Housewife Blues and Chihuahua Stories

BOOK SYNOPSISWalking Disaster is Travis' POV.How much is too much to love?Travis Maddox learned two things from his mother before she died: Love hard. Fight harder.In Walking Disaster, the life of Travis is full of fast women, underground gambling, and violence. Just when he thought he was invincible, Abby Abernathy brings him to his knees.Every story has two sides. In Jamie McGuire's New York Times bestseller Beatiful Disaster Abby had her say. Now it's time to see the story through Travis's eyes.My ThoughtsWhen I read Walking Disaster it had been 10 months since reading Beatiful Disaster and yet it took me no time to get intensely involved with Abby and Travis and Shepley and America all over again!I firmly believe there is someone who fits each of us like a second skin, they understand us without judging, they love us faithfully and wholeheartedly with all our faults and shortcomings, that certain someone makes the world brighter;lighter and an all around better place just because they are in it! I also firmly believe that if Abby Abernathy and Travis Maddox were real people instead of fictional characters in a book that they would be more likely to "crash and burn" as a couple than not at some point in their relationship.However that being said these two characters however messed up, however unsuitable to each other, however wrong they should be work in the pages of their story and they work so well that reading this second book from the male POV was just as intense; intriguing and captivating to the emotions as it was when read book one from female POV.Author Jamie McGuire took us all captive when she released Beatiful Disaster and when she penned and put out Walking Disaster she proved once again that no matter what else is written we love to read about the bad boy/badder girl combination that this couple encompasses.I will say the same thing I said when I read the first book Beatiful Disaster and that is there is no way if I had a child he or she would be encouraged or probably even allowed to associate with either Travis or Abby as they are not the most stable of role models or influences. That being said if they were family it would probably be fun to hang out with them once they got out of college and settled down as the pair truly have a lust for life that means more than tattoos, piercings and youthful indiscretions .If you have not read either Beatiful Disaster or Walking Disaster than strongly suggest you take a chance because by the time you finish the first one you will understand just what the appeal is because for all the reason's why Abby and Travis should never have gotten together those same reason's are why they made it work as well as it did and their tale is one of bittersweet triumph against odds that would make the best bookie in Vegas cry!Not sure about anyone else but this POV version was so much more intense and it was also as good as the first book.[EArc from Netgalley in exchange for honest review]