Showing posts with label roommates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label roommates. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

My Roommate is a Vampire

 My Roommate is a Vampire by Jenna Levine, 341 pages.

Cassie Greenberg is really struggling to make ends meet living in Chicago with an MA in art. She's on the cusp of eviction (again) when she sees a roommate wanted ad for a ludicrously low price in a suspiciously nice neighborhood. Then she meets her new roommate, one Frederick J. Fitzwilliam, who is both very attractive and astoundingly weird (I'm sure we can all guess why). Turns out Frederick needs a guide for life in the 21st century (he's been asleep awhile), and Cassie really needs the cheap rent. Plus, he's not so bad once you get to know him.

This book was exactly as cute as the cover promised (and that's a really cute cover). It was also hilarious, up there with the funniest romantic comedies I've read. This was a really delightful book to break up some of the darker Halloween-themed books I tend to read in October. There were a few plot hooks that felt like they sort of came out of nowhere and went nowhere, but I wouldn't say that that really detracted from my enjoyment at all.


Thursday, January 9, 2020

The Flatshare

The Flatshare / Beth O'Leary, read by Carrie Hope Fletcher and Kwaku Fortune, 328 pgs.

Tiffy Moore is looking for a place to live - cheap and FAST.  She and Justin have broken up (again) and she needs to move out of his place.  Leon is a hospice nurse who works nights.  He needs some money FAST and decides to rent out his flat to someone who works days.  They will never see each other.  Leon's girlfriend handles the renting and so Leon and Tiffy have never met even though they share a space.  They leave notes for each other and leftovers.  Slowly they feel like they know each other even though they have not seen each other. They are friends.  But you know what is coming, right?  This is, after all, a romance.  I'll let you guess the rest.  Strong supporting cast of friends make this quirky and delightful.  The audio book is perfectly read by Carrie Hope Fletcher and Kwaku Fortune.