Roomies by Christina Lauren
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Released December 5, 2017
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From subway to Broadway to happily ever after. Modern love in all its thrill, hilarity, and uncertainty has never been so compulsively readable as in New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Christina Lauren’s (Beautiful Bastard, Dating You / Hating You) new romance.
Marriages of convenience are so…inconvenient.
For months Holland Bakker has invented excuses to descend into the subway station near her apartment, drawn to the captivating music performed by her street musician crush. Lacking the nerve to actually talk to the gorgeous stranger, fate steps in one night in the form of a drunken attacker. Calvin Mcloughlin rescues her, but quickly disappears when the police start asking questions.
Using the only resource she has to pay the brilliant musician back, Holland gets Calvin an audition with her uncle, Broadway’s hottest musical director. When the tryout goes better than even Holland could have imagined, Calvin is set for a great entry into Broadway—until his reason for disappearing earlier becomes clear: he’s in the country illegally, his student visa having expired years ago.
Seeing that her uncle needs Calvin as much as Calvin needs him, a wild idea takes hold of her. Impulsively, she marries the Irishman, her infatuation a secret only to him. As their relationship evolves and Calvin becomes the darling of Broadway—in the middle of the theatrics and the acting-not-acting—will Holland and Calvin to realize that they both stopped pretending a long time ago?
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Okay, before we begin, I have a confession for you… *whispers* this is my first Christina Lauren book! I feel like I’m the last person in the romance world to read their books and let me tell you… Roomies blew me away! I get it. I understand why everyone is so crazy about them!
Roomies had me melting, I don’t even know else how to describe how I felt while reading this story other than the fact that I swooned so hard I was melting into a pile of happy goo!
Roomies had me anxious and I had a bad feeling in my gut that I couldn’t quite figure out because, for the most part, it was a very light-hearted romance, but the problems that they faced were written so well that I felt their pain and joy as if it were my own.
Holland and Calvin were the perfect match for each other, even if they made me a tad batty at times because they couldn’t see the whole picture like I could and the characters around them. They were flaw-filled characters that were written to perfection.
Roomies is the epitome of romance.
If you like romantic comedies you may also like The Fortunate Ones by R.S. Grey!
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