A review by librarypatronus
Desperately Seeking Roommate by Micalea Smeltzer

3.0

3.5 stars. This was a cute romance, but a few things about it bugged me. I was so excited to see that there was body-loving, sassy, smart, fat-girl rep. But....she body shamed other people multiple times. When Kit is mean about her body, we're supposed to get riled up, but she's mean about his body multiple times. She's mean about random skinny girls who piss her off, calling them "skinny bitch" as if their size has something to do with how they acted to her, but if someone called her a "fat bitch" that wouldn't have been ok. I also wasn't a fan of the violence aimed at douche-bag characters. Yeah, they were slimy and gross, but we're supposed to cheer on Miranda when she hunts Kit down and tackles him, not letting him up? If a guy did that to her, we'd be outraged. Not to mention that Lou assumes people are turning her down for her size, when it could be any number of reasons. I'm not saying that's not a reason sometimes, because of course we know it is, but she's flat out hostile to someone who says she's not their type for good reason. I was bummed at her inability to trust (although of course that moved the plot along)

Stuff I didn't like out of the way, I thought the romance itself was sweet and cute. And I loved Guilia (the mom that she's babysitting for) probably because she felt so relatable - her and her husband were adorable, and her "go do young people stuff" and the conversation about how she's thirty-one and old was exactly how I feel at 29 with 2 kids LOL. I loved how Lou looked at fate : "I don't believe fate is not having any choice, I feel like it's the guiding light" I liked that we got not one epilogue, but two, for two windows into their life after.