Jessica 's Reviews > The Roommate

2.5 Stars.

I seem to be in the minority for this one, but boy did this book not work for me. First, I really couldn't connect with anything about this book. I listened to this on audio and was bored throughout the entire thing. I was never excited to pick the book back up and found myself listening to it more just so that I could finish and move on to something I cared about. The main problem? Clara. She was such a flat character and I did not care for her one bit. Her biggest "flaws" were that she was rich and had a big chest. Sorry, but I'm not impressed. She constantly talked about letting her parents down and how she was rich and would never be able to be with Josh, yet we literally never see her interact with her family. Sure she talks to her mom on the phone once or twice, but never do we see this tense relationship or understand her need to please her socialite parents. Also, CLARA HAS HER PHD and yet she moves across the country with no job to chase a boy she's crushed on FOR 14 YEARS!? Seriously!?!?!? And then she gets a job that has nothing to do with her degree. Why did you just waste all of those years AND MONEY to do nothing with those degrees? That made no sense to me and she only explained it by saying she had a degree rich people waste their money on. This annoyed me more than it should have, but come on.

As for the relationship between Josh and Clara, it felt very surface level and I didn't get at all why Josh liked Clara other than because of their physical connection. I didn't care about them and was annoyed with Clara's jump to conclusions at the end that causes conflict in their relationship. I just didn't buy into the romance and didn't really care for anything that happened in here. Sure Josh was cute and super sweet, but that didn't save this book for me.