Beautiful Oblivion (Maddox Brothers, #1)

by Jamie McGuire

[Leah]

After months of putting it off, I finally read Beautiful Disaster – the novel that every New Adult fan raves about and I LOVED it! It was beautiful and hot and romantic and everything I love about New Adult, so I was super excited when Jamie McGuire announced she was writing books about the entire Maddox clan!!! Oh the joy! The excitement! More Maddoxes. Sigh. Awesome. Beautiful Oblivion is the first Maddox Brother story, and we get to meet Trent and Cami, who I am reliably informed do appear in BD! I couldn’t wait to get stuck in and I bloody loved it!

At first I was a bit discombobulated with Beautiful Oblivion – it’s not explicitly stated if Beautiful Oblivion is set before/after/at the same time as Beautiful Disaster so I was kinda confused early on when we saw Travis getting it on with someone who was NOT Abby! But it seems all the books in this series are, so far, set in the same time frame of Beautiful Disaster. Which is clever, actually, but confusing. Dates would have helped or clarification or something! Because ya know I was totes concerned for a mo about my fave couple!

Much like Abby and Travis, Cami and Trent have the same sort of friendship turned relationship and that’s always a hit with me – I think friends before becoming more is always a sure fire hit, although it was totes awkward on Cami’s behalf since she has a boyfriend, TJ! But ya know he travels a lot, is rarely in the same place as Cami and you just have to be available, especially when a tatted up gorgeous Maddox comes a-calling, with the sweeeeeeetest little girl in the world in a bid to get you to go out with him. Truth be told, Trent wouldn’t need a sweet little girl for me to say yes to him! ;)

McGuire knows how to build the best relationships – I love her romantic writing and her tension building, man can she make me desperate for kissing action! Jeez, you could cut the chemistry with a knife! But I liked the build up because the payoff is then always so much better! I dunno why, it just is! And with two characters like Cami and Trent you knew it was inevitable they’d fall in love and have babies and all that other mushy stuff, if they can get all the other stuff outta the way obvs.

There’s a big secret that sort of hangs over Cami and Trent, the mysterious TJ, which actually wasn’t all that mysterious and which I guessed because it wasn’t that bloody hard, and I could just see the two of then heading for a crash because Cami was too afraid to tell the truth. But I loved that Trent signed up for whatever it was without hearing it – that’s super sweet and sort of sums up Trent nicely. Yeah he’s a bad boy fighter all tatted up, but he’s sweet and he takes care of a little girl who can’t pronounce her r’s and lost her bro.

Beautiful Oblivion just made me feel all the feels. I loved Cami, I loved Trent, I loved seeing Abby and Travis’s relationship from another angle! I loved Cami’s BFF Reagan and I looooved seeing Cami go from non tattooed girl to tattooed girl! I adore my tattoo chicks, being one myself. There’s loads to love about this book and I loved it all. I can’t wait to meet the next Maddox bro, to he honest i’d take any if them no questions asked but Trent beats out his little bro for me. Just sayin’. I loved being back in the Maddox world again, and let’s hope I’ll get to go there again soon!