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Mad Love

By: Nick Spalding
Narrated by: Nico Evers-Swindell, Amy Landon
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Summary

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.

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Fun and Frothy, ideal holiday reading/listen

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

A special offer meant for the first time I tried a book as an audio and written version. Great idea, I loved the fact that I could still listen to the story when busy doing things and couldn't read. However, the narration was rather annoying. Why are they employing an actor from New Zealand to voice a British man - are there not enough Brits available?? He wasn't unpleasant to listen to but just not right. the were occasional tinges of his real accent and the English accent he used was just too posh for the character. The American accent of the female character was just too, twangy. All in all I enjoyed the book much more when reading it.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Mad Love?

No hugely memorable bits but there were several funny parts which made me giggle.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

Yes, sorry Guys, it wasn't you, just that you didn't fit my perception of the voices for these characters.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

not necessarily.

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Pretty dreary all round

If this book wasn’t for you, who do you think might enjoy it more?

Someone who doesn't place much value on intrigue or entertainment

What could Nick Spalding have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

It was quite a struggle to make it all the way through to the end of this , slightly dreary and contrived, tale. I bought the audiobook and the quality of the narration didn’t help. The narrators’ strained impersonations of the other characters, with bad accents and speech like people with golf-balls stuffed in their mouth, didn’t help. The tale is packed with clichés and strained humour, none of which is actually very funny, but it is ultimately ruined by the way every event is telegraphed with such transparency that nothing is ever a surprise when it actually happens. The writer’s style is maybe more suited to teenage fiction as it is a bit simplistic and explanatory, rather than fluent and engaging. The twists in the tale fail to save the story as they are so obviously trailed, and I was left thinking there must have been many better ways I could have spent 8 hours of my life. It’s not a book that is going to stimulate any strong emotions one way to the other; the best one-word description would be ‘bland’.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

Silly acccents

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Wonderfully funny

This is my third Nick Spalding book and I laughed from the beginning to the end. It was absolutely fantastic! The characters, the story line...I couldnt stop the teary laughs that escaped most times...I would recommend to anyone looking for a good funny read.

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Great Yarn

Laugh out loud funny. Enjoyed the crazy scenarios the lead characters get into. Great bit of escapism during these crazy times!

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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.

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B!oody Brilliant 😍😂

Gosh! This book has me in stitches, to the point I was sent out of the living room, by my family, because I was laughing too hard.
Love Nick's writing, the combination of British humour, crazy dialogues, preposterous situations and insane inner monologue makes the story hilarious.
In here we follow a couple that entered a competition on a dating site and end up marrying mainly so they can get the price. Both of them struggle with cost of living in London. He sees it as a great way to have his own, clean place and she sees it as a chance to find love whilst being able to quite her bartender job to concentrate on her studies. As with all of Nick's books one of the characters is a total doormat and things don't go according to plan and we get some really peculiar exchanges that are just too funny.
Great narration. It makes the story even better the tone of the British narrator is just perfection.
Free on ku with audio book included.

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Absolutely hilarious

This is not my usual type of book, I mostly read police procedural or thrillers, so this has been a breath of fresh air and now I want more of the same. Thank you Nick Spalding!

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I've read better

I usually really like the author Nick Spalding but I wasn't overly impressed by this book, and the narration was awful. I struggled to listen to this.

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Funny and light hearted

If you are looking for a light hearted and funny book then give this one a go! Love Nick Spalding books and this one didn’t disappoint. Butter anyone?

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Just annoying

I bought this book because I liked the idea of the plot, but unfortunately that was the only good thing about it. It is badly and clunkily executed and there is far too much “gross” humour which is simply annoying or cringe making, as well as being cliched, unbelievable and unnecessary. In addition, the narration was atrocious, Apart from the extraordinarily bad accents when the female narrator was doing what she thought was an English accent, there were far too many mispronunciations by both narrators which grated on my ears. Sadly I think that this is the worst book I have listened to on audio.

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