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My Roommate Is a Vampire by Jenna Levine
3.0

You've heard of: My Roommate is a Gumiho, now get ready for My Roommate is a Vampire.

If I could describe this book in one-word it would be: adorable. The book is a low stakes fun romance. We start off with Cassie needing a place to live and responding to Frederick's advertisement for a roommate. Cassie moves in a romance ensues. For a bit of the book they communicate with notes, written to each other which I really liked! It allowed for there to be insight into Frederick without a dedicated POV or paragraphs on their state of mind. I also liked that Frederick just bought Cassie a whole new kitchen basically, and if I knew how to cook I'd like for someone to buy me a new kitchen too.

Things didn't pick up romantically till about 70% in, which I really like I think it gave Levine the ability to set the scene more, and to have a more friends to lovers arc in my opinion as Cassie begins to teach Frederick how to order coffee and generally adapt to the new world. From then it was quite fast-paced but then again it had to be because there was only 30% of the book left, but it meant that plot points were going to have to emerge and be settled quickly too, because of that you kind feel either happy that you weren't in this conflict plotline for long, or you wonder 'maybe this was solved too quickly' leaving you feeling unsatisfied. I didn't mind, as I watched my kindle percentage progress I made peace with this type of conclusion.

Overall, I thought it was low stakes fun romance and worth a read, especially during the summer.

Thank you to Netgalley, Random House UK, Cornerstone, Penguin for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.