He’s not a vampire, but again, the Twilight comparison is an easy one. The main male character is Jared, who appears in a somewhat mysterious fashion and as the book goes on his paranormal origins become obvious before the secret is finally revealed. Whether this is an intentional effect of these characters or an unintended consequence of trying to write teen angst is hard to say. Comparisons with the Twilight series are inevitable, and the two main protagonists share similar characteristics, albeit here written for a slightly older audience. No matter what the dangers and other worldly happenings are going on around them, it is somewhat difficult to feel much sympathy.

It seems a trait for the genre, but the female lead always manages to appear incessantly whiny and annoying. The main protagonist Nina starts the book somewhat subdued by her father’s death, and although it is obvious we should feel sympathy here given the situation, the longer the book goes on the harder it is to actually like her. Jamie’s first book as an authorwas Providence, a self-published book released in November 2010, a paranormal romance featuring a girl, a guardian angel and a love triangle at Brown University. She has followed up with a New York Times best seller and the continuation of the Beautiful series of books. Starting out by self-publishing in 2010, Jamie is noted as being one of the authors leading the way for the New Adult genre, with her second book Beautiful Disaster becoming an international best seller. Jamie is married with three children, and shares a home in Enid Oklahoma with her family and a menagerie of animals. Oklahoma native Jamie McGuire is a New York Times bestselling author notable for the ‘Beautiful’ series of books, mostly in the New Adult fiction genre- ostensibly young adult fiction which focuses on the 18 – 25 age bracket.īorn in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Jamie was raised by her mother in Blackwell OK where she graduated from high school in 1997.She then attended the Northern Oklahoma College, the University of Central Oklahoma and the Autry Technology Center she graduated with a degree in radiography.

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