• Beautiful Disaster

  • By: Jamie McGuire
  • Narrated by: Emma Galvin
  • Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (4,354 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

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" 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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Great story line

Wasn't sure if I liked the narrator's voice, it was a bit monotone and course. but it grew on me, and I am glad I stuck it out.

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great series!

I love this series. I don't really care for the narrator, didn't like her voice.

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Love this narrator!

Emma Galvin does an excellent job reading a great book! I'm just about to start the second book now! Can't wait!

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Has been said before yet can’t put it down

Emma Galvin was decent. The story was cute, as a female I can relate to being attractive yet seemingly unobtainable bad boy. I’ve heard it before yet I couldn’t help myself from listening.

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Awful Narrator, Great Book!

Definitely not what I expected. A very dysfunctional tale of love from a teenager's perspective. I sure as hell would never let my daughter date someone like that but it sure makes for an interesting read!

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Nice try- characters' dialogs could be better

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Surprising suspenseful ending which proved the character's feelings even further.

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The dialogs between Travis and Pigeon were too short, the heroine did not discuss, not even though of in her head, what the cause of her real fears was and why Travis was not good for her. Actually her whole past was disclosed so further down the book that it made it almost irrelevant at that point. Too childish girl breaking his heart almost cruelly at times, I almost didn't believe she loved him.

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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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