Reviews - Roommate Arrangement

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Roommate Arrangement

Saxon James

3.88 AVERAGE

theaaab's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful medium-paced

elleyotter's review against another edition

5.0

Ahhhhhhhhh *immediately gets the next book*

OK, not that I've inhaled the next book (Platonic Rulebook), I'll take a moment to come back and review this one, haha. I've had this book on my Kindle since it released, and for some reason never picked it up until the cute illustrated paperback cover came out... So then I bought it in paperback (despite owning it digitally already, yes, I know) and DEVOURED IT. (I did read the next book digitally because it did not, at the time of reading, have a cute illustrated cover, but when it does I want to buy the entire matching set).

I LOVE this book. I can't even words how much I love it. Part of the reason I took a while to pick it up as because of the series name and premise - Divorced Men's Club. Did I really want to read about a bunch of divorcés? Turns out yes, I really did - joke's on me!

I fell head over heels for Beau from moment one. Payne is great too, but Beau is the one who really shone for me in this book (possibly because I am somewhat weird myself?). Payne main attraction for me was in how patient with and accepting of Beau he is, and how he doesn't think Beau needs to "fix" anything about himself. Beau feeling that way just broke my dang heart.

The slow bloom of their relationship is so lovely. From the almost LIFETIME of longing on Beau's part, to Payne's anger and pain from his ending relationship and wanting to be sure he doesn't do anything to hurt his little brother's best friend. Did I mention I love a best friend's brother/brother's best friend trope? Because I dooooooo! And the way Saxon James writes the other interlinked relationships outside of the main romantic one is just amazing - Payne has his sort of found family of the Divorced Men's Club, and there's both Payne and Beau's relationship with Payne's brother Marty as well.

I loved this book so much I immediately picked up the second book in the series, Platonic Rulebook, and blew through that and now I'm BIG MAD the third book, Budding Attraction, doesn't come out until NOVEMBER! Each book can be read as a standalone, but they are interlinked in that the DMC group chat fellas all talk about their love lives. ;)

booknerd2009's review against another edition

4.5

funny hopeful lighthearted

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

kayetaz's review against another edition

2.25

lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

2.3 ⭐️

Spice: 🌶️🌶️/5

Format: audiobook

Narration: 🎤🎤🎤🎤/5

Brother’s best friend is one of my favorite tropes but this book just didn’t do it for me. There were no forbidden aspects to their relationship and the way they got together was just odd.

I also just didn’t care about either MMC. I felt bad for Payne in the very beginning and then he very quickly turned into a very one-dimensional character with no personality. Beau was just kind of all over the place. He was self-deprecating one minute then super confident and overtly sexual the next.

And maybe this is a me problem, but I hate when books are a big plot point in books. I don’t want to hear about tropes and characters and the writing process in a book. Every time Beau talked about his stories I mentally checked out.

I have no idea why they fought so hard against being together to just… do it. Relationship angst just for the sake of it does nothing for me. Also the whole thing with Lee rubbed me the wrong way. Both Payne and Beau pissed me off with that whole thing.

I don’t know. I just don’t think this series is for me. This is my second book in Divorced Men’s Club and both have been 2 stars. I have the next book borrowed on Hoopla already but if I don’t like it, I’ll probably give up on continuing this series.

abbiel's review against another edition

4.25

emotional lighthearted fast-paced

dolewhipdanielle's review against another edition

5.0

I loved this one! It was the perfect low angst read for me this week. Payne & Beau are so quirky & sweet together. I adored Payne’s insistence from the start that Beau didn’t need to change anything. It truly hits the message home that we should never change ourselves for other people. Them finding that with each other was fantastic. Also Kyle is pure trash and I hope nothing good happens to that cheating jerk wad ever again.