REVIEW: "Roomies" by Christina Lauren (Contemporary Romance)

ROOMIES by Christina Lauren
	Publisher: Gallery Books Genre: Contemporary Romance Publication Date: December 5th 2017 Standalone: Yes
Categories:
Stuck With You, Fake Dating
Other Books by Christina Lauren
Description from Publisher:
From subway to Broadway to happily ever after. Modern love in all its thrill, hilarity, and uncertainty has never been so compulsively readable as in New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren’s romantic novel. Marriages of convenience are so...inconvenient. For months Holland Bakker has invented excuses to descend into the subway station near her apartment, drawn to the captivating music performed by her street musician crush. Lacking the nerve to actually talk to the gorgeous stranger, fate steps in one night in the form of a drunken attacker. Calvin Mcloughlin rescues her, but quickly disappears when the police start asking questions. Using the only resource she has to pay the brilliant musician back, Holland gets Calvin an audition with her uncle, Broadway’s hottest musical director. When the tryout goes better than even Holland could have imagined, Calvin is set for a great entry into Broadway—until his reason for disappearing earlier becomes clear: he’s in the country illegally, his student visa having expired years ago. Seeing that her uncle needs Calvin as much as Calvin needs him, a wild idea takes hold of her. Impulsively, she marries the Irishman, her infatuation a secret only to him. As their relationship evolves and Calvin becomes the darling of Broadway—in the middle of the theatrics and the acting-not-acting—will Holland and Calvin to realize that they both stopped pretending a long time ago?
My Rating:	Heat Rating:
This was amazing. The characters were so incredibly well written, the chemistry and love so visceral... I was so invested in this that I stayed up all night (which I may regret a bit when my kids wake me in a few hours!). I loved Holland, and Calvin, and the uncles. The way Lulu was written. The misunderstandings, the music, writing, all of it. The emotions were palpable and I was seriously enraptured by it!
My Source: I borrowed this book from the local public library to voluntarily review. This in no way influenced my review. My opinion is unbiased and 100% my own.

About the Author:
Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of long-time writing partners/besties/soulmates/brain-twins Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings. The coauthor duo writes both Young Adult and Adult Fiction, and together has produced fourteen New York Times bestselling novels. Their books have been translated into 30+ languages. (Some of these books have kissing. Some of these books have A LOT of kissing.)