A lovely feel-good, warm hearted and laugh out loud funny romantic comedy that I thoroughly enjoyed!

We first me Leila as she executes a surprise visit to her current boyfriend working away in India. Of course surprise visits rarely go well and Leila returns home with her tail between her legs and on the painful end of yet another disastrous split. Fed up of this cycle, Leila decides to go celibate for a year and swears off men much to the amusement and disbelief of her friends and family.

Little does she know as she bares her heart and soul in her newly founded blog, that this would lead to a new business venture and eventually to finding the true love she has always dreamt of!

Lots of laughs along with way make this the perfect chick lit holiday read! Many thanks to netgalley for my arc.

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!

I am unable to provide a review at this time. Unfortunately, I DNFed this book in the first 15%. It just didn't hold my attention. I apologize for the inconvenience.

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

Condensed Review; I did enjoy, I would read more from Charlotte Butterfield

Full Review; Starting with what I enjoyed about the book, the story itself was light, at time humorous and honest. I would best describe this as a modern romance, tackling issues and topics that I've not seen covered in a rom com novel before which I did find refreshing.
the characters were detailed enough that I could picture them however I did not feel I could relate to them or their situations so much.
Another area I did find less enjoyable was the time.ine throughout the book, it seemed to race through weeks, months and years leaving me a little lost and feeling that I was missing details leading me up to the point of conclusions.
However that being said, I did enjoy the level of humour involved, sometimes I find the romcom/chicklit genre can try too hard to be funny whereas this was funny at parts but I would best describe this as 'lighthearted' if you are looking for funny I would try another read.
This was my first read from Charlotte Butterfield and I would look to read more of her books as I very much enjoyed her style of writing.

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.

3.5 stars.

Leila is suffering another bad break-up. She doesn't seem to be able to find a decent man worth her time, so she decides to take a year off men. A year, where she remains celibate, where she focuses on herself and her life without leaning on other people. However, that is easier said than done when you're a serial-dater like Leila. At her brother's wedding, she is introduced to Nick - the brother of the bride - and the two immediately hit it off much to her displeasure, because she certainly can't break the vow she made to herself, and the £14.000 bet she has with family and friends just for a guy - right?

This story is kind of a mish-mash, to be honest. There are several POVs throughout the book - some changes are marked, others just occur within a paragraph, which is a little tricky to keep up with. I thought this was going to be only about Leila and her man-ban, but it was about much more. It was about the path to self-discovery, the struggles of marriage and infidelity, family bonds and much more. I was pleasantly suprised to find that the book had more layers than a feminist doing a year of (broken) celibacy. However, like I said, all the different storylines create kind of a mish-mash of stories even though they are (more or less) vowen together. There is also quite a significant time-span throughout that you have to navigate. It was a little on the long side story wise, but I was entertained.

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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