House Rules - Ruby Lang

ROOMMATE WANTED to share a gorgeous sun-filled apartment in Central Harlem. Must love cats. No ex-husbands or wives need apply.

Seventeen years ago, different dreams pulled Simon Mizrahi and Lana Kai apart. But when Lana takes a position as a chef back in Manhattan, her apartment search puts her right in her ex-husband’s path. Music teacher Simon is also hunting for a new place to live, and when Lana proposes they be platonic roomies, well…it’s not the worst idea he’s ever heard.

A sunny uptown two-bedroom sounds far more appealing than the cramped, noisy space where he’s currently struggling to work. Still, Simon has seen firsthand that Lana’s a flight risk, so he agrees on a trial basis.

Three months. With strict boundaries.

Living together again feels wonderfully nostalgic, but when the ex-couple’s lingering feelings rise to the surface, the rules go out the window.

Of course, chemistry was never their problem. But while Simon’s career feels back on solid footing, Lana is still sorting out what she wants. With their trial period soon coming to an end, they’ll have to decide if their living arrangement was merely a sexy trip down memory lane or a reunion meant to last.

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Author Bio

Ruby Lang is the author of the acclaimed Practice Perfect series. She is pint-sized, prim, and
bespectacled. Her alter ego, Mindy Hung, wrote about romance novels (among other things) for The
Toast. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Walrus, Bitch, and other fine venues. She enjoys running (slowly), reading (quickly), and ice cream (at any speed). She lives in New York with a small child and a medium-sized husband.
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My Review

I'm not sure how I would cope if I split up with my husband and then moved back in with him 17 years later, but just as friends. It seems like an odd setup, but in this book, it works, or at least the idea behind it does. As for whether the living arrangement works? Well, that's a different matter.

I liked the rediscovery of Lana and Simon. There's always a danger when a couple gets back together in a book that the reason for them splitting up in the first place prevents me really enjoying the story. In this case, it was more to do with the fact that that they needed to be apart and to learn to become their own people so that they could actually be a good couple together.

This was a nice, feel-good quick read and one that I really did enjoy.