The Stats
📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: The Unhoneymooners
AUTHOR: Christina Lauren @christinalauren
Publisher: @gallerybooks
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Published: May 14, 2019
The Review
The Title/Cover Draw:
- I generally love Christina Lauren books. A lot of people loved this one and talked about it and it seemed like the perfect rom-com to start 2021.
What I liked:
- While the premise is not totally original, the execution was pretty funny and well done. I am thankful that you don’t hate the guy for being a jerk in the beginning. The overall discussion of fate and coincidences this book has is very insightful.
What I didn’t like:
- Some details about what happened to Olive in the past were missing for me and the characters were not as memorable as I would have liked.
The Characters:
- Olive and Ethan are stuck together at the hotel. Her twin sister is Ami (who was supposed to be on her honeymoon instead) and her husband is Dean. There is also a fun cousin named Diego as well.
The Ending:
- In the epilogue, there was this whole thing about where they end up. Most of it was not necessary and I was looking to see if Olive actually fully realized what she wanted to do at the end in a certain area of her life (that I won’t say because of spoilers). But it does end in a place that wasn’t cliched and logical, which I really respected.
Narrator:
- Cynthia Farrell and Deacon Lee both narrate. Both were clean even at high speeds and very good at changing for the characters.
Consider if you like:
- Rom-coms that are love/ hate or just a fun time about vacation!
All thoughts and opinions are my own.
Summary:
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.