the unhoneymooners by christina lauren

Finally I’m writing this book review. I finished this book in early August and it’s already September.

I know I am the most laziest book reviewer ever.

I read this book because it was super hyped and had the “hate-to-love” trope that I too, am a sucker for and my reading taste has changed to the point where I read more contemporaries than fantasies so I gave this book a try. Not only does it have the hate-to-love trope but also the “enemies fake dating trope” so I was sold!

This book was definitely worth the hype!

This book was about a girl name Olive who’s used to having bad luck happen to her but she never expected to be one of the only two people in her sister’s wedding to not be affected by food poisoning. So taking her sister’s and groom-to-be place in their honeymoon, Olive and Ethan, her enemy and best man, pretend to be a married couple and take a trip to Hawaii in a fake honeymoon.

This book was so funny and I like the fact that the author had no problem in making it so cringe-worthy awkward. Like she takes it to the point that you can’t help but experience secondhand embarrassment.

Besides the humor in the book, the character development and growth was probably my favorite part in the story. I relate to Olive’s pessimistic thinking and seeing her from the beginning of the book to the end when she’s happy and more confident with herself makes me so happy. I also love the family support and presence in this book as well.

Highly recommend this book! I rated this book five stars!

Thanks for reading! 💛
-Cayla

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.

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