Book Review: The Roommate Pact - Allison Ashley

"All of the fun, none of the heartache…as long as they stick to the agreement. The proposition is simple: if ER nurse Claire Harper and her roommate, firefighter Graham Scott, are still single by the time they’re forty, they’ll take the proverbial plunge together…as friends with benefits. Maybe it’s the wine, but in the moment, Claire figures the pact is a safe-enough deal, considering she hasn’t had much luck in love and he’s in no rush to settle down. Like, at all. Besides, there’s no way she could ever really fall for Graham and his thrill-seeking ways. Not after what happened to her father… Just as things begin to heat up way before the proposed deadline, Graham’s injured in a serious rock-climbing accident—and he needs Claire’s help to heal. She’ll do whatever it takes to nurse him back to health…even if it means moving into Graham’s bed and putting up with his little dog who hates her. But with this no-strings arrangement taking a complicated turn, keeping “for now” from turning into “forever” isn’t as easy as they’d planned."

Read Date - April 2024

Length - 320 pages

Genre - Romance, Contemporary, Chick Lit

Rating - 8/10

Notes - For me, this book was like a fanfiction made it to the market in the best way possible. It took all the tropes i love like “Sleeping In The Same Bed” and “Broken Bird/Hurt Comfort” to a whole different level. With the main character being a nurse, it made a reasonable explanation as to why these tropes were all easy to subscribe to happening in real life (which is what truly made it DIFFERENT from a fanfiction). The ending resolution felt a tiny bit rushed and I would’ve liked more detail, but it also makes sense how this was a perfect ending to the story and why it had to end where it did.