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***4 Stars*** The description was the hook for me. I mean, we all know how crazy online dating can be, even if you’ve never gone beyond lurking around a dating website (I’ve gone beyond...just putting it out there), so taking a chance on the book was really a no brainer and I found it to be a fun read filled with characters I really liked and the situations they found themselves in amusing and easy to relate to. With that said, I find myself in a bit of a conundrum. Not a huge one ~ as you can tell by my rating ~ it’s just that...well...as much as I liked Millie and Reid’s journey, I find that it was the interactions between their group of friends, no matter who was or wasn’t apart of them, that was what kept me turning the pages. Now, this isn’t entirely unusual for me, if you’ve read any of my reviews I absolutely ADORE well written secondary characters and do have a tendency to fall in love with them as much as the MC’s, but here it was more. The friendship, the conne...

***3.5 Stars*** I’m a fan of the fake relationship/marriage of convenience trope and since I’ve never read a Christina Lauren book before (I know, I know. It’s just one of those things...I have a couple of them on the TBR list but things happen) and Roomies was a standalone I figured this would be a great opportunity to experience a CL novel and though I enjoyed the book overall, I find myself waffling over ti as well. Certain aspects of the story I loved like the characters and the pace at which Calvin and Holland’s romance progresses, but I also feel like I needed MORE. More of an emotional connection, more of them truly getting to know each other...just more. Calvin and Holland were extremely likeable characters. Holland was a bit quirky and had a penchant for babbling when anxious. She is still trying to find her way when it comes what she wants to do with her, but she is working on it. She has a good heart and a generally positive outlook on life that made it easy to ...