Because I had the feeling that Jamie McGuire writing sci-fi would probably end up being disaster-ridden (no pun intended). I did get burned, but probably not the way I expected to with this read.

*exhales slowly* There may be the lot of you who say 'Rose, you brought this one on yourself, woman.

Post read-reaction: I didn't think I was going to survive this one, but I managed to scrape my way out. Providence) plus with awkward or non-existent character motivations (Beautiful Disaster, Walking Disaster, etc.), I didn't think I'd find anything in that worth writing home about. I didn't try 'Red Hill' because I love zombie novels too much and with the issues her past paranormal series have had with worldbuilding (i.e. Pre-read reaction: Something tells me I'm going to regret this, but I seriously want to figure out how McGuire handles sci-fi. Jamie lives in Steamboat Springs, Colorado with her husband, Jeff, and their three children.įind Jamie at or on Facebook, Twitter, Google +, and Instagram. Her self-published novel, Beautiful Redemption hit Wal-Mart shelves in September, 2015. Jamie is the first indie author in history to strike a print deal with retail giant Wal-Mart. Novels also written by Jamie McGuire include: apocalyptic thriller and 2014 UtopYA Best Dystopian Book of the Year, Red Hill the Providence series, a young adult paranormal romance trilogy Apolonia, a dark sci-fi romance and several novellas, including A Beautiful Wedding, Among Monsters, Happenstance: A Novella Series, and Sins of the Innocent. The same year, A Beautiful Funeral also topped the New York Times bestseller list. In 2016, Beautiful Burn made an appearance on the New York Times and USA Today, and was also named iBooks' Romance Book of the Year. In 2015, books two and three of the Maddox Brothers series, Beautiful Redemption and Beautiful Sacrifice, respectively, also topped the New York Times, as well as a Beautiful series novella, Something Beautiful.

Beautiful Oblivion, book one of the Maddox Brothers series, also topped the New York Times bestseller list, debuting at #1. Her follow-up novel, Walking Disaster, debuted at #1 on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists in all four categories. Jamie paved the way for the New Adult genre with the international bestseller Beautiful Disaster. She attended Northern Oklahoma College, the University of Central Oklahoma, and Autry Technology Center where she graduated with a degree in Radiography. Jamie McGuire was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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