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Showing posts with label Amazon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amazon. Show all posts

Wednesday, 5 February 2014

Beautiful Disaster Series

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This book is on my current list and as I noticed there was more in the series I decided to read them, then do a post on them all so here it is :)

Beautiful Disaster (Beautiful Disaster #1)
Published: 2011
319 Pages


Description: 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, Tracis 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.

Review: Oh. My. God. This book is awesome. Like seriously you need to stop what you are doing and read this book. 

The storyline is gripping and has you hooked before you even realised it and you're left wondering how it suddenly become 3'oclock in the morning (which totally happened to me) this book is in Abby's POV which I liked the idea of.

The characters are so well thought out including the relationships they have with one another. This book is more than a love story between two damaged people. The friendship between Abby & Meredith is one that everyone wants, they totally have each other's back. And don't get me started on Travis, apart from the whole loses his temper at the drop of a hat, I reckon he is every woman's dream man (including mine) and he is devoted to Abby and there is nothing he wouldn't do to keep her happy.

Walking Disaster (Beautiful Disaster #2)
Published: 2013
433 Pages



Description: This book is the same exact book as Beautiful Disaster but in Travis's POV.

Review: I loved that I could read the same story again but from a different point of view, that doesn't happen very often so it was refreshing to know everything from both characters that the story is about. 

Also reading this book you learn things that you didn't know about from Abby's POV including what happens after beautiful disaster finishes which I loved as it was sort of like closure rather then it being left on a cliff hanger as that's what beautiful disaster does and probably would never be able to sleep again if I didn't know what became of them too. A little dramatic perhaps but the truth none the less.

Beautiful Wedding (Beautiful Disaster #2.5)
Published: 2013
160 Pages




Description: 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 Walkihg 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: If you've read the other two books then you will know that it ended with them being married and if you didn't know that then.....SURPRISE. So this story is pretty much the story of everything that happened with the wedding. 

I'm glad I got to read this book as I got to see how they got married, what they wore etc. It was a nice ending to a brilliant series. It isn't an essential read, you won't really miss anything should you decide to not read this. But you should because if you're as hooked as I was this will totally give you the fix you need!

Overall - if you can't tell already then I love these books, they are different from any other books I have read before, I couldn't even compare them to anything because they are just that unique. I guarantee that by the end of the first chapter you will be hooked. Give them a go because you won't be sorry. 

My Overall Rating?: 5/5
Would I recommend?: Yes a thousand times yes. It's a brilliant series and I'm so glad I gave them a go.

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Have you read this series before? If so let me know as I'd be interested to know what you thought.

Till next time

XOXO
Debbie

FTC: I brought all these books with my own money. All opinions are 100% honest and my own. Descriptions are from goodreads and images are from google.

Sunday, 19 January 2014

Sunday books #17



The Storyteller
Published: 2013
460 Pages



Description: Sage Singer befriends an old man who's particularly beloved in her community. Josef Weber is everyone's favourite retired teacher and Little League coach. They strike up a friendship at the bakery where Sage works. One day he asks Sage for a favour: to kill him. Shocked, Sage refuses...and then he confesses his darkest secret - he deserves to die, because he was a Nazi SS guard. Complicating the matter? Sage's grandmother is a Holocaust survivor. 

What do you so when evil lives next door? Can someone who's committed a truly heinous act ever atone for it with subsequent good behaviour? Should you offer forgiveness to someone if you aren't the party who was wronged? And most of all - if Sage even considers his request - is it murder, or justice?

A Week In Winter
Published: 2012
464 Pages


Description: Stoneybridge is a small town on the west coast of Ireland where all the families know one another. When Chicky Starr decides to take an old, decaying mansion set high on the cliffs overlooking the windswept Alantic Ocean  and turn it into a restful place for a holiday by the sea, everyone thinks she is crazy. Helped by Rigger and Orla, her niece, Chicky is finally ready to welcome the first guests to Stone House's big warn kitchen, log fires, and understated elegant bedrooms.

John, the American movie star, thinks he has arrived incognito; Winnie and Lillian are forced into taking a holiday together; Nicole & Henry, husband wife, have been shaken by seeing too much death practicing medicine; Ander's hates his father's business, but has a real talent for music; Miss Nell Howe, a retired schoolteacher, criticizes everything and leaves a day early, much to everyone's relief; the Walls are disappointed to have won this second-prize holiday in a contest where first prize was Paris; and Freda, the librarian, is afraid of her own psychic visions.


The Lost Child Of Philomena Lee
Published: 2009
452 Pages



Description: When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to the convent of Roscrea, Co. Limerick, to be looked after as a 'fallen woman' and at the age of three her baby was whisked away and 'sold' to America for adoption. Coerced into signing a document promising 'Never to Seek to Know' what the Church did with him, she never saw him again. She would spend the next fifty years searching for her son, unaware that he spent his life searching for her.

Philomena's son, renamed Michael Hess, grew up to be a top lawyer and then a Republican politician in the first Bush administration. But he was also gay and in 1980's Washington being out and proud was not an option. He not only had to conceal his sexuality, but, eventually, the fact that he had AIDs. With little time left, he returned to Ireland and the convent in which he was born to plead with the nuns to tell him who his mother was, so that he might see her before he died. They refused.

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Any of these books take your fancy?

Happy reading

XOXO
Debbie

FTC: All descriptions are from Goodreads & all pictures are from google.