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  Crash Bang Burn

“Crash, Bang, Burn,” by K. Dawn Goodwin is the first fictional book by the author of the memoir “Until He Comes.” It follows Edie, a bible college dropout and family pariah, who finds herself in metro Atlanta trying to find herself. She meets Nathen Crosland, aka “Cross,” a fireman, and all hell breaks loose.

Like “Until He Comes,” “Crash, Bang, Burn” has a lot of sex, a lot of “oh no she didn’t!” moments, and a good bit of crazy. Unlike “Until He Comes,” the various narrators (Cross, Edie, and Cross’s kindasorta ex Braylee) don’t have the capacity for introspection that would save them from a good bit of disaster.

As someone who has spent a ridiculous amount of adult time as a divorce attorney in metro Atlanta, I can tell you that these characters are a little too real. You can see their bad decisions coming from a mile away, but you can’t stop them from making them. They seem hell-bent on sabotaging their own futures. If there is anything unrealistic about it, it is that Goodwin is a good bit smarter than her characters, and Goodwin’s own intelligence sometimes comes through in her writing and word choice. Still, it’s a fun story.

Goodwin has made this into a YouTube series in which she plays all the characters herself, it’s crude, a tad blasphemous, and highly sexual, but clever if you don’t mind those things. Click here for the link.

For more information on the book, click the handy-dandy Amazon link below.

Lori Duff

Lori B. Duff is an award-winning author who practices law on the side.  Her latest book, “If You Did What I Asked in the First Place” was awarded the Gold Medal for humor in the Foreword INDIES awards in 2019. You can follow her on Twitter at @LoriBDuff and on Facebook. For more blogs written by Lori, click here. For more information about Lori in general, click here. If you want Lori to do your writing for you, click here. If you want Lori to help you market your book, click here.