A fantastic masterpiece of chick lit, I loved this book from the 1st few pages. The characters were fantastic with fab descriptions so you could connect with all of them. Every page held new twists and turns making you laugh and despair throughout for all the characters with a relevant storyline and fantastic basis for the story. Absolutely loved it, def in my favourites for this year.

This was just a generic type of love story. Cute but predictable, I did not love it nor did I hate it.

AMAZING. I couldn't get enough of this story. It hooked me in from the very beginning and I devoured it in just a few days. It took so many twists and turns I wasn't expecting and I turned the last page desperately wanting more. Definitely a must read!

Leila is exhausted with all the heartbreaking relationships she's had...while she is all of 30 and looking for something more than a fling, she is equally exasperated by the whole dating scenario. Her latest break-up is the last straw and she decides that she is going to be celibate for a year... Everyone who knows her is betting that she isn't going to stick to her man ban. With the help of her sister Tasha and newly wed sister in law , she not only goes on this year long sabbatical but starts a blog to document her journey that turns into a huge success...but how successful has her man ban been? That's what you'd find out when you read this book😀... published by @harperimpulse this light read was a pleasant and funny read. For someone who reads a lot of thrillers and mysteries, this was a welcome change.
Leila is a landscape architect and her woes of dating, of being single and of trusting someone again are very real and relatable. The book also touches upon lives of Tasha, her sister and Lucy who is her sister in law. Nick is a wonderful addition to the book, who also happens to be an architect. Being an architect myself, the little architectural talk was an added treat 😀... The book shows how closely the families are bonded and how they sail together through ups and downs. The setting in which the story unfurls is yet another delight.
Leila was a wonderful character to read about and she along with her beautiful apartment and her fierce determination to find happiness are delightful!
The climax of the book was a bit unexpected but was perfectly dramatic for the book of this kind. It is everything a perfect chic-lit should be! Dramatic, funny , full of love, hovering moms and a crazy love story blossoming in all the madness- yes, it's perfect that way!
It is the book that you'd wanna snuggle with on a cold afternoon 😀...
Overall, it was a perfect romantic fix for me, without being too cheesy.

A fun and easy light hearted read with likeable characters.

3.5 Stars

Thanks to NetGalley, Charlotte Butterfield and HarperCollins for my free copy in exchange for an honest review.

As I turned the last page of the book my thoughts were ‘What a delightful story’.
Leila has had a run of bad luck with boyfriends. She decides to visit her current boyfriend while he is working in India but she unfortunately finds him in a compromising position. Returning to London she vows to family and friends that she will have a year off men. She starts an on line blog, which eventually turns into a site where likeminded women come for support. Then life gets a little complicated when she meets Nick, the brother of her new sister in law in the first few weeks into her self-proclaimed vow.
What I really loved about this book is the fact that there was no big eye rolling, angst moment for Lelia and Nick. They were on the same page as each other in their relationship (most times). It’s their family around them that has the issues and I did love all the family, warts and all.
This was a lovely feel good novel about family and doing what you feel is important for yourself. It was just the story I needed at this time.
Thank you to Netgalley and the Publisher for a copy to read and review.

",each of them consumed with their own uncertainties, their own dramas, yet for the first time realizing that they didn't need to face the future alone."

I would describe this book in one word as, "cute'.

I loved the whole family and staying together aspect of the book but the book was just not enough to grab my attention for too long and actually be able to enjoy the overall plot. The beginning of the book was not at all that interesting to me and might have contributed to the fact that I couldn't focus every time I came back to reading this. The writing style was sweet and all but not enough to really capture me, as I said before.

The characters are one of the strong points here though because I actually found them pretty relatable andI liked how in the last part, the author was able to portray how important staying together should be. Speaking of, the book did have a good progression and development when compared to the end because it ended up having a much clearer focus.

Nothing stood out to be too much here except for the fact that it was pretty much focused on Christmas (hehe). It gives me a lot of those sweet and cold Christmas-y vibes and I have to say that this book would be good read during the month of December.

This was an okay read, nothing too bad or too good, but I think readers would be able to appreciate this more when they are in the mood for something to sweeten and warm them up during the cold weather.

I'm kinda sad because I wasn't really able to get into this book. I love the cover and I love the author's writing, but there were huge blocks of text that took up multiple pages. So much description and narrative, while I was waiting for the story to start.
I will say this - I'm typically against prologues, but I didn't mind this one. But after that, up until the 10% mark, I still hadn't met the love interest and the story had only barely begun to start.
I think this will probably be fine if it fell into the hands of a chick lit reader who is used to this, but I was hoping for a fast-paced quirky romance with some feels. I just needed the story to start, needed to meet the guy, or something before I was bombarded with narratives and clunky paragraphs. That being said, the author nailed the character's voice! I just needed the narrative chopped in half, at least at the start. The whole 'sister coming over to talk the MC back on her feet' and 'get over your ex' dialogue in the beginning, was so long and cliche, but again, I guess most people will be fine with that. Just my preference!

This is not your typical "chick-lit" book. I loved how this book told the stories of all the main characters involved and how you got to form your own feelings (love or hate) towards them by reading how their individual stories made up the collective. I really enjoyed reading this book from the first page and was excited for Laila that her man-ban actually turned into something a lot more fulfilling for her. Great read!

There were many different relationships in this easy read which kept the book alight. Alls well that ends well in this light hearted feel good factor book that makes you want to keep on reading

Crazy little thing called love by Charlotte Butterfield a great four-star read. This is my first read by this author and it was funny and warm hearted and a little crazy, all the best bits rolled into one read. If you are looking for something fun and fresh then this is the read for you. Leila is a great character she is someone you will adore from the first page to the last she is funny and honest and gets herself some circumstances that will make you giggle out loud. This is a great read that you will not regret reading.

This is a great book with a wonderful story and well developed characters. The story flowed very well and was very enjoyable. This book will keep you reading long into the night and you will not want to put this book down until you finish. This was such a great read and full of surprises. I voluntarily reviewed an advanced reader’s copy of this book. The free book held no determination on my personal review.

Charlotte Butterfield’s “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” falls into a camp of chick lit and women’s fiction I haven’t read much in recent years but used to enjoy greatly. There’s a British woman, romantic strife, a quirky family and minor drama. I thought that would be what I was getting as I started, but this book quickly became a bit unpredictable, not necessarily in a bad way, and was much more interesting.
The story opens with Leila flying halfway around the world to surprise her boyfriend only to find him cheating. She returns to London, gets a breakup haircut and seems to be functioning just fine, but while out with her friends she makes the declaration that she’s going to stop dating and ends up deciding on one year as a goal. Her friends scoff and her family laughs in her face, but Leila starts blogging about her plans and accidentally creates a community of women who are single for whatever reason, by choice or not. In this midst of this, the romance plot kicks in when she meets a great guy but has too much riding on her celibacy to fall off the wagon.
Cute, low-stakes fun, right?
What was unexpected was the rich cast of supporting characters in the form of Leila’s family. Her older sister who is married with three kids whose perfect life might not be so perfect. Her brother who marries a woman none of the family particularly like but who ends up being Leila’s partner in launching a business around the blog. They all have their own dramas and sometimes you would rather be reading a book about THEM than Leila, but Leila is so darn likeable you don’t mind after all.
What I didn’t like was the way Butterfield shifts perspectives with no warning. She writes in third person from Leila’s perspective, but then early in the book shifts to her sister Tasha’s perspective mid-chapter. Some chapters start with “Lucy” so we know it’s being written from Leila’s sister-in-law’s point of view, but other times Lucy’s voice will just kick in mid-chapter with no section break. It became a bit jarring to figure out whose perspective I was reading at any given time and I sometimes had to back up when I realized I had guessed wrong. Oh, and sometimes it’s one of the men whose head we’re in, which adds more confusion.
Overall, Butterfield crams the perspectives of a lot of women in, despite the above issues, and each has their own concerns which all come back to love. Sometimes you want to shake them, other times hug them, and they all manage to get their stories told despite Leila’s ostensible role as the main character. If the book had been set up a little more like what it ended up being, a dramedy about the various ways love makes these various women “crazy,” I could have appreciated it a bit more.

After a disastrous break-up, Leila bans men for a year and chronicles her single life on a blog. The blog gets a lot of response and attention and, against all the odds, Leila keeps her promise of celibacy until she meets Nick. Her sister, Tasha, has been married for fifteen years and has three children and a beautiful house and pretends not to see her husband’s continual cheating. After focusing all her energies on her wedding, Lucy - Tasha and Leila’s bossy sister-in-law - wants to start a family and have a baby but for some reason, things don’t go according to plan.

I loved the family dynamics and how close everyone is. The characters feel real and they are witty and likable, although there are a few exceptions. The novel starts really good and strong, but it loses a little along the way. Overall, with laugh-out loud scenes and dramatic moments, this is a heart-warming and romantic comedy that will entertain.

Review: Thankyou NetGalley for sending me this book in exchange for a honest review. I tried to write a spoiler free review but I couldn't because I just had to talk about it, so yeaah 😄. The book shows just how important communication is in a relationship, TALK ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS. It was an interesting read, some parts I liked & others I was like what. As the book progressed & reached the twist & when I realised what was going on, I was like oh no..shit's going to hit the fan. The reveal of the reason behind the things that happened..."did I read that right?".
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This book is my first book from Charlotte Butterfield.
This one is a rom-com sweet book, it's a light fun read for me.
This book is about love, how love comes when you least expect it, and there's no way you can get away with it.
There's laughters and drama, but I found it hard to keep the excitement towards the end and I found it a bit predictable, also I can't really connect with the characters.
Leila is so immature sometimes and there's so many characters that I hate here, but I love Nick, he's the one that keeps me going.
Overall, this book is an okay rom-com book, it's pretty entertaining.

If you're looking fun light rom-rom, try this one, you might like it.

From the beginning you get an idea of how life for Laila doesn't always work out as planned! When she jets across the world to surprise her boyfriend, and finds him in a hotel room with another woman, her mission becomes clear... she's on a man ban!! Celibate for a year!

Her family think her plan is crazy as she has a tendency to change her mind quite frequently, but soon starts up a blog about her 'man free' year and soon the followers are increasing daily and she finds the whole experience empowering and finally she seems free of the social stigma of having to be in a relationship to be happy!

Meanwhile, life for Lailas' brother and sister is also changing and we get to see glimpses of how things are affecting them all - and life for Laila is set to change too after a family wedding but is she going to stick to her plan, or is the pull of love too much to ignore?!

I really enjoyed Laila and her 'journey'! There were a few moments when it seemed she was the laughing stock of the family when they didn't support her, but they soon showed that they pull together when needed and are only looking for the best for Laila. She always has a positive outlook on her life despite the setbacks in her love life, and when she starts the blog it opens up new doors for her and she is determined to take them. She is one of those characters that you find it easy to empathize with and it warms your heart when life starts giving her a break!! A fun and enjoyable read!!

I'm so incredibly glad I was lucky enough to come across 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' as this was exactly the book I needed to help me get back in to reading rom-coms!

Leila finds herself at her boyfriend's hotel room in Jaipur just one day before Christmas. What she hoped for and what she got was two completely different things... A perfect Christmas by surprising her boyfriend was the goal, but all she was faced with was a cheating boyfriend in the company of a blonde and very naked young woman.

Leila officially decided to become celibate for one year in order to figure out herself and what she wanted in life. To kick start the one year of her man ban, Leila created a blog to share her experience and soon enough it becomes a huge success, leading up to herself, her sister Tasha and her sister-in-law Lucy becoming a business and creating single ladies groups for women all around the country. Single life was seeming pretty peachy for Leila. That is until she meets the brother of the woman her brother is about to marry. With Leila having to suffer through the wedding by herself, as her male friend dashed off as soon as he could and Nick's date already planning their wedding after only five dates, they soon had enough to bond over and made an escape to be in the company of each other.

After hitting it off, Leila and Nick soon start up a secret relationship, starting off a web of lies that soon erupts around the family and everything breaks loose. You shall have to read the book to find out all the other dirty lies, as I wouldn't want to give away too many spoilers!

The one thing I loved about this book is it was so faced pace, within the space of two years, so I felt like I was getting so much out of reading this. I truly couldn't put the book down and every spare moment I had was focused on Leila's life. Although Leila is the most prioritised character, her whole family has a huge part in the book too and I loved being able to go back and fourth between each family and seeing how they was getting on and what was going on in their lives for the final chapters to be so linked and tense. I absolutely love this family and although I got two years worth of their lives in this one book, I could definitely do with a sequel! Such a light-hearted story about a family who isn't perfect; there are secrets and affairs and insecurities, but after all of the trouble they go through they will always find a way to come back together and accept one another for how they are and who they love.

I gotta be cool relax, get hip, get on my track's, take a back seat, hitch-hike, take a long ride on my motor bike, until I'm readyyyyyyyyyy.
Crazy little thing called loveeeeeeee.

Please say that I'm not the only person who started singing that song as soon as they read the title of this book? What a belter song, and what a fandabbydozy book!

With Leila's history regarding relationships, when it came to light that she was going to be 'wearing' a self-imposed chastity belt, I couldn't help but laugh out loud. It was as though Russell Brand had that he was going to give up sex and his bad boy ways. I mean, can you imagine it? Not that I doubted Leila at all, don't get me wrong. I was just a bit 'reaaallllyyyyyyy?'. Obviously because of that whole situation, I became as hooked on the book as Cookie Monster is hooked on cookies - and I'm not even joking! It was like someone had superglued my hands to my kindle for the duration of the novel! Not that I was complaining of course.

Of course the whole blog idea was absolutely genius, completely taking the novel up several notches from 'romantic comedy' to 'OHMYGAWDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD'. Despite being a total unromantic person, I LOVE reading romantic comedies and, seeing as Leila came across as a lot more feisty than some other protagonists in this particular genre, I felt that I was able to relate to her a lot more due to her realistic personality traits.

What I loved most about this novel was how the main characters love life didn't take over the full storyline, meaning that other characters were able to cause more bother. I mean that in a nice way by the way, because the other characters in this novel DID cause a lot of bother! With some other romantic comedies I have read, I have found that the main character's love life dominates the storyline and everything else, with all the other characters coming across as though they're playing 'extras' in book as opposed to being memorable. In 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' however, that was not the case. Whilst Leila and her man ban does take control the storyline most of the time, characters like Leila's brother and sister make themselves known in more ways than one. I do realise that I am being exceptionally vague in this review, but I don't really want Harper Impulse to put me on the naughty step for giving out spoilers. Just trust me on this; you HAVE to read it.

Yes, I'll admit, there was a character who drove me completely up the wall with her selfishness and basic vibe, so much so, I nearly came close to shouting at the book for her to 'SHUUUUPPPPPPPPP' (I'm from Essex, it works, believe me). Obviously she wouldn't have heard, ahem, but it would have made me feel better! I would love to say that when other circumstances became even clearer as more of the storyline unfolded, my opinion of this character eased and I showed empathy towards her - but I'm sorry to say, I didn't. I probably should have done. But, I didn't. Again, seeing as I am being as vague as Louis Walsh's sexual orientation, I'll let you ponder that!

I thought Charlotte Butterfield's novel was absolutely brilliant! My sides were sore from all the laughing! I'm not going to lie, I was afraid that the storyline was going to take the 'predictable' route at first, but as I got to know more of the characters and watch situations unfold, I knew that 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' was anything BUT predictable. It's different. It's fun. And, most importantly, it was such an easy read which meant that I was able to lose myself in the characters lives, as well as the authors fantastic way with words. What's not to like about that?

'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' had me hooked from the get go, made me cry with laughter, and made me feel exceptionally cosy whilst reading it. Charlotte Butterfield is a new author for me, but I can guarantee that this book will not be the last book that I read of hers.

If you're after a light-hearted, relatable, and giggly read with so much storyline to sink your teeth into, you will absolutely adore this. Believe me!

Thank you Harper Impulse.

This book in a word or few was crazy entertaining with lots of heart thrown in.The protagonist Leila had recently ended a relationship with a flippant cheater and had declared a moratorium on men for a year.Destiny however had a sense of humor and placed a beautiful,sweet temptation in the guise of Nick in her path.She struggled throughout the year to adhere to her abstinence with some productive and comical results.The side stories with her siblings were just as interesting and even more evocative. I loved the family dynamics that were presented and the way the author was able to build up each character with their distinctive traits,strengths and flaws. Though at the beginning I disliked some of the players ,by the end of the book the author was subtly able to revise my opinions of a few, while one in particular remained firmly in the dislike column.The plot line was grounded in reality, making the story more palatable,credible and hilarious.Great book and I will be looking out for more by this author.Thanks for the gift of this ARC and the chance to provide an unbiased review.