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3.78 AVERAGE
3.78 AVERAGE
3'5 stars! me ha gustado mucho mas desde el punto de vista de travis aunque claro al saber ya la historia era como un poco repetido algunas cosas pero me ha gustado y me ha encantado el epilogo ♥
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol
Okay while I have this 5 stars… I was dang near bored to tears. I loved being inside travis’s head. But… I just read beautiful disaster yesterday so I basically just read the whole story over again. There were really only s couple gaps filled in. I wish I would have just read the second half of the book or the epilogue.
It was still beautifully written !
It was still beautifully written !
Why was this published? I can understand an author wanting to write out a different POV for the sake of character-building, but I can't understand why a publisher would spend the time and money on a second book that is JUST LIKE THE FIRST. I kept waiting for some eye-opening moment, some revelation of the characters from the first book... but no, it was the SAME DAMN BOOK.
OMG this book was AMAZING!!! If I could give it more than 5 stars I would. I actually made myself go slower reading it because I didn't want it to end! I didn't know if I would enjoy this book since it's the exact same story as Beautiful Disaster just told from Travis' POV instead of Abby's but OH MY I may have even liked it MORE than BD. Definitely read BD before you read this one or you may not like this one at all! LOVE LOVE LOVEEEEEEEEEEED! I definitely have a HUGE book hangover after this one I don't think I can find a book worthy of follow up so I'm taking a few days off!
i love this compare to BD. Travis POV is superb. more exciting and more heartwarming. i love travis here compare to BD since i undestand him fully here. also i really cried in prologue. laugh and rejoice in epilogue
On the plus side, the writing was marginally better. Some of the meandering dialogue was chopped, and scenes where sweet fuck all happened. Also, at the very least, the reader knew what Travis was feeling at any given moment (even if it was pretty much always anger), unlike robot Abby who never emoted unless the emotion was going to be obvious. (Oh, Travis just punched a guy in the face because the guy glanced at me? I guess it's time for me to be angry?)
On the negative, this was just the first book again but with scenes you didn't give a shit about seeing and an absolute busload more misogyny. If what Travis went through when Abby wasn't around was that important, it would've been alluded to in the original book. As a result, nothing of note happened, except for the epilogue which only served to make me laugh hysterically. Travis, with his rage issues and presence in underground fighting rings becomes a member of the FBI? Okay. Sure. Whatever.
Even after the fire, which I assume the police had to fully investigate because an actual university building burned down. Literally anyone they pulled out of the fire can and would have told the police who was fighting (scared college kids will tell the police anything), and the police would've arrested Travis and, at worst charged him, and at best, offered him a plea for any information he knew about the fighting ring. But Travis knew nothing about the ring, and his only connection was Adam who had already been arrested, so offering up his name would've gotten him nothing they didn't already know. The police could've frozen his assets, being as he made them through illegal fights, which would've created plot holes all of its own. He would've been able to become FBI after having that on his record?
Basically, the fire is the part of this/these book(s) that pisses me off the most. It is a literal joke that the author thought that the death of dozens of college students was the perfect motivation to hitch the two main characters. Such bullshit.
Onto the misogyny. Travis is literally the biggest bastard on the earth. He legitimately thinks every women on the face of the planet is a slut except for Abby and America. I thought maybe Travis was getting better through the book because he referred to women as sluts less and less as the pages went by, until I realised that the only reason why that was is that he no longer paid any attention to any women other than Abby, and of course Abby can't be a no-good slut otherwise she wouldn't deserve him, despite him being a piece of shit with a bad attitude and an awful way of thinking.
Travis thinks all women are trying to trap him into marriage. He thinks all they're good for is a quickie and then they just become massive drains on his life until he can usher them out of the door and out of his life. He is constantly lamenting that he has to fend off the attentions of various 'slutty' sorority girls in between going about his daily life.
Abby is totally different though because she's not attracted to him (so he thinks, anyway) and actually displays behaviour that makes it seem like she finds him repulsive, which has apparently never happened before because he's apparently never met any lesbians in his time on earth. Or any girls with standards, for that matter. Of course though, Abby not being attracted to him isn't anything other than an obstacle to overcome by forcing his presence on her every day until he finally wears her down. A fairy-tale romance.
Hang on a fucking second. The fight with the fire was supposed to be a 5-digit earning fight and would let Travis stay in his flat until like September, and if it didn't go down they were supposed to be screwed and broke, so that's why he did it. Yet, he can't have got his pay-out from Adam because the fire broke out immediately after the fight and then Adam was arrested afterwards. Even if Adam wasn't arrested that night, Travis went to Vegas for two days afterwards and they had to have arrested Adam in that time. So how the hell did Travis afford tickets to Vegas short notice and how did he afford to buy himself and Abby a car? Man, everything about that fire fucks me off. It wasn't thought out in the least.
Also calling bullshit on Travis remembering so much of his mother when she died when he was 3. The prologue was utterly unrealistic. He genuinely says near the end of the book something about not being as happy as he is right now since his mother died. He was 3. How does he remember how happy he was? How has he never been happy since?
On the negative, this was just the first book again but with scenes you didn't give a shit about seeing and an absolute busload more misogyny. If what Travis went through when Abby wasn't around was that important, it would've been alluded to in the original book. As a result, nothing of note happened, except for the epilogue which only served to make me laugh hysterically. Travis, with his rage issues and presence in underground fighting rings becomes a member of the FBI? Okay. Sure. Whatever.
Even after the fire, which I assume the police had to fully investigate because an actual university building burned down. Literally anyone they pulled out of the fire can and would have told the police who was fighting (scared college kids will tell the police anything), and the police would've arrested Travis and, at worst charged him, and at best, offered him a plea for any information he knew about the fighting ring. But Travis knew nothing about the ring, and his only connection was Adam who had already been arrested, so offering up his name would've gotten him nothing they didn't already know. The police could've frozen his assets, being as he made them through illegal fights, which would've created plot holes all of its own. He would've been able to become FBI after having that on his record?
Basically, the fire is the part of this/these book(s) that pisses me off the most. It is a literal joke that the author thought that the death of dozens of college students was the perfect motivation to hitch the two main characters. Such bullshit.
Onto the misogyny. Travis is literally the biggest bastard on the earth. He legitimately thinks every women on the face of the planet is a slut except for Abby and America. I thought maybe Travis was getting better through the book because he referred to women as sluts less and less as the pages went by, until I realised that the only reason why that was is that he no longer paid any attention to any women other than Abby, and of course Abby can't be a no-good slut otherwise she wouldn't deserve him, despite him being a piece of shit with a bad attitude and an awful way of thinking.
Travis thinks all women are trying to trap him into marriage. He thinks all they're good for is a quickie and then they just become massive drains on his life until he can usher them out of the door and out of his life. He is constantly lamenting that he has to fend off the attentions of various 'slutty' sorority girls in between going about his daily life.
Abby is totally different though because she's not attracted to him (so he thinks, anyway) and actually displays behaviour that makes it seem like she finds him repulsive, which has apparently never happened before because he's apparently never met any lesbians in his time on earth. Or any girls with standards, for that matter. Of course though, Abby not being attracted to him isn't anything other than an obstacle to overcome by forcing his presence on her every day until he finally wears her down. A fairy-tale romance.
Hang on a fucking second. The fight with the fire was supposed to be a 5-digit earning fight and would let Travis stay in his flat until like September, and if it didn't go down they were supposed to be screwed and broke, so that's why he did it. Yet, he can't have got his pay-out from Adam because the fire broke out immediately after the fight and then Adam was arrested afterwards. Even if Adam wasn't arrested that night, Travis went to Vegas for two days afterwards and they had to have arrested Adam in that time. So how the hell did Travis afford tickets to Vegas short notice and how did he afford to buy himself and Abby a car? Man, everything about that fire fucks me off. It wasn't thought out in the least.
Also calling bullshit on Travis remembering so much of his mother when she died when he was 3. The prologue was utterly unrealistic. He genuinely says near the end of the book something about not being as happy as he is right now since his mother died. He was 3. How does he remember how happy he was? How has he never been happy since?
Ya por momentos como que perdía el interés pues era algo q ya sabía que iba a pasar y a pesar de eso no conseguía emocionarme a pesar que fuera desde el PoV del otro prota... normalita si tuviera q ser buena