From bestselling author Sariah Wilson comes a charming romance about living your life one dream at a time. Madison Huntington is determined to live her dreams. That means getting out from under her family’s wealth and influence by saying no to the family business, her allowance, and her home. But on a teacher’s salary, the real world comes as a rude awakening—especially when she wakes up every morning on a colleague’s couch. To get a place of her own (without cockroaches, mold, or crime scene tape), Madison accepts a position as a roommaid. In exchange for free room and board, all she needs to do is keep her busy roommate’s penthouse clean and his dog company. So what if she’s never washed a dish in her life. She can figure this out, right? Madison is pretty confident she can fake it well enough that Tyler Roth will never know the difference. The finance whiz is rich and privileged and navigates the same social circles as her parents—but to him she’s just a teacher in need of an apartment. He’s everything Madison has run from, but his kindhearted nature, stomach-fluttering smile, and unexpected insecurities only make her want to get closer. And Tyler is warming to the move. Rewarding job. Perfect guy. Great future. With everything so right, what could go wrong? Madison is about to find out.
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Will preface by saying I think my standards for YA rom com types are just lower and I'm willing to let books like this one get away with more because I don't think they're actually trying to be anything more than they are. Where suspense novels want to have you hooked and shocked and thrilled (and when they fail they fail mightily), this book had a cheesey predictable premise and plot and never promised anything more so I can't really be mad about it?
So, that said, yeah, this book was kinda cute and by the end I was definitely rooting for a happy ending. However, I came really close to a DNF and it was only my stubbornness that got me through it. Because the majority of the book.... Just pretty obnoxious to read. The main character Madison is an ex-heiress that doesn't know how to do anything and all her "quirks" are moments of her doing blatantly idiotic things that any adult should know better than to do (going far beyond any reasonable amount of naivety, I mean, she didn't even know what a dishwasher LOOKED like), but because she means well it was supposed to be okay? She also will have the same revelations over and over and over again, as if they're novel each time (particularly about her piece of crap ex). It was also massively disappointing that her friendship with her so-called best friends existed exclusively as a medium for her to be able to discuss her problems, and any opportunities for her to develop her own character by being a good friend in return were simply not taken. And Tyler, the love interest, of course doesn't have a single flaw. So all of this together (plus more I don't really care to get into) was really really irritating and probably scored the book around a 2 absolute max, but again, I did end up making it through and feeling somewhat satisfied by the happily ever after and yeah, this book would make an okay silly beach read. So in the effort of not taking a book seriously that doesn't want to be taken seriously, will bump to a 3.
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