Adam and Jessica sign up for dating website Sociality’s competition to win an all-expenses paid wedding, as well as an apartment in a nice part of London, and a nice sum of money. The only thing is that they have never met! Video games designer Adam is a bit of a slob and strip club waitress Jessica is a live wire. As the press follow the couple and document the first 6 months of their relationship, will this mismatched pair lose everything and look like idiots or will they put their differences aside and fall in love?

I really loved the sound of this book and I think it had a lot of potential to be great. There were some mildly funny scenes; especially the yoga fart scene, which I did laugh out loud at! And I did feel for the couple, having been thrown together without knowing anything about one another and being followed by Cassie (CEO of Sociality) and the press for the first 6 months of their marriage. I’m not sure I would have liked to have been in that situation. I really loved the narrators; I think they did a great job of bringing the different characters to life and they were effortless at doing different voices and accents.

Having read or listened to a few of Nick Spalding’s books now, I was somewhat disappointed by this one. I just didn’t find it as funny. In particular, Fat Chance and Bricking It had me laughing out loud almost all the way through, but Mad Love seemed to fall a little bit flat for me. The only time I laughed out loud was at the yoga fart scene as I mentioned previously.

This book wasn’t bad and not once did I feel like I didn’t want to finish it. I was curious to know what was going to happen to Adam and Jessica throughout, even though some of their behaviour was sometimes kind of embarrassing! I think it definitely could have been a lot funnier too. For these reasons, I give this 3 out of 5 stars.

I would recommend this to anyone who loves contemporary fiction, romantic comedies, and stories about mismatched couples.