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Mom's Perfect Boyfriend (Smart Companions Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Crystal Hemmingway (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.0 out of 5 stars 32 ratings

Perfect for fans of Sophie Kinsella and Maria Semple, a smart romantic comedy about mothers and daughters, told in an addicting, fast-paced style.

Crystal has trouble saying no to her lonely, single mother. For 25 years, it wasn't a problem. But when one small mistake leaves Crystal jilted, homeless, and unemployed, she has to move back in with the person who caused it all: her mother.

Soon Crystal is sucked into her mother's vortex, partying with boomers and hawking homemade marshmallows. Desperate for some independence, she hatches a foolproof plan: get an experimental android to play her mom's "perfect" boyfriend. It's only a matter of time before her mom finds out, and Crystal will never live down the hilarious and disastrous consequences.

A story told through emails, texts, and journal entries, Mom's Perfect Boyfriend is a humorous yet deeply honest portrayal of the complicated friendship between mothers and daughters. Sometimes the people we want to rely upon the least are those who can help us the most.


Find out why critics are calling it "hilarious...I couldn’t put it down" (Reader's Favorite) and "a modern must-read" (San Francisco Book Review). Scroll up to buy Mom's Perfect Boyfriend and read it first!

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    July 16, 2019
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"Sweet, funny, and totally original." -Kerry Winfrey, author of Waiting for Tom Hanks

"Hilarious." -Publishers Weekly

"Fans of Bridget Jones and Sophie Kinsella will love this fresh, original story...I couldn't put it down." -Reader's Favorite

"Mom's Perfect Boyfriend showcases author Crystal Hemmingway's genuine flair for originality and complete mastery of the romantic comedy genre." -Midwest Book Review

"An incredibly fast and funny read." -SheReads

"Mom's Perfect Boyfriend is a modern must-read." -San Francisco Book Review

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07R1M42GR
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Galbadia Press (July 16, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 16, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2.3 MB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 307 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1950458016
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.0 out of 5 stars 32 ratings

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Crystal Hemmingway

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Crystal Hemmingway is a corporate washout and novelist. She lives in Los Angeles with her favorite person and two cats. In her spare time, Crystal enjoys binge-watching TV shows, eating sugary cereals, and pretending to write at coffee shops. Visit her website at crystalhemmingway.com

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Thank you to Galbadia Press for sending me a review copy of Mom’s Perfect Boyfriend by Crystal Hemmingway. It’s a quick, fun summer read with a thoroughly modern twist on ‘the perfect boyfriend’. Crystal is feeling a bit lost, having broken up with her boyfriend and failing to make it as a writer in LA. She moves back in with her mother and that’s when things really start to fall apart (but also get really, really funny). Anyone with a complicated relationship with their mother will no doubt find themselves laughing and cringing their way through. The book is written via a series of short ‘chapters’ which are made up of direct message conversations, emails, postcards, journal entries and portions of a novel Crystal is writing. At first I found the format a little choppy and disruptive, but by the end I actually enjoyed the short sections, written in different perspectives, and it made the book easy to pick up and read a few pages here and there without having to stop in the middle of a chapter. All in all, a really fun summer read!
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  • Brenda Griffith
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fun loving
    Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2019
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    Great read!! Once you start reading this book you won’t want to put it down!! Mom is the usual Mom, but her daughters are another story! Enjoyed this book!!
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  • Kate
    2.0 out of 5 stars Don’t bother!
    Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2019
    I am sorry to say that this book was a waste of time. I was hoping for a fun, lighthearted and humorous book but this book is not that. The book begins with Crystal’s mother Margot having forced herself on Crystal’s romantic Hawaii vacation with her boyfriend Dave. Obviously Dave is not very happy about this. With such a beginning I was expecting Margot to be overbearing and Crystal to be a too kind pushover but apparently the author was not paying attention to how this book begins. Margot is a very sweet and kind woman who somehow raised ungrateful and spiteful daughters who don’t appreciate her and always think the worst of everything she does. This obviously makes it hard to care about Crystal.

    Of course this all takes place over emails, texts and journal entries. I’ve read other books in this format that were fun but this one was slow and boring. This could also be because the author chose to have Margot and Crystal writing long and tedious journal entries about their lives. Even worse are the excepts from Crystal’s attempt to write a novel. Now the novel is obviously an example of how Crystal is feeling about her mother and Dave but it’s annoying to wade through.

    Given the title of the novel I was expecting more about the robot but he doesn’t show up until about the halfway point. It’s a hard concept to swallow that Crystal is going to set her mother up with a robot. How do you set your mother up to be left heartbroken by a robot? Especially such a kind woman? This might have worked if the mother was going to be as overbearing as I expected and the daughter needed to distract her but that’s not the case here.

    We learn so much about the mother and her daughters but there is no real growth in the characters. By the end they are still keeping secrets from each other and not in a good place with each other. This is certainly not a rom-com type of novel either. Most of the time Crystal is quite down. It also seems strange that we don’t know more about the girl’s’ father. He’s never mentioned except as an ex. He’s not a thought at holidays which makes him seem absent but it’s not mentioned. There’s a mention of him not paying for school which only frustrates the ability of a reader to care for the daughters who have no appreciation for their hard working single mother.

    Unfortunately there is nothing redeeming here so save yourself the time spent reading this novel and find something better. I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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  • Tazmania
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Very Cute Fun Read
    Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2019
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    A charming contemporary novel. I enjoyed the conversations back and forth, the diaries kept..but most of all it hit some lovely tender feelings between mothers and daughters.
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  • Molly G. Hamblin
    4.0 out of 5 stars it’s comes down to us crazy women
    Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2019
    Crystal has a wild sequence of things happening when she and her fiancé have a trip planned for Hawaii. The man her long divorced mom has been dating for some time abruptly dumps her. Mom decides she wants to go on vacation with Crystal and Dave. Dave decides he wants a break. From work, from Crystal. Definitely from her mom Margot. But no worries. He will pay his rent for the next six months so Crystal will not have to worry while he is off finding himself.

    Off Dave goes hiking, and mostly unreachable.

    Crystal meanwhile finds herself left with the rest of the burdens of the life Dave left behind. Including the rent monies that never came through as promised.

    Dave might be off searching for his best self. Crystal gets an unfortunate chance to meet the self she left behind when she graduated high school.

    An odd series of events leaves mom Margot and both Crystal and married sister Lisa dealing, painfully for them and humorously for us, with the emotional wreckage of that.

    Speaking from personal experience, two grown women in one household is a lot of estrogen. Makes for much crazy. Mothers and daughters seem always to have stuff to sort and really awkward means of sorting or ignoring it.

    Moving on with those left behind is usually a comedy of errors. These ladies take the situation to new levels that leave you wanting to hug your mom, and thankful for whatever you share with her, and laughing at an awkward that someone else owns.

    I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
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