A review by cathyatratedreads
Mad Love by Nick Spalding

3.0

I got this as an e-book on Netgalley because it sounded like some light, fun reading. It has a bit of romance but far more seems to be a collection of crazy situations: physical comedy in print form. But it all seems so over the top and kind of just an excuse to string together outrageous happenings that it didn’t really grab me entirely. Plus, some of the language usage bugged me: It’s set in England, written by a British author, and has a British male protagonist. The female protagonist, however, is a California American. And she ends up saying a number of things that just aren’t American English. For one, the author keeps having both Jess and Adam say “sat on” or something like that instead of “sitting down” or something similar, and it bugged me EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. She just wouldn’t say it British-style. That was distracting, and then the plot point that they got to where they seemed to hate each other for about half the book, and then somehow ended up (yes, call this a bit of a spoiler, but you expect this anyway) liking each other by the end, the way the author made it all come together seemed a bit too contrived. I just couldn’t settle in and enjoy it all enough.

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