Beautiful

Jamie McGuire

Jul 2012 · Beautiful Issue #1 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

Now a major motion picture! The “deliciously intense” (USA TODAY) New York Times bestselling phenomenon follows a good girl drawn to a very bad boy...

The new Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn’t drink or swear and has the appropriate number of cardigans in her wardrobe. With the darkness of her past behind her, she believes her freshman year at college is the start of a new beginning. But then she meets Travis Maddox.

Lean, cut, and covered in tattoos, Eastern University’s Walking One-Night Stand is exactly what Abby needs to avoid. Intrigued by her resistance to his appeal, Travis tricks her with a simple bet. If he loses, he must remain abstinent for a month. If Abby loses, she must live in his apartment for the same amount of time. Either way, Travis has no idea that he has met his match in this “beautifully sexy, beautifully intense, and beautifully perfect” (Jessica Park, New York Times bestselling author).

Ratings and reviews

I cannot understand the hype of this book. I read it...the whole ridiculous thing. The actual writing and diction weren't bad. It is the whole plot concept that I find appalling. It romanticized a womanizing thug with obvious, and dangerous, anger issues. He sleeps with multiple women while she is in the house with him...And that is appealing how? What utter trash. I almost never give scathing reviews. I simply cannot find a silver lining to this horrible story.

While it was entertaining enough, the story bounced around a lot. At times the pacing was way off, and she has a way of leaving stuff out and momentarily you're confused as to what is happening. Resulting in a few re-reads. If you're wondering if this is worth the buy, I'd say absolutely not. It jumped around so much, and seriously felt like multiple books with the story lines. She does not have a good writing style. 2 out of 10.

Heartfelt, relatable, realistic. In this touching book Jamie McGuire captures a love story between two young people going to the same school. Travis is your regular playboy until he gets mixed up with Abby and it changes both of their worlds. The characters are relatable in the fact that they share a lot of the same struggles of others their age.

About the author

Jamie McGuire is the New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Disaster, Walking Disaster, A Beautiful Wedding, Almost Beautiful, and the Maddox Brothers series. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with her children and two rescue pups, Finn and Coco. Please visit JamieMcGuire.com.