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Mom Coms #2

Audiobook gifted by author

Author: Jenni Bara

Narrators: Maxine Mitchell and Teddy Hamilton

In the Mom Coms, we have three best friends who are single moms sharing a dilapidated brownstone (in the process of being renovated) in Boston with their 7 kids.

Dylan is the new ager, flower child, sort of hippie of the bunch. She’s the stay at home mom of the group. She’s the quirky, fun, and very chill mom of 15-year-old Liam and a firm believer in “listening to the Universe” and “going with the flow”. But she needs a little break, a moment to unleash her inner goddess so to speak.

The opportunity arises when Cortney Miller shows up at the house. He’s a major league catcher, a star, who was unexpectedly traded to the Boston Revs and is friends with Beckett, owner of the team and involuntary inhabitant of the weird house. Miller is in search of his missing lucky socks and when said socks come flying at him and he sees Dylan sneaking out to have some fun, he volunteers as tribute to go out with her. One stop at his place, one game of pool, one night that neither seems to forget… And they never will, because the pregnancy test comes back with those two pesky little lines.

I loved this book! Cortney is top tier book boyfriend material (he reminded me of Tristan from The Takeover and that says a lot!!!) in his devotion to Dylan and his dedication to winning Liam over. Dylan is adorably free-spirited and her easy acceptance of the impeding arrival of a surprise baby is so beautiful that the accidental pregnancy trope is very easy to enjoy. I loved how they meshed with the crazy shenanigans at the brownstone and how easily Miller’s family not only accepted the new quirky addition to the family (plus her son) but also championed her! LOVED IT!

Narrated in duet by Teddy Hamilton and Maxine Mitchell, two of my favorite narrators, who are perfectly cast. Teddy embodies the anxious cinnamon roll that is Miller completely and Maxine is specially good in this. My only disappointment is that, since it’s duet, we don’t get to hear her incomparable “man voice”. All the stars!

Thanks, Jenni! 

Content notes: surprise pregnancy, child abandonment, anxiety