A Beautiful Wedding by Jamie McGuire
A Beautiful Wedding by Jamie McGuireMy rating: 1 of 5 stars
Before starting this book, I told myself over and over that this was REDEMPTION for McGuire. (Should it turn out to be a good read.)Walking Disaster wasn't up to par.
Friend: A Walking Disaster is amazing! You'll love it.
Me: *AFTER READING*
There was no redemption for Walking Disaster. This novella was worse than WD. I literally skipped through most of the lengthy paragraphs just to get to the dialogue. It seemed like I was reading filler/previous events that had transpired in Beautiful Diaster. No, we don't need to know that. We've already read it, TWICE, in fact.
And I'm sorry, but I don't remember Abby cursing this much in BD. She didn't just get a wild hair up her ass and decide to adopt a potty mouth out of nowhere. The different POV's were sometimes hard to tell apart.
The beginning was so slow. Hell, who am I trying to kid? I was confused throughout the first page. I actually pulled out BD to see if this book would match up with it. I don't like it. In BD Abby acted like she was just soooo in love with Travis that she couldn't go another minute without him. This novella is making it out like she married him because he could possibly go to jail.
This novella was a complete and total let down. If you value Travis' character and want to keep a decent image of him in your mind, just skip this and move on to something else.
Half of this book revolves around Travis and Abby getting out of town and preparing for the wedding. Nothing BIG happens during that.
To the editor/agent/publisher of this novella:
"but it was beautiful, and what we were about to do was beautiful. Even why I was doing it was beautiful..." That was in reference to her wedding dress that she had laid out on the bed.
And what the hell is up with all of the Bon Jovi references? 1st the quote at the beginning from "Thank You For Loving Me". Then the chapter title for Chapter six...And then the damn discussion in the limo about how Jon Bon Jovi got married in the same chapel (Graceland.)And Travis' mother's note "Thank you for loving my son" ect...
I don't know, after everything I had read in Beautiful Disaster, and then reading this, when it got to the part where "THING FOR YOU" played at their wedding I rolled my eyes. (This author ruined Travis Maddox for me.)Nothing felt right in this book.
There was no plot in this book, at all. The whole time the reader is left worrying if Travis will go to jail or not and then a year has passed in the story and it's their anniversary. Abby explains that she lied for Travis and he got away with going to jail. (That's pretty much it.) There is no big explanation of how he got away with it, no drama...
This doesn't even deserve 1 star, but I am going to rate it anyways. This is where Travis Maddox and I separate. He can no longer compete with my other book boyfriend, Lucas. (AKA, "Easy" by Tammara Webber.)
I didn't want it to end like this...
But with so many author's willing to give a new story line and really bust their asses delivering NEW and FRESH material (instead of repeating like McGuire)I just can't continue on with any of her books. This was supposed to be redemption and it wasn't. FAR FROM IT. Money talks and bullshit walks. She ran this series into the ground to where there was virtually nothing left of Travis to love. And it's a damn shame. If you can't give a decent story/plot, don't publish it. Period.
And that is how I truly feel after reading this book. I'm done.
NOVEMBER 2013: THOUGHTS BEFORE THIS BOOK WAS PUBLISHED.
Another book with Travis Maddox?
BUT I'll admit I'm a little on-the-fence about this one. Walking Disaster wasn't exactly what I envisioned it to be. I loved Beautiful Disaster, but my love begins and ends there. Walking Disaster was almost the exact same (with a little Travis persona added in) and in the end I was disappointed. So where do I go from here?
I adored Beautiful Disaster and with that comes a loyalty to the author. Some of you might understand what I am saying, others might not.
For example: JK Rowling fans adored the Harry Potter series and because of that they marched their happy asses to the store and bought The Casual Vacancy, not knowing what to expect. We go out and buy books from a certain author because of the expectations they set in their previous books. Walking Disaster didn't tickle my fancy. Did I buy it? Yes. Because it was from this author and of course I had expectations. Those expectations weren't met....But I adore Travis' character.
I guess you could say this book would be redemption in a way if it turned out to be good. I could bury the grudge I have with Walking Disaster and have a brighter outlook on McGuire's future novels, which would be ideal in this situation. However, if the book turns out to be terrible... I just don't know
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