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hookerkitty's review against another edition
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.0
Unfortunately, it seemed like once it hit around the 3/4 point that the writing started going downhill. I don’t know if they ran out of time or what.
The sex scene(s) were alright, but what kept killing it was how often she said “please” during it. I had to go back and do a search in kindle to make sure I caught them all - she said “please” a whopping SEVEN times, and he said it once. That is bonkers and got really annoying.
The whole third act twist was not only somewhat bizarre, but totally anticlimactic. And I’m all for leaving an open ending if it’s going to be turned into a series, but I thought the ending was kind of lazy/wishy-washy.
So up until that stuff happened, I was totally planning on giving it 5 stars. After the sex scene(s) I thought about knocking a half star off, but after that third act crap I’m knocking it down to 4 stars. It’s disappointing when good books start falling apart at the ends.
I’ll definitely still recommend this to other people bc the humor is fantastic. I just wish they had spent a little more time fleshing out the last quarter of the book.
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Blood
Minor: Violence, Alcohol, Torture, Death, and Murder
margaret_k30's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Blood and Sexual content
Moderate: Kidnapping
Minor: Death
hcgambrell's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Blood
Moderate: Kidnapping and Death
fiercereadsfiction's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Blood
Moderate: Death
Minor: Kidnapping
minyoonhwi's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Blood
Minor: Death
vanesst's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Blood and Sexual content
Minor: Kidnapping, Death, and Alcohol
reinik's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Kidnapping, Blood, Confinement, and Cursing
Minor: Alcohol, Death, and Sexism
kaziaroo's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
The title is quite confusing for a British audience – I'd assumed they actually shared a room, but actually they're more flatmates than roommates.
Two things that did really irritate me:
1. The texts and letters were completely unbelievable throughout; they read like spoken dialogue and were never convincing for written language. For example, near the beginning Frederick writes in a handwritten letter "Not... Exactly" – who writes with ellipses like that on paper?! Let alone someone from his period, who's trying not to act suspicious. This kind of thing ruined my immersion in the story whenever there was a letter involved.
2. Following on from that, the author clearly did not research the historical period Frederick is from. She keeps saying he looks like he's stepped out of a Jane Austen novel, but the way she describes his clothes (suits and wingtip shoes) is more like early 1900s fashions, i.e. a century after Austen's time. His speech and style of letter writing also didn't feel convincing enough for the time.
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Blood, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Death and Alcohol
natashaleighton_'s review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Sexual content and Blood
Moderate: Confinement and Kidnapping
Minor: Death
bookcheshirecat's review against another edition
4.0
“Mr. Frederick Fitzwilliam’s Google Search History: - How do you kiss if it has been three hundred years since.- How can you know if she wants to kiss you…”
➽ My Roommate Is a Vampire is exactly the hilarious, paranormal Romance I was expecting! Cassie Greenberg is a struggling artist, who is desperately searching for affordable housing in the Chicago area. When she finds a flatshare offer in a nice area that's too good to be true, she meets Frederick J. Fitzwilliam, a hot guy who speaks as if he's from a Regency novel. I loved the hilarious setup, as Cassie's immediately suspicious. After all, the offer is too good to be true, but she needs the cheap rent and is willing to put up with an eccentric roommate. It turns out that Frederick is actually a vampire, who's trying to blend into modern society and hopes to learn how to behave 'normally' from Cassie! I loved this trope so much and thought it was fun trying to see Frederick come to terms with modern technology! This was just an entertaining romance and makes me glad that we're getting more vampire books again!
Graphic: Kidnapping and Blood
Minor: Death and Sexism