Book Review: Mom-Com by Marika Ray

Reality of Love Book 2

This single parent dating experiment is about to go viral…

Jameson

When my eight-year-old son starts asking question about love, I decide to use a magazine article on how to woo a woman to prove, once and for all, that romantic love doesn’t exist. Companionship, habit, mild fondness, sure, but not that thing called love. I have my hypothesis ready and I’m dead set on experimenting on my new neighbor, the single mom who does the weirdest things.

But my experiment goes awry in unexplainable ways...

Lily-Marie

When dating apps fail me spectacularly, I decide to go old school and use a 1950s magazine I dug up at a yard sale to help find Mr. Right.

Fifty Ways to Find a Husband.

Sounds legit.

Problem is, my new neighbor, Mr. Science Professor, keeps blocking my attempts. And keeps losing his shirt. How does a book nerd have so many muscles anyway? Thing is, my kids like his son and we start spending a lot of time together, which is distracting me from my ultimate goal: to find a husband to sweep me off my feet and be a good father to my kids.

Things get comical quick when my best friend records everything in her daily newspaper column. I can’t help but wonder if single moms like me can actually catch a husband. Or will this Mom-Com go viral as an epic train wreck?

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My Review:

I’m finding that my reaction to this book is a bit difficult to put into words. These are quirky, funny characters dealing with some real-world situations that are all too familiar to some of us and they’re handling them with their senses of humor intact. I adored Jameson. It’s probably the nerd-girl in me that resonated so fully with the socially awkward professor, but he just did it for me. I started out loving Lily-Marie, but then when I learned that some of her actions were specifically to hurt or embarrass Jameson, I didn’t like her so much. That made it very hard for me to stay invested in their happily ever after. Once she got her head screwed back on straight, it was easier but by then she’d broken trust with me and I was carrying a bit of a grudge. I laughed long and hard at the crazy situations this pair landed themselves in, and the kids were utterly priceless. Their ending is picture perfect. I received a complimentary advanced copy of this book from the author.

Other books in the series:

The Missing Ingredient: An Opposites Attract Romantic Comedy (Reality of Love Book 1)