Beautiful Disaster - Jamie Mcguire

Synopsis from Goodreads

INTENSE. DANGEROUS. ADDICTIVE.

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 wants—and needs—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.

I liked:

• Travis Maddox. Duh. We're girls. We love a bad boy. 'Nuff said.

• The looovee :) I love a good love story and I adore happy endings! Granted, he is a bit overboard sometimes but Travis genuinely loves Abby, and I ship it!

• Lots of people shelved this book in the 'realistic fiction' category and for good reason. It seems like it could happen in a real life situation. Minus the corny bet thing. Often the characters in books are too wholesome. They never do anything wrong, and when they do it's something so minor it borders on being insignificant. It really gives us girls a warped perception of what guys should be like. So the fact that Travis is a total screw up 80% of the time is strangely comforting and lots more believable.

I didnt like:

• Travis' crazy stalker tendencies. It borders psychotic. Guys who hit walls and annihilate furniture? No thanks.

• The ending seemed...Unresolved. Although when I later read Walking Disaster it made more sense. 

• Mcguire mentions Abby's cardigans in the synopsis and the first few chapters and then they are never heard of again. Pointless much? (This is a petty dislike but it's been bothering me from the second I put the book down)

• On the topic of Walking Disaster. I loathe it when an author writes the same book from the other main character's perspective. It irks me so so much. I like it even less when each book in a series features different main characters, but that is a story for another day. Yes, some parts made a lot more sense thanks to being inside Travis' mind and not Abby's, but it also look alot of the mystery away from the story. In real life, you only know what's in your own head anyway, you're never going to know everything the other person is thinking and I gotta say, that's how i prefer my reading experiences. 

 Overall, I enjoyed it :) Its an oddball love story with some interesting characters. Highly recommend!