Read: April 2013
“One of these days you're going to fall in love, son. Don't settle for just anyone. Choose the girl that doesn't come easy; the one you have to fight for, and then never stop fighting. Never.”
In response to the success of her book Beautiful Disaster, Jamie McGuire wrote a sequel called Walking Disaster that just hit the book stores and online. After a week on the market, Walking Disaster has created just as much hype as the first book.
In Beautiful Disaster, Abby Abernathy was
trying to start over with her best friend by going away to college far
from home. There she meets bad boy Travis Maddox. After making a bet and
losing, Abby’s relationship with Travis becomes more complicated.
Walking Disaster is different than most sequels in the sense that it isn’t really a sequel. Walking Disaster is the same story I loved from Beautiful Disaster, but instead of the female protagonist Abby Abernathy narrating, it’s her love interest Travis Maddox’s point of view.
I really enjoyed experiencing the story through another character’s eyes, and it could even be my favorite of the two. Walking Disaster is all in the mind of Mr. Maddox. This book perfectly rounds out the story told in Beautiful Disaster. All
of Travis’s questionable actions from the first book were justified in
the second. Also, I really enjoyed the new epilogue telling what hap-
pens to Travis and Abby in the future. Travis has to be one of my
favorite male protagonists I have read in a book. He is not your typical
bad boy, and his love for Abby throughout the novel makes me swoon.
The sequel’s only downside is that you can’t really
read it as there were unrealistic events that did occur throughout.
Some characters, that weren’t as important, support and eventually fall
in love. She is with James through it all and once it is time for him to
re-enter the real world you can’t help but cheer his victory with him.
Each sentence is better than the next; I couldn’t
force myself to put the book down; it was that great. Frey makes it easy
to relate to him because he’s an average man who went through more in
two weeks, than any person should have to in their life and he comes out
on top. By reading this novel, I learned many valuable things including
the idea that if you truly want something and are willing to work for
it, you can achieve anything standalone. To understand everything that
is going on, you really need to read the first book. I was just barely
able to keep up the Travis retelling the story with the event told by
Abby excluded, not having read Beautiful Disaster in a few months.
I love both of these books and can’t wait for more.
The rights for a movie have been sold and the screenplay is in the
process of being written. Author Jamie McGuire has also spoken out and
said that she will be writing more books that include some of the same
characters form Beautiful Disaster and Walking Disaster.
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