I am a 21 year old male who sees my local Barnes and Noble as my favorite store in existence. For, I'd say 13 or so years, my library has consisted of a plethora of YA fiction, mostly in the vein of Potter, Twilight and so on. Every so often, in the last few months, more specifically, I would find myself hurtling down the adult fiction section, spurred by my urge to read an "adult novel" both to expand my literary journey and to make my 23 year old sister stop her "you only read kids books" mantra, I understand it's a joke and there is nothing wrong with reading them at any age, but it still hurt. I firstly found A Discovery of Witches, by Debora Harkness, Angelolgy by Danielle Trusonni and The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, all excellent novels. After finishing those three within a few months my hunger for more seemed to be unable to be satiated. So I found myself at the new fiction table where I discovered, Beautiful Disaster. In the past, through Mia and Flynn you learn quite a lot and you feel everything. The strongest of which are faith and love. Undeterred and unabashed Mia forges through this whole story with an abundance of faith and the utmost understanding. She's the quintessential heroine in my reading eyes. Brave and forthright in her beliefs yet needing a little push. Her beauty is found in her patience, her kindness, and unyielding love. She gives Flynn so much consideration and shows him a love unlike any he's ever known. Likewise, Flynn's gifts to Mia are in her maturing. Where she's naive and easily controlled he shows her a sense of self she never knew allowing her to blossom. He exudes a sense of safety she's never felt. Flynn's belief in her, in her innate goodness and her staunch desire to make the world a better place, settles into Mia's heart and the hearts of Spinella's readers. But with a maelstrom of ill-timed coincidences, an ignorant and steadfast best friend, and this sordid past you'd never expect, Flynn and Mia are on an egg timer both in the past and the present. How Spinella unravels their story will leave you spell bound.

D'alessandro, Anthony. "Roger Kumble Movie 'Beautiful Disaster' Sets Dylan Sprouse, Virginia Gardner & More". Deadline . Retrieved November 1, 2021. Shotwell, Alyssa (October 26, 2021). "Racist Author Jamie McGuire Dragged Again Upon News of Romance Book Adaptation". The Mary Sue . Retrieved November 1, 2021. Sprouse’s feature credits in addition to After We Collidedinclude the Chinese fantasy romance Turandot, and the romantic comedy Banana Split. He created and wrote Suneater which recently released in comic book format.

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The book is not complex in vocabulary or themes. It doesn't have poignancy or nuance. It is a blatant telling of the story of passive artist, Mia, and how her life is changed over the course of one year when she meets Flynn, a one-named James Dean type, in the summer of her senior year of college. Unlike most of the other books I read, it was fairly simple...but utterly addictive.

Memories of the past began to creep up on her, after all Flynn is her ex-lover and she thought that she would never hear from him after all this time. He has walked out of her life twelve years ago but that does not make Mia stop thinking about him over the years. Mia knew Flynn when she was just a design student at the University of Georgia then. Flynn was the one who took notice of her initially, but he didn't think they belong to the same league anyway since he has a dark secret past while Mia looks like she doesn't belong to anything in his world. But then fate seems to be in their way as they later met each other in a pub, and Mia strike up a conversation with him both out of curiosity as well as a bet which she had with Roxanne, in which she was sure that she would get this mysterious stranger to buy her a beer, which he did. When Flynn awakens and confronts Roxanne about a letter he wrote that Mia obviously knows nothing about, everything begins to unravel. I read it in a span of three days unable to put it down. It was it my first "romantic" fiction novel, if you will, the closest to which I had gotten was "they made out with the passion of two lovers" the farthest most YA novels go. So to see a relationship both sexually and romantically develop and manifest in such a way is, for loss of a better term, refreshing. So, Ms. Spinella, I thank you for a novel I greatly enjoyed and will recommend to all. The way Laura Spinella weaves her prose is something done by the masters of the literary word and for this to be her first novel is honestly astounding. I cannot wait to read what she puts out next.Sprouse is repped by Bonnie Lietdke at Authentic Literary and Talent Management, UTA and David Markman at DLA Piper. Gardner is repped by 3 Arts Entertainment, UTA, Sloane Offer Weber and Dern LLP. North is repped by Buchwald, Luber Roklin Entertainment & Myman Greenspan. Barer is repped by Untitled entertainment, A3 and Peikoff Mahan. Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire: Book Review". USA Today. April 19, 2012 . Retrieved August 7, 2013. Jamie McGuire was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She attended Northern Oklahoma College, the University of Central Oklahoma, and Autry Technology Center where she graduated with a degree in Radiography. This brilliant and beautifully written story had a little bit of everything: coming of age, second chances, age gap between H/h, and romantic suspense. Told in Laura Spinella's eloquent style of third person point of view, this author toggles us between the past and present of Flynn and Mia - a rare couple with a connection so deep its as soul-shattering lovely as it is devastatingly haunting.