![]() ![]() ![]() Even though they’d gone to school together all their lives, she’d never warranted so much as a second glance from the notorious man-ho. Besides, Trenton can’t be hitting on her because everyone knows she’s dating T.J. So when he pulls up a chair at part-time college student/bartender Camille Camlin’s pub table one evening, buys her drinks and begins chatting like they’re old friends, Cami doesn’t know what to make of it. 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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