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ARC Review: Roomies by Sara Zarr and Tara Altebrando

Roomies - Sara Zarr, Tara Altebrando

This book gave an interesting perspective into the thoughts and apprehensions of two teenage girls about to embark on college life, and how to find common ground even when your lives are almost complete opposites.

 

Assigned to be roommates at Berkley, Lauren and Elizabeth begin corresponding in email over the summer as they get ready to leave for college, find love, confront their fears and learn to see beyond their own noses. 

 

In the hands of a teenager who could commiserate with them, this book would find a perfect home. In the hands of a middle-aged mom who's over the whining of teenagers about how hard their lives are - well, let's be nice and say it was wasted on me.

I struggled from the start to empathize with either character, and while that got easier the further I read, I never fully connected with either one of them. 

 

The authors do a wonderfully subtle job at letting the characters grow, and I can appreciate that aspect of the book. I also liked that both of them had a supportive boyfriend (even if newly developed), but were very different in their approach to the relationship, and the intensity of it. Lauren's parents were supportive, and so was EB's mom, though her dad seemed to be a complete dead beat. I did like Mark being honest with EB, and that he questioned her motives on more than one occasion. Good boyfriend material, that. 

 

I liked that Lauren and EB weren't immediately best friends and confidantes, and that the relationship developed on a natural, if slightly awkward, level. I liked that both considered how leaving for college will affect the friendships they've made up to now, and how hard it can be to foster those friendship when separated by college. 

 

And I liked that neither had seemingly perfect families, and that both of them wished for their family to be a bit opposite of what they had. 

 

It's not a bad book. If you like YA and realistic depictions of teenage struggles, this is probably a good book for you to try. 

 

It's a case of "it's not the book, it's me." 

 

And that's okay. 

 

 

I received a free ARC from the publisher via Netgalley. A positive review was not promised in return.