BEAUTIFUL DISASTER by Jamie McGuire

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 he 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.

Not gonna lie, I picked up this book because I was really in the mood for some sappy cute love story. You know when you get those moments when you just want to feel the warm and fuzzies?? It was one of those times walking through Barnes and Noble that day.

I grabbed this and instantly started reading. I must say that although I finished it, I did get fed up with it about halfway through. I kept reading though because I wanted to see if it would change, knowing that there had to be a crazy climax coming up buuuttt....yeah.

Overall I think this book was cute. It gives me the Twilight feels in the sense that as you are reading it you think it's good and then once you are done and you are thinking over it again you realize kind of how bad it really is?

I thought it was the typical writers dilemma....The moment the love interest comes into play the dynamics of the characters and what makes them unique and interesting kind of gets thrown out the window to fully service the love story that you are trying to write. I do this at times, and it sucks. But it helps when you just need to write something for yourself and get it all out there. But in the end, you notice that your characters are no longer individuals with these awesome unique traits...instead they are so codependent on each other that they can't even function as themselves anymore and no longer hold those traits....they are just a mess.

Travis is a bad boy. Cool, I like myself a burly man who can fight and has tattoos. Yum. But the moment he gets closer to Abby he loses his shit and I mean he LOSES IT. He is a sappy, lovesick little prick who can't keep his head held up if she isn't looking towards his way and that whole womanizer, confident, cheeky little asshole he was is GONE. Total turn off in my opinion...when a character is that way, it's generally a good idea to retain a sense of that throughout the story because that's how they are RIGHT!? Nah....complete 180. I hated him. I hated him and it made me sad.

Same with Abby. Cute, quiet, goody two shoes Abby is what she is? No. She never even was. You never know her that way and all you know is that she too is an airhead who is too proud to do what's right for herself. Annoying.

And then there's the matter of Abby's "dark past".......WTF. You know nothing about it, and then once things come together and it all becomes unveiled it is so underwhelming and not exciting and sad. Ugh.

Im so sad. I wanted to like this book....it's ok....it's relatively readable...I survived it....but I was left very sad and disappointed.

WHY AM I NOT PICKING GOOD BOOKS LATELY!??!?!?!?!?

Seriously....why can't I find anything awesome in the fiction section???? I'm dying here.