Hilarious

Omg funniest book ever I’ve ever read finished it in a day my kids kept looking at me funny for laughing every five seconds they must be thinking I’m going crazy great read

“I am not my mother, I am not my mother, I repeat silently to myself. Of course, the minute you start saying that to yourself is the instant you have in fact become your mother.”
A few laugh-out-loud moments, but not as funny as I anticipated.

I'm a big fan of Nick Spalding and this book is no exception. I loved it! Hilarious situations and awesome characters.

Absolutely charming. A cute little story with endearing characters in hilariously absurd situations. You can't help but smile through the various mishaps of their unlikely relationship.

I seriously love Nick Spadling. There have been only one book that was a miss for me so far. The other ones have been hilarious though. In "Mad Love" Spalding takes a look at a man (Adam) and woman (Jessica) who agree to get married via a dating website (Sociality). With the promise of a new flat that they can call their own and a split of thousands of pounds Adam and Jessica are trying their best to give their marriage a go. But they both realize that when one tends to fib (lie people) on their dating profile, that Sociality's algorithm may be wrong about what a perfect match they should be.

Adam works as a video game journalist. I was going to say something about ethics in gaming, but that is bringing bad memories up for me, so let me say that Adam is not an ass. He is currently living in a place with a lot of flatmates and a cross eyed rat, so I can see why he would leap on being married to Jessica when he finds out about her. The beginning depicting Adam waking up and going to a video game con was hilarious. I just cracked up. Spalding always does a great job with the guy POV in these books.

Jessica is an American living in London trying to get her masters in Nutrition (I am to lazy to look that up to make sure that is accurate). She is also working at a strip club as a bartender. Once again, Jessica's POV had me laughing at so many times in this book.

When Adam and Jessica agree to their marriage and realize it means that Sociality's owner is going to be up in their faces for the next several months, you realize that both of them are trying to put their best face forward until it turns into a War of the Roses thing that the book did a great job with.

The only misstep I will say that happens, that really is what besides the ending made me knock a star from this book, is that Spalding gives us insight into why Adam was so focused on staying married to Jessica. I maybe rolled my eyes a bit. It felt like it came out of nowhere since there are no hints to this during Adam's POV that Spalding could have at least hinted at so we could see what secret Adam was keeping.

The writing was great. Spalding does a great job of depicting relationships (see Love From Both Sides) and he has a great voice for both male and female characters. He chooses to tell the story from both Adam and Jessica's POV with each chapter beginning with a question and answer they responded to on the Sociality website. I laughed so hard many times I started howling. There are just some scenes I don't want to spoil for you. But let me just say, the scene with them getting married. It was inspired.

The book setting switches between London and Jessica's birthplace of California. Spalding does a great job of depicting where Jessica grew up to the point I want to visit there sometime.

The ending was a bit eh to me though. I thought it was just too over the top and not realistic.

Funny & Real!

Really enjoyed listening to this book. I could imagine it happening in real life these days as a reality TV show and would love to see this turned into a film.

3.5 stars

I really liked some parts of this story and yet other parts were a little too goofy for me. So it evened out at 3.5 stars.