As you can see by the title of the post, I got a little sidetracked from my next read. I was supposed to read Born to Be Brad next, but I didn’t. I started it, then had to make a last minute trip down to Houston so I listened to a book on tape. Ever since I finished Providence by Jamie McGuire last year, I kept hearing about her novel Beautiful Disaster and wanted to read it. I was excited to discover it was available on Audible and I purchased it for my drive.
Beautiful Disaster takes place at Eastern College, but I could have sworn it was Eastern High School because each day’s events seemed to revolve around the lunch hour in the cafeteria. Maybe it is a small college, who knows, but that just stuck out as odd to me. The story is about the on again, off again and often volatile relationship of Abby Abernathy and Travis Maddox. Both are described as uniquely beautiful. All of Abby’s male classmates are attracted to her while every female coed seems to be throwing themselves at bad boy Travis who willingly accepted their advances until he met Abby. Both Abby and Travis come from painful pasts that have left them broken and most obviously emotional disasters.
As I mentioned I listened to this book to and from Houston and it was broken down into 2 parts. As the first half came to an end, it seemed like a stopping point of the story and I couldn’t figure out where McGuire was going to take the story. The second half of Beautiful Disaster reveals the secret past of Abby that she has been attempting to hide but when her father shows up at a party Abby and Travis are at, Abby can’t keep it a secret any more.
When Beautiful Disaster ends it seems well wrapped up and as if it will be a stand alone novel. If you’ve read Beautiful Disaster and wanted more of Abby and Travis, then you’ll be excited to hear this April Jamie McGuire will be releasing the follow up novel, Walking Disaster.
I don’t know that I’ll be the first to jump up and down about this news, I enjoyed Providence way more then I did Beautiful Disaster but I will most likely read it too.
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