Mad about You: The biggest romcom of 2022: heart-warming, laugh-out loud funny and wonderfully romantic

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I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a book so much. A hero and heroine to root for, a plot that races along with the pace of a thriller and the heart of a romance, and an ending I will never forget' Gillian McAllister, That Night I finally got to read one of my most anticipated reads of the year. Did it live up to my expectations? Well, it may not have crossed the five-star threshold but I dove into this right after work and barely moved until I finished it, neglecting meals and more. So that definitely says a lot. Burningly funny, achingly romantic, and a plot so tightly crafted it’s like a song’ LAURA JANE WILLIAMS

Mad about You By Mhairi McFarlane | Used | 9780008412456 Mad about You By Mhairi McFarlane | Used | 9780008412456

A plot that gets under your skin, and one scene in particular that will have women everywhere cheering out loud' LUCY DIAMOND An entertaining, emotional and exhausting story about friendship, and moving on from past choices and mistakes The other characters felt flat to me outside of Lorna and Sam. If only the book had followed them both. Roxy didn't ring true at all. Once again there's no set-up for what happens there and then there's no resolution. Jon was the same issue. So was Harriet's past boyfriend before that. I also called BS on the way that whole thing got resolved. It just didn't fit. But it did remind me a bit of the [redacted] thing which made me grimace. I think that McFarlane got it right in how people always seem to pile up on women online and decide they are suddenly 'experts' on everything under the sun when it comes to women they have decided to hate. A dream house-share seems like the perfect place to hide, but her unlikely housemate Cal is no stranger to running away himself. And he's also hiding secrets of his own . . . I found the pacing slow and repetitive. The story spends too much time on Harriett’s shitty exes and very little time on developing her character. Her relationships with Cal and her best friend felt very superficial.

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Harriet Hatley is the most in-demand wedding photographer in town, but she doesn’t believe in romance, loathes the idea of marriage, and thinks chocolate fountains are an abomination. Which is why, when her long-time partner proposes, she panics. Suddenly Harriet is single… and living down the hall from her ex. She needs a new apartment, like, yesterday.

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As usual, it’s a good read from a talented author and also many thanks for the “God’s own country” setting – Yorkshire, where else!! As a reader though, you end up wishing for a romance that is much more carefree and open, and which spells into action. It isn’t sufficient to just read their thoughts about love and how they feel about each other, the reader in me craved more. That being said, the kind of love that you witness in Mad About You feels genuine and warm, and uplifting, if not deeply passionate. A plot that gets under your skin, and one scene in particular that will have women everywhere cheering out loud’ LUCY DIAMOND This was my very first Mhairi McFarlane novel and looking at the number of fans she has here, I am sure she is a fabulous writer. So this book might just be a wrong one to begin with. I will definitely read a couple more of her works before I can make up my mind on whether her books and I suit each other. This little bit of info I have given as a description is not even close to everything that is going on in this story. You have Harriet’s friends Lorna & Roxy. You have Scott’s friend Sam and his ex Kristina and then later on you have another ex of Scott’s whose name I believe was Nina. This story is about relationships be it romantic or just friendship. It covers so many aspects of emotional abuse and a bit of grief and betrayal.Thoughts: I love Mhairi McFarlane’s writing and feel she is on of the most underrated authors on Bookstagram and in general. Her character development is always superb as she creates these well rounded, three dimensional individuals, flaws and all, that you feel you could have encountered in your own life.

Mad about You: The biggest romcom of 2022: heart-warming

This is my second book by this author and I remember the first one being a normal trope but being very well written and making it different and unusual. I felt the same about this book it was unusual and interesting. I’m usually someone that likes the sexy stuff and I don’t really think this author does much of that but I am still enjoying her books. You need to be ready to keep up with a LOT of characters. As they both start living together, Cal and Harriet form an unlikely bond going from strangers to roommates to friends. Even better, they become great support for each other as they both try to navigate their uncertain future, leaving their old lives behind.But when a toxic and dreaded past comes to haunt Harriet, leaving her career, friendship, and reputation in jeopardy, she must stand up for herself and risk her future to share the truth. She must learn to unburden herself and finally let go of the trauma that has gripped her until now. Although her plots are sometimes a bit slow getting started, you always feel she’s given you just enough, never too much and never too little. You always come away feeling you Have regained a sense of what is important in life. Brilliant on relationships, friendships and emotions... I loved, loved, loved this book' Marian Keyes, #1 bestselling author of Grown-Ups On the slightly negative side, I did feel that for me personally too much time was devoted to the exes here, particularly as there is not just Scott, but Jon too, not to mention we have Cal's ex Kristina, the woman he jilted at the altar! As such it often feels like there is too much going on in the book and no breathing space. When it comes to Jon, I did actually like the portrayal of his character, and that it was not just him to blame for the failing of this relationship, but Harriet too, as whilst she may not have admitted it to herself at the time, she was in many ways using Jon as a safe bet after Scott. As such I thought both relationships made sense in terms of the context in which they were presented, however, it did mean that the present day evolving relationship with Cal didn't get as much air time, and given how much I liked the scenes that Cal and Harriet did have together, I just thought this a shame. Also whilst they totally worked as friends throughout most of the book, and whilst there was an undeniable spark between them, I did think the ending felt rushed and may be not quite convincing between them, simply be She was 30, and it was “very much not the ambition to be at the local paper” any more. “There was no-one’s job I wanted, which is very much the lodestar for moving on, for ambition, isn’t it?” she says. “And I thought, ‘What is stretching me?’ I loved romantic comedy—what if I tried to write something like that? What if I actually tried to write long-form fiction?” When I started making myself laugh, I thought, ‘Oh, you might be onto something here.’