Beautiful Disaster

By: Jamie McGuire

Narrated by: Emma Galvin

Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins

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)

Great read for a young adult, college level reader

The story was well played but I didn't realize that it was geared to such a young group of participants. This may have appealed to me more in my 20's than it did now. Rather age specific. It was a good story and there were some values instilled on an underlying sense. I'd recommend this to my assistants' daughter who is in her third year of college at this point, not her mother all the same.

love this story

This is my 3rd time reading this book. I love the authors work! I will probably read it again.

Fantastic summer read

I couldn't wait to read the next page and got through the entire book in less than two days! beautiful storyline

Had the potential to be great...

Without spoiling it, they should have stopped at Vegas. This story had the potential to be great. Abbey is too b*tchy, Travis is too stereotypical. The narrator gives me allstate commercial vibes. Her voice sounds so sullen and flat. Reminds me of a pissed off teenager. Which to be fair, is Abbey.

Loved it!

It’s been a long time since I read the book, so in a reading slump I bought the audio version. Loved it again! These two characters just can’t seem to get it right...until they do.

One of the best books I've ever read in my life.

the story was great really intriguing I couldn't put it down. definitely recommend this book

GREAT ROMANCE

I loved this story so much! It was GREAT! Now I need another great love story like this one! I’m a sucker for a bad boy/good girl romance, although, Abby wasn’t exactly a good girl, but you get what I mean!

Only critique that I have is the narrator...she was amazing, very good at narrating...I just think her voice was really deep and for some reason that distracted me at times.

Favorite book

This book comes close to home. I love what it made me feel. It’s easy to read and get caught up in time.

Great Audio!

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

* I purchased this audio book- this is my honest review~

Most women in the Indie World have read Beautiful Disaster so I decided that I would try out the Audio Version, only because I could listen to this while working or working out- yes, I'm addicted to reading!

I was very nervous on the audio world, not sure how I would adapt to a narrator reading the story and not getting the full affect of my own emotions of physically reading, however the narrator of Beautiful Disaster, Emma Galvin did a very good job. She was the reader for both Abby,Travis,America,Shep... Everyone-I picked this audio book since I have read the story already-so if I didn't enjoy the audio- I had already read this one... It was refreshing to listen to the book again.

I rate this 4 stars as I read this already-but If anyone is into audio or just want to try it, this is a great story to start off with. I hope to start doing more audio books and do more reviews on this. I would listen to Emma Galvin narrate on future books... I found a new vise.

Loved it

I loved it so much I listened to it twice. Young love is beautiful. To be young and in love....