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Review: Walking Disaster (Beautiful #2), by Jamie McGuire

4/13/2013

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Publisher: Atria Books
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Format: Kindle, ARC
Pages: 433 (Paperback)
Source: NetGalley, Courtesy of Atria Books
Genre: New Adult, Romance
Review Date: April 15, 2013
Rating: 3 bookmarks 

Synopsis: Finally, the highly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Beautiful Disaster. Can you love someone too much?
Travis Maddox learned two things from his mother before she died: Love hard. Fight harder.

In Walking Disaster, the life of Travis is full of fast women, underground gambling, and violence. But just when he thinks he is invincible, Abby Abernathy brings him to his knees.

Every story has two sides. In Beautiful Disaster, Abby had her say. Now it’s time to see the story through Travis’s eyes.

Disclaimer: I received this book as a galley courtesy of the publisher in exchange for an honest review.


You know how the saying goes, there's two sides to every story? I think that's true, but It was hard for me to detect the differences. Thank God for the prologue  the last two chapters and the epilogue. Without that it felt like I was re-reading exactly the same book,  almost verbatim as beautiful disaster. To me reading the book from Travis's point of view was not very much different than reading it from Abby's point of view. The stories were so similar the quotes were identical. I actually got to the point where I would skim over a page or two just because I already knew what was going on.  The major difference, which was pretty consistent, is that the inner-monologue going on with Travis and his conversations between Shep and himself are a bit more raunchy. That's probably lending to the fact that they're college guys, hell, maybe just because they're guys period.
I was hoping for a larger variation of story between Travis and Abby. Like for example, I was thinking that maybe Abby seeming more like the crazy one this time around. But actually it just ended up being Travis showing himself to be even more crazy and volatile than he was in Beautiful Disaster.

I appreciated the prologue, because it gave us a little bit of insight as to how Travis may have developed the emotional issues that he has . I also enjoyed the last two chapters an epilogue because we got to see beyond and the ending that we experienced in Beautiful Disaster. We got a glimpse of their lives together 11 years into the future, and to see that they were still together and happy was nice. A bit unrealistic, but still nice anyways.  It almost makes all the crazy, ridiculous drama they went through worth it because they got their happy ending after all.

With that being said, I feel like I was one of the few left out of the loop on how wonderful this book is. Don't get me wrong, it's decent. Not bad at all.  The writing style is identical to her previous book, so if you liked that book, theoretically  you'll like this one.  If after reading Beautiful Disaster you find yourself wondering what happens to Travis and Abby later in life, then I'd recommend this book. Other than that, if you don't want to feel like you've re-read Beautiful Disaster again, I would just skip to the end. That's the biggest difference anyway. If you thought that Beautiful Disaster was just okay, don't read this as it's more of the same.

Happy Reading, 
~Tamara
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Lectus link
4/16/2013 01:17:45 am

I've seen many reviews for this book lately. Unfortunately, I tried reading the first one but couldn't finish it :-(

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Alexis @ Reflections of a Bookaholic link
4/26/2013 06:49:41 pm

It's an interesting idea to tell a story from a different point of view. Like you, I'd expect it to be very different. I guess this wouldn't work if the character in question was very present in the first telling. Thanks for the heads up.

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