• Beautiful Disaster

  • By: Jamie McGuire
  • Narrated by: Emma Galvin
  • Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (4,357 ratings)

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Beautiful Disaster

By: Jamie McGuire
Narrated by: Emma Galvin
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Publisher's summary

The new Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn’t drink or swear, and she has the appropriate number of cardigans in her wardrobe. Abby believes she has enough distance from the darkness of her past, but when she arrives at college with her best friend, her path to a new beginning is quickly challenged by Eastern University's Walking One-Night Stand.

Travis Maddox, lean, cut, and covered in tattoos, is exactly what Abby needs—and wants—to avoid. He spends his nights winning money in a floating fight ring, and his days as the ultimate college campus charmer. Intrigued by Abby’s resistance to his appeal, Travis tricks her into his daily life with a simple bet. If he loses, he must remain abstinent for a month. If Abby loses, she must live in Travis’s apartment for the same amount of time. Either way, Travis has no idea that he has met his match.

©2011 Jamie McGuire (P)2012 Simon & Schuster

Critic reviews

" Beautiful Disaster is insanely addictive. Beautifully sexy, beautifully intense, and beautifully perfect. Jamie McGuire has written a damn good book." (Jessica Park, author of the New York Times best seller Flat-Out Love)

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Favorite

Loved it. Could re-listen over again...Travis has the ultimate bad boy thing going on yet, Abby, isn't as innocent as she comes off to be..

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I love this book but the narrated was horrible!

The story is great....IF you can get past the voice of the "woman" narrating. She sounds like a man which is bad. If I wouldn't have read the book first then I wouldn't have liked this story at all because of the narrated.

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OBSESSED

I can't put into words how much I absolutely LOVED this book. I don't really have a reason why but I was completely ADDICTED! I may have to listen again!

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amazing

This book had me listening every down second I had. I couldn't wait to see how it finished. amazing job all the way around!!

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Young love

This book will reminds you of your first love and how passionate it was and it’ll make you want it back bad.

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Yuck his voice

I loved the book but I HATED the way the narrator made him sound. He sounded like a little kid. Yuck!!

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Good chemistry but unlikable characters

This book is entertaining to an extent. Personally I enjoyed it, but there were many problems with it (from the plot). I constantly was taken out of the book by the ridiculousness of some of the situations. The main couple had great chemistry BUT they are terrible people. For one Travis is an absolute asshole, and yes while he is good to Abby it's kinda hard to ignore how he treats other women, and even some of his friends. Like I understand he has issues and all but the fact that he didn't get assault charges on him throughout the book really makes me think they are in a fantasy.

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Emma Galvin always delivers a great performance!

Already bought book 2 and 3... looking forward to seeing what comes next. This story was great and Emma was even better!

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Loved the book... narrator, ummmmm

Who was your favorite character and why?

Travis.
He's a bad boy yet extremely passionate. I'd date him. lol

What do you think the narrator could have done better?

Well... She sounded like she was, 12! Kinda killed the vibe of the book.

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A touch of originality:)

This book is quite sweet, if you are looking for a nice book, without too much involvement look to further :) Compared to other romance stories it has twist I haven't read before.
It's a classic woman's book, with all the right ingredients. You have the bad boy, true and unselfish love, confusion, insecurity and mixed in a little jealousy.
It was definitely worth hearing :)

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