Roomies
By Christina Lauren

- Release Date: 2017-12-05
- Genre: Romance
Description
From subway to Broadway to happily ever after. Love in all its thrill, hilarity, and uncertainty has never been so compulsively readable as in this “fresh, modern” (Entertainment Weekly) romance from the New York Times bestselling authors of The Unhoneymooners and Love and Other Words.
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?
Reviews
Meh…their love never seemed real
2By ARaye526Meh… there were some great points and quotes that really had me thinking…but they had lackluster chemistry. SPOILERS!!!!!! Stop reading if you don’t want to know…last warning…ok. Once they slept together for the first time, they lost me. It was so unromantic and depressing and all the “real” love scenes after seemed cheap. There was chemistry on some pages, but how they finally came together as a real couple seemed pathetic. Both were too immature to handle a relationship…let alone a marriage. And they not grew from their immaturity. They kept making silly mistakes and saying and doing the wrong thing. Them having blackout drunk sex ruined the entire story for me—it could have been redeemed, but the authors dropped the ball on this one. Great idea, but the 2nd half of the book didn’t do it for me at all.I needed more
4By faithmarie19This book was good… not great. I wanted to love it but I just needed more. It felt almost rushed, like half the story was just skimmed over.Worth it
4By spanky"9090Slow start but worth the readWanted more
3By ksimms26I loved this story, but was a little frustrated that so many loose ends are tied up so quickly in just a single chapter at the end. I wanted more….I still have so many questions! What about the essay, what happens with her career, do they move to LA, does she tell the rest of her family, what about his family and his sister with cerebral palsy???Best Romance Novel Ever
5By HaileyyshayI read a probably obscene amount of romance novels and this is the best out there. I can’t stop thinking of the story and want to re read it again and again!I want more of the stoey
4By lomwilliamsWow loved this 4.5 stars I needed more. I wasn’t ready for it to be over.Great love story
5By MissrorohickBeautifully written. Very tastefully done.Wonderful read
5By TraedivaMy first book from the duo author and I was NOT disappointed! I thoroughly enjoyed every part of this book!Pure fun!
5By rainbowcat5An entertainingly fun rompLove!
5By JaneE723I really loved this book through and through!