The American Roommate Experiment: From the bestselling author of The Spanish Love Deception

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And then he proposes an outrageous experiment to bring back her literary muse and meet her deadline: He’ll take her on a series of experimental dates meant to jump-start her romantic inspiration. Effortlessly charming and naturally flirtatious Lucas is a friendly, supportive ray of sunshine throughout, but he’s also hiding a huge secret from his family and continuously putting off having to deal with the consequences. She hopes her stories make your heart skip a beat or two, your palms a little sweaty, and your cheeks flush in that rosy pink that makes other people want to peek at the page you are reading. It takes you to another world of tender yet careless love that makes you giggle, cry, and just utterly swoon. the longing, the aching, the undeniable chemistry Rosie and Lucas have for one another had me clutching my chest the entire way through.

There’s forced proximity (lots), an unrequited secret crush, THE EXPERIMENT or in other words yes, A DATING EXPERIMENT, late night cooking, megawatt smiles, prancing in towels, hawt hawt steamy showers and a sunshine hero with some alpha sprinkled on top. the fact that this man convinced the owner of her favorite pizzeria to give him the keys so he could surprise her with a date where they made pizzas there. him watching her favorite show with her and then later on telling her that it was his show hahah omg. When the ceiling of Rosie Graham’s New York apartment splits open (revealing more than she ever wanted to know about her upstairs neighbor), she invites herself into her BFF Catalina’s chic studio apartment—after all, her bestie is off on her honeymoon anyway.The closest thing I had to that was Uncle Al, who was a security guard for a company on Fifth Avenue. but ffs, by the tenth compliment that was dropped in the span of a chapter, i couldn’t bare it any longer.

Lucas has just a way with words that had me thinking very unhinged things…and the way he’s just so down and deep for Rosie…honestly it pissed me tf off because i know men like him just simply don’t exist in real life. My throat worked as I started noticing the way her breasts pressed against my chest, moving up and down with every heaving breath.Lucas made sure he was meeting my gaze when he said, “I would if I was trying to work up the courage to kiss a girl like you. That it would be about him battling modern life and adjusting to how things have changed in the wilderness that is dating nowadays.

For a slow-burn rom-com featuring an introvert, an extrovert, forced-proximity fake-dating, some undeniable chemistry and a masquerade ball, pick up The American Roommate Experiment (Atria) by Elena Armas, author of 2021’s fan favorite The Spanish Love Deception. But Rosie doesn’t know that Lina has already lent her apartment to her cousin Lucas, who Rosie has been stalking—for lack of a better word—on Instagram for the last few months. Involuntarily, my eyes scanned the supposedly inspirational quote on the screen: IF OPPORTUNITY DOESN’T KNOCK, BUILD A DOOR. And yet, because this was New York and I had dealt with my fair share of strange people and stranger situations, I still added, “I’m going to need more information than that. But he—the man who didn’t even know I existed, but whose features I was able to summon in my mind if I closed my eyes—didn’t give any indication of being in a rush to stand up.To perhaps gush over her stories together, and who knows, maybe fall a little more in love with love. And kismet, destiny, luck, or whatever force in charge of deciding my fate, had packed its bags and left me to fend for myself. i know there’s recently been wider conversations within the book community and the publishing industry regarding what’s been dubbed “tropification”. There were no weaponizable objects, either, except for a crooked clay candleholder born from a lazy DIY Sunday and a flimsy boho standing lamp I wasn’t sure about.