Book Review
Of Love and Madness; A Trilogy by Karen Cimms
Contemporary Romance. Contemporary Women’s Fiction.
4.5 Stars
A heart-wrenching modern love story I couldn’t put down.
Not used to reading this type of genre, I found the perspective on love and life refreshing. No long-winded courtship of maybe they like me/maybe they don’t, this one gets right into the nuts and bolts of what life is like, even with your one true love. With so many flaws creating baggage in each of us, this story really grabs how that might play out, regardless of intention.
Typically a more fantasy category reader, this real-life story tore at my heart, so much so I almost put the first book down about half-way through. Not because it wasn’t a great story, or that I didn’t care about the characters, but because I found myself so uncomfortable for everything going on, I wasn’t sure I needed that kind of stress in my life! Then, I was in it, and there was no more thought of abandoning the story…
Getting right into Book 2 as I finished the first installment, I was so glad I didn’t bail on Billy and Katie. In We All Fall Down, things really get hairy, and I was all in, eagerly allowing myself to get dragged through the mud of the story. Here were the tears. Here were the gut wrenches that make the world of books a fantastic place. Here were the moments that sit you up, angry you can’t scream sense into the characters you’ve grown to love so much.

When Book 2 ends, there’s even less of a reason for a pause than there was between Books 1 and 2. Now properly obsessed, I dug right in. All I Ever Wanted follows Katie’s struggle to reconnect to the world she’s abandoned and we learn why communication is so integral to any relationship, and how secrets can splinter our minds, creating non-existent worlds inside our heads. Worlds that fracture our reality so badly, sometimes we might not be able to come back from the damage.
Looking for a weekend of page-turning heartache? Looking for something to grab you by the feels? This is it. But don’t expect happy pages of sexual exploration. If that’s what you’re used to, or looking for, this isn’t it. This is real. This is gritty. This is real life.
Happy Reading 🙂
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