Reviews tagging Injury/injury detail
The American Roommate Experiment: A Novel, by Elena Armas
29 reviews
bedtimesandbooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
Graphic: Sexual content, Alcohol, Injury/injury detail, and Dementia
Moderate: Violence and Abandonment
tayadam's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Injury/injury detail and Sexual content
juffnstuff's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Injury/injury detail and Dementia
claire_fitzgibbon13's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Injury/injury detail and Sexual content
acagedrising's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Sexual content
Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Injury/injury detail
ariana_m's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
5.0
Minor: Injury/injury detail and Panic attacks/disorders
livelyghost's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
This book is the opposite of everything I hated in TSLD. The characters are both sweet and genuinely like each other as people from the start. They respect each other. Other people have posted that this felt like one long miscommunication trope but I disagree, I feel like it was much more of a “fake dating and then talking about your feelings realistically” situation. Through the whole book Rosie and Lucas genuinely consider how the other is feeling, which seems rare in a lot of the romances I’m reading.
One of the only complaints I have is that I wish Rosie’s character was just a little more fleshed out. We know Lucas cooks, surfs, loves his dog, travels the world, is kind of a ladies man etc. Rosie, in comparison, feels a little two-dimensional. I would have loved to hear more about she decided to make a huge career change and what it felt like to sell her first book/rise to popularity as an author because that’s a major part of her character’s recent history. Instead we mostly focus on historic but somehow underdeveloped relationships with her brother and dad and her love of a vampire tv show. I loved that she wasn’t just a brunette klutz whose only defining feature was being clumsy/not taking care of herself/fainting, but I wanted more. It felt like a lot of her character was implied while Lucas was more explained. Maybe it was so people could see themselves more in Rosie (tbh works for me) but I think it was a missed opportunity to connect with her character more.
Finally, Lucas is fucking hot, and a huge part of the reason this gets four stars. A man who’s strong and athletic but has emotional range? Who loves to take care of people and centers their needs? Who acts respectfully but not in that gross “m’lady” kind of way? Who takes the time to plan meaningful dates? “This is what you do to me, Rosie”????? I’m in love, A+, looking forward to the next few weeks of this afterglow.
Moderate: Injury/injury detail
naysia_reads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Minor: Injury/injury detail
milflover01's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
Moderate: Injury/injury detail
sami_leigh's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
🌶️🌶️🌶️/5
“‘Thank you.’ For listening. And for tonight. And for making me feel… less alone. A little less burdened, even if only for a little while. ‘I think I really needed to talk to someone, and I want to make sure you know.’”
📖 Sequel to The Spanish Love Deception
📖 MC is a romance author 😍
📖 Meet Cute > Friends to Lovers
📖 Forced proximity
📖 Fake Dating
📖 Banter 👌🏻
📖 Consent culture
📖 Well established secondary characters
📖 Lucas = cinnamon roll
📖 Nicknames
📖 Abuela raised a feminist 🙌🏻
📖 Meddling family/Close-knit family
📖 Growth for our MCs; plot deals with major life & career changes, and reevaluation of self worth/love 🙌🏻
⚠️ Mild violence, mention of panic attacks/disorder, description of major injury & accident, abandonment (mother), infidelity in past relationship.
Graphic: Sexual content
Minor: Violence, Abandonment, Injury/injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, and Infidelity