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The American Roommate Experiment
by Elena Armas
Better than The Spanish Love Deception in every way.
Now this is a book that conveys emotion, actually shows growing character attachments, shows us exactly why and how all these characters are lovable to each other and others, and has annoyingly enjoyable build up and slow burn.
I also enjoyed that though Lucas was from Spain, that wasn’t what his whole persona revolved around - there wasn’t stereotyping like I’ve read elsewhere. He was actually just a regular dude who happened to be from Spain and would toss out some Spanish one liners here and there when his brain thought too fast *or too poetically* for English to come naturally.
….Except the dulce de leche part…. - but that may just be me because I find that phrase so utterly un-sexy in the context it was used. Dexter’s lab omelette du fromage vibes if I’m being real…. really shivered my timbers.
Last 5ish kindle pages before epilogue feeling slightly rushed (with the guy rambling trying to explain his POV to girl in essentially one breath all while in a big romantic moment - I don’t like emotional lore dumps), but then rethought it because it still works and it’s still very cute and it really doesn’t take away emotionally. Satisfying story.
Very happy I gave the author another go because I read TSLD at least 3ish years ago now, and it left no lasting impression - just melted into the background with most generic romance books I’ve read throughout the years. I completely forgot I read about Lina and Aaron before this book until I got to the acknowledgements and the comments here and saw it’s the same character circle. This book, however, is one that will definitely stand out in fond recollections.
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The book is FULL of tropes. It’s a trope fiesta of every romantic moment you can imagine except for buying the girl flowers. Yes even an airport chase. I’ll be honest I read this whole book keeping in mind that the tropes are probably the whole POINT. The character is a romance writer and basically fell into a hallmark movie with her life. She gives him a literal script of how to be romanced in order to get inspiration. I read it like the whole point of this is to show the irony of a romance writer getting all the cheesy romantic tropes. That’s part of what made it so much more entertaining.
The most unrealistic thing here is that the author thinks you can go from NYC to Philly and back by train and still have enough hours in the day to do other things. From a New Yorker
Now this is a book that conveys emotion, actually shows growing character attachments, shows us exactly why and how all these characters are lovable to each other and others, and has annoyingly enjoyable build up and slow burn.
I also enjoyed that though Lucas was from Spain, that wasn’t what his whole persona revolved around - there wasn’t stereotyping like I’ve read elsewhere. He was actually just a regular dude who happened to be from Spain and would toss out some Spanish one liners here and there when his brain thought too fast *or too poetically* for English to come naturally.
….Except the dulce de leche part…. - but that may just be me because I find that phrase so utterly un-sexy in the context it was used. Dexter’s lab omelette du fromage vibes if I’m being real…. really shivered my timbers.
Last 5ish kindle pages before epilogue feeling slightly rushed (with the guy rambling trying to explain his POV to girl in essentially one breath all while in a big romantic moment - I don’t like emotional lore dumps), but then rethought it because it still works and it’s still very cute and it really doesn’t take away emotionally. Satisfying story.
Very happy I gave the author another go because I read TSLD at least 3ish years ago now, and it left no lasting impression - just melted into the background with most generic romance books I’ve read throughout the years. I completely forgot I read about Lina and Aaron before this book until I got to the acknowledgements and the comments here and saw it’s the same character circle. This book, however, is one that will definitely stand out in fond recollections.
Edit*
The book is FULL of tropes. It’s a trope fiesta of every romantic moment you can imagine except for buying the girl flowers. Yes even an airport chase. I’ll be honest I read this whole book keeping in mind that the tropes are probably the whole POINT. The character is a romance writer and basically fell into a hallmark movie with her life. She gives him a literal script of how to be romanced in order to get inspiration. I read it like the whole point of this is to show the irony of a romance writer getting all the cheesy romantic tropes. That’s part of what made it so much more entertaining.
The most unrealistic thing here is that the author thinks you can go from NYC to Philly and back by train and still have enough hours in the day to do other things. From a New Yorker