The Roommate

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

I was pleasantly surprised by how much I ended up enjoying this book.

This was nothing like how I expected going into this. On the surface, it could appear as spicy or raunchy but I saw this book as incredibly empowering.

Sex is often viewed as taboo, especially when it comes to female pleasure or their enjoyment of it in general. Reading about women reclaiming their bodies and their pleasures was such a highlight for me.

Sex positivity should be more broadcasted, especially in media such as television shows or books such as this so that people can learn to embrace it. It has always frustrated me that women have been ridiculed for having sex but men have always been praised for it. It's 2023 and that needs to change! I am so happy that this book portrayed that positively and actively encouraged it.

I would've loved it if Clara and Josh's characters developed individually as much as they had together. There was an issue that I had brought up in my review of It Happened One Sunmer where conflict revolving around the main character's family is often mentioned but never actually resolved or brought to attention. I felt like the same could be said for this book and it's just an example of what would've made this book a five-star read for me.

To speak on what I loved about Clara and Josh together, I enjoyed that they always had one another's back and they always made it a point to validate one another's feelings.

I can see myself revisiting this in the future.