Mad World Series Book 1: Mad World by Hannah McBride

Mad World Book 1

I'm Madison.

I spent the last seventeen years in a trailer with my mom as she rolled from one addiction to the next. All I wanted was to survive high school and get out of this place. Finding out I had a long lost twin sister on the other side of the country seemed like something out of a movie.

Too bad I didn't realize it was a horror movie.

Now I'm Madelaine.

We were only supposed to switch lives for a summer. But then the unthinkable happened and now I have the chance to be my twin for the rest of my life. I get the fancy house, the rich father, and the elite school.

But all of those things come with a price I don't think I can afford.

Maybe taking over my dead twin sister's life isn't as easy as I thought it would be.

Mad World is the first book in a new series by Hannah McBride . It contains dark themes (including bullying) that may be triggering for some readers.

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My Review: 5/5 Stars

Holy moly was that an intense rollercoaster ride. And that cliffhanger!! Not cool!!!! I need the next book asap. WOW! So after reading the plot about this book, my mind was thinking of a bunch of different possibilities of how this story could go down. And right from the get go I threw away all of them. Every time I thought, oh maybe this will happen—nope! How about—nope! I had to stop guessing because there is no way to truly plot this book out. The twists and turns were phenomenal. 

So let's break it down a bit, and give no spoilers, because this is one book you truly don't want any. The story follows Maddie, a 17 year old who just wants to make it through high school and get out of her crappy situation. Her mother is an addict who can't keep herself together, so Maddie has had to raise herself and keep a roof over their heads. She works very hard at her jobs and at school in the hopes of getting enough money and scholarships to go to college. She never expects that an end of school year project will lead to such a revelation. Turns out there is someone out there who looks exactly like her. Her twin sister. Floored, she reaches out but after weeks of nothing she gives up. That is, until Madelaine shows up. Madelaine offers Maddie a deal. Switch places with her for the summer and she'll make sure their mom is back in rehab and she'll give financial support to Maddie for school. Despite the flaws in the plan Maddie brings up, she ends up taking the deal. Two months of a relaxing summer, Maddie gets ready to switch back but Madelaine never calls her back. Next thing Maddie knows she finds herself put in an awful position. Another deal is made. This time it leave her attending a new school as Madelaine. Madelaine who left out important details. Like the fact that she blew up her social life in the most horrifying of ways, that she has a fiancé who hates her guts, and that her home life way worse than she let on. She'll have to last the year before she can get her freedom back. Or can she even do that in the type of world she has landed in? The world of the wealthy who crave power and money beyond anything else and will do anything to get it?

Absolutely insane. This story definitely kept me on my toes. And while Maddie is dealing with the aftermath of Madelaine's bad choices there is one person who seems to draw Maddie in. The fiancé: Ryan. Ryan is, well, an alpha a-hole. But of course has that side to him that actually cares. Though his protective instincts are pretty intense, they are at the same time very sweet. It will take a bit for Maddie to see the side of him that proves he can be the good guy. And despite some of jerk things Ryan does, you can't help but love him. Their romance is both intense and sweet. And complicated. And one of the best parts about Maddie is that she is nothing like her manipulative and awfully mean sister. She's a genuinely nice person but who has a spine of steel. She doesn't back down and will have your back. In her own way, she is a type of alpha too. There is something about them that has you rooting for them. 

And that ending!!!! UGH!! Such a mean cliffhanger. I demand the next book asap because how can I move on when everything went down that way. I need more!! Such an intense ending in many more ways than one. And I have no idea how anyone is going to recover after that. It will take a lot to build back what was destroyed. Ughhhh this is gonna be such a painful wait until the next book. But absolutely brilliant! Check out this amazing book!! 

I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.