ARC Review: The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

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For two sworn enemies, anything can happen during the Hawaiian trip of a lifetime—maybe even love—in this romantic comedy from the New York Times bestselling authors of Roomies.

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.

Review

Olive has spent her whole life being the “unlucky” twin. Nothing seems to go her way and if it wasn’t for bad luck she wouldn’t have any luck at all. Olive and Ethan are forced to spend their siblings honeymoon together or it will go to waste. Even though this isn’t ideal they are both too petty to let the other one take the trip alone. Loves it!

The banter between Ethan and Olive had me cracking up the first half of the book. These two were a mess and I couldn’t get enough. As expected walls come down and they start to get along. I really liked the build up and gradual transition from enemies to friends to like. It wasn’t forced and it felt very natural.

Towards the end of the book we had some drama that made my heart hurt. I just wanted to reach in and wrap my arms around Olive. I do have to say I love the transformation Olive made in this book. It was nice to see her find her footing and gain more confidence as the story progressed.

So it’s no surprise that I’m a big fan of Christina Lauren books. I started reading them last year and I haven’t looked back since. I couldn’t wait to get my hands on this book and it did not disappoint. Once I started reading this book I was instantly sucked in with the writing. The story had me laughing out loud several times. I loved the big, meddling family. Needless to say I pretty much enjoyed everything about this book and I highly recommend this story.