OMG - I could not put this book down. Like, literally, I skipped going to my spin class [alright - I am slightly prone to laziness] to finish reading this. First, the mother is just awful. Like this terrible soul-sucking pit of despair and misery, yet Crystal cannot stop wanting to please her. Second, while this was entertaining - I wouldn't describe it as a Sophie Kinsella book. There was no romance. Just a dude that honestly I hoped would ditch the main heroine forever for being such a pushover to her mother. I had zero desire for them to get back together at all. I was really hoping that Crystal would grow a spine and try to cut her mother out more. There was nothing redeeming about the mom. And the author seemed to want you to hate the grandmother who quite honestly, seemed like the nicest woman in the entire family. So she wanted to encourage her daughter and granddaughters to get married. Big deal. She wasn't mean about it. Third, I loved the format of the text messages and the journal entries. I could definitely do without the Rapunzel excerpts - those were boring. But overall - loved this book despite my nit-picking.

I love this story about mother/daughter relationships. They are never simple and this book hit it on the head. So funny!

Mom's Perfect Boyfriend is a fun easy read about a mother-daughter relationship. 

When Crystal finds herself in a messy situation - her partner decides they should take a break, after Crystal's mother hijacks their vacation, she looses her job and eventually looses her home as well - she decides to take time off to write on her novel-idea, a continuation of Rapunzel, and does so at her mothers place. That is a recipe for disaster, as her mother takes up lots of her time and nerves, so she actually signs her mother up as a test person for a "Smart Companion"-robot trial. Her mother not only is helped by the robot that is sent, she actually falls in love with the handsome robotic stranger.  

Mom's Perfect Boyfriend is written as a collection of text messages, e-mails and diary entries. As soon as one adjusts to this style, it makes for a quick and ultimately entertaining read. Actually this is the main strength of the book: How easy it is to read and how this style of mostly very short chapters makes one always read "just one more chapter" again and again. Overall the plot is silly, but strangely entertaining. And it is a little astounding how well one gets to know these characters just through the small pieces of texts they write. But then, should that really come as a surprise? I guess this just goes to show how much we bare of ourselves just though writing.

(I received an advanced copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thanks for that!)

Oh my gosh this book was hilarious!! Obviously there are some sad and hard topics, but overall it was so funny to read this story and see how the daughter interacts with her mom’s boyfriendbb

A cute story told in emails and texts.
Crystal finds herself single and unemployed and having to move back with her mother. The book was witty and well written.

Thank you Netgalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

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