Hmm...what do i think?....I think Jamie McGuire is a freakin' genius!! This book just hooked me right from the cover! I have to say,the cover is sorta provocative and cool (to me anyways LOL). But, at the same time it'sss...i wanna say gross but i guess it's not so much gross as it is messed up. It's pretty sexy but then you get alook at that tongue and your like 'WTF?!? Dude, that's messed up!' In my opinion, i think it ties in very well with the overall story for Beautiful Disaster, but i'll get into that later. I enjoyed this book immensly! You wouldn't believe how incredibly addicting this book is! Some other reviewer said this book was like CRACK, i thought she was exaggerating, but she was NOT!...I tend to start to read around 10pm and end up falling asleep around 12:30ish.(To me that's a pretty good amount of reading time and i end up relaxed enough to fall asleep.) NOT the case with this book!! As i kept going deeper and deeper into the book, i found i couldn't stop reading, needng to get MORE and MORE as i continued reading. I kept promising, "After this chapter i am going to sleep....Okay, maybe just one more and definitley for sure i am going to sleep. I HAVE to!" This kept going up until like 3am, and even after i fell asleep, the first thing i did when i woke up was dig right in. I hope there isn't any rehab for book addicts because i LIKE IT!!!LOL (view spoiler)[Beautiful Disaster is in Abby Abernathy's POV.The book pretty much starts with her meeting smoking hot rebel-guy Travis Maddox (even his freakin' name is HOT!) in an illegal underground fighting match. She is seriously turned on by this guy, eventhough she is reluctant to admit it because Travis is exactly the kind of guy and influence she trying to run away from. She pretty much fails to keep him away and ends up accepting to be his 'friend' and sorta moving in with him for a perfect 'understandable' reason. In her defense,it wasn't Abby who changed the rules of the game. Who would have thought it would be Travis, the guy who all girls begged him to take to bed, known to be only a one-night-stand kind of guy, to be the one chasing after Abby. He always founf one way or another to be with her, either tricking her to go eat out with him (something he never did with any other girl, EVER!) ,being her tutor, walking her to class, and even going to the extreme of making a bet so she'd have to stay a whole month with him in his apartment in his bed! He is very gentlement-like about the bed thing by the way, never trying anything in it (keyword: IN IT.)If your wondering how she could ever accept to sleep in that bed after all the 'skanks' he's bagged, no worries he clarifies to her he only 'bags them in the couch, never in bed. Still gross but at least it's thoughtful of him (i guess, in a weird way.) Sometimes i would feel sorry for him because you'd notice that his feelings toward her were growing and growing fast and Abby didn't really see it or better yet acknowledged it at first, believing he just wanted to get in her pants since she was a challenge for him. But as the month she has to stay with him progresses Abby starts to let the lines of their so-called 'friendship' blurr a little, but still not sure getting inlvove with Travis is a good idea (he is a commitment-phobe), since she is trying to start a new life away from the mess-up one she used to have and didn't move to start it up again with someone like Travis. But all the progress made vanishes when Travis messes up their progresslike everyone was cautioning her he would. Travis regrets what he did and is very dissapointed when Abby acts indifferent toward his actions, but he still can't get over her and pretty much realizes he is on love with her Abby only feels she's confirmed that she is only a challange to Travis and they should only be friends. At the end of their bet (the last night they would be room-mates), Abby decides to sleep with Travis so that she can prove to him that he isn't in love with her but only thinks it since she has yet to sleep with him thinking this is the only way for Travis to get over her.(Now who is the messed one up?hmmm) Travis thinks that Abby has finally accepted to be with him and lets her now this only to shock her speechless at this revelation. And the only logical thing for her to do is?.....flee once he fell asleep, still thinking that he's going to change his mind and forget her. Totally not the case, he is ballistic the next day when he realizes what she did, telling her that she is wrong of she thinks that he is going to forget her. From here on out you realize how little by little Travis had become 90% dependant of her almost to the point of being obssessed with her. Here is a guy who took girls for granted pretty much telling Abby that he can't even breath without her. It shouldn't be a surprise that eventually Abby gives in and she tries at relationship thing only to find that again Travis finds a way to make Abby, realize that they are not good together because they are too dysfunctional. They both hurt each other without really wanting to.Their relationship has a lot of ups and downs especially the downs, and eventually they manage to sort their sh***t out and try to be together (hide spoiler)]The relationship between Abby and Travis had a lot of up and downs and a lot of tension, which i think is what life is made of, UP and DOWNS and TENSION. Not all relationships are easy and this book shows you this, you have to work them out when you love someone even when all tell you it's never going to work. This were i say that the cover (this version anyways) ties well with the book because it shows you the beauty of love but all so that it isn't always pretty. Love isn't perfect but worth it when you meet someone you love and Jamie McGuire lets you know this in this incredibly addciting book about love and how when you meet the one you can't give up on them.(that's my take, anyways)...for all i know Jamie McGuire could be trying to tell you people in love do stupid things so what out!LOL