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Roommates
College. Friends. Roommates. More.
Freshmen at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Julie Decker and Peg Kincaid feel fortunate to have found a compatible roommate. Peg, raised on a central Wisconsin horse farm, has anticipated life on the large college campus for years, expecting to meet someone exciting around every corner, someone like Julie.
Julie doesn’t know what to make of her roommate. The daughter of Chicago physicians, she’s not used to someone like Peg, someone who approaches life with an open heart. A rocky first semester seems at last to be easing into a fragile, growing bond neither Julie nor Peg expected.
The increasing demands of family and school threaten to tear apart what they are only just finding the courage to claim. The new semester brings a shocking twist of fate that threatens to destroy their future—before it’s even begun.
Bestselling author Jackie Calhoun, (Seasons of the Heart, Outside the Flock), returns with a vibrant tale of two young women who discover what it takes to choose love.
Freshmen at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Julie Decker and Peg Kincaid feel fortunate to have found a compatible roommate. Peg, raised on a central Wisconsin horse farm, has anticipated life on the large college campus for years, expecting to meet someone exciting around every corner, someone like Julie.
Julie doesn’t know what to make of her roommate. The daughter of Chicago physicians, she’s not used to someone like Peg, someone who approaches life with an open heart. A rocky first semester seems at last to be easing into a fragile, growing bond neither Julie nor Peg expected.
The increasing demands of family and school threaten to tear apart what they are only just finding the courage to claim. The new semester brings a shocking twist of fate that threatens to destroy their future—before it’s even begun.
Bestselling author Jackie Calhoun, (Seasons of the Heart, Outside the Flock), returns with a vibrant tale of two young women who discover what it takes to choose love.
- GenresLesbianLesbian Romance
226 pages, Paperback
First published April 22, 2008
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Jackie Calhoun
37 books19 followersJackie Calhoun is the author of twenty-seven novels. She lives with her partner in Northeast Wisconsin. Write to her at Jackie@jackiecalhoun.com and/or friend her on Facebook.
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June 23, 2009
I tried to like this book, I really did. When I started it, it felt a little rushed. Peg quickly fell head over heels for her roommate, Julie, but the superficiality of their relationship reminded me just why I find it difficult to find a good novel in the GLBT genre.
The girls relationship quickly moves into the U-Haul kind. Peg says early on that she doesn't want to be chained to someone, but that's just what happens. The girls rarely seem to enjoy each others company, and they both end up cheating on one another with two male friends. There is little explanation why, and although it's mentioned again, repeatedly, they make little progression.
The characters in the novel are highly unsympathetic. Julie is the one I found myself detesting the most. She takes no responsibility for her actions, and although she claims to love Peg, she refers to her as an experiment and repeatedly hurts Peg (who continues to let herself get hurt). She makes outrageous demands and expects Peg to follow her at her every whim.
Despite being in their mid-thirties at the end of the book, they both still act like the younger selves having just started to live together. Issues are solved unrealistically quickly, and the lesser major characters act and react more like cardboard cutouts. Timing is a major problem in this book, and it progresses in a rushed manner, as though the author wasn't sure how to move from one idea to the next.
Overall, the book started well, and there were good passages, but it reads like the author didn't know where to go with her ideas and has little experience with long distance or unhealthy relationships.
The girls relationship quickly moves into the U-Haul kind. Peg says early on that she doesn't want to be chained to someone, but that's just what happens. The girls rarely seem to enjoy each others company, and they both end up cheating on one another with two male friends. There is little explanation why, and although it's mentioned again, repeatedly, they make little progression.
The characters in the novel are highly unsympathetic. Julie is the one I found myself detesting the most. She takes no responsibility for her actions, and although she claims to love Peg, she refers to her as an experiment and repeatedly hurts Peg (who continues to let herself get hurt). She makes outrageous demands and expects Peg to follow her at her every whim.
Despite being in their mid-thirties at the end of the book, they both still act like the younger selves having just started to live together. Issues are solved unrealistically quickly, and the lesser major characters act and react more like cardboard cutouts. Timing is a major problem in this book, and it progresses in a rushed manner, as though the author wasn't sure how to move from one idea to the next.
Overall, the book started well, and there were good passages, but it reads like the author didn't know where to go with her ideas and has little experience with long distance or unhealthy relationships.
November 17, 2019
I really wish that I enjoyed "Roommates", but I just couldn't get into it. I felt like the relationship that is set up in the first chapter of the book just developed way too quickly and skipped over any details that would take place in real life. I don't know - I'll keep it just in case I get back to it at some point. Right now I'm only in the mood for a goofy, easy teen read!
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