Mad about You: heart-warming, laugh-out loud funny and wonderfully romantic
Mhairi McFarlane
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Mad about You: heart-warming, laugh-out loud funny and wonderfully romantic
Mhairi McFarlane
Two reluctant housemates. Two broken promises. One crazy plan… Harriet Hatley may be one of the most in-demand wedding photographers in Leeds, but she hates the idea of marriage. Cal Clarke is used to the world falling in line with his plans – apart from his own love-life, which has gone hopelessly wrong. When they become unlikely housemates, it’s clear they’re both running away from something bigger. Can they take a crazy risk to face the past and change everything?
Publication Year: 2022
I am so confused by this book. I was so ready to love it because I LOVED Just Last Night by the same author, but there are so many weird choice that aren’t working for me. Half the time the writing feels casual, almost flippant, at ease but the other it’s taking itself quite seriously. The dialogue is quite quippy or otherwise cringe when the characters are trying to be serious. There are serious topics of cheaters and abusers and it’s not pairing well at all with the forced proximity trope for the love interests. ~spoilers below~ I’m not sure why we were given a 5 page monologue of a Facebook post where Scott is claiming he’s been abused. I dunno, I’m not interested in reading an abuser try to claim victim hood? I know this happens and it’s very serious but I dunno I was like really…we have to read this man’s speech and then read derogatory comments that people leave for Harriet to experience. What the hell was with the dad sidebar about how he’s a serial cheater? There’s almost too many ideas happening and they aren’t creating a cohesive plot.
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Such a confused book? The marketing is terrible as it's not at all a romance. I had read another Mhairi book so I did expect this but I feel this was lacking so much more than Just Last Night. The author writes in a quite lovely narrative half the time, the other half is casual inner monologue with ?! and cut off sentences and so I felt whiplashed - am I reading an easy-going or serious book? Trigger warnings where? The entire book revolved around emotional abuse patterns and to a lesser extent generational cycles. You will be presented with a five page long diatribe from the abuser gaslighting the internet into believing he is the victim via a Facebook post. The conclusion of this storyline was entirely out of reality, which for the whole time the book has otherwise tried to convince you it's settled in. Regarding the character development of the FMC, MMC, and the relational development of their interest... I hope you're hungry... for nothing.
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