Trenton Maddox shares his brother Travis’s hot looks, quick temper, bad-boy persona and lady-killer charm. Beautiful Oblivion proved to be equal to its predecessor: the things I liked, I loved. Fast forward seven years and I felt compelled to pick up the first Maddox Brothers sequel (Travis has several brothers) to see if it inspired more exhilaration than exasperation. I had no desire to read the self-indulgent money grab companion novel Walking Disaster, which told the exact same story from Travis’s point of view instead of Abby’s. I loved hero Travis’s intensity but hated his anger management issues, swooned over his devotion to heroine Abby but despised his obsessiveness, prayed they’d stay together but loathed their co-dependent relationship, and wondered when mixed martial arts fighting became the go-to campus job for hot guys. Back in 2011, I was one of the many readers who had a love/hate relationship with Jamie McGuire’s runaway New Adult hit, Beautiful Disaster.
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