A review by libraryjill16
Walking Disaster by Jamie McGuire

2.0

I think this should have just been called "Disaster," because that's what it was. It took me until about the middle of the book to realize that we don't get any sense what kind of a person Abby is and why Travis is even attracted to her. She has minimal voice in this book, which I found very odd, since she is the object of his obsession. I expected that we would find out more about her from his eyes, but we really only got to see his messed up obsessiveness without ever really getting to understand why. I was about 2/3 of the way through when I tried to tell myself I didn't need to keep reading since I already knew what happened. But I kept slogging through, silly me. All I really would have needed to read was the last chapter and epilogue. My rating got bumped back up to a 2 from a 1 because of the epilogue, although it should be bumped down another 1/2 star because there is a paragraph that says that it never occurred to him or Abby that the FBI didn't recruit (when he was recruited after college) and then he's all confused when she gives him some info that could help him in the case against her dad, because "as far as I knew, she thought I worked in advertising." What? This doesn't even make sense--why would it have to be kept a secret? Why didn't an editor catch that descrepancy. Seriously, save your self some time--if you feel you must, just read the last chapter and epilogue as long as you've already read Beautiful Disaster. Save yourself the time and angst of this junior high-like relationship.