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Beautiful Disaster (Beautiful, #1)

Jamie McGuire

Start date: September 1, 2012

Finish date: September 30, 2012

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Jul 17, 2018 shms rated it it was ok

Shelves: friends2lovers, college_highschool, series, hero-short-of-a-full-load, ya, heroine-dislike-mega-annoying, ink, top100-gd, relationship-woes

Out of the nearly half a million ratings on this book, I was not in synch with the majority of them. The heroine was one I disliked intensely with her push pull game playing, everything that I despise and the hero was psychotic spoilt baby.

I didn't understand what about this book captured so many hearts, than I realised its all about timing and Jamie McGuire was most probably ahead of her time when this was published. I can't say that definitely but it's my theory to explain how popular it seem ...more

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Jul 09, 2012 Christina rated it liked it

Shelves: genre-romance, genre-young-adult, setting-college-school, theme-dislike-to-desire, random-terrible-ending, tone-intense-angsty

I am giving this one 3.5 stars. I really enjoyed the majority of the book, but I disliked the ending...a lot. It lost a full star over the stupid ending (view spoiler). Travis and Abby are exactly what the title describes. There is a lot of angst, but the insecurities of the characters are relatable. ...more

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Sep 26, 2012 BooksBooksandmoreBooks69 rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: paperbacks-hardbacks

Oh my lord
What a ride.
What can I say.
Yes it was happy, sappy and a little sickly sweet, but it was also moving.
Teenagers are like that, full of emotion, and raging hormones.
I loved the intensity, I would have also slapped both Travis and Abby.
I liked it.
Will read Travis point of view next year.

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Dec 04, 2012 Ashley rated it liked it

Shelves: alpha-males, hot-men, great-tension, guy-falls-hard, a-ladies-man, a-fun-read, weirdo-for-a-hero, contemporary-romance, okay-contemporary-romance, romance

It wasn't because I became obsessed with the book that drove me to finish. It was more like what was going to happen next.

This story was an interesting read. I enjoyed it despite the roller coaster it has put me on. I feel like I was in a tennis match with this book as well, and it's quite frustrating when I am the tennis ball. It's hard to decide whether I like the book or not.

I like the heroine, Abby. She's reasonable. As for Travis, he sort of stands next to Christian Grey (where I placed him ...more

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Jan 07, 2013 Stevie rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: alpha-male, animosity-to-lovers, contemporary, good-but-nothing-special, irritating-heroine

It was a good story. For YA. But I still don't get all the hype. There were a couple of really good scenes but all in all it wasn't as exceptional as all the reviews made it out to be. The story had a good pace and it was well told. Both character and relationship development was well established. I liked the strength in the secondary characters. But the world of the story still seemed a bit small and limited. I really liked Travis' character. He was strong and street wise, and seemed to have hi ...more

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Oct 11, 2012 Kristi rated it really liked it

4.5 Stars

Book was great! Hard to put down.. the ending was a bit of a disappointment as it wasn't nearly the same pace as the rest of the book.. ...more

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Sep 07, 2012 Isis rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-next, romance

I originally rated this book 3 stars, but the story stuck with me. I can’t stop thinking about Travis and the relationship between the two main characters. This tells me that the book should at least get a 4 star rating. After I read this book, I was exhausted. The relationship between Travis and Abby is insanely dramatic. Travis is a crazy person, but he makes a great (and yummy) hero within the pages of a fiction novel.

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