Flynn being older and more experienced than the naive yet strong Mia provided a couple for whom you felt every emotion. The story of these two characters beholds a truly rare gem of instant yet hesitant friends, wanting to be lovers, becoming everything to each other with an ill-timed fate of unfortunate, brave, and lasting circumstance. 'She went for a ride on a motorcycle and everything changed.'īeautiful Disaster contains a lot of heavy plot executed with attention-demanding prose and wonderfully built structure. 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. 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. I often found myself wanting to skip the Athens chapters just to see what happened next in the present, a true testament and praise for an exquisite novel. I cannot wait to read what she puts out next. 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. Spinella, I thank you for a novel I greatly enjoyed and will recommend to all. So to see a relationship both sexually and romantically develop and manifest in such a way is, for loss of a better term, refreshing. 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. I read it in a span of three days unable to put it down. So I found myself at the new fiction table where I discovered, Beautiful Disaster.

After finishing those three within a few months my hunger for more seemed to be unable to be satiated. I firstly found A Discovery of Witches, by Debora Harkness, Angelolgy by Danielle Trusonni and The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, all excellent novels. 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. 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. I am a 21 year old male who sees my local Barnes and Noble as my favorite store in existence.

Beautiful disaster by laura spinella