A Beautiful Wedding by Jamie McGuire Guest Review!

Book Details

• Series: Beautiful Disaster
• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Atria Books (December 10, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1476759545
• ISBN-13: 978-1476759548

About the Book

You know that Abby Abernathy unexpectedly became Mrs. Maddox. But what do you really know?

Why did Abby pop the question?
What secrets were shared before the ceremony?
Where did they spend their wedding night?
Who else knew about it . . . and didn’t tell?

Everything about Abby and Travis’s elopement was top-secret . . . until now. Fans of Beautiful Disaster and Walking Disaster will get all of their questions answered in this whirlwind tale of the wedding day (and night!)—and as with all good stories, this one will definitely have been worth the wait

Review

Having read Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire and spending a long time on it (it just didn’t draw my attention and keep it), I was not too excited to read A Beautiful Wedding, the novella that follows.  The first one was an okay novel, but that’s about it. It was just okay.  This series of books is perfect for a college-aged girl who’s probably not in college reading actual literature, but reading sappy romances about bad boys and frat parties.  

The first novel is lengthy, redundant and violent.  At over 300 pages, the thing just drags on with a very predictable plot.  Boy meets girl, boy beats up other boys, girl gets blood on her sweater, boy loves girl, and girl isn’t so sure.  But we all know what will happen.  Duh, girl loves boy too, it just takes another 276 pages for her to figure that out.  Then McGuire spends entirely way too much time explaining things that are easily inferred through the dialogue and the same point is drilled to excess.  It also seems that violence is cool and it puts a sexy overcoat on a nasty temper.  Travis Maddox, “every girl’s dream boy” is a paradox, seemingly intelligent yet a violent fighter.  The deep brooding type covered in tattoos that just can't seem to understand why Abby doesn't want to be with a womanizing, sex craving street fighter.  Gee, daddy issues maybe? Oh yeah, that's in these books too...Also, this novel brags about the profit potential of almost killing another person through fist fights.  Not okay.

Now, onto Beautiful Wedding.  Ugh.  The wedding happened in the first book, but we absolutely must get further detail in the second one.  For an instant, I thought it might actually get interesting.  What ever will Abby Abernathy do to save her precious Travis from going to prison (as he should)???  I know! Fly to Vegas and use Elvis as your alibi.  Brilliant.  As if that isn’t cliché and predictable.  So, in anticipation of the story actually getting interesting, I was one hundred percent disappointed.  Sure, it was romantic that Abby wanted to save the love of her life from being punished for the death of dozens of classmates (which may or may not have truly been his fault) and sure, Vegas has a history for the two of them, but c’mon.  Let’s be realistic.  

So, they get married. Neat.  Then they proceed to have sex for approximately 20 pages…that I skipped.  If you are not a fan of teenagers flying to Vegas, getting married and fornicating in the back of a limousine, this book is not for you.  But if you are a teenager with these things on your mind, by all means, read on and enjoy!  

Needless to say, I will not be reading the third novel in the series, which is basically the same story (for a third time), only told from Travis’s point of view.  Yeah, we get it.  He’s obsessed with Abby.  There are fights, there’s a fire and they get married.  I’m over it.  

This series is like the Fight Club threw up on The Notebook. 

This book was received for an honest review. Book was reviewed by Katie Kelly