Title:RoomHate

Penelope Ward

Series:N/A

Release date:February 3rd 2016

Rating : 5 Stars

Sharing a summer house with a hot-as-hell roommate should be a dream come true, right? Not when it’s Justin…the only person I’d ever loved…who now hates me. When my grandmother died and left me half of the house on Aquidneck Island, there was a catch: the other half would go to the boy she helped raise.The same boy who turned into the teenager whose heart I broke years ago. The same teenager who’s now a man with a hard body and a hardass personality to match.I hadn’t seen him in years, and now we’re living together because neither one of us is willing to give up the house. The worst part? He didn’t come alone. I’d soon realize there’s a thin line between love and hate. I could see through that smug smile. Beneath it all…the boy is still there. So is our connection. The problem is…now that I can’t have Justin, I’ve never wanted him more.

RoomHate by Penelope Ward is such a wonderful story – really – it drew me in totally from the first page on. There was really nothing about the book that I did not like – it was just perfect from beginning to end and it had me laughing so hard at times that there were tears in my eyes. And all the lines that did that to me were somehow related to Bea. – I guess it is possible to throw out some words without being to spoiler-ish just so that you know what I am talking about when you come across the text in the book…

#coffee with milk

#Bea and the microphone

#hosing Bea

#pocketknife against intruder at the door

This author even made it possible for me to read AND enjoy a story where there is more than one women for the leading character. It was wonderful to follow the path that led to a transformation in the relationship of our leading characters. I was hard at the beginning to understand the reasons for their actions in the past but the further the story progressed the more insignificant those reasons became. And during all those reasons they had that kept them apart you as a reader wondered … what might be the best reason for them to be together …

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