Genre: Romance, Comedy
Actual Rating: 2 stars
Spicy meter: 2 fire emojis
Content Warnings: Mentions cheating and parent death, other than that none that I can think of.
“The Temporary Roomie” is the second book in the It Happened In Nashville series, and this time we’re following Jessie, Lucy’s new bestie, and Drew, Lucy’s brother. This book is set after the first book in the series, which was titled “The Off Limits Rule” but it could almost be read as a stand-alone. Jessie is far along in her pregnancy when she is essentially left homeless due to some plumbing issues in her house. Initially, she moves in with Lucy and Cooper, but they have a noisy house with a toddler running around when all Jessie wants to do is rest up before her baby arrives. And so on she goes and moves in with Drew, Lucy’s older brother, who’s a gynecologist and a bachelor who’s used to having roommates. The only problem? Jessie has hated Drew from day one, before even knowing him– so wouldn’t this be the perfect time to bug him out of his mind? Through a series of pranks, will Jessie and Drew grow closer or further apart?
I don’t know how I could like the first book in a series so much and then hate the second… But that’s exactly what has happened here. And it’s so confusing because I loved the romance between Jessie and Drew, but I hated the “getting there” part of it all. Like when they got together it was lovely, but you could’ve added those scenes into any other context, in any other romance, and it would’ve worked. Realistically, I don’t think Jessie and Drew would’ve ended together, given the way they treated each other if this was real life. And yes, I know it’s a book, and it’s precisely fiction, but when I’m reading pure romance I like it when the setting is somewhat possible. But I don’t know, maybe that’s just me.
I don’t think I will be recommending this book to anyone personally, but if you like books where there’s a lot of rude pranking and a lot of pregnancy talk, then this book might be for you.
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