Genre: Romantic Comedy
Published: May 14, 2019
Pages: 429
Olive Torres is used to being the unlucky twin: from inexplicable mishaps to a recent layoff, her life seems to be almost comically jinxed. By contrast, her sister Ami is an eternal champion...she even managed to finance her entire wedding by winning a slew of contests. Unfortunately for Olive, the only thing worse than constant bad luck is having to spend the wedding day with the best man (and her nemesis), Ethan Thomas.
Olive braces herself for wedding hell, determined to put on a brave face, but when the entire wedding party gets food poisoning, the only people who aren’t affected are Olive and Ethan. Suddenly there’s a free honeymoon up for grabs, and Olive will be damned if Ethan gets to enjoy paradise solo.
Agreeing to a temporary truce, the pair head for Maui. After all, ten days of bliss is worth having to assume the role of loving newlyweds, right? But the weird thing is...Olive doesn’t mind playing pretend. In fact, the more she pretends to be the luckiest woman alive, the more it feels like she might be.
Olive braces herself for wedding hell, determined to put on a brave face, but when the entire wedding party gets food poisoning, the only people who aren’t affected are Olive and Ethan. Suddenly there’s a free honeymoon up for grabs, and Olive will be damned if Ethan gets to enjoy paradise solo.
Agreeing to a temporary truce, the pair head for Maui. After all, ten days of bliss is worth having to assume the role of loving newlyweds, right? But the weird thing is...Olive doesn’t mind playing pretend. In fact, the more she pretends to be the luckiest woman alive, the more it feels like she might be.
I borrowed this book from the library because I had a few book club friends tell me it was really good. Then I ended up buying a copy of it because a different book club was reading it, and I thought I might need to re-read to refresh my memory some. This is my honest review.
I really enjoyed In a Holidaze by this lovely writing duo, so I had high hopes and possibly even higher expectations, they weren't quite met. I was expecting a lot more com than I received in this rom-com. There were definitely funny points, but they felt few and far between.
Areas where this book ate, however, were the snark between the main characters. I am a sucker for enemies to lovers stories because of the snark that usually accompanies that, and this definitely hit the mark there. It also showed the thaw really well so that the relationship progression felt reasonable, even though it happened quick. But in the end I was very disappointed by Olive's behavior and how readily she accepted certain things. I just want better than that for my friends, and Olive is my friend now.
Overall I give The Unhoneymooners 3.1782 out of 5 stars. - Katie
Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of longtime writing partners and best friends Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, the New York Times, USA TODAY, and #1 Internationally bestselling authors of the Beautiful and Wild Seasons series, Dating You / Hating You, Autoboyography, Love and Other Words, Roomies, Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating,The Unhoneymooners, The Soulmate Equation, Something Wilder and The True Love Experiment. You can find them online at ChristinaLaurenBooks.com, @ChristinaLauren on Instagram, or @ChristinaLauren on Twitter.
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