Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire
My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I've read enough reviews for this book to know that there are those who really loved it and there are those who really hated it. No middle ground. Either you love it or you hate it.

Personally, I loved it. There's something about the story of Abby and Travis that resonated with me. They both equally frustrated me at and was frankly appalled by some of the decisions they made throughout the whole book which made me want to smack them both in the head. But I still fell in love with these two very flawed characters anyway. Yes, I feel no shame whatsoever in admitting that fell hook, line and sinker for their love story.

At the very beginning, the odds are stacked against them. Abby is running from her past, trying to deny who she is when she meets Travis. He was all wrong for her of course. He's the epitome of the past she was running away from. She resisted but before long she was thoroughly and utterly in love with him. Her denial for her feelings for Travis frustrated me a bit but I can certainly understand where she's coming from.

I loved Abby. She's tough and vulnerable at the same time, and while she had her moments of indecisiveness, I can't help but root for her. I mean, come on, she's supposed to be 19 years old. She's allowed to have those moments. I can totally see why she did what she did considering her back-story -- alcoholic mother and a father who humiliated and rejected her publicly. It's no wonder she was fighting tooth and nail against her feelings for Travis.

As much as I loved Abby, I wasn't quite sure about my feelings about Travis at first but I have come to love him as well. But there are things that he did in the book that were just a no, no for me but like Abby, I find his character totally irresistible. He is crazy intense, crazy passionate, crazy impulsive, and yes, just plain crazy sometime but he can also be so sweet. Love him or hate him, Travis is a complex and interesting character and I can't wait to get into his head in the next book.

I like the pacing of this book. No dull moments for me. The secondary characters just add to the whole appeal. Overall, Beautiful Disaster delivered a satisfying love story that I will not soon forget.

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I've been re-reading Beautiful Disaster by Jaime McGuire in preparation for Walking Disaster, which I promised to post my review very soon. So while I'm doing that, let me give post a review of one my favorite books by one of my favorite authors, Susan Elizabeth Phillips. Hope you enjoy!!

Kiss an Angel 

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Kiss an Angel is one of those novels that grabs at your heart and makes you cry sad tears, happy tears, angry tears and everything in between. Seriously, SEP weaved another emotional and powerful love story with this one.

At the center of the story is Daisy Devreaux. Sweet, loving, kind Daisy. Branded as flighty and scatterbrained by his father, Daisy was forced into a marriage of convenience with Alex Markov by her father. Her husband was cold and unfeeling brute who, like Daisy's father, treated her like a spoiled selfish brat. But Daisy is far from being spoiled or selfish, and this is where SEP created her magic.


Daisy, with her big heart set out to thaw and eventually won her husband's cold heart. Alex, despite being adamant that he could never and would never love Daisy was powerless against Daisy's courage and resolve. Honestly, almost halfway through the book I wanted to hit him in the head for his stupidity, but then of course, I remembered he's just a fictional character so I just threw a little bit of tantrum -- a little bit. He was so screwed up by his childhood that he did everything to push Daisy away. And he succeeded. He managed to push Daisy away. The irony of it was the moron (yup, that's what he was!) was already so deeply in love with his wife, it's not even funny, that he was destroyed with the agony of losing her. Ha! He deserved every bit of pain and humiliation for what he did to Daisy and more! Hmph! Sorry, got carried away there. Where was I? Oh, right. At towards end though, Alex redeemed himself and I was crying happy tears when they finally got their HEA!

For those of you who are familiar with SEP's style, you would probably guess by now that SEP's books always has a secondary story running alongside the main story. In Kiss of Angel, we see Brady and Sheba's story. I won't go into their story anymore but like most of SEP's novels, this one had plenty of secondary characters to kept things interesting. And oh, part of the cast of characters were an old Siberian tiger, a cute baby elephant, a llama, and a gentle gorilla -- and oh, I almost forgot, a long-lost Romanov. I can't say anymore. Just to read the book!

This review is also posted on  http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/551538003

Walking Disaster by Jamie McGuire


Squeeee!!! Just got my ARC for this one!! Over the moon!! Got to reread Beautiful Disaster ASAP!!








*Provided by Atria via NetGalley.

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