Beautiful Disaster (The Bet, #1) in Buddy Read Zone

Dec 02, 2012 Sanny rated it did not like it

Uh, really?

This should be named "How many teenagers can get knocked up in one book".

I read through this one fairly quickly and even though I was warned about the editing errors, that warning didn't prepare me for what I found.

This read like a rough draft: grammar errors, spelling errors and so on. Please, please, please edit this book!!

Let's start with the narrating... Quite a few times I questioned my intelligence because I was lost as to what was happening, why it was happening and what perso ...more

15 likes · Like · see review

Dec 02, 2012 Ash Wednesday rated it really liked it

Shelves: awesome-heroines, interracial, review, contemporary-romance, new-adult, douchebaggery

4 SOLID STARS

Would you call it (un)fortunate to have this book share a title, genre and plot detail (the other Beautiful Disaster ALSO involves a bet) with another? For me, I don't care as I DNF-ed the other and loved this one far far more.

Right. This one had serious editing issues. Mostly in the latter parts because the early chapters had me raving (in my little brain) how well the author was conveying the story she wanted to tell at a brisk but detailed pace. Bt then somewhere down the middle 4 SOLID STARS

Would you call it (un)fortunate to have this book share a title, genre and plot detail (the other Beautiful Disaster ALSO involves a bet) with another? For me, I don't care as I DNF-ed the other and loved this one far far more.

Right. This one had serious editing issues. Mostly in the latter parts because the early chapters had me raving (in my little brain) how well the author was conveying the story she wanted to tell at a brisk but detailed pace. Bt then somewhere down the middle typos were everywhere. It throws you off these little things because they were scattered in moments that were pretty intense. But in the grand scheme of things the story was told and it was a powerful one.

So powerful that sometimes certain scenes got a wee bit over the top (view spoiler). There were also moments of predictability (view spoiler) that would've been annoying out of it being cliched and all, but somehow worked here. Mostly because I think this book was unapologetic for all its drama and intensity, never ridiculing what it has already put out to say a few lines after. The shifts in POVs didn't bother me as much but it got a bit ludicrous when (view spoiler).

This book's biggest assets are its characters. Can I just say how terrified I am of pissing off this author? She can really think of fucked up shits, no? Like punch-a-near-term-pregnant-woman-in-the-stomach levels of evil.

Otherwise I might be forced to play doctor and prematurely remove that bag of cells from your womb while your lovely Gran watches.

Who imagines that kind of a threat?! Seriously! But that's what makes this book work. The bad people are REALLY twisted and the strong characters are STRONG. I LOVED Nicholas Grayson. He's all over the place in terms of angst and EMOTIONS but he rang true to me. There was a point towards the end when I cannot make sense of his evolution as a character but thankfully the author explained it (though in not-so-few words) eventually. But I think I'm in love with Ellie more. She was such a strong, likable character that when you learn her back story early in the pages, you can't help but feel reassured that she's gonna be okay in the end.

She was a goddamn fighter and she would surpass this. This was nothing. She had gotten through worse things and this would be no different... What was the agony of a heartbreak if not another wound that would eventually heal?

When I grow up, I wanna be like Ellie Holbrook. ...more

5 likes · Like · see review

Dec 17, 2012 MK~ Picky Girl rated it liked it

Beautiful Disaster: The Bet was definitely an angsty, emotional read. It reminded of a kicked up version of the movie "Cruel Intentions".

It is a story about the dysfunctional lives of two teens brought together for all the wrong reasons. It all starts with a sordid, obscene bet and becomes something tragically beautiful.

Ellie is mature beyond her years. She has to be due to the poor choices she made during her previous dysfunctional relationship. Raising a child is not easy. Nich ...more

1 like · Like · see review

Dec 30, 2012 T.H. rated it liked it

Shelves: love-romance, drama, series, kindle-cloud, nook-cloud

This book was intriguing, but difficult to follow at times. As I went through the 224 pages I found myself trying to back track to see if I missed anything. The story itself is quite odd, yet I was pulled to keep reading. The details of the book contain a lot of characters that are tied together. As the story progresses there are moment of love, abuse, drugs, pregnancy, death, and crime. I am sadden by the end and have high hopes book 2 will give me the closure I need!

1 like · Like · see review

Dec 20, 2012 deb22luvsbooks rated it really liked it

Shelves: series

This book hooked me from the start. The premise of the perpetually bored son of a ruthless millionare, who uses sex as a way to undermine women to make his own existence plauable. He and his friends make bets as to whom he will bed next and he uses his sex appeal to seduce those women and then humiliate them for money and his friends amusement.
In walks his next "hit", and unbeknownst to him, she has demons of her own and is not as easy a target as he would have expected. Turns out she has a chil ...more

Like · see review

Dec 14, 2012 Liz rated it it was amazing

Shelves: romance

Lots of angst in this one. I enjoyed it..

1 like · Like · see review

Jan 12, 2013 S.R. Grey rated it really liked it

I liked the story as a whole, but the beginning was the best. It completely reminded me of Cruel Intentions, which may contain one of the hottest sex scenes ever! In fact, I'm making a note to re-watch it again soon...real soon.
In case you need a refresher the scene of which I speak is contained in:

http://youtu.be/qR8d0OQe84M

But back to the book... The middle meandered a bit and there were so many developments my head was spinning. But I did want to continue to see what happened, so that was g ...more

3 likes · Like · see review