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Walking Disaster
by Jamie McGuire
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.