When Mom Meets Dad

Finding Mr. Right

By: Karen Rose Smith

Narrated by: Johnny Peppers

Contemporary romance from award-winning, best-selling author Karen Rose Smith...

Alex Woodsides is a single dad who wants the best for his daughter. His daughter Kristy believes her father needs a wife and she needs a mom! When Kristy lets her math grade drop, she suggests Amanda Carson - her best friend's mom who is a third grade teacher - tutor her over the summer. She believes Mrs. Carson is the perfect mom and would make a wonderful wife for her dad. Neither Alex nor Amanda suspect they're being pushed together by two nine-year-old matchmakers until it's too late. Sparks fly when they meet and keep flying as they become involved in each others lives. But Amanda has been burnt in the past by a controlling husband, and Alex gained sole custody of his daughter because her mother walked away. Will Amanda and Alex fall for each other and the parent trap their daughters have set?

Warning: Consummated love scenes.

©First edition 1999 as Mom Meets Dad, Revised and updated edition 2012 as When Mom Meets Dad Karen Rose Smith (P)2013 Karen Rose Smith

awesome

Loved it !! this story. the narrator is so fantastic it's like your really there!! good overall

Heartwarming

I enjoyed this book. Johnny Peppers is a great narrator. I appreciate that he can change his tone. I love the story line.

I listened to this book traveling to and from work. I became so invested I had to listen at home as well. I feel like Amanda, Alex, Heather and Kristy are real people, and I know them. I like them.

Set Up

Two single parents fall into the trap set by their scheming daughters. Throughout, they both project their own insecurities from their previous failed relationships on each other.

Weak on romance

For a romance, this is depressing. Alex Woodsides and his daughter Kristy, have fashioned a good life after her mother left them. Her best friend, Heather Carson, has an equally good life with her mother, Amanda. Her father had left after his life started to fall apart with shady business deals and another woman. Heather and Kristy make it their mission to play matchmaker and get their parents together. A good premise for a cute story fell apart in its execution. Both Alex and Amanda become caricatures of a couple who love, then fight, then love again, all the time questioning how the other really feels. Amanda struggled with her first marriage because her husband was a bully and she's vowed never to allow another man treat her like that. When Alex makes a suggestion, she pushes back without thinking about it and, just as bad, Alex gets triggered that she's too stubborn. The back and forth is so tiring and the final conflict comes out of nowhere. The ending is really rushed and ends with the out of the blue "I'm pregnant." The narration by Johnny Peppers is good and his well-modulated voice brings the characters to life. 

More Brain Candy

Sweet, predictable story. Two girls decide their parents need to hook up and precede to push them in that direction. The story was cute, both people had trust issues stemming from previous relationships. It took an almost serious accident to show them that anything can be overcome and life was for taking risks, you couldn't spend it trying to be safe.

Uh yeah, didn't like the hero

I'm all for girl power and I felt that the girls were fun in trying to hook their parents up. I loved the independence of the mom because women can do it all but I felt the dad wasn't a fully realized character and had flimsy excuses on why he didn't want to get together with the mom and even at times turned the table and made his issues, her issues. He was kind of a but.