Beautiful Disaster/ Walking Disaster

Book Review:

Beautiful Disaster

The new Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn’t drink or swear, and she has the appropriate number of cardigans in her wardrobe. Abby believes she has enough distance from 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 wants—and needs—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.

Walking 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.

My Review:

I actually read Beautiful Disaster like 6 months ago, and finally read the sequel. I love reading this book from both of their points of view. His and Hers. Travis is out of control and crazy, Abby wants to be a good girl and forget her past. But together they have this crazy relationship, and I love it. I loved both of these books. Great characters, great story, great LOVE story.

My only hang up, horrible horrible language, especially in the 2nd one, and some sex and other inappropriate language/situations. Dang it all! Never will understand why they feel the need to put that kind of stuff in books. My rating will be lower only because of those things.

3.5 out 5 rating.

Blackmoore

Book Review:

Kate Worthington knows her heart and she knows she will never marry. Her plan is to travel to India instead if only to find peace for her restless spirit and to escape the family she abhors. But Kates meddlesome mother has other plans. She makes a bargain with Kate: India, yes, but only after Kate has secured and rejected three marriage proposals.

Kate journeys to the stately manor of Blackmoore determined to fulfill her end of the bargain sooner rather than later and enlists the help of her dearest childhood friend, Henry Delafield. But when it comes to matters of love, bargains are meaningless and plans are changeable. There on the wild lands of Blackmoore, Kate must face the truth that has kept her heart captive. Will the proposal she is determined to reject actually be the one thing that will set her heart free?

Set in Northern England in 1820, Blackmoore is a regency romance that tells the story of a young woman struggling to learn how to follow her heart.

My review:

So, yes, I have been a book slacker lately! We went on a week vacation, where I didn't read once, crazy! And I totally got hooked onto watching How I met your Mother, so that was taking all my reading time.

I love a good love story. And this was a great one.  Kate is a great character, and this book just has you wanting more page after page. Her mother and sister and a total nightmare!! All the characters in this book are so well written.  It just sucked me right in from the first page to the very last. This author actually wrote another book I loved too, called Edenbrooke, I highly recommend them both!

Rating 4.5 out of 5.