Synopsis
London Reed is on the hunt for a place to live before the start of her second year in college. Either she is successful and can enjoy her student life without the pressure of her parents breathing down her neck, or she goes back home and clashes with her parents. Because London doesn’t have a filter. ”You’re a weird one, aren’t you?” She basically tells it as she sees it. So when she meets the hunky and scarred guy who lives in apartment 2B, the last apartment on her exhausting list, she’s sure to bring some crazy in his life. But he’s determined to not take a girl for a roommate. “I have nothing against you, but I don’t see this working for me.” London doesn’t give up that easily and makes a deal with him. If she makes it for two months, she’s in for the whole year. If not, then she leaves to never contact him again.
Easy, right? Not so much. “You should have told me that you wanted me to be all over you.” When a guy and a girl live under the same roof, it’s bound to complicate things. Between banters, heady games of seduction, innuendos and insecurities revealed, the life in apartment 2B isn’t simple, and a few slips in their relationship doesn’t help the matter.
“You’re driving me completely nuts. That’s my f—–g problem.”
Review
This first time novel from Stephanie Witter is downright funny! London “Bridge” is very much her own woman. She’s unique and witty and very self-confident. Except when it comes to love, relationships and guys in general. In walks Byron “Lord” and he is a typical college male: horny womanizer but with a pain bottled up inside him that he won’t let anyone touch. London basically begs and manipulates her way into his spare bedroom as a his new roomy, but only on a trial basis. And thus begins the dance.
I love how up front and honest London is. She’s cute and quirky and has a gay best friend, Macon, that helps her when life gets to be too much. She has it in her head all those typical insecurities girls have when they are in college and surrounded by “beautiful people.” It’s hard to feel unworthy and London’s vulnerabilities about her weight and her one and only failed relationship play havoc with her self-esteem.
Byron is there to give London all those adoring looks and really messes with her equilibrium. She never quite knows if he wants to get in her pants, or is just trying to get her uncomfortable so she will leave the apartment. She is a determined girl though, and nothing will stop her from living in apartment 2B, not even the sexy as hell roomy that stirs all kinds of emotions within her.
I loved the witty banter and the overall attitude of London. I loved her relationship with her sister and family and eventually the blossoming relationship between her and Byron. They are very sexy once they give in to their carnal desires and take things up a notch. Overall, this is a fun, summer read with lots of potential for the next in the series.
4 LIP SMACKIN SMOOCHES
~Nicole
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