Roommates is part of a girls series of books call Girls of Canby Hall. It’s a feel good, eloquent, positive affirmation for girls in boarding school.

Gag.

All I could think while reading the book is “Girls don’t talk like this”. This was written pre-Dawson’s Creek, so I couldn’t blame that show. Emily Chase is really Julie Garwood, an excellent mystery and romance author, but most of her books don’t feature children as children anyway.

Roommates had some echoes of a pretty romance, action and grace present in other Julie Garwood novels but it was too lacking character-wise, too upbeat and overly pink.

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