She’s my roommate. I know how she takes her tea, how she organizes her closet.I know when she goes to bed each night, what she eats for breakfast, the passcode on her phone. I know she calls her mother on Mondays, takes barre on Thursdays, and meets her friends for drinks on Fridays.But more important than any of that … I know what she did.
What a terrific psychological thriller!! Read this right after I read The Memory Watcher, and Minka Kent is now one of my favorite authors. What tricks she plays! Meadow, the narrator of this story, can’t believe her luck when she answers an ad for a roommate. Turns out, the person who placed the ad was Lauren, a pretty and popular gal who Meadow recognized from one of her college classes. Meadow, by contrast, is socially awkward and has gone through life pretty much invisible.
Suddenly Meadow is sharing a home with Lauren, who befriends her, gives her beautiful clothes from her closet, and makeup tips, and takes her to her hairstylist for a do-over. For the first time in her life, Meadow has a glamorous friend and is part of the popular crowd. She is thrilled. But all that changes when Meadow discovers something she shouldn’t…
I loved this book! It is well written, full of twists, and leaves you truly surprised at the end. Well done – five stars!
Kinda haunting, but could be very true!
Great read, you never knew what was going on until the last couple of chapters of the book, that’s when it begin to fall into place . Loved it !!
Great, fun read.
Great book!
Unpredictable story with a twist you never expect.
Twisted plot, a little predictable, a bit of a surprise in the end. I liked it.
Keeps you quessing until the rnd
Keeps you guessing!! Great book!!
Great book !
Great book for teens to read. Illustrates how people aren’t who you think they are.
You won’t see the end coming.
Good light reading.
Some of the scenes of a struggling college girl suddenly with money seem unrealistic. Her spending, insecurity and idolizing the privileged room mate
It was great all the way to the end. The manner of writing is original and entertaining and the characters were interesting but the ending was a little too far fetched.
What an odd little book we have in The Perfect Roommate.
I loved the quirks and the insight of the main character, Meadow. I enjoyed seeing the world through her introverted and jaded eyes. I loved how I was able to envision the apartment, the parents’ houses, the campus, all of it. Everything was so vivid and insightful.
But the story and the mystery it contained seemed so very rushed. When the twists came, I hardly had time to finish the transitioning sentence before the changes were done, accepted and we’d moved on. It was unsettling and unsatisfying. I wanted more time to savor the drama and give it a chance to take root. I kept thinking to myself, “Don’t blink!”
Minka Kent is a great writer, and I will definitely read anything she writes, but in this one, I wish she’d written MORE. More, so we’d have time to catch up with what was going on, instead of constantly wondering “how’d we already jump to this conclusion?”
this book was very well written but just didn’t seem to have much action, no edge of your seat thriller kind of book.
still a good read
I loved the suspense in this book. Even in the first few chapters, the author piques our interest in all the characters, wondering how these people will all come together. I listened to the audio version of this book.
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This book surprised me. I thought I knew what was going on. I thought I had everyone figured out. I was cocky about my deductive and inductive reasoning skills. Minka Kent has humbled me. The main character reminded me so much of me at that age that I almost stopped reading, because I was feeling anxious and stressed out over things she was doing. I’m glad I didn’t. I look forward to reading more by Ms. Kent.