Roommates wanted lisa jewell6/5/2023 Toby starts off as a loser with a capital L. It was a gift from his absent and uncaring father. Toby, the main character of the ensemble owns a beautiful unusual old house which would be worth around 1.000,000 pounds with some refurbishment and redecorating. It had lots of diverse characters coming together and seemed to have more to offer than a more romance-oriented novel. I chose 31 Dream Street, (aka Roomates Wanted) because the story intrigued me. I chose a chick-lit type because that is a genre I am more comfortable and familiar with. I wanted to try a Lisa Jewel because of the good reviews and because I was intrigued that she started off writing chick-lit type books but has more recently become known for her psychological thrillers. And now that he was finally unpeeling all the layers and revealing himself, it was very disappointing to see that he wasn’t an eccentric struggling artist with a fondness for unusual people, that he was just plain old Toby Dobbs, the tallest boy at school, the disappointment to his father, the man whose own wife hadn’t wanted to live with him for more than a month. When Karen had left him fifteen years ago he’d filled his house with people from all walks of life, people with stories to tell and journeys to share, but instead of learning from them he’d used them to insulate himself from the world.
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