Beautiful Sacrifice: Book Review (The Maddox Brothers #3)

4 stars that rose from 3

Roller-coaster not Roller-coaster of emotions

Gliding through some parts but actually interested that I didn’t stop reading

Hello, dearies! 🪶

I will go into a very detailed, not spoilers, but a range of emotions about this book and the others in the series. So get ready for it.

Book series: The Maddox Brothers #3

Book Title: Beautiful Sacrifice

Author: Jamie McGuire

Genres: Drama. Romance (or so). New Adult. Secrets.

Year published: 2015

Page count: 284 (felt shorter)

400 pages or so on Paperback.

4⭐

Rant and rambling beginning in a few moments, are you ready for it? You have been warned. 😄

“I don’t need you to save me. I just need a little help to save myself.”

Just after reading the book

10% of it towards the end, made me sigh on how close it was to the other book, but perhaps I have been going through the books with the wrong approach…

That’s my fault, I just realised that as I write the third review for The Maddox Brothers Series.

This is a series of books so obviously they are all going to be related in the story part or storyline, I had been reading them as stand-alones but that is because they read like it for most of time.

That’s on me. 🙋‍♀️

That aside, Beautiful Sacrifice, McGuire did it again and managed me to shock me. But this time she got a new emotion out of me, I nearly cried, a lonesome tear might have fallen out because of how Taylor talked about loss and losing people, someone. Losses over all, it mixed with my own life, I admit it, but it was pretty heavy and accurate.

Now, the major plot twist happened and I could not believe it. I was imagining all manner of other things but that. 👍 Well done, Jamie,  you know how to surprise me.

The end though, I was glad how it was but I did have my skeptical moments about it. I cannot say it, it’s major spoiler and I don’t like to give away that much spoilers, I might in the future, but today Falyn and Taylor’s secrets are being kept.

About Beautiful Sacrifice

Who is it about?

Falyn Fairchild can walk away from anything. Having already left her car, her education, and even her parents, the daughter of the next governor of Colorado is back in her hometown, broke and waiting tables for the Bucksaw Café. After every shift, Falyn adds to her shoebox of cash, hoping to one day save enough to buy her a plane ticket to the only place she can find forgiveness: Eakins, Illinois.

The moment Taylor Maddox is seated in Falyn’s section at the Bucksaw, she knows he’s trouble. Taylor is charming, breaks promises, and gorgeous even when covered in filth—making him everything Falyn believes a hotshot firefighter to be. Falyn isn’t interested in becoming another statistic, and for a Maddox boy, a disinterested girl is the ultimate challenge.

The thing with me is, that I already knew where the story was headed, and so I guess I was a little too eager to move past the part of where Falyn was and get to where she go and how that turned out. Because we saw a glimpse of it all on Book 2 with Thomas and Liis. But anyway, I’ll stay on track, for now.

Meet Falyn

Falyn Fairchild, is a rich kid that wasn’t want to be rich, tied-down, in contact with her parents, studying, or having a well-off life. I get it, there were too many strings attached and her parents forced her to do things that she didn’t want to do, so she left. So, she is broke, it’s been years since she has been living and working a cafe, and living in a tiny place upstairs thanks to the good hearts of the owners of the place, who basically adopted her.

Here, in the cafe/restaurant is where she meets our MC: Taylor Maddox, who is one of the twins on the Maddox family.

Meet Taylor

Taylor Maddox, I have so many conflicting emotions about this character, on the one hand, he is a Maddox so he eventually is cool and good, and all, from the start you know deep down he is a good person, that is certain, but the packaging that is in and the way he is with Falyn at first, how he talks, I don’t know, it didn’t get through me. Maybe he is just not my type, I could say that Tyler is more approachable but hey, I haven’t read that book yet: Beautiful Burn. I’m starting soon.

Anyways, it turns out that Taylor has a dangerous job that takes away from Eakins (their small hometown), a firefighter, and this after we know that his parents didn’t want that type of job for any of them, and turns out that all the Maddox brothers have a dangerous as f**k job and the only honest one in this series is Trenton. But anyway, Taylor is lying to his dad about his job, I am with Falyn on this one, as close family like them and they are all lying to each other about their jobs, who they like, what they do with their lives is crazy.

Now. Honest?

Again, as I was saying, Taylor is my least favourite Maddox so far, I thought it would go in increments with each book, but I didn’t like his attitude. 🤷‍♀️Was he good with Falyn and for Falyn, sure, why not? But he is not my cup of tea. Is he very much like his brothers, and are they all pretty much similar? Yes, but clearly not enough for me to make a change from Trenton or Thomas to him. He is the bottom so far. And this when at first Travis used to be first because Beautiful Disaster was the first book I ever read about the Maddoxes, and turns out that there is so much more than that first one, which is not even on this series but it is the book that sets things in motions, so if you are going to start reading them, you should first go to Beautiful Disaster, just a suggestion.

Got carried away there for a moment. Back to Beautiful Sacrifice, where Falyn has a secret that she wants no one to know but actually a lot of people know about, when she asks Taylor for help, he agrees to it without fully knowing what he is in for, but in the end, after major, huge, setbacks between the two, they both find a way of making it work, even when Falyn can be annoying by imposing her thoughts of Taylor. I’ll give him that, he was very grounded, for most parts, and was able to patiently and maturely think things through, when he was not drunk or upset, see? It goes back and forth with this book, it was why I said at first that it was a roller-coaster and not, because I kept going into: yes, that’s what I thought, I agree. To: are you kidding me? *snort.

So, so, I’ll stop now, this took a lot longer than I believed at first, isn’t that the best? You think you don’t have much to say about a book and then end up ranting about it for a while? I love the feeling, that’s why some of my book chats on the podcast are longer then others, I get carried away. 😄

But this is it for this book review for Beautiful Sacrifice, have you read The Maddox Brothers series? I was going to pause but I don’t have to and want to continue it, that’s the good thing about reading all books years later, they are all available and I can binge-read it, I did it with Shadowhunters too. 💞

That’s all, thank you for reading and staying to the end, dearies! Don’t forget to comment, like, share, and all of that. Hope you come back. Check out more book reviews on the main page. ❄️📖

“Taylor glanced up at me, and for just a moment, I was captured by a pair of warm brown irises. In less than a second, I found something familiar behind his eyes. Then he blinked and returned to his menu.”