Certified Disaster

Beautiful Mess #2

by Jennifer Preston

If falling in love was the hard part, the rest should be easy… right?

Ambria Donnelly has gone all in. She’s cast aside all of her fears and apprehensions, and chosen love. No longer holding anything back, she is finally ready to give Cole everything she has and is. But navigating a new relationship isn’t always easy, especially when things around them are changing. As new influences come into Cole’s life, Bri fights to keep him grounded, but it may already be a losing battle.

Coleston Marra never dreamed he’d have it all. But here he is, playing basketball for Duke University, with Bri back by his side. He finally has everything he’s ever wanted. But when someone from his past unexpectedly re-enters his life, things around Cole begin to unravel. As conflicting interests, basketball demands, and increased pressures threaten to crush him, Cole has to find a way to balance everything that is expected of him, or he might lose everything.

Bri and Cole are being pulled in different directions, and it seems that everything is conspiring to tear them apart. Will their love be strong enough to overcome the new obstacles they face, or will the pressures mounting on them be too much to overcome?

Certified Disaster is a Young Adult romance, recommended for ages 16 and up.

320 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 21, 2014

About the author

Jennifer Preston is the author of the Beautiful Mess series. She was born in California, grew up in Utah, and now lives outside of Denver, Colorado with her husband and three rambunctious kiddos. She is an obsessive reader who never goes anywhere without her trusty e-reader (best invention ever!). In those rare moments when she’s not being a mom, reading, or writing, she enjoys running, shopping, sleeping in, and singing along (loudly and badly) with the radio as she drives.

Reviews

[Abi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Actual rating - 3.25

This was an okay sequel, but it went downhill in the second half.

Bria and Cole were both okay characters at the start, but in the second half i really wanted to slap Cole and ask him what he was doing!

There was loads of drama in the last book, and it got quite annoying. I was pleased to see there wasn't much of it in the first half of this one, and was really hopeful that it would continue. Unfortunately though, it didn't go that way.

Overall, Okay read, but the drama in the second half was annoying.

[Raj · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book certainly lives up to it's name.Just as in life I expect people to behavior with honor although I realized as I grew older this was not always possible.It was out of my control.Now in a book the only control I have is not to read about the nasty people that inhabit them (well at least pertaining to the leads) and man is the lead male character in this novel regardless of any minor misunderstandings a major a-hole & without honor.I expect even my man whores to have some honor in choosing the women they screw.Why knowingly choose your girlfriends enemy as a weapon of destruction & than expect the reader later on to forget these transgressions.


The book swiftly disintegrated for me half way through when he deliberately participates in sordid acts with the female leads nemesis to wound & humiliate the 'love of his life' over some ill perceived nonsense.This occurs over a 3rd of the book.

Now I wonder how he is going to redeem himself for all those orgasms he has had between the nemesis thighs & if it's explained away that he thought of 'the love of his life' the entire time while he was doing it.I am going to laugh if the heroine buys that sorry excuse.So is sorry really going to solve this disaster.Saying that I only wanted to hurt you cause you hurt me first is becoming an old & tired cliche in novels.

I recommend the third novel a different hero should win the hand of the lady cause this is one bad boy that deserves to stay in the trash

[ᥫ᭡ P A T T Y · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well this one I missed out from the freebie apps, but it’s currently $2.99 on Amazon. Not a bad price, but due to the bad service Prime has been giving me... I won’t be buying anything else from them, that regards to this book.

So, I got a sample of it. First off, I can tell after reading the first chapter... that this book has one and only one goal only. Which I don’t agree with. The goal is for Cole to sleep with Bri. I for one, already hate this and the fact this is how it started out. I can say I won’t finish it, and am rating it on this personal opinion.

I do not agree or condone with men always trying to get the better of women, for sex. I can’t. It’s very wrong, and I will not support this series any longer. You want a nice little tween romance book, try the first of this series.

[Dany · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wanted to punch Cole in the face. I was definitely not expecting so much drama. The way he treated Bri was just disgusting. I hope in the next book he has to get in his knees and begs her back and she make him work for it. The situation with Jillian is unforgivable I mean who does that. I know this is more of a rant and not a review but that is how upset Cole has me. I will read the final book and I pray it's not like book 2.

[Leeani · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is hard to put down even though it's more PG13