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Beautiful Disaster
by Jamie McGuire, 2011 · 10 pages
This reads fast and hot, propelled by snappy dialogue, party scenes, and a will-they-won't-they push and pull that keeps pages turning late into the night. The prose is plain and conversational rather than lyrical, so the pull comes from emotional highs and lows and the addictive tension between the two leads rather than from the writing itself. Expect a whiplash of jealousy, reconciliation, and heat rather than a slow contemplative read.
new adult romance · intense · turbulent · swoony
What Beautiful Disaster feels like to read
- Pacing: 8 out of 10
- Darkness: 5 out of 10
- Emotional intensity: 8 out of 10
- Humor: 5 out of 10
- Romance: 10 out of 10
- Complexity: 2 out of 10
Reading age: 17+ (new adult)
Spice: 3 out of 5. a few open-door scenes
Beautiful Disaster tropes
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