Roommates With Benefits by Cassie Cole

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

For my senior year of college, I’m renting a bedroom in a house with three other girls.
So it’s a huge shock when I move in and discover…
That my roommates are three swoony guys.
As if that wasn’t bad enough: I almost hooked up with two of them last night.

Riley, the tall, blond, viking of a man who plays for the Coastal California College baseball team.
Avery, the not-quite-a-stoner economics student whose chiseled body and discipline makes me rethink all the stereotypes.
Harper, the spectacled redhead who keeps his distance at first… but soon can’t help but flirt while helping me study for my astronomy class.

We’re trying to make the best of a crazy situation.
But as the semester goes on, they’re too much of a distraction for me.
Especially when we stop being just roommates and become… something different.
Can the four of us focus during exam week and finish college on a high note?
Or will our sizzling mutual attraction be our downfall?

ROOMMATES WITH BENEFITS is a sizzling Reverse Harem Romance full of flirty college fun and sizzling romance. HEA guaranteed!

Roommates With Benefits

More sex than story!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💚❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 😔😃😤🥰

The heroine: Leslie – though she is a senior at Coastal California College, she was supposed to live in the dorm this year. However, a week before school is supposed to start, she is notified that they don’t have a place for her. So, she goes to craig’s list and finds an apartment to share with three other girls. The night before moving into the house, she goes to a frat party and ends up hooking up with a guy, but before it gets anywhere, the cops break up the party.

The Heroes: Harper, Riley and Avery – they are sharing a house near campus and have one more room for rent.
Harper – He is quiet and kind of nerdy, but a very nice guy who is majoring in Astronomy. When their girlfriend Jess broke up with them and moved away, he was hurt the most.
Riley – he is going to school for environmental sciences and was a pitcher on the baseball team. He was hit in the head with a line drive last season and is wary of getting back into the game.
Avery – he recently broke up with the girl he’d been dating for a while, though the relationship had been on the rocks all summer. He is studying to be an accountant because he’s good with numbers.

The Story: When Leslie finds out that her three girl roommates are actually guys and one was the guy she was crushing on the night before, she is not too happy about her situation. However, the guys promise not to flirt with her, and they agree to be roommates, nothing else. Though the attraction between Leslie and Riley is still there and it isn’t long before they become more than just roommates.

Cassie Cole has a thing about nearly always having a ginger being one of the three guys in her reverse harem romances. I have a pet peeve about how many redheads are in romance novels. Though they never do call them redheads unless it is the heroine. They say the Hero has deep auburn hair or strawberry blonde hair. Though we all know they really mean he is a ginger. Luckily there are plenty of good-looking guys that fit the bill.

The guys already had a relationship in the past where they shared a girl. But they thought it was a once in a lifetime situation until all of them become enamored with Leslie. Each of the guys has their own distinct interests and personalities, which I really liked, and the character building was terrific. They were all fully fleshed out characters with strengths and problems. Leslie was a fun girl, though she was definitely focused on studying hard to make it through her senior year. I liked that she was so free and open about her body and sexuality.

This was quite a steamy one. Most of the Cassie Cole reverse harem romances I have read so far have had as much, if not more story than intimate scenes. However, this one definitely has more sex than story. Though, like I said earlier, each of the characters has their own issues they are dealing with. It was still a very good book, just not as good as some of Cassie Cole’s other stories.

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