Beautiful Sacrifice (Maddox Brothers, #3)

by Jamie McGuire

Falyn Fairchild can walk away from anything. Already leaving behind her car, her education, and even her parents, the daughter of the next governor of Colorado is back in her hometown, broke and waiting tables for the Bucksaw Café. After every shift, Falyn adds to her shoebox of cash, hoping to one day save enough to buy her a plane ticket to the only place she can find forgiveness: Eakins, Illinois.

The moment Taylor Maddox is seated in Falyn’s section at the Bucksaw, she knows he’s trouble. Taylor is charming, breaks promises, and gorgeous even when covered in filth—making him everything Falyn believes a hotshot firefighter to be. Falyn isn’t interested in becoming another statistic, and for a Maddox boy, a disinterested girl is the ultimate challenge.

Once Falyn learns where Taylor calls home, everything changes. In the end, Maddox persistence is met with Falyn’s talent for leaving, and for the first time, Taylor may be the one to get burned.

• ISBN10: 1511847506
• ISBN13: 9781511847506
• Publish Date: 31 May 2015
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 270
• Language: English

Reviews

[Ashley]

This rating is mostly because of Falyn. She was SO ANNOYING. She was a massive, presumptuous bitch. She constantly pushed Taylor away until she realized she wanted something from him. Then she played mind games with him in order to maximize the chances that he'd help her. MY GOD. Selfish turd.

[Cocktails and Books]

I kinda saw where this one was going after reading Redemption. Taylor showed up in San Diego on a whim, he had Liis thinking Thomas was having wild sex with another woman, and Thomas had alluded to Taylor being dumped. So as I started Sacrifice, I figured something was going to happen that I didn't like. But with Taylor and Falyn, you have to expect the unexpected.

Taylor is like all the other Maddox brothers. He's crash, an ass but hard to resist. His interactions with Falyn proved her wasn't the playboy she wanted to think he was. He let her verbally attack him, over and over, somehow figuring that this mean, bitchy woman had a redeeming quality that didn't seem to come through while reading. He made me believe everything he was going through trying to win her over: the fights, her pushing him away and breaking his heart, was going to be worth it in the end.

Falyn wasn't a character I liked. I understood what she went through and how that changed her as a person, but she was just down right mean. She knew it and didn't really care. I was right there with her when she was amazed that Taylor kept coming around, because I didn't see one redeeming quality in her. It wasn't until towards the end, when Falyn could finally admit, out loud, that she was a major part of the problem between her and Taylor, that I started to like her. She finally saw her punishment of Taylor for the issue that it was...her using him to punish herself for her sins. I wish it hadn't taken summer fires to make her realize that, but however she got to it was fine as long as she knew what she was doing.

Not my favorite of the Maddox brother books, but a solid entry into the series. I look forward to Tyler's story.