


The American Roommate Experiment has well-developed, likeable characters and is one of my favourite romance books I’ve read this year.

There is an overlap of characters in these books. After reading this book, however, I want to go back and read the first book in the series The Spanish Love Deception. While the book is part of the author’s Spanish Love Deception series, it can certainly be read as a standalone. The passion is real and both continue the dates knowing that it will never be able to last. While each of them tried to deny these feelings knowing that Lucas’ stay in the U.S. It is this level of electricity between the two that sealed the deal on my love of this book. These dates stimulate more than Rosie’s need to write. Enter Lucas from Spain who not only lives with her but agrees to take her on a series of dates meant to motivate Rosie to start writing. She lacks inspiration and can’t seem to get started. Rosie is a successful author trying to write a second romance book with a deadline fast approaching.

The fact that Rosie had been social media stalking him for months just added to the chemistry. The way that Rosie and Lucas are thrown together is a new take on the forced proximity trope. I loved this book right from the very beginning. Her silly, online crush is totally under control-but Lucas’s time in New York has an expiration date, and six weeks may not be enough, for either her or her deadline. 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. Lucas offers to let Rosie stay with him, at least until she can find some affordable temporary housing.
