Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire: Book Review". USA Today. April 19, 2012 . Retrieved August 7, 2013. When Ghost Gifts was published, I never thought I’d write about ghosts again. One and done, as they say. Mia Montgomery (Wells), who is going to college to be an eco-friend designer, meets Flynn, an older, motorcycle riding bad boy. Flynn is running from something but Mia doesn’t care. She loves being with him through good and bad and he promises never to just leave. He does just that and it shatters Mia. Beautiful Disaster contains a lot of heavy plot executed with attention-demanding prose and wonderfully built structure. The story of these two characters beholds a truly rare gem of instant yet hesitant friends, wanting to be lovers, becoming everything to each other with an ill-timed fate of unfortunate, brave, and lasting circumstance. Flynn being older and more experienced than the naive yet strong Mia provided a couple for whom you felt every emotion. The introduction of their romance stems from tragedy as Spinella weaves you delicately through each chapter as if those individual pieces of their story are small edges for you to straddle between mystery and faith.

I am a 21 year old male who sees my local Barnes and Noble as my favorite store in existence. For, I'd say 13 or so years, my library has consisted of a plethora of YA fiction, mostly in the vein of Potter, Twilight and so on. Every so often, in the last few months, more specifically, I would find myself hurtling down the adult fiction section, spurred by my urge to read an "adult novel" both to expand my literary journey and to make my 23 year old sister stop her "you only read kids books" mantra, I understand it's a joke and there is nothing wrong with reading them at any age, but it still hurt. I firstly found A Discovery of Witches, by Debora Harkness, Angelolgy by Danielle Trusonni and The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, all excellent novels. After finishing those three within a few months my hunger for more seemed to be unable to be satiated. So I found myself at the new fiction table where I discovered, Beautiful Disaster. Along with the main plot line, there is a bit of a mysterious sub-plot going on. College girls have been murdered from the midwest all the way to Alabama and Roxanne, is convinced Flynn was somehow involved. This suspicion on Roxanne's part almost ended her long friendship with Mia.Beautiful Disaster': Dylan Sprouse rom-com gets trailer ahead of Hulu release - UPI.com". UPI . Retrieved August 5, 2023. The project received considerable public criticism due to McGuire's controversial statements and far-right political viewpoints. [6] [7] [8] Release [ edit ] Silence settled between them as Flynn searched the busy bar for a place to hide his vulnerability. He rubbed his palms over his denim-covered thighs, realizing his hands were sweaty. The attraction, like the tide to the moon, kept pulling the two of them toward each other. "

Kit, Borys (July 26, 2012). "Studios in Bidding War for 'Fifty Shades'-Lite Novel 'Beautiful Disaster' ". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved June 12, 2021. As a reader, I love books that leave me thinking about the characters, the plot and why I felt the way I did at the end of the book. Ever since finishing Beautiful Disaster, it has remained in my thoughts as I have discussed various different points of views with other readers and even debated why we felt different ways about the various characters. Thought-out the entire book my feelings about the various characters changed from dislike to hatred, to liking, it just depending on what was going on. Overall, I can’t remember the last time that I disliked a group of characters as much as I did in various parts of this novel. Yet, I loved the plot and felt that the actions of the characters were suiting to the plot and they were consistent. There was no, at least to me, any character deviations from what I would have expected based on the way that they were introduced. Mia goes on to marry and is on the verge of realizing her eco-friendly dream when her best friend, Roxanne, calls her to tell her that her lost love has been in a motorcycle accident that he might not survive and is at the hospital where she works in the trauma unit. Mia rushes to the hospital and keeps vigil over Flynn in the hopes that he will recover.

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Memories of the past began to creep up on her, after all Flynn is her ex-lover and she thought that she would never hear from him after all this time. He has walked out of her life twelve years ago but that does not make Mia stop thinking about him over the years. Mia knew Flynn when she was just a design student at the University of Georgia then. Flynn was the one who took notice of her initially, but he didn't think they belong to the same league anyway since he has a dark secret past while Mia looks like she doesn't belong to anything in his world. But then fate seems to be in their way as they later met each other in a pub, and Mia strike up a conversation with him both out of curiosity as well as a bet which she had with Roxanne, in which she was sure that she would get this mysterious stranger to buy her a beer, which he did.

But! Despite the flaws, I couldn't for the life of me stop reading this book. I enjoyed the raw energy that Flynn and Mia shared. I enjoyed how intense some of those scenes got and I liked that Laura Spinella wasn't afraid to push her characters and the readers to the limit. There is an extreme amount of heart in this story and I found myself really caring about what happens to these characters. I've always loved stories about second chances, loving the dramatic and romantic which this book delivered quite nicely.Novels also written by Jamie McGuire include: apocalyptic thriller and 2014 UtopYA Best Dystopian Book of the Year, Red Hill; the Providence series, a young adult paranormal romance trilogy; Apolonia, a dark sci-fi romance; and several novellas, including A Beautiful Wedding, Among Monsters, Happenstance: A Novella Series, and Sins of the Innocent. I started reading it when I got home. My other take that day was a HUGE cookbook, so I really had no choice. This brilliant and beautifully written story had a little bit of everything: coming of age, second chances, age gap between H/h, and romantic suspense. Told in Laura Spinella's eloquent style of third person point of view, this author toggles us between the past and present of Flynn and Mia - a rare couple with a connection so deep its as soul-shattering lovely as it is devastatingly haunting. Kit, Borys. "Studios in Bidding War for 'Fifty Shades'-Lite Novel 'Beautiful Disaster' ". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved June 12, 2021.

Mia Montgomery's dreams is to be a successful interior designer; not any interior designer but one who focus on holistic design and to promote an eco-friendly concept in her work. She takes pride in her work, and she thinks she is getting there when she received a telephone call from a doctor friend, Roxanne, that Peyton Flynn McDermott is in the ICU due to an automobile accident and he is in a coma.Beautiful Disaster was released in the United States for two nights only, April 12–13, as part of Fathom Events. [9] The film streams on Hulu starting August 11, 2023. [10] Reception [ edit ] Jamie McGuire was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She attended Northern Oklahoma College, the University of Central Oklahoma, and Autry Technology Center where she graduated with a degree in Radiography. There's a lot of poignancy and sadness in this story. Discussions that evoke tears, some that make you angry, but every single one will make you feel. All the parts of their lives compound into this romantic tale through seasons of vibrant change. Vulnerable yet blind trust coupled with two characters you can't help but be in awe of make their love poetic. The captivating passion these characters have for each other and for Mia's dream creates a dynamic story. Shotwell, Alyssa (October 26, 2021). "Racist Author Jamie McGuire Dragged Again Upon News of Romance Book Adaptation". The Mary Sue . Retrieved November 1, 2021. Characters wise, I think Laura Spinella has done a great job in portraying Mia, Flynn, and Roxanne as well. I think readers would be able to connect with them through Spinella's detailed descriptions of them. However, though I think the characterisations are great, I have to admit that Roxanne's attitude is a little off putting from the way she fussed over Mia's love life but from another perspective, I think she is simply concerned about Mia, that's all. Mia, on the other hand, is a true romantic who totally believes in love and herself.