Nicole Williams

Roommates With Benefits

Cat Nunez 

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There's just something about a Nicole Williams book that makes me want to read it from cover to cover in one sitting. That's exactly what I did with Roommates with Benefits. It was so charming, so sexy and so damn swoony that I barely knew what to do with myself.

Y'all know I'm a total sucker for friends first romances — add to that the roommate trope, which is easily one of my new favorites — and this is a total Kim book. Nicole has written some seriously swoony guys in her time, but Soren just might be my new favorite. He wasn't really the "bad boy" I expected from the blurb and I was TOTALLY ok with that. The bad boy is overrated, IMHO. But even if he had been a little more "bad," he was so good underneath it all that I couldn't help but love him. He charmed me from the start and kept doing so for the rest of the book. I might not consider him "bad," but I definitely found him to be an unapologetic flirt with quick wit and, later on, a dirty mouth. (Rawr.) Bonus, he was also SUPER sweet. Total package, anyone?

Soren and Hayden had some crazy chemistry and I was shipping them from the very start, even when Hayden wasn't really sure what to make of Soren. (Or, more accurately, wasn't a fan because she thought he was a real douche.) I also really liked Hayden! I admired her for chasing after her dream the way she did and not losing her head when she got through the bumps at the beginning and started to find success. I appreciated that she wasn't the stereotypical naive small town girl in the big city, even though she did have a couple moments where I was like "Girl, what are you thinking?!" 

I loved how things built between Soren and Hayden. It was real and natural. Despite their many differences, they were more alike than they thought. Their romance was so sweet and swoony — with a good bit of sexy mixed in — and not overly angsty. Of course, there were feels and a couple of tears for yours truly, but it wasn't TOO much. 

I absolutely adored this book. Nicole has another hit on her hands! 

I received a copy of this book for free in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

FAVORITE QUOTES

"You really used to sneak into bars?"
"It was either that or go cow-tipping. Both involved figuring out how to handle large masses of meat, but usually the guys in the bars smelled better than the cows in the pastures."

"My name on a woman's back isn't just about her belonging to me."
"It's about me belonging to her too."

"I'd wait tens of thousands of lifetimes for you. That's the difference right there."

Roommates With Benefits

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