Jasmine isn’t looking for a romantic relationship, and she doesn’t examine her motives as to why. In the present day, Jasmine is an attorney working at a non-profit organization, and she flits from partner to partner – non-binary/male/female (she doesn’t discriminate) – never forming an attachment to any of them. Jasmine eavesdrops on her father’s tense phone conversation with her mother, hurt and confused by why she doesn’t love or want her, but she never sees her mother again. But after several awkward and miserable visits – visits that make it clear she still isn’t interested in Jasmine, her mother finally fails to show up at all. Once he brings her to live with him, he does everything he can to make her happy – including scheduling regular visits with her mother. After Jasmine accidentally cuts herself using a much too big knife to cut a block of cheese, her mother’s ex – Jasmine’s father – intervenes. A series of heart wrenching scenes follow, wherein Jasmine dangerously attempts to fend for herself in the face of her mother’s neglect.
The Roommate Risk opens in the past as Jasmine tries and fails to please her mother. Hibbert will finds much to like in this sexy and steamy friends-to-lovers romance. Hibbert pairs her heroine with an alpha who happily flies his beta flag in the pursuit of true love new and old fans of Ms. Although The Roommate Risk feels stylistically more like her earlier books, her body and sex positive heroine is reminiscent of AGLH, and once again, transcends my usual contemporary romance fare. Instead, she introduces us to a heroine who flits from conquest to conquest, seemingly oblivious to the best friend who quietly longs to be with her, and unwilling to believe she deserves or can handle love. In The Roommate Risk, she takes on the familiar ‘love ‘em and leave ‘em’ male stereotype and flips it. Since finishing it, I’ve read almost everything else she has written, and readers looking for a fresh take on familiar tropes will find much to love in her back catalog.
I recently reviewed A Girl Like Her by Ms.
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