Beautiful Sacrifice (Maddox Brothers, #3)

by Jamie McGuire

[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.