Stephanie Sullivan: Review - The Unhoneymooners

September 15, 2022

TITLE: The Unhoneymooners

RATING: ★★★★★

Summary (from Goodreads): 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.

REVIEW: Such a great book! I’ve been in a reading slump the past couple of months, and this was the perfect book to break me out of it. I loved the jabs between Ethan and Olive, and there were MANY times I caught myself laughing out loud at their awesome banter. Truly wonderful writing! This was my first read of Christina and Lauren’s, and I look forward to reading more of their work. If you enjoy enemies to lovers story lines then you’ll definitely get a kick out of this one. Two thumbs up!