Thankful for the opportunity to read the ARC!

Out of the gate, I couldn’t put it down - love a hot guy who reads, the unique May-December roommate pairing storyline, and any book with an ode to libraries/readers! The last part of the book was not as enjoyable for me - some of the characters’ actions seemed in stark contrast to how they had been presented initially. The FMC appeared driven, hard working, and thoughtful but some of her later actions made her appear aloof and irresponsible, and I couldn’t understand what drove her to behave in such a contrasting way. The MMC was sweet and thoughtful (loves to read, wants to get to know his grandmother, is driven professionally by passion and not financial gain) but then makes statements that make him appear entitled and borderline cruel, which again seemed out of character. In both instances, the shift in their behaviors diminished their likability for me!

Overall, lots to love about this book!

Cute and quick read. I loved the relationship between Sabrina and Marcia, but as a librarian, I found it a little insufferable that she’s all “working in a library is so great I’m willing to practically starve”. How would a library page make enough money to live in the City? Not sure it’s actually feasible. Loved Adam, though I felt the contest to stay at the apartment was a bit ridiculous. Cute read, and quick.

a fun read! love the chemistry between the the main characters and had the best time reading this book! literally could not put the book down! can’t wait to see more books from this author!

4.5 stars

RoomMating had me enchanted right away. It follows a grad student is living with a septuagenarian for cheaper rent in NYC - what more could I need? A complicated love interest that also reads? Check. A cute, mischievous puppy? Check.

This books is a love letter to library lovers, readers, NYC lovers, and people who struggle with asking for help. As someone who wishes she had a different relationship with her grandmother, this book felt like a warm hug.

The third act conflict was slightly distressing and while the ending was satisfactory, I wouldn't have said no to an epilogue where we see that things continued being good between our main characters.

2.75 / 5 Stars
In “Roommating,” we meet Sabrina, a grad student studying to be a librarian, who lives with Marcia, her older adult roommate. Sabrina pays lower rent and helps Marcia around the house and teaches her about technology, but also, they have become good friends. Marcia invites her estranged grandson, Adam, to stay with them while he figures out what he wants to do with his life with the added bonus that they'll get to work on their relationship. Sabrina is happy to have Adam if it helps him and Marcia and it doesn’t hurt that Adam is hot and likes to read. But one day, Marcia announces that they can’t both keep living in the small apartment so Sabrina and Adam decide to battle it out for Marcia’s love to see who gets to stay. All is fair in love and lower rent.

I thought the premise of the book was really fun! But I found that the main characters, Sabrina and Adam, felt too similar to each other specially in the way that they spoke and acted. I don’t think that every romance has to be complete opposites who attract, but I would have liked to have some more differentiation between them. I also found that because the main conflict didn’t start until 66% of the way into the book, it felt like everything had to get wrapped up really quickly at the end and felt abrupt to me.

I did love Sabrina and Marcia’s relationship and I loved the bisexuality representation in this book as well as sex positivity for older adults!

Thank you to Forever (Grand Central Publishing) and NetGalley for providing this eARC! All opinions are my own.

Sometimes, all it takes is the first sentence for me to fall in love with a book.
“My seventy-two-year-old roommate is a ten.” I was in.

And then there’s the premise: A grandma who discovers she’s a late-blooming bisexual and two twenty-somethings who share a passion for books, libraries, a bathroom, and maybe each other?

Schorr’s Roommating is a feel-good, slow-burn romance that will keep you smiling from beginning to end.

I read this book that takes place in Manhattan while vacationing in Manhattan. It was so fun to read about all the sights and locations while seeing the same sights and locations.

This was a cute friends to lovers romance with a unique concept. Sabrina is living with 70 year old Marcia in a beautiful apartment in NYC. She helps Marcia with things in her daily life like navigating technology and walking her dog in exchange for reduced rent. The two have been living together for a while and the arrangement has been working really well.

Marcia approaches Sabrina with a problem: her grandson, whom she hasn’t seen since he was 15, is between jobs and having trouble figuring out what he wants to do with his life so she wants to let him come stay on their couch for awhile. Sabrina isn’t thrilled, until Adam arrives and is kind, charming and very hot. The two immediately hit it off and it’s clear there is much more going on under the surface for both of them.

This book was fine. They were both really nice and while there were a few little conflicts and miscommunications, there just wasn’t enough tension or butterflies to bump this up to a 4-star for me. I enjoyed it and the fact that it was single POV gave it a tiny bit of mystery, there was just nothing that really pulled me in and made me desperate to know what would happen.

I received this book as an ARC from NetGalley. It releases June 10th.

This was a cute new adult read that focused on the two mcs who are accidentally roommates in Manhattan. The FMC is in grad school and also working in the library while living with her roommate who is an elderly woman in her 70s. I loved the elderly roommate plot because it was fun and brought different personality and layers to the story. The fmc's roommate has a grandson, the mmc, who she let move into the apartment because they were estranged, and she wants to be here for him now. I liked how the main characters came to know each other and the forced proximity aspect as well. The romance had so much chemistry and steamy moments. I liked watching them get to know each other more and the shared experience of being estranged and getting farther away from their grandparents. As someone that was a grad student twice, I really related to the fmc's money struggles and trying to stay afloat. There is a third-act conflict, and overall, this was a good fun romance. Thanks to Forever for this arc!

Read for:
- Roomates to lovers
- Librarian mc's
- Jewish romance
- Set in Manhattan
- Steamy

4.25/5

such a CUTE read! adam and sabrina stole my heart in this book! i just wanted to keep reading; i didn’t want it to end! reading it made me feel like i was watching a rom-com from the early 2000s🩷 i devoured this book in 2 days and i don’t regret the loss of sleep at all.

I really enjoyed this book. Normally I shy away from 3rd act breakups but I feel like this was resolved well and not drawn out when Adam moves back to Philly.

There’s good character depth with Sabrina and her grandmother and Adam and his mom’s death and close minded father. I feel like that is relatable in today’s world.

A young woman with an older woman roommate who finds herself very attracted to her roommate’s grandson that’s crashing on their couch?! This book was such a refreshing premise, and I loved most of it. Seeing Adam and Sabrina bond over the many things they have in common (especially when Sabrina made Adam read the Hunger Games) and then the surprisingly spicy bits when they finally got together was just so cute. I also loved how much they both cared about Marcia. It felt like there was a lot of depth to the book, especially since Marcia was bi, and came out at an older age.

However, I really did not like the “competition” that came about between Adam and Sabrina most of the way through the book when they started fighting over who would get to continue living with Marcia. This revealed a side of Adam that I really did not enjoy, and seemed to hurt Sabrina because of it (although that was never addressed after). *slight spoilers incoming* However, the main thing about this that frustrated me was that Marcia obviously said that Adam would have to move out, and she never even suggested that it was possible Sabrina would be kicked out. This side of Adam just felt cruel as he just pushed Sabrina into this competition, especially considering that Sabrina really needs the room to continue to be able to pay her living expenses.

Unfortunately, this really ruined the book for me. If it had ended at about 65%, I almost definitely would’ve given it five stars.

Thank you to Forever (Grand Central Publishing) and NetGalley for the eARC in exchange for an honest review.

Meredith Schorr always kills it with her novels. I loved how unique and different the premise of this book was. I loved the FMC and her roommate. Having someone younger with an older roommate was a fun dynamic. I enjoyed the banter between Sabrina and Adam. The sense of found family in this one was really great. Like all Meredith Schorr books I was hooked from the jump.

While 'Roommating' had such an interesting premise, I found it lacking energy. It wants to be like so many romance novels that it struggles to find its own originality which harms its own characters and story progression. I felt like the author was trying extremely hard to make this a romance novel similar to the authors she references to throughout the book. As a result it's just not going to have a lasting memory. Originality and authenticity is an author's bread and butter and this was lacking.

I'm being truthful here I had put down the book several times and it felt like a chore picking it back up because I was....bored. So bored and nothing was picking up. It wasn't giving me anything and the character's traumas, problems, and insecurities just were plain. I always try to be honest and this just wasn't for me.

Thanks to Forever for the digital arc.

This is cozy read to curl up with a cup of tea and melt away in adoration to the characters and their stories.

Roommating warmed my heart from start to finish. The story felt incredibly realistic and relatable, making it such an enjoyable read. As someone who lives across the country from my grandma, I couldn’t help but imagine what it would be like to live with her, which made this book even more special.

Meredith Schorr’s writing is spot-on, from her choice of words to the slang and references that perfectly capture Gen-Z vibes. If you’re looking for a comfy, lighthearted, and adorably realistic romance, I highly recommend picking this up!

Thank you, NetGalley and Meredith Schorr, for the ARC!

Library page and grad student Sabrina has found the perfect solution to her loneliness and budget woes; she used an app to pair with a senior citizen who needs a youthful roommate to provide a little care and oversight. It’s a win-win situation: Sabrina gets a break on rent, Marcia gets help navigating technology, and they form a wonderful friendship. Marcia reminds Sabrina a little of the nana she wasn’t on good terms with before her unexpected death. Everything is great until the grandson Marcia became estranged from wants to crash for an extended visit while between jobs. Adam and Sabrina hit it off, and she even gets him a job at her library. They give in to their chemistry, and begin a clandestine hookup. Adam is sweet, hot, and a reader (swoon!) and happy to stay on the couch—until a health scare determines too many roommates might be a stressor and one of them has to go. An unhealthy and sometimes unhinged competition begins.

I loved the voice and pacing, and Jewish representation thrills me. While Marcia, Sabrina and Adam are not observant, they share culture touchstones and generational trauma. I did have an issue with several plot devices, such as Adam basically getting handed Sabrina’s page job when she is promoted to a part time position at 20 hours with no benefits — as a long time manager and worker in municipal libraries, this is not how it works, unfortunately. Their messing around at work didn’t sit well either; as his trainer and supervisor, it’s a sexual harassment complaint waiting to happen, and knowing this really spoiled my enjoyment of the story. I love how well read both Adam and Sabrina are but the constant name dropping of book titles and championing of library services got old for this veteran public servant—it felt like pandering instead of enthusiast and became didactic instead of integrated just in time learning to reveal plot, character and setting. One more edit might have elevated this to a 4-star book for me.

I received a free advance review copy of #roommating via #NetGalley courtesy of #Forever. A review will post to HLBB in June 2025.

3.5⭐️
Overall, This was a cute story and I enjoyed the banter between characters and the love and respect that these characters shared for libraries.

All the characters in this book had unique relationships with each other and I was thoroughly entertained watching the dynamics of their relationships unfold. This might be a me thing, but my only qualm was when Sabrina asked her mother for money. I get the reasoning and motivation behind it but it was hard for me to watch her take the money and go gallivanting in Europe after she had missed the deadline for her grant. The adult in me was screaming for her to utilize that money for school and create some financial security in her life first but YOLO. All in all, I did enjoy the premise of the book and would probably read more of this author’s work in the future.

Thank you netgalley and Forever Publishing for the arc.

Perfectly bookish 📚

Plot: Sabrina is matched with 72 year old Marcia on a roommate app. The app pairs people in need to cheap living with older folks in need of some help around the house (how fun). The two become fast friends, and get along perfectly. Things are flipped when Marcia’s long lost grandson, Adam, comes to live with them for an unknown amount of time.

My Thoughts: I loved the plot of this book, but I didn’t love the execution. Marcia was by far my favorite character. She was fun, whitty, and took no bs. I wish we got more of her story, because her life seems fascinating. I loved the relationship with books both Sabrina and Adam had. Working at a library was fun, and something I haven’t read before. Their relationship though….not my favorite. The build up was great, the short term during was fine, but the fallout was annoying. They were both very immature in my opinion (yes, I know they are only 23), but come on. It was a little ridiculous. The grand gesture at the end saved it. I feel like a POV from Adam may have bumped this up to a 4 star, and more Marcia I cannot stress enough how awesome she was!

Thank you Forever Publishing and Netgalley for an advanced e-copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

-Slow Burn
-Forced Proximity
-Bookish
-Jewish Representation
-LGBTQIA + Representation
-Single POV
-1/5 Spice Level

Another homerun for writer Meredith Schorr with "Roommating." The story delivers some of her best characters yet, with a twenty-something librarian-to-be, an aging retiree roommate and her sweet but a bit lost grandson. Fun support characters peppered throughout to help support the story. Roommating screams rom-com, but the story is a little more complicated yet still has the final pay-off we all expect. Highly recommend.

Meredith Schorr’s Roommating is a breezy, fun romp that puts a fresh spin on classic romance with a quirky multi-generational twist. Sabrina, a grad student who’s always busy with her library page job, suddenly finds her world turned upside down when her elderly roommate Marcia invites her estranged grandson Adam to crash in their cramped Manhattan apartment. What starts as a practical move to help mend some family ties quickly spirals into a series of hilarious and steamy midnight mishaps, complete with a particularly unforgettable bathroom encounter that sets the stage for a fast-paced, lighthearted love story.

Even though the book’s quick pace and cool library vibes keep things entertaining, some parts feel a little too rushed. The conflicts are wrapped up so fast they sometimes feel a bit surface-level, and the instant spark between Sabrina and Adam might leave you wanting a bit more build-up. Plus, the dialogue can come off as overly stream-of-consciousness and the pop culture nods might hit a bit too hard at times. Still, Roommating manages to charm its way into being an ode to grandmothers, book lovers, librarians, and romantics alike—making it a fun, quirky escape into modern urban living.

Thank you Netgalley for this ARC. Rommating by Meredith Schorr is a fun and charming romantic comedy that explores the ups and downs of modern relationships. The story follows a character navigating love, friendship, and personal growth in a relatable and lighthearted way. Schorr’s writing is witty and engaging, with well-developed characters that readers can easily connect with. The romantic chemistry and humorous moments make this book an enjoyable and heartwarming read. Overall, Rommating is a delightful pick for fans of feel-good romance with a mix of humor and heart.