Mad Love

By: Nick Spalding

Narrated by: Nico Evers-Swindell, Amy Landon

Can two people who have never met make a marriage work? Popular dating site Sociality thinks so, and is marrying London lad Adam to California girl Jessica to prove it.

What better way to show that your 'love algorithms' work than to put two complete strangers together in an expensive publicity stunt? But, as livewire Jess and lazybones Adam quickly discover, just because a computer says you're the perfect match, it doesn't make it so!

Two million Sociality subscribers and the media are following the happy couple's progress, and they have to make a go of it or they'll lose everything, look like idiots, and destroy Sociality's reputation. But can the mismatched pair, who seem to be constantly at each other's throats, put their differences aside and work their way into each other's hearts?

Nick Spalding, bestselling author of Fat Chance and Bricking It, will make you cry with laughter at this story of marital warfare - complete with sinking boats, badly aimed flatulence, well aimed tennis balls, and some very suggestive pastry.

©2016 Nick Spalding. (P)2016 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

delightful

laughed out loud ! real modern love story
and narrators we're fabulous! looking for something light, this is it

Excellent as always As Always!!

Great story! Characters were kind of whining, but goes to show you....USE YOUR WORDS! Imagine if everyone used their words, so much could be accomplished by having a conversation, instead of screaming at each other! Great read!

Another very funny story by Nick Spalding

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and think it would make a fantastic romantic comedy movie! I hope Nick Spalding or someone is currently working on a screenplay adaptation.

Slapstick rom-com gold!

The story was a tad predictable in places but that's just part of the comedy. You can see what's coming but then it happens, is worse than you imagined, and leaves you in stitches.

There's fourth-wall breaking humor, fart jokes, pratfalls, and witty banter. There's heart too, some psychology, soul-searching, and character development.

All in all this was a very enjoyable read. If you're in the mood for something light, sweet, and very silly, this one will do just fine.

Review

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this book. It is funny and lighthearted. The performance by both readers are spot on. Highly recommended for anyone who enjoys listening to a really good book.

Love the humor.

I loved the humor and the fun characters. Good performances. Enjoyed the story. A nice distraction.

Married at First Sight

Buttoned up English video game reviewer Adam and transplanted Californian graduate student Jessica are the dubious winners of a contest on an online dating site in which they agree to marry despite having never met before. Comic hi-jinks ensue as the couple decide whether they really want to be married.

The formula is now familiar to a four-time reader of Nick Spalding: a contrived situation brings two people together to deal with each other and the humorous fall-out of their predicament, told in first person in chapters alternating between the two points of view (in audio, narrated by two different people).

Whether this works depends wholly on how fresh Spalding can make these familiar situations. In Mad Love, the set pieces have all been done before -- drunk vicar presiding at their wedding, head stuck in a railing, valuable car rolling driverless down a hill toward its destruction, etc. You've heard all these jokes. What sets it apart, what makes it worthwhile, are the characters, which (almost miraculously) are well drawn, sympathetic despite their ceaseless bickering, and worth rooting for (the narrators deserve a lot of credit for this).

Three of the four Spalding titles I've read have been entertaining, one fell flat, the latter because the characters were unsympathetic. Whether you feel the same way will depend on which way you react to Adam and Jessica. I liked them, so I liked this book.

HAHA

Any additional comments?

All Nick Spaldings books make me laugh. Its a light listen and when Im at work its an easy listen. This book was no exception.

Spalding Never Disappoints

A cute, funny, and completely mad joyride. I can't say that this was as uproariously hilarious as some of his other novels, but I still laughed aloud and fell in love with his kooky, delightfully flawed characters.

My favorite thing about Spalding's stories isn't that they're just hilarious, which they are, but that they're hilarious and human. That holds true in Mad Love, too. No matter how ridiculous the scenario, the humanity always shines through and elevates the story from simply amusing to memorable and, at times, even moving.

And I would be remiss if I didn't mention the delightful performances by the narrators. Evers-Swindell and Landon bring the entire crazy cast to life. Listening to them was a pleasure.

Funny but not the best

I enjoy this author immensely but this is not my favorite book of his. Not as many LOL moments.