Rosie Danan

Clara Wheaton is suffering the plight of the average millennial woman. She's overeducated, underemployed, and single. When her childhood crush invites her to move into his spare bedroom, the offer sounds irresistible but unfortunately, it's too good to be true. After a bait-and-switch, Clara finds herself sharing a lease with charming, handsome stranger Josh. He seems to perfect for her liking, until she googles him, and the internet reveals his profession. Will living with him turn into a scandal? Or will pooling their resources help them - and others - get lucky for a change.

The Roommate

'Laugh-out-loud funny, bananas sexy, and deeply romantic' Andie J. Christopher 'This book IS PURE JOY' Christina Lauren Clara Wheaton is the consummate good girl: over-achieving, well-mannered, utterly predictable. When her childhood crush invites her to move across the country, the offer is too good to resist. Unfortunately, it's also too good to be true. Suddenly, Clara finds herself sharing a house with a charming stranger. Josh might be a bit too perceptive - not to mention handsome - for comfort, but there's a good chance he and Clara could have survived sharing a summer sublet if she hadn't looked him up on the internet . . . Once she learns how Josh has made a name for himself, Clara realises living with him might destroy the reputation she's spent years building. But while they may not agree on much, both Josh and Clara believe women deserve better sex. What they decide to do about it will change both of their lives, and if they're lucky, they'll help everyone else get lucky too. Love for The Roommate: 'Incredible . . . one of my top romance reads of 2020!' Jen Deluca, author of Well Met 'Funny, super steamy and surprisingly tender, The Roommate raises the bar for rom coms in 2020' Evie Dunmore, author of Bringing Down the Duke 'The Roommate is unapologetically sexy as hell. Danan's writing, like her characters, is funny, seductive, and full of heart' Meryl Wilsner, author of Something to Talk About 'A powerful, feminist book, that makes you laugh as hard as you cheer. The Roommate is sunshine in the form of a book' Alexa Martin, author of Snapped 'Warmly funny and gorgeously sexy, this porn-star romance is the most wholesome thing I've read in ages' The New York Times 'Rosie Danan's The Roommate is seriously sexy, seriously smart' Helen Hoang, USA Today bestselling author 'Wildly original and sexy romance . . . this delectable rom-com is both red-hot and fiercely feminist' Publishers Weekly 'One of the steamiest romances of the year. This is a downright revolutionary story about modern women owning their desire' Popsugar 'Gloriously soft and joyful, a sex positive manifesto inside a deliriously romantic, wickedly shameless love story' Entertainment Weekly

the perfect feel-good sexy romcom for 2020

nara davies

"Change always comes with a closing cost"

"But it's still worth trying. Not because the odds are particularly good, mind you, but considering the alternative. There's value in the struggle. Value in touching the raw and bloody parts of our soul, opening them up to the sunlight and hoping they heal."

Osé 

"It’s  not like this was a real date." Clara reared back for a moment. "Oh. Sure. Right."

Rina

Touching her, wanting her, felt as crucial as oxygen.

"Some fears kill us. They drain us our whole lives, and we die filled with regret. But this isn't one of those fears. Make a plan. It doesn't have to be now, but you know the only way to get better at driving."

The Wheatons are infamous among the east coast elite for their lack of impulse control, except for their daughter Clara. She's the consummate socialite: over-achieving, well-mannered, predictable. But every Wheaton has their weakness. When Clara's childhood crush invites her to move cross-country, the offer is too much to resist. Unfortunately, it's also too good to be true. After a bait-and-switch, Clara finds herself sharing a lease with a charming stranger. Josh might be a bit too perceptive - not to mention handsome - for comfort, but there's a good chance he and Clara could have survived sharing a summer sublet if she hadn't looked him up on the Internet... Once she learns how Josh has made a name for himself, Clara realises living with him might make her the Wheaton's most scandalous story yet. His professional prowess inspires her to take tackling the stigma against female desire into her own hands. They may not agree on much, but Josh and Clara both believe women deserve better sex. What they decide to do about it will change both of their lives, and if they're lucky, they'll help everyone else get lucky too.

Sophia

"Loving you is like sinking into a warm bath after a lifetime of feeling cold down to the bones."

Somehow tonight he'd walked through a doorway to an alternate reality.

Only in another dimension would Clara have let him hold her and kiss her and touch her without a list of reasons on handy to justify the intimacy.

His molecules had rerranged to give him this shot at loving her.

He'd give Clara everything he had, even if it killed him.

At least she hadn't asked him if he was in love with her. He'd never been any good at lying.

The idea that Clara wasn't desirable, wasn't inherently lovable, made him irrationally furious.

Charlène vlek

theellegirl

House Rules: Do your own dishes Knock before entering the bathroom Never look up your roommate online The Wheatons are infamous among the east coast elite for their lack of impulse control, except for their daughter Clara. She’s the consummate socialite: over-achieving, well-mannered, predictable. But every Wheaton has their weakness. When Clara’s childhood crush invites her to move cross-country, the offer is too tempting to resist. Unfortunately, it’s also too good to be true. After a bait-and-switch, Clara finds herself sharing a lease with a charming stranger. Josh might be a bit too perceptive—not to mention handsome—for comfort, but there’s a good chance he and Clara could have survived sharing a summer sublet if she hadn’t looked him up on the Internet... Once she learns how Josh has made a name for himself, Clara realizes living with him might make her the Wheaton’s most scandalous story yet. His professional prowess inspires her to take tackling the stigma against female desire into her own hands. They may not agree on much, but Josh and Clara both believe women deserve better sex. What they decide to do about it will change both of their lives, and if they’re lucky, they’ll help everyone else get lucky too.

Annmarie Vilardo

Miriam

Sevval

Enjoyed the banter - hated there was a side character with the last name masterson (major ick) 

I thought this book had soooo much more potential to be LOL funny but it kinda missed 

Brittany Peterson

Enjoyed the banter - hated there was a side character with the last name masterson (major ick) 

I thought this book had soooo much more potential to be LOL funny but it kinda missed 

Overall just good 

big ab

a granddaughter of JFK moves to LA and becomes roommates with a porn star and together they take on the Big Porn industry and have lots of sex. this is what i’m talking about!!! move over dickens, this is true classic literature.

Bria

This was cute but nothing really stood out

Winona

i love them. the contrast between them? josh being so straightforward with everything, clara being all shy and timid. i also loved the character development within clara. I LOVE NAOMI SO SO MUCH. her and clara's little banter really livens everything up. i'm so excited for the next book<3

Winona Santiago

i found the book so cute and loved the tension! i liked Clara and how obsessed josh was over her although she didn’t know it. 

Zamyha🩷

aleksandra

3/5

This book was actually not that bad, at first when I saw the ratings I wasn’t very convinced to read it but I enjoyed reading it. Even though I didn’t like Clara. 


  
     "she looked like everything he’d ever wanted.”

“He’d give Clara everything he had, even if it killed him”

“forehead to rest against hers. “I can’t believe you’re real.”
  


I love pathetically obsessed men, so yeah, three stars.

zatul 

One of the best romance I've read this year

Renata

i loved this sm istg 
the topic about the women empowerment is the best i swear 
such a good book 

- “He should have been safe, but something about Clara, about the noises she made, or the way she moved, or the wicked combination, threatened to pull him under her spell.”

- “Clara’s shy smile made him want to grab the straps of those ridiculous overalls, yank her mouth to his, and finally taste those strawberry lips he’d been dreaming about since she first walked into his life.”

- “(…)maybe he would have if Josh hadn’t thought of Clara’s face at that exact moment. If he hadn’t pulled up her profile in the driver’s seat of his car at sunset after a whole day of facing her fears. The shadows of a dying sun across her face made her look like a 1940s movie star. Biting her lip. Determined to do what she thought she must. No matter how much it scared her.”

- “It took everything he had to keep from dropping to his knees and pleading with her to put him out of his misery.”

- “JOSH NEEDED TO get his feelings for his roommate under control. His physical symptoms had started to cause him bodily harm. And his mental ones? Well, those had gotten so powerful, he could hardly go ten minutes without thinking of Clara. All he knew was that he always wanted her to be happy. When she smiled or laughed, he felt powerful and good. If something hurt her, he wanted to Hulk smash.”

- “If he wasn’t careful, trouble might not be the only thing he loved for long. The way he felt about Clara, heart pounding every time she entered a room, greedy for her approval, laughing at everything she said. He hadn’t recognized the signals. Had always assumed he’d been born immune.”

- “Listen, I can’t think of a polite way to tell you that if that guy”—Josh pointed at the photo of Everett where it lay on the ground—“doesn’t drop down on his knees and beg to fuck you, he’s a moron.” He threw up his hands. “If he doesn’t wake up every morning and pray for the privilege of kissing you and touching you, and God, just looking at you, then something within him is deeply deranged.”(…) “Clara.” Some of the darkness in his gaze receded. “If Everett can’t see that you are epically, painfully beautiful, and so sexy”—he closed his eyes as if in pain for a moment—“that I practically rub myself raw thinking about the way your mouth moves, then he’s the one who’s pathetic and he’s making the biggest mistake of his miserable life.”
 
- “The idea of not living up to her expectations terrified him, but as he took in her flushed cheeks and her lush mouth, he knew he had no choice. He’d give Clara everything he had, even if it killed him.”

- “His molecules had rearranged to give him this shot at loving her. His seven years must be up.”

- “As the woman of his dreams waited by the door, Josh hastily ripped her drawing from the brown paper covering their table, tucked the folded square into his back pocket, and made a wish.”

- “Josh had participated in sex moves he couldn’t spell, but none of them had made happiness pump through his veins like holding hands with Clara.”

- “And okay, maybe it is a little bit for you, Clara. But I don’t mind. Because when you left two nights ago, I realized I’d do anything in my power to show you how much you mean to me.”

- “Roommates Turned Business Partners Say “I Do”: Wheaton to Wed Conners.”

Bailey Johnson

4/5🔥 Josh and Clara are too cute to pass up. Josh a sex worker and Clara a socialite end up having to room together. Fun and easy smut read

melina25

Yes, yes, yes!!! I absolutely love this book, the characters, the plot, everything. It's perfect.

Mia Caven

Respectfully I would like to marry Josh. Thank you for coming to my tedtalk. This could’ve very easily been written badly and cliche but it was done so fun.

Joselyn

I hate-read this book. I didn’t like the fmc, I thought she was very annoying. I know the whole point is that she’s trying to unlearn stuff and not care about what her mom/family thinks about her life choices, but her journey was not inspiring to me.

okay this is a major smut book but i ate that shit up. haven’t read one in awhile so probably made me enjoy it more but i actually did like the storyline and never got bored. thank u kendall for buying me this book

Tori Albin

this book was so cute and such a good idea i loved it

Emily Perkovich

I read this because I was sad inside and didn’t want to do deep thinking. It made me distracted in a warm happy way, which makes me want to give it five stars, but if I think about it objectively it is mostly just a lot of tropes and a highly unlikable fmc

Faith Kitowski

okay i actually kinda loved this. it was so funny but still had me dropping my jaw hahah

Joana da Silva

Did I read this one for the plot? ABSOLUTELY NOT. I read a 1-star review that said this was all about the smut and needless to say I dove right in. The characters are ok, the story's a bit annoying at times but the steamy part is amazing. I described it as porn with a side dish of romance to a couple of friends and that's about it.

menna

i loved this a lot!! i had SO MUCH FUN while reading it!! i got sucked in the story so fast, the dynamic between Josh and Clara had me from the start, i enjoyed watching their relationship develop so much! i loved watching them support and be their for each other!! i also loved the scene at the end between Josh and his mom so much!!

My only complaint is about the big declaration at the end. Listen i love grant gestures as much as the next person but i think they needed to talk and have a conversation more than make huge declaration of love?? but maybe that's just me.

anyways i definitely recommend this because this book managed to suck me in during one of the most stressful weeks of college and made me have an amazing time and i love it for that.

dija

Loved this, Josh was so sweet though i wasn't rooting much for them at first but the romance definetly picked up and you could sense their ~chemistry~ 


Buddy read with Nicole 💞

bella <3

brianna

Raquel 

I had such a good time while reading this, definitely recommend it! I’m only mildly disappointed at the ending because I think it could’ve been better but it’s still a really fun read.

Arielle Anderson

DNF. I rarely DNF books but when after 100+ pages I’m still bored or lacking chemistry i can’t do it.

The Roommate

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