Elena Armas is the author of the popular romance novel, The Spanish Love Deception. If you enjoyed that, you'll love her other fun, feel-good stories.
The American Roommate Experiment
The American Roommate Experiment
Synopsis
Rosie Graham has quietly walked away from a stable job to chase the dream she's told no one about: writing romance novels. The problem is the words won't come — and then the ceiling of her New York apartment comes down instead. With nowhere to go, she lets herself into her best friend Lina's empty flat, only to find it already occupied by Lina's cousin Lucas, the impossibly charming traveler she has been not-so-secretly admiring online for months.
Stuck sharing the same small space, Lucas makes an offer Rosie can't quite refuse: a run of experimental dates, staged to shake her writer's block loose and give her heroine's love story somewhere to go. It's supposed to be research. But Lucas is only in town for a handful of weeks, and the more convincing the dates become, the harder it is to tell the experiment from the real thing.
The second novel in Elena Armas's Love Deception series, The American Roommate Experiment is a warm, slow-burn romantic comedy about creative fear, wanting more than you'll admit, and the risk of falling for someone with a departure date.
Vibe
Spice level
3.0 avg spice
Genres
Characters
LucasProtagonist
Rosie GrahamProtagonist
A blocked romance writer whose apartment collapse leaves her sharing a flat with a man she has admired from afar.
Lucas MartínProtagonist
Lina's charming, wandering cousin who proposes a series of experimental dates to break Rosie's writer's block.
Miss LinaSupporting
Catalina 'Lina' MartínSupporting
Rosie's best friend, whose apartment sets the whole arrangement in motion.
Subjects
Places
Edition
American Roommate ExperimentUnknown, 2022
410 pages
Simon & Schuster, LimitedLanguage: EnglishISBN: 97813985156425 editions available
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Frequently asked questions
Is The American Roommate Experiment a standalone novel?
This book is a companion novel to The Spanish Love Deception, featuring a different main couple but set in the same universe. While it can be enjoyed independently, readers familiar with the previous book will recognize some characters and references.
What makes this book different from Elena Armas's other work?
While it shares the author's signature blend of humor and romance, this novel explores a unique premise of a fake dating scenario designed to cure writer's block. It delves into the creative process alongside the romantic development.