I also wonder if this woman is an alcoholic. She’s drinking wine every single day—even on nights where she works the next day. It was cringy. The friend group. All the secondary characters are one of the best friendship groups I've read. Especially, Gemma. Loved her. To be fair, it is always good experience reading a book with my favourite reading buddy, but if I told you we liked the book, I would lie.

The chemistry between Rebecca Liddiard and Dan Jeannotte is excellent. There is some great sparring well into the movie. Soon the viewer sees the secret looks by one for the other. The panic mode overtakes the romance and ramps up the humor. The tension builds, but it's benign tension. It's well done. The acting is good. Timing is good. Dialogue is good. Lease on Love was a great debut and I really enjoyed Falon Ballard’s voice. I look forward to reading many more books from her and can’t wait to see what else she has up her sleeves. If you’re into the roommates-to-lovers + friends-to-lovers tropes, I’d highly recommend this one! from the beginning i definitely related a lot to sadie. her internal monologue and a lot of the self doubt she had was just super relatable to me. Speaking of the friend group, what an amazing group. I love their support for each other so much and I’d love to see them make appearances again in the future through their own books maybe? I don’t know I just know I need more of them. I love friend groups where you can tell that they’ve become proxy families to each other and Sadie’s group is definitely one of those. Makes my heart melt! Lease on Love was a delight on every level. Ballard delivers a soft, sweet story with enough shadows to make the happily ever after feel that much more earned… This is a beautiful love story about finding something precious that seems out of reach!’ Denise Williams, author of How to Fail at Flirting

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If I'm being honest, I think Amanda liked it little more than I did, but we both agree the book could have been better. This book was terrible (IMO). Everything about it was cringe worthy. The overuse of so many words, like "low key" low key killed me. If the author was trying to sound cliché millennial, she succeeded.. terribly. If the author chose to make him addict who was in a program and has to wait until he commits to someone, if she decided to put one of them in relationship with someone else, that would make sense why the wait.

But in my opinion positive things about this book exceed the plot holes so I’m still rounding up 3.5 stars to 4 entertaining, hilarious, heartfelt, hilarious stars! His depression and him working on himself was the reason he used, but to be honest, his words were everything we got. He never changed his behaviour (except he became even more lame when he became official boyfriend, acting like Sadie's assistant who makes her bath while she isn't even home yet because God forbid if she'd have to wait a minute or do it herself), he was the same person at the end of the book that we met at the begging. And that's it. The main trope is fake relationship but this time spinned (fiance/e). I really like that trope but this one is done so poorly unless you are into polyamory. I don't want to spoil anything because there as so many wrong moral messages send by this movie. I seem to be reading quite a few roommates romance books lately and I’m not mad. It’s a great trope with lots of potential for some delicious romantic moments! Lease on Love gave me exactly what I wanted out of it and even more!I decided that my review is already too long, and since I don't have anything nice to say I will wrap it up here. In fact, I was so excited I asked my friend Amanda to read it with me, expecting we would have a blast. Milo is arrogant, yet not overbearing. You almost appreciate his arrogance. Meanwhile Ingrid is a total narcissist and a caricature of an influencer. Normally I would dislike the way Ingrid is overplayed, but I found it at least a little funny. The same goes for Wanda. Tony is also overplayed, but again it works for comedic effect. I liked the brilliant mind and sense of creative humor of the author! I will definitely love to read her future works!

Too forced. Tried too hard. Too millennial quirky with the most OBNOXIOUS, selfish, shallow and insufferable female main character. I did find myself wishing at times that this novel was a bit more women's-fictiony than it was (think Beach Read by Emily Henry) because I think both of these characters had a lot of potential for introspective growth which felt a bit rushed in favor of romantic angst, tension and furthering relationships. The main lead. She was kinda 'in your face'. And though, there's nothing wrong with that. The personality isn't likable to me. I loved every other character other than her, tbh. Overall I truly enjoyed Lease on Love. I wasn't completely sold on the final conflict in the story, but still loved the story enough to round up my rating to five stars!. I can't wait to read what Falon Ballard writes next! A fun, heart-warming light heated read. Highly enjoyable, and I can't wait to see what the talented Falon comes up with next'

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She has no problem using her friends for free labour, putting them into fire, pushing her all life and friends to someone else's house, and never, ever apologise when she is wrong. Oh, and she never even asks people how they are. the progression of their relationship felt so natural and real as well. the chemistry and tension between them was PALPABLE. A fun, heart-warming light heated read. Highly enjoyable, and I can’t wait to see what the talented Falon comes up with next’ Overall I wouldn't recommend this to somebody, but I also wouldn't actively discourage anybody from reading it either.

Lease on Love is a romance featuring a woman who just got fired from her job and that same night while going drinking with her friends, she accidentally matches with a guy in a roommates app. She thinks she's matching with someone in a DATING app lmao though. But no, the next Saturday she meets this guy and she like fully believes they're on a date but he just wants a roommate. So, when they finally realize what's going on, he shows her his beautiful brownstone and it's a done deal. He's going to rent her a room for such a cheap price on Brooklyn? Sadie needs to say yes right there. Lease on Love warmly and wittily underscores that none of us are perfect, but we are all worthy, we are all enough: we all deserve to be loved, not just by others, but by ourselves too' Sarah Hogle, author of Twice Shy and You Deserve Each Other This charming story of new beginnings and emotional growth has a sassy and likable narrator in Sadie, and the novel keeps a light tone despite touching on difficult subjects like toxic families and grief….Readers who enjoy female entrepreneurs, found family, and gentle romantic leads will enjoy.” – Library Journal When she had a row with her boyfriend, all the messages she sent were about her, not once did she ask him how he was or what was he doing, and she even dares to get mad when she finds out about other's past that never included her. Lease on Love was a delight on every level. Ballard delivers a soft, sweet story with enough shadows to make the happily ever after feel that much more earned... This is a beautiful love story about finding something precious that seems out of reach!' Denise Williams, author of How to Fail at Flirting

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Yes, we did notice the quirky-ness being forced down everyone’s throat so no one would have to work hard into giving these characters an actual personality. But soon the forced proximity of living together has these two looking at each other in a different light. Will they be able to make a relationship work, when both of them are trying to work out their own issues?