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3.78 AVERAGE
3.78 AVERAGE
emotional
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Best ending ever, the rest wast really not much different from abby's POV
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It didn't do anything for me.
I dont thing it brought anything different to the table that I didn't already read in beautiful disaster. It didn't have much depth to Travis' character.
I dont thing it brought anything different to the table that I didn't already read in beautiful disaster. It didn't have much depth to Travis' character.
I had a hard time deciding whether to give this book 3 or 4 stars. Don't get me wrong, I did really like this story and I did enjoy it being told from Travis's point of view. However due to the fact that it's just the same story as Beautiful Disaster as seen through travis's eyes, I struggled with it being boring due to predictability. Yes I recommend this book of you've read Beautiful Disaster and want to know all about Travis and truly understand what he goes through, but be prepared that the actual story line is the exact same as Beautiful Disaster.
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Something I loved when a was 16 but it's just toxic cliches
emotional
funny
sad
medium-paced
This book was fine. Honestly i don't think it was really necessary. I know its nice to read the same book from another perspective but I dont think this book really added much to the story. Yes it was nice to see what Travis was doing when Abby wasn't around but it really didnt matter that much. Also there were some storylines that were glossed over which were confusing to me. If you havent read beautiful disaster you CANNOT read this book. It leaves too much out. All in all it was fine but i dont think it was generally worth reading.
I'm not a reader who likes to skim books, but I'm afraid I didn't actually read this one, more like skimmed through it.
Before reading: [b:Beautiful Disaster|11505797|Beautiful Disaster (Beautiful, #1)|Jamie McGuire|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1358259032s/11505797.jpg|16441531] through Travis' POV, eh? Well, why not read it? I might even get to understand Travis better and -- if it worked well enough -- might even like him.
After reading: *facepalm* How long can a person recover from brain damage?
REVIEW:
To start off, I liked the prologue. It is only there that I felt a connection to Travis. It also made me sympathize on him for a bit and even thought for a moment that I may have misunderstood him. But just imagined my disappointment when all I got throughout the entire book is an emptiness and a WTF?!
Walking Disaster just didn't bored me to death but also gave me several head aches and a thousand eye-rolls. And the fact that it failed to make me understand Travis just served to irked me more. Not only that, this book also felt flat and didn't engage me like Beautiful Disaster did.
I understand that there are many fucked-up people like Travis and Abby in the world, and that it is not impossible for them to fall in love. But what I wanted to see is development. Although Travis struggles for the better is interesting and somewhat agreeable, I still felt that he didn't changed at all.
Another thing: some passages and scenes seemed like it was just copy/pasted from BD. The only changes the author made is changing the names and pronouns. Frankly, reading this made this book dragged. Abby and Travis are two different people and have different perspective. The least the author can do is made Travis POV wholly his, with his own original view of things. But the author didn't so it felt like reading Beautiful Disaster again. It also annoyed the hell outta me when Travis dialogue is presented without Abby's. I wanted to hear Abby out even though I knew what she's gonna say from BD. I wanted to feel her existence, but the whole time, Abby felt like a ghost, just hovering there. I also hate it when Travis went on "I did this, I did that". I wanted a "showing" not a "telling".
In Beautiful Disaster, I found the drama both entertaining and exasperating, although the emotional connection is lacking. In here, I didn't feel anything at all. I still can't relate to Travis. His thoughts about Abby is disgusting and I wanted to smack him again and again. And whenever Travis tells us that being a psycho has benefits, it felt like he's boasting an excuse for his morbid actions. And Travis annoying way of calling Abby "Pigeon" and even introducing her by her nickname instead of her own name is really creepy and obsessive of him.
And as for the epilogue, I am not really surprised. Well, that's actually one of the things I liked in here after the prologue. It's just...well...interesting. I think it would be much better, though, if the author made a book about Abby and Travis' childhood and married life than go back again from their first meeting. And honestly, I just don't get why authors feel the need to basically repeat their whole book from the other love interest's point of view. Way to milk it, really.
Before reading: [b:Beautiful Disaster|11505797|Beautiful Disaster (Beautiful, #1)|Jamie McGuire|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1358259032s/11505797.jpg|16441531] through Travis' POV, eh? Well, why not read it? I might even get to understand Travis better and -- if it worked well enough -- might even like him.
After reading: *facepalm* How long can a person recover from brain damage?
REVIEW:
To start off, I liked the prologue. It is only there that I felt a connection to Travis. It also made me sympathize on him for a bit and even thought for a moment that I may have misunderstood him. But just imagined my disappointment when all I got throughout the entire book is an emptiness and a WTF?!
Walking Disaster just didn't bored me to death but also gave me several head aches and a thousand eye-rolls. And the fact that it failed to make me understand Travis just served to irked me more. Not only that, this book also felt flat and didn't engage me like Beautiful Disaster did.
I understand that there are many fucked-up people like Travis and Abby in the world, and that it is not impossible for them to fall in love. But what I wanted to see is development. Although Travis struggles for the better is interesting and somewhat agreeable, I still felt that he didn't changed at all.
Another thing: some passages and scenes seemed like it was just copy/pasted from BD. The only changes the author made is changing the names and pronouns. Frankly, reading this made this book dragged. Abby and Travis are two different people and have different perspective. The least the author can do is made Travis POV wholly his, with his own original view of things. But the author didn't so it felt like reading Beautiful Disaster again. It also annoyed the hell outta me when Travis dialogue is presented without Abby's. I wanted to hear Abby out even though I knew what she's gonna say from BD. I wanted to feel her existence, but the whole time, Abby felt like a ghost, just hovering there. I also hate it when Travis went on "I did this, I did that". I wanted a "showing" not a "telling".
In Beautiful Disaster, I found the drama both entertaining and exasperating, although the emotional connection is lacking. In here, I didn't feel anything at all. I still can't relate to Travis. His thoughts about Abby is disgusting and I wanted to smack him again and again. And whenever Travis tells us that being a psycho has benefits, it felt like he's boasting an excuse for his morbid actions. And Travis annoying way of calling Abby "Pigeon" and even introducing her by her nickname instead of her own name is really creepy and obsessive of him.
And as for the epilogue, I am not really surprised. Well, that's actually one of the things I liked in here after the prologue. It's just...well...interesting. I think it would be much better, though, if the author made a book about Abby and Travis' childhood and married life than go back again from their first meeting. And honestly, I just don't get why authors feel the need to basically repeat their whole book from the other love interest's point of view. Way to milk it, really.
I still get the warm and fuzzies from these. Just like before :)
OMG I loved this book. Now one thing I need to say before I get into my review, in other reviews I read the reason people didn't like the book is because it was the same word for word. I have to agree and disagree with this statement. Yes the parts that have both Abby and Travis together in them were the same but I loved the incites we got when Abby wasn't around and how he was feeling and what he was thinking as things unfolded between them. I think that Jamie McGuire did an incredible job of making their obsession for each other real. Jamie does an incredible job with characterization. Her characters are believable, real, and flawed to a fault but that's what makes them so great.
I love Travis so much. He's hot, he fights, swears,has a horrible temper, and is a grade-A douche bag to woman before he meets Abby. I loved reading about his transformation from that to a guy that is completely devoted to one woman and to his family. Now in this book Abby to me was a down right bitch, she was just cruel to him. But in Beautiful Disaster I agreed with Abby's decisions. Getting both sides of the story showed how much of a disaster their relationship was at first and how incredibly beautiful at the same time because they were both so flawed and yet so perfect for each other. Travis was such an emotional wreck and I got so wrapped up in his story that when he'd break down I would too.
And OMG that Epilogue was the perfect ending to beautifully written and well thought out book. It showed how much he truly had changed and it showed how he and Abby were truly meant to be together even though everyone thought they'd never make it.
Now in Beautiful Disaster Abby wasn't emotionless but she had a great poker face and pretended to be, though she's doing the same thing in this book it came off as she was totally emotionless. She seemed not to be as in love as I know she is and she just felt really shallow in this book to me. That being said I know from book 1 that's not true and that is what she is trying to pretend and portray herself to be so I guess Jamie did a great job integrating that. But in this book even the parts where she was in love and not fighting it any more she still seemed a little shallow and not as in love with Travis as he was her. I think that was my only complaint and it was so minor that it didn't retract from the story or my rating at all.
I love Travis so much. He's hot, he fights, swears,has a horrible temper, and is a grade-A douche bag to woman before he meets Abby. I loved reading about his transformation from that to a guy that is completely devoted to one woman and to his family. Now in this book Abby to me was a down right bitch, she was just cruel to him. But in Beautiful Disaster I agreed with Abby's decisions. Getting both sides of the story showed how much of a disaster their relationship was at first and how incredibly beautiful at the same time because they were both so flawed and yet so perfect for each other. Travis was such an emotional wreck and I got so wrapped up in his story that when he'd break down I would too.
And OMG that Epilogue was the perfect ending to beautifully written and well thought out book. It showed how much he truly had changed and it showed how he and Abby were truly meant to be together even though everyone thought they'd never make it.
Now in Beautiful Disaster Abby wasn't emotionless but she had a great poker face and pretended to be, though she's doing the same thing in this book it came off as she was totally emotionless. She seemed not to be as in love as I know she is and she just felt really shallow in this book to me. That being said I know from book 1 that's not true and that is what she is trying to pretend and portray herself to be so I guess Jamie did a great job integrating that. But in this book even the parts where she was in love and not fighting it any more she still seemed a little shallow and not as in love with Travis as he was her. I think that was my only complaint and it was so minor that it didn't retract from the story or my rating at all.