Roomies - Christina Lauren

Roomies

By Christina Lauren

  • Release Date: 2017-12-05
  • Genre: Romance
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 812 Ratings

Description

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 bestselling author Christina Lauren’s Roomies.

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

    2
    By ARaye526
    Meh… 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

    4
    By faithmarie19
    This 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

    4
    By spanky"9090
    Slow start but worth the read
  • Wanted more

    3
    By ksimms26
    I 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

    5
    By Haileyyshay
    I 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

    4
    By lomwilliams
    Wow loved this 4.5 stars I needed more. I wasn’t ready for it to be over.
  • Great love story

    5
    By Missrorohick
    Beautifully written. Very tastefully done.
  • Wonderful read

    5
    By Traediva
    My first book from the duo author and I was NOT disappointed! I thoroughly enjoyed every part of this book!
  • Pure fun!

    5
    By rainbowcat5
    An entertainingly fun romp
  • Love!

    5
    By JaneE723
    I really loved this book through and through!