I liked the concept of the book and I did enjoy the beginning but unfortunately, I just didn't find it very funny , mostly they whined and were just mean to each other. I didn't really like the characters so that didn't help. I did think it was a quick and a somewhat entertaining read.

A quick and easy read. Quite funny in places but fairly predictable.

This book is very entertaining to read. It is very funny, and hard to put down. The characters are likeable and engaging. I would recommend this if you need a good laugh.

I received this book from Netgalley.

Thank you for the sneak peak of this book, netgalley and publisher:)

Would you trust a dating app's algorithm so much that you would marry someone on first sight because the computer matched you with him or her? That's the situation Adam and Jessica find themselves in when their profiles are selected for a promotion that guarantees the site's foolproof ability to find two perfectly compatible singles. But, as expected, nothing goes quite as planned. Though many plot devices in this novel are fairly predictable, the two main characters are incredibly realistic and, though you often want to strangle them, you can't help but hope they put their differences aside and end up working out their differences. This story is ultimately a romantic comedy, and I would love to see it made into a movie eventually.

Nothing bad to say about this book. Just an easy to read, funny in places book. Typical Nick Spalding, I have read his others and will probably read anything else he writes. Perfect if you just want light hearted book.

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my unbiased opinion.

Dating site Sociality decides to get some publicity by having two daters who are matched on their site get married at first sight. Adam and Jessica, the lucky pair, seem to have little in common except that they could both use the 30,000 pounds per month and penthouse apartment they receive as a prize. Having what feels like their every move photographed isn’t helping them get to know each other, either. Can they make their marriage work for real?

This book was quite humorous. Some of the scenarios they found themselves in seemed a little far-fetched, which just added to the humor. My one complaint about the book is that it switched first person point-of-view between Adam and Jessica, and they did not have distinct voices.

Online dating site Sociality decides to run the promotion to end all promotions: put two people together from registered users and marry them. The lucky winners will get not only the perfect match for life, but will get a year in a gorgeous West London apartment, a beautiful honeymoon trip to Italy and 30,000 pounds.

Adam decides to go ahead and click to enter because he lives in a cruddy, rundown house with a few other guys and could really use his share of that money. Jessica’s job as a bartender at a strip club is what’s helping pay for her dream of attending grad school at King’s College. But the notion of being able to get out of that and focus on studying entices her to go ahead and enter too.

When they end up winning and facing the reality of actually getting married, both have to remind themselves of the perks they wanted. Because not only are they legally and lawfully wed, in front of a huge in-person audience of strangers and a live feed online, they have to deal with Cassie McFlasterton, the proud owner of Sociality, who is working on making public every single interaction they have with each other, at least through nonstop photographs on their honeymoon and at other staged activities once they’re settled back in London.

Of course, two strangers getting to know each other after marriage end up having plenty of misunderstandings, and their frustrations as roommates and potential lovers lead to disagreements and some fights. As time goes on and it seems they won’t be able to even be civil to each other, let alone fall for each other romantically, their prize money and beautiful apartment might be in danger, not to mention their sanity and reputations.

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.

Rated: High, for lots of strong language (at least 35 to 40 uses, and the book really isn’t that long). There’s some references to sex, including observations about women’s body parts, especially in the strip club, but sex scenes are off-screen.

Another laugh out loud book from Nick Spalding. Storyline works really well and the characters are hilarious.

If you liked the movie "The Hangover" or J.K. Rowling's book "A Casual Vacancy," you might enjoy this read. For the rest of us, it's a bit much. The premise is okay -- two people matched by a computer, playing out the match already married. The publicity-hungry owner of the matching service is way over the top, and gets tiresome. So does the extreme nature of the two singles involved in the supposed marriage. But some parts are genuinely funny, so it's not all bad. It's just not all that good either. Much of the humor, and the action in general, was too over-the-top for my taste. I prefer my humor with a bit more intelligence behind it.

As an American reader, I was a little put off by some of what I presume are Briticisms. In particular, the use of the verb 'sat' as a present tense. It keeps cropping up here, in a way that I have never encountered before. And I read a lot of British writing, so I'm surprised that this is apparently legit. Maybe it's street-talk or something. An example: "The man of the hour is sat on one of the couches." Why not "is sitting"? As I say, maybe this is British, but I never encountered it before and it was jarring every time I encountered it in this book (and it comes up a lot). For American audiences it would help if at least this could be edited to something more mainstream. I have no problem with the rest of the British slang and vocabulary.

I started off very interested in this book because the writing was witty and I enjoyed the metaphors and figurative language used by the author. However, there was far too much bad language in it for me. Several f-words in the first few pages. If that doesn't bother you, as I said, I very much enjoyed the writing style and the premise was interesting. Shame I couldn't finish reading it.

I received this book for free one from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Mad Love focuses on Jessica and Adam, who win a dating site competition and get married upon first meeting. I would recommend this is you're looking for something light and funny, a beach read if you will. The story is overall predictable and surface level, but it doesn't claim to be anything else. I did like that the chapters switch between Jessica and Adam, so that you get a little bit of their perspective.

Fun premise for a novel: two people who are total strangers but matched by the social media website's algorithms as an ideal couple. One protagonist is American, the other British and definitely polar opposites when it comes to worldview and approach to life. Both have their own personal reasons for entering the contest and are willing to pretend to be happily married to convince the press the marriage is authentic, as long as they can have access to the $30,000 cash prize and enjoy living in the upscale flat the contest also provides. As the novel progresses, both characters get more and more aggravated with the other, while wrestling with their growing attraction toward one another. When a journalist determined to blow their cover reveals that the marriage can't possibly be real because they fight all the time, the characters must decide if they can prove to the world the have fallen in love or break up and go their seperate ways.This is a quick, entertaining read that I finished in a day or two during vacation. Lots of snarky dialogue, a bit of off-color humor and a fair amount of swearing are involved, so if profanity offends you, this is not the novel for you.

Such a fun premise in a world of reality tv. Can two people who have never met make a marriage last? Fun story, and Spalding always writes great characters and dialogue. This book is no exception.

This book was hilarious! I was laughing throughout the entire story and got a lot of looks from people around. O would definitely recommend it for anyone who wants a light funny read.