Synopsis:
Forget everything you know about fairytales. There comes a point in a woman’s life when she realizes not everyone gets a happy ending.
And no one knows this better than Lillian Shaw.
The safety of a small southern upbringing and a happy normal family couldn’t keep life from chipping away at her.
And nothing leaves its mark like the bite of a broken heart.
Blow after blow, Lillian tries to stay optimistic, but when faced with a choice that could destroy her future, she gives in to the temptation.
When your first true love comes crashing into your happily ever after, you’re supposed to walk away. Not fall back in love.
But saying no to Leo was something Lillian could never do…
Once lines are crossed is there any going back?
Or is the risk that Lillian Shaw takes going to leave her broken again…
And this time be enough to make her A Woman Gone Mad?
***Warning: This is not a shy and tender fairy tale love story. It’s a raw, tragic, and gritty story inspired by true events. This book is not for the faint of heart, it contains graphic language, sex, violence, and drug use. MATURE Audiences Only. Not intended for young adult readers.***
Our Review:
I started reading this book not knowing what it was about. This is a new thing for me and I feel more involved when I am reading.This book is written like a journal. Our “heroine” Lillian starts by telling the reader about her life beginning when she was a young girl, and how circumstances have taken her to where she is now. I was very surprised but I really enjoyed this book. It is a very different form of story-telling. It was heartbreaking to see how a girl/woman begins to break when she feels that being with a boy or man can define her, and that’s what starts to break her. One thing I did not particularly like about the story involves her child. I don’t want to give anything away about the story, but I didn’t care for certain actions that Lillian took, and that she made excuses for her actions. At that point in the story, it became more about Lillian being concerned over what was happening to her and not about her child. This is something I really dislike in books. During the entire read, I felt a sadness from the author, and it felt that what I was reading was very real. I really enjoyed it.
– Cathy
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This a very emotional and heavy-hitting story about a tough and resilient girl named Lillian. What I liked about this book is that I thought the story was going in one direction, and then bam, the book completely changed course. I like being surprised by a story line, and A Woman Gone Mad has tons of twists and turns. It is a very, very gritty story and contains plenty of (sometimes very raw) sex scenes, which, while not exactly all hearts-and-flowers, felt very right for the story. I really liked how feisty and strong Lillian was and I actually kinda loved all the male characters (even the not-so-likable ones). There were a few tiny plot inconsistencies but overall, I really liked this roller-coaster of a story as well as the Southern setting. Kimber Dawn is an author to watch and I’m looking forward to more stories from her.
– Ellen
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Author Bio:
What the hell is up y’all?! I’m Kimber, and I really freaking hope y’all enjoy AWGM! If you get a chance, throw me a review up on my FB page, www.facebook.com/AWGMbyKimberDawn or Goodreads if you loved it! I am a whore for reviews.
Ahh… let’s see, what can I tell you about my self… Well, first of all I’m a straight up whore for many, many things. I’m a wine whore, some would say I’m a functional alcoholic, and I’m totally cool with that title. Now the day my cheese completely falls off my cracker and I lose the functional in that title, well yeah never mind. Even then I’ll deny that shit. I’m a whore for Victoria’s Secret, no seriously, like my VS Angel’s Credit Card stays maxed out, hey, they got cool shit. I have a whole lot of hats, meaning I can be called a billon different things, daughter, wife, mother, labor unit nurse, I sell pussy on the side *coughs* that would be persian kittens, thank you you dirty minded scoundrel, I’m also compulsive blackjack addict, book blogger, book pimp, book whore, Jack Daniels is my favorite boyfriend and my biggest dream, the day I’ll acknowledge that I’ve succeeded in life and can a die a happy woman is the day I get to go two stark naked hour round sexual bouts with Jason Statham. *Sighs* I started writing poems and short stories very early in my life, you know for the Michael’s and Leo’s and Nick’s in my life. I’ve been a book hoarder since I was eleven years old, but then a couple years ago something wonderful happened! The 50 shades of Grey craze brought to life my inner smut whore where I commenced to read anything and everything smut affiliated. When reading wasn’t enough any anymore and I noticed that so many of the authors of my favorite books weren’t getting the exposure their work deserved I turned it into a mission, starting my own blog, buying their books and reading them one by one, I then wrote my reviews for my blog and didn’t hold back in writing them. I’ve never done a single thing in my life half way, I always go all in. After the success of my Blog, and the insistence of one of my bestest friends, my sister from another mister, Trina Taylor of Bad & DirtyBooks I was ready to finally take the plunge and write the story that’s been restlessly clawing to get out of my head and onto paper for a VERY long time. I’m a southern girl to my core, a self proclaimed smut whore, and I guess now we can add aspiring author to my hat collection as well.
Tattooed across my ribs are the words I have always lived by ‘Aut viam inveniam aut faciam tibi’ Latin for: If I can not find a way, I will make my own.