Beautiful Disaster

My first review will be of one of my all time favorite books, Beautiful Disaster. It even inspired the title for this blog. So lets start out by saying, if you haven't read Abby and Travis' story....GET IT NOW!!!! I have lost count how many times I have read this book and I typically don't read books over and over. It pretty much stays up at the top of my book list in my Kindle because I read it so many times. Jamie McGuire did an awesome job developing the characters in this beautiful story. In my opinion the hallmark of a great story is one that grabs me, pulls me in, and allows me to feel all the emotions that the characters feel. I was able to experience this with Beautiful Disaster which is why I continue to go back to it time after time. I am able to not only feel the love Abby feels for Travis and the love he feels for her, but the love that Shep and America feel as well. I often find that I can feel emotions of the main characters but feel unconnected to the supporting characters, but this definitely wasn't the case this time. I am also now addicted to the Facebook pages of Travis and Abby....yes I will admit that I am a 29 year old married mom that FB stalks fictional characters!!!! Travis is a hot, tattooed bad boy (and yes the tattoo's definitely add to his appeal in my book, I have a friend that calls me a tattoo slut!) that makes his living in a college underground fighting club. He is basically the campus man whore until he lays eyes on the stunning Abby Abernathy. Abby has a past that she wishes to forget and has worked very hard at doing.  She is pretty successful in this until she meets Travis who threatens to pull her back to her roots. This is not a flowery love story with the typical get together, have a conflict, break up, then the hero makes a grand gesture and they live happily ever after. This is a real life story with real life emotions. Both Abby and Travis will screw up and sabotage the relationship in their own ways, but the Beautiful Disaster that is their relationship finds a way to overcome the odds. I hope that you rush out, buy this book, and fall in love with it just as I have. The writing is excellent! I can't wait for more from the beautifully talented Jamie McGuire!
Abby and Travis FB pages:  
http://www.facebook.com/abbyabernathymx
http://www.facebook.com/travismaddoxfanpage?ref=ts&fref=ts