Unhoneymooners
by Christina Lauren
400 pages
Release date 05/14/2019
4 out of 5 stars
According to the publisher, “Olive is always unlucky: in her career, in love, in…well, everything. Her identical twin sister Ami, on the other hand, is probably the luckiest person in the world. Her meet-cute with her fiancé is something out of a romantic comedy (gag) and she’s managed to finance her entire wedding by winning a series of Internet contests (double gag). Worst of all, she’s forcing Olive to spend the day with her sworn enemy, Ethan, who just happens to be the best man.
Olive braces herself to get through 24 hours of wedding hell before she can return to her comfortable, unlucky life. But when the entire wedding party gets food poisoning from eating bad shellfish, the only people who aren’t affected are Olive and Ethan. And now there’s an all-expenses-paid honeymoon in Hawaii up for grabs.
Putting their mutual hatred aside for the sake of a free vacation, Olive and Ethan head for paradise, determined to avoid each other at all costs. But when Olive runs into her future boss, the little white lie she tells him is suddenly at risk to become a whole lot bigger. She and Ethan now have to pretend to be loving newlyweds, and her luck seems worse than ever. But the weird thing is that she doesn’t mind playing pretend. In fact, she feels kind of... lucky.”
Christina Lauren is pen name for a team of two authors who’ve written several Romance books. I’d never read a multiple-author book before The Royal We, and now I’ve read two in a row! I hadn’t read a book by Christina Lauren before, but once they got on my radar, I started noticing that they are pretty popular, at least on Bookstagram. I actually chose this book simply because the main character, Olive, shares a name with my dog, and that was really all it took to get me committed to reading it.
Unhoneymooners is your classic romantic comedy in which girl and guy hate each other and ultimately fall in love. It would have been really easy for the authors to lean on this trope to get through their story, but they really made an effort to set this book apart from other books in the genre. This book was much heavier on the comedy aspect than romance. Since I am not a huge Romance fan, I really appreciated that this wasn’t a sickening sweet, perfect love story. It is full of unlucky moments and funny coincidences that bring Olive and Ethan together.
Of course, this book has a happy ending, which is what most fans of Romance want. That being said, I think the ending still fits with the rest of the book, that everything isn’t wrapped up perfectly and predictably. It is unexpected and funny; exactly what you’d want for our heroine Olive!
This book was really easy to get through and enjoyable to read the whole time. If you are a fan of romance, comedy, and women’s fiction, then you should definitely read Unhoneymooners!
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