• Beautiful Disaster

  • By: Jamie McGuire
  • Narrated by: Emma Galvin
  • Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (4,358 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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Different twist on a love story

If you could sum up Beautiful Disaster in three words, what would they be?

Unique, lovable, engaging

What did you like best about this story?

I liked that it was unlike any love story I had ever read and didn't fall into the same pattern that most do.

What about Emma Galvin’s performance did you like?

Her voice can take on any character.

Who was the most memorable character of Beautiful Disaster and why?

I really like America. I would like to have a best friend like her.

Any additional comments?

I am 46 and the characters are in college. I could still relate to the story and characters which I thought was pretty amazing.

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I've read this book so many times...

This book is my "go-to" when I can't find anything new that interests me... It keeps you hooked through the whole thing and leaves you wanting more. Thank God, Jamie McGuire wrote a whole Maddox Brothers series to satisfy the hunger.

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Absolutely LOVE this book.A++++++

I love this story, I love the author, and the narrator fits perfectly. Buy it!

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Epic book that draws you in

I love this book I've read it and listened to it multiple times and it never gets boring. I really believe these characters and feel their story.

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Best book ever!!!!!!!

This is the best book I have ever read and that is saying something I'm in love with Trabby. Travis and Abby's ship name.

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This book was so amazing. It really gave Abby a character that could be related to and a back story for both for he characters that was just prefect. Overall I think the book was good and I recommend it to anyone who likes to read about love, drama and the life of college students.

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Won't be able to listen to this more than once

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

I would and have recommended this to many friends. I absolutely love the story.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Reading the story, I really loved Travis. Listening, though, I'm increasingly aware that a voice can make all the difference. I'm not sure I'm a fan of any of the characters while listening.

How could the performance have been better?

A different narrator.

Was Beautiful Disaster worth the listening time?

Only once, in hopes that the narrating style got better.

Any additional comments?

If you have read this book, and are among the many that view Travis as "best book boyfriend", this is not something you want to listen to. I am going to have to re-read the book to get my image of him back, and erase the image of a tyrannical, prepubescent boy from my mind. I kept picturing the nerdy kid at the back of my 8th grade class when she read Travis's lines, or any of the other male characters for that matter.

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Must read!

It was a amazing story. Glad I started series now I'm on ti the next book.

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Ehhhh....

Incredible childish with no real plot. Incredible amount of drama. The Story is very long.

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I love this story and every story after.. #HugeFan

personally I LOVE the male perspective, like in Travis' thoughts in Walking Disaster, and Beautiful Wedding.

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