Reviews - Never Kiss Your Roommate

343 reviews for:

Never Kiss Your Roommate

Philline Harms

3.39 AVERAGE

bourbonneuse's review against another edition

4.5

emotional fast-paced

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

seventhchariot's review against another edition

3.0

Rating: 3/5

Never Kiss Your Roommate is a very over-the-top story with lots of queer rep and great characters!

I really enjoyed the relationships in this book! There is both an f/f and an m/m relationship that I enjoyed reading about, but while I did have fun following these characters, I am definitely more of a plot-driven kinda person, and due to this book having a very messy plot, this story didn't fully work for me. I'll definitely read more by this author, and overall this was a pretty fun book!

Content warning (courtesy of the author) for:

-Abusive relationship (off-page)
-Blood
-Bullying/cyberbullying
-Divorce
-Homophobia (off-page)
-Kidnapping
-Outing (off-page)
-Panic attack
-Sex scene (fade to black)
-Sexual assault (off-page)
-Swearing
-Trauma
-Underage drinking
-Violence

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with an eARC in exchange for an honest review!

cgret's review against another edition

3.0

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Crazzzzy plot twists but I did like it enough to make character playlists with my best friend at the time so has a place in my heart for that

luna_adamx's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny lighthearted relaxing sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

abby026's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny lighthearted

nation_1996's review against another edition

4.0

I received a copy of this book for free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest and unbiased review.

I am going to give this book 3.5 stars. I really enjoyed it, especially the four main characters' developments. I guessed pretty early who the mastermind behind the Chitter Chatter was (also, the Gossip Girl vibes were real!), so it wasn't a surprise when we found out the culprit. All in all, pretty cute and sweet YA book.

sarahhreads's review against another edition

4.0

If I had to sum this book up in a sentence, I would say this book is all the mcs being queer meets gossip girl meets pretty little liars meets being set in a UK boarding school. Sounds really good, right!! And I can say that this book mostly lived up to my expectations.

Before we go on, here are a list of tw (a short list was included at the beginning of the book which I really liked):
homophobia (off page)
outing
sex (fade to black)
bullying (cyber bullying)
assult
sexual assult
kidnapping

Ok, on to the review:

I think that the characters and relationships were hands down the best and strongest part of this book. Switching back and forth between Evelyn and Seth povs, you really get to know both characters and their love interests. I think both romances were done really well. Jasper was by far my favorite character :) his french accent lmao. Also, can we just take a moment to appreciate that all the mcs are queer. I don't think there is a single person who gets more than two pages of "screentime" that isn't queer which I absolutely love. I know that the bar is on the floor with me even saying this, but there was verbal consent literally every time anything physical happened and most of the time when anyone touched anyone else which I really appriciated. If I was just rating based on characters and relationships, this would be a solid four maybe five-star read. However, a book is more than that.

In terms of the plot, I was a little disappointed. I felt that the ending was rushed and slightly unnecessary. I don't want to spoil anything but around 80% through the book it just goes 0-100 real fast and then at about 95%, it goes back like nothing really happened?? You do learn some essential backstory about a character in this part and it wasn't at all hard to read, on the contrary, it was exciting and kept me gripped but it was very jarring compared to the pace and tone of the rest of the novel. The plot of the romance in the beginning of the book was good and I don't really have any complaints. There was a slight lull around 60% through once the characters get together, but nothing so major as to make me want to stop reading.

Overall, I'm going to give this a 3.5/5 but round up with my staring cause I did like the romance and I definitely would recommend this to anyone looking for a relatively quick, fun, queer read.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an ARC of this book. All opinions expressed are my own.