Friendship morphs into something more, and Cami finds herself in love with two guys at the same time.īut when Cami is pressed to admit that maybe her feelings for Trenton are stronger than those she has for T.J., she is hiding a secret, something that she believes means that she and Trenton cannot start a relationship together even if she ends things with T.J.īeautiful Oblivion is highly readable, perfect for sitting on a porch or lying in a hammock or tanning on the beach.

He’s moved to California to pursue a mysterious job, and when projected visits fall by the wayside and texts become a mere trickle, the temptation that Trenton offers becomes harder to resist. Then there’s her relationship with T.J., who is absent far more than he is present. She takes on a second job at the tattoo parlor where Trent works in order to help her youngest brother out of a financial jam, and with working two jobs and taking classes at Eastern University, she’s pretty well exhausted. Her father is an abusive drunk who finds a way to blame Cami for every problem that the family encounters. This is because Cami’s home life absolutely sucks.

Truth be told, Trenton has actually become the most stable presence in her life. Despite her protestations that she really has no interest in anything Trent has in mind, he manages to weasel his way into Cami’s life until she has to admit that he’s become a real, genuine friend.

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.

Beautiful oblivion by jamie mcguire