The American Roommate Experiment: A Novel

Elena Armas

Sep 2022 · Simon and Schuster · Narrated by Jennifer Jill Araya and Noah B. Perez

About this audiobook

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Cosmopolitan, Goodreads, PopSugar, and more!

From the author of the Goodreads Choice Award winner The Spanish Love Deception, the eagerly anticipated follow-up featuring Rosie Graham and Lucas Martín, who are forced to share a New York apartment.

Rosie Graham has a problem. A few, actually. She just quit her well paid job to focus on her secret career as a romance writer. She hasn’t told her family and now has terrible writer’s block. Then, the ceiling of her New York apartment literally crumbles on her. Luckily she has her best friend Lina’s spare key while she’s out of town. But Rosie doesn’t know that Lina has already lent her apartment to her cousin Lucas, who Rosie has been stalking—for lack of a better word—on Instagram for the last few months. Lucas seems intent on coming to her rescue like a Spanish knight in shining armor. Only this one strolls around the place in a towel, has a distracting grin, and an irresistible accent. Oh, and he cooks.

Lucas offers to let Rosie stay with him, at least until she can find some affordable temporary housing. And then he proposes an outrageous experiment to bring back her literary muse and meet her deadline: He’ll take her on a series of experimental dates meant to jump-start her romantic inspiration. Rosie has nothing to lose. Her silly, online crush is totally under control—but Lucas’s time in New York has an expiration date, and six weeks may not be enough, for either her or her deadline.

Ratings and reviews

I found the story of "The American Roommate Experiment" OK. There was no real character development or progression,apart from the romance plot that is the entire story, just issues that needed to be resolved for both protaginists. Both character are infatuated with eachother but noone wants to make a move progressing the relationship for fear of rejection, very romcom themed. The dual POV was slightly annoying considering that you have both male and female VAs and in each characters POV they too are playing masculine and feminine parts. The book does contain some spice near start of the ending arc of the story. While there are issues that the protaganists need to resolve especially from reader/listeners pov it seems really easy to fix these issues and could have been done better. Considering the length of the audio book it is somthing that can be turned on to help fill in the emptyness of the day and is a good time killer.

About the author

Elena Armas is a Spanish writer, self-confessed hopeless romantic and proud book hoarder. Now, she’s also the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Spanish Love Deception, The American Roommate Experiment and The Long Game. Her latest novel is The Fiancé Dilemma. Her books are being translated to over thirty languages—which is bananas, if you ask her.