The new Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn’t drink or swear, and she has the appropriate percentage of cardigans in her wardrobe. Abby believes she has enough distance between her and the darkness of her past, but when she arrives at college with her best friend, her path to a new beginning is quickly challenged by Eastern University's Walking One-Night Stand. Travis Maddox, lean, cut, and covered in tattoos, is exactly what Abby needs—and wants—to avoid. He spends his nights winning money in a floating fight ring, and his days as the ultimate college campus charmer. Intrigued by Abby’s resistance to his appeal, Travis tricks her into his daily life with a simple bet. If he loses, he must remain abstinent for a month. If Abby loses, she must live in Travis’s apartment for the same amount of time. Either way, Travis has no idea that he has met his match.
Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuireMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
My bestfriend, Ashley, suggested I read this book. We have very similar taste so I bought the book and was instantly hooked.
This book feels like it's a bit full of plots. I'm saying that's a bad thing. Usually books tend to lag and feel like there are parts that are utterly boring. This books had none of that. The story just kept going. Just when you thought the book was nearing it's end something else happened.
The story follows a girl named Abby. She meets a guy named Travis at an underground fighting ring, also, who everyone sees as bad news. He's known as the school player. He sets he sights on her and when she constantly refuses to hook up with him, he settles for being her friend.
The hot water in Abby and her bestfriend, Americas dorm goes out, American tells Abby that they're both going to stay with Americas boyfriend/Travis' roommate/cousin. He convinces her to sleep in his bed with him but says he won't try anything, and he didn't.
They did the friend thing for a while but there was always that little bit of a relationship there. He was never a relationship guy so it scared him. You know the type, typical bad boy can't commit and when he wants to, it scares the shit out of him so he acts like a jerk. That is exactly what he did. But to his surprise, Abby didn't want to date him. Well, she did but something from her past was holding her back.
You don't find out exactly what that past is for what feels like way too long into the book. You finally get to see them get together and he changes into a whole new person. He's overprotective and obsessive
The thing about Travis for me was that he may have been hot, but he was so beyond damaged that I just couldn't see why Abby even bothered. He was controlling and obsessive. He's not MY kind of guy.
Travis takes her to his Dads place and they convince her to play poker and she keeps telling them that it wasn't a good idea. She gives in but Travis assumes she can't play and she lets him teach her to play and she totally hustles them. That's when one of Travis' brothers asks what her last name was and that's when the truth comes out about who she is. Her father was a famous poker player but when she turned 13 his luck vanished and she became very lucky, so everyone knew her as Lucky thirteen. They're all in awe of her. Travis was just shocked and oddly thrilled that she was Lucky thirteen.
At a party, her dad shows up saying he needs money. He owes money to Benny, a guy who will kill him if he doesn't pay up. Abby goes to Vegas and tries to win enough money before the deadline so she can pay Benny. When at the casino, her ex boyfriend finds her and tells that he runs the casino for his dad and that she had to have dinner with him the following night and she could stay until midnight or she had to leave ASAP. At midnight, she doesn't have all the money she needs but goes to Benny in hopes that she can work out a deal with him. Travis being the protective guy he is, threatens to beat/kill Benny's guys. He fights 2 guys and wins and Benny tells him that if he fights for him the next night, the debt would be settled.
He fights for Benny and wins and Benny offers him a lot of money to fight. He tells Abby and she tells him what Benny is like but Travis is so blinded by the money he can't think about the fact that Benny is the mob and would kill him if he decided he as done with Benny.
That's when Abby realizes she can't be with Travis. He's too much like her father. They break up and it's ugly. I don't get how you can date someone like that honestly, he's a bit scary. I get that he has issues, but he's really messed up.
Anyway, she agreed to do Thanksgiving dinner at his dads place and even though they're broken up, she agreed to do it. She doesn't go back on promises. They get close again and he blurts out that he's done trying to make her happy and that he will just focus on being friends. That speech came at the moment when she was going to tell him that she wanted to get back together. After that, he walked around happy and she was miserable.
She was out with Parker, a guy she dated briefly, and Travis asked if she would go to his fight with him. She agreed and he had his brother stay with her at the fight so he could make sure she was safe. At the end of the fight, the place caught fire and Travis went one way and Abby and his brother, Trent went another way. Trent followed a group of people and Abby went another way. Travis went back to find her and it was a good thing since she probably would have died. Once they were out, they couldn't find Trent and they thought he died. Turned out, he got out and was worried they hadn't gotten out.
In the end, Abby asked Travis to marry her. To no ones surprise, he already had a ring. They ran off to Vegas and got married and she got a tattoo that said Mrs. Maddox to match Travis' tattoo of her name.
I will say, the story was great. Travis scares the crap out of me and I would never be cause dead even being friends with a guy like that.
It was a good book. I would read it again. It's cute and scary and annoying in a good way.
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