it when I thought longer about why I was bothered. I liked America, Shepley and all of the Maddox brothers.

I have read this book and every single spin off of this book and I love them all!!! Taylor and Tyler are my favorite and Darby and Trex. I have read each book at least 3 or 4 times! I love Jamie's writing style!

About the author

Jamie McGuire is the New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Disaster, Walking Disaster, A Beautiful Wedding, Almost Beautiful, and the Maddox Brothers series. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with her children and two rescue pups, Finn and Coco. Please visit JamieMcGuire.com.