Jasmine and Rahul are best friends. Jasmine is a free spirit and Rahul has been in love with her since the beginning. If you love the friends to lovers trope, you’ll love this. This was a cute audiobook! I didn’t read the first one, but you don’t need to read it to love this one!

Thanks Net Galley, Dreamscape Media, and Talia Hibbert for the ARC! Audiobook out tomorrow 5/21/24!

Narrators were phenomenal.

This book melted my heart into a puddle of mush. I loved every minute of that.
It's best friends to lovers slash lets give this a second chance after a failed (or two attempt at being FWB)

I will always champion romance books where the guy falls first, falls hard, and is a simp. I don't know how much more I can say. I am happy with the conflict added and how it was addressed. I like the steam, and I loveeeeeeee their story.

Romance perfection.

This one was okay for me. I love Talia Hibbert books, and while I enjoyed this, it lacked the depth that I wanted.

I really enjoyed the flashback chapters with Rahul and Jasmine to give us the backstory on their friendship. They had a great friendship with fun banter, but I just wanted to know more about the characters themselves.

Read if you like:
💖opposites attract
💖friends to lovers
💖 mutual pining
💖 soft dom energy
💖smut
💖 a messy queen 🥰

If all these are not enough reasons for you to give this one a shot, I don’t know what else to say, truly! This one was so enjoyable and so well done and omg I am still blushing!

Thank you so much to the publisher for my ALC in exchange for my review!

This was such a spicy book and I'm not a fan. It's honestly my fault for not reading some reviews, so I won't be unreasonable and hate on that. The audiobook went pretty fast which I was grateful for (maybe partially because I kept skipping the smut scenes) but also the pacing was quick. I wasn't very attached to the story or impressed by it, genuinely, this is one of those meh reads for me. Narrators also did an okay job, but I was particularly irked by how Rooke Kingston pronounced Rahul's name. It's NOT "Raa-hool", I can't break down the actual pronounciation in words, please look it up.

I’m obsessed with anything Talia Hibbert writes and this book is no exception.

I absolutely loved both the growth of Jasmine and Rahuls relationship but also their growth as individuals. Like I loved them from the start and it just gets better. The books got pretttyyy yummy spice.

THE NARRATORS FOR THIS BOOK THOUGH OMG 🥵 They did such a great job bringing these characters to life! Plus their voices for the opposite sex were really well done which is something that can make or break an audiobook for me. Absolutely loved this book!

(Also I lowkey want a short story / novella about Tilly’s life cuz she’s a wild character.)

This book was fine? I mean I definitely had an okay time with it but I genuinely feel like nothing happened. I’m sitting here trying to recall anything that occurred in this story, besides the sexy stuff, and I can only think of one event.

I supposed this book was just for vibes. 😅

3.5 stars
This was cute and fun! I loved Rahul as the male lead! He was so sweet and met Jasmine where she was. I really appreciate that Jasmine’s character development felt very real and genuine. This book is very spicy and there are a lot of sexy scenes. Overall I did enjoy this but this won’t be a stand out read to me. There was a lot I liked but as someone who reads a lot of romance this just didn’t have enough for me to justify a higher rating. I do feel like you can tell this is an older book and based on other reviews I’ve seen it seems like Hibberts writing has just gotten stronger with more recent releases.

I really enjoyed the audio! I thought both narrators were great!

Fantastic, really enjoyed the audio. I loved this story, cant wit for every one to fall in love with this one too.

If you’re a fan of Talia Hibbert’s writing, then you’ll love The Roommate Risk. I recommend checking it out!

Here’s what I loved:
💕 It was much spicier than some of her other releases, which was a pleasant surprise.
💕 Rahul Khan…we must protect him at all costs! The sweetest MC he loved Jasmine for so long but never pressured her and always met her just where she was.
💕 Jasmine showed a lot of growth. Her character development felt real. I appreciate that Talia writes FMCs who are beautifully bent (not broken!) and are willing to do the work in therapy to find out why.
💕 Did I mention the spice?

The audio was well done. I actually was able to listen at 1.5x and didn’t find it hindered the listening experience in any way. I think the female narrator’s voice was a bit more mature sounding than I pictured Jasmine to be but that could just be personal preference.

Thank you to NetGalley, Dreamscape Media and Talia Hibbert for an early review copy. These are my honest thoughts.

I’ve owned an ebook copy of this for ages and never got around to reading it so I was excited to see the audiobook pop up on here! I love Talia’s writing and characters so I was pretty confident I would enjoy this when I did read it. I liked the book! It was good and I liked the story and the characters. It was surprisingly angsty too. The narration was well done as well. I prefer audiobooks for reading and I’d recommend this one for sure.

I was chosen as an advanced ARC reader for this book and was super excited to have been approved. It starts off really cute and funny but half way through I think I stopped being carried along. I wasn’t impressed with the progression of the storyline and it was very hard to keep up. It’s a good story overall but was just hard to stay interested in my opinion

I was super excited for this new Talia Hibbert release since I loved the Brown sisters trilogy so much. But, I'm an idiot and didn't read the description fully. This is a re-release of a book Hibbert wrote in 2018. Still, new to me, so it's all good!

Compared to her Brown sisters trilogy, this one felt more genre fiction. SOOOOO many sexy times and very graphic sexy times (including squirting). Borderline erotica, in my opinion, this was much more sex and much less story, especially compared to Hibbert's newer books.

I did enjoy the characters and hoped they got together - although I think the hemming and hawing and will they-won't they was drawn out a little too long especially toward the end. I mean, honestly, Rahul seems a bit perfect and kind and despite being a bit of a workaholic there was really no reason for Jasmine to not want to be with him. It was a bit weird and forced.

The male narrator was yummy - I loved his deep voice and accent. The female narrator sounded a little more mature for Jasmine's age. I did get used to it, and she has a lovely voice, just didn't seem to fit the character to me.

Overall, a fun, very sexy read.

Talia writes such ooey gooey, cosy romances and this was no exception. It was sweet and emotional and their connection felt deep and significant. Also, top marks for the spice because Talia’s spice is always top tier and so freaking HOT. And top marks for Rahul because he absolutely carried this book.

I really struggled to connect with Jasmine. I am all for complex, flawed characters but in my opinion Jasmine just didn’t have enough redeeming qualities nor did she grovel enough for my liking. I found it really hard to look past her selfishness and the way she walked right over Rahul constantly. It probably didn’t help that the FMC narration for this book was not great and I found myself wanting to skip to Rahul’s narration.

Four stars for Rahul, the spice and the cosy domestic vibes.

I would recommend it if you want cosy friends to lovers romance with a whole lot of gorgeous steaminess and fantastic grief and loss representation.

Talia Hibbert is a queen and can do no wrong.
Her books are hilarious, heartfelt, and so bingeable.
I love her character and the way they are so flawed and three dimensional, but you just cannot help but love them.
I do think you can see this is an older book, her writing has definitely got stronger, but this is still a lovely, warm, interesting romance book.

A deliciously steamy friends to lovers British roommance that sees two best friends forced to confront long standing feelings when one offers the other a place to stay while her apartment is getting fixed. Full of emotional depth and great chemistry, with flashbacks to the past, this was great on audio and possibly a new fav for me by Talia Hibbert. Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an early audio re-release copy in exchange for my honest review!

I've loved everything I've read that Talia Hibbert has written, and The Roommate Risk is not any different. Hibbert takes us on the adventure of love and forbidden romance - friends who both fall in love with each other and don't want to admit or act upon it, so as to avoid ruining the friendship they have built. Jasmine doesn't do relationships and doesn't sleep with her friends. Rahul doesn't sleep with anyone (except that one time...). He just pines away for Jasmine while she lives her life, trying to ignore how she is feeling by chasing that next hot fling.

You can't help but love Jasmine and Rahul, and want to follow along to see them have an HEA in the end - but who knows if that is what happens...

I highly recommend this beautiful story!

Thank you to NetGalley and Dreamscape Media for the ARC of the rerelease of this lovely read!

Jasmine knows that when here room floods the one person who she can count on to let her stay with him is her best friend Rahul. The two have known each other since university and other than one brief encounter soon after meeting, their relationship has been platonic… other than the fact that Rahul is in love with Jasmine and they are both still deeply attracted to one another. While living with each other it becomes too hard to ignore their mutual attraction and they agree to a friends with benefits arrangement but once that line is crossed their true deeper feelings for on another come to the surface.

I have owned this ebook for a long time, but hadn’t quite gotten to it until I was given the audio, but once I started it, there was no putting it down. I loved how absolutely obsessed Rahul was with Jasmine from the beginning and how much she adored him in her own way from the start. The attraction between the two was palpable and the steam scenes did not hold anything back. I enjoyed the side characters but they were not as fully fleshed out as our two leads. I liked that Jasmine was imperfect and Rahul loved her for her imperfections. The book has a lot more representation than a typical romance novel which I really appreciated (Jasmine is black and curvy, Rahul is Muslim, Jasmine’s bestie is a lesbian, etc.)

Thank you to Dreamscape Media for the ALC in exchange for an honest review.

I love Talia Hibbert, but this was definitely not my favorite. I think my biggest complaint is that the book just felt so long! I got tired of the plot quickly, but there wasn’t really anything offensive or any major problems, just not the book for me.

opposites
friends to lovers
pining
Steamy
Multicultural

Audio review

The book is full of fun, emotion and plenty is steam. All well presented by the great job the narrators did with each character.

What happens when the best friend you secretly love, suddenly has to room with you? Jasmine and Rahul are about to find out!

Rahul is one of the good ones. A sweetheart and great friend. He was been in love with Jasmine for 7 years. After getting friend zoned he resigned himself to loving her as a best friend. When she has to live with him, his control start to erode. We find out Rahul has some low key alpha vibes.

Jasmine is not into relationships. Rahul is her friend and always helps her out without question. She is an emotional mess. I loved her but she definitely needed the growth she got.

This is not the first book in this series but definitely can be read as a standalone.