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Roommates
by: Jackie Calhoun

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781594931239
ISBN: 1594931232
Label: Bella Books
Manufacturer: Bella Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 227
Publication Date: May 13, 2008
Publisher: Bella Books
Sales Rank: 313789
Studio: Bella Books

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Product Description:
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.

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Wonderful Author
I just wanted to take a minute to thank the author of this book. She is an amazing author. I own a great deal of her books and keep buying more.

This is a wonderful story of love, loss and everything in between. The author is very descriptive of the characters and you feel like you are living the story with the characters. I would receommend this book to anyone that wants a to read a great story!

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- Very juvenile
This is the very first review I have ever written for Amazon readers. I have read many wonderful books that I would highly recommend, but not this one. The writing is extremely poor in that it is very choppy. The sentences seem at times to be random thoughts as opposed to coming together to tell a story. Additionally it is very had to even begin to understand what motivates the main characters, Peg and Julie. The only disclaimer I will add is that I could only read the first 70 pages and then I skipped around hoping it would get better. My hope was not realized. There are many wonderful writers of lesbian books out there and unfortunately this author does not appear to one of them.

Rating:

- Pleasant enough but...
Love conquers all, but it takes so long... the differences between the two main characters are clearly drawn but I thought one character's one night stand with a man seemed random... and why are there now so many lesbian romances that insist on the women having children to make for "happily ever after"? It's probably truer to life than many romances but it wasn't escapist enough for my tastes. I was hoping for something a bit less angsty.

Rating:

- A story not to my liking
Although, in most instances this could be a sweet story of college roommates who discover each other, this is not that kind of story. Instead, as soon as they discover they love each other, everything that can go wrong does. Eventually, the former roommates rediscover each other 8 years later at a close friends funeral. One of them is married with a daughter and the other is pregnant with that close friend's baby. Throughout the book, the girls pretend with boyfriends and there is m/f intimate scenes. There are bad words but mainly in the beginning. There is a lot more to this story, but this is what I take away with me after turning that last page. It is a happy ending but it comes at the last few pages of the book.

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