Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Review - The Unhoneymooners

Title:   The Unhoneymooners
Author:  Christina Laurens
Publisher:  Gallery Books
Genre:   Women's Fiction
Format:  Kindle
No. of Pages:   400
Date of Publication:   May 14, 2019
My Rating:   5 Stars

DESCRIPTION:

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. 


MY THOUGHTS:

Olive will do anything for her identical twin sister, Ami, and this includes standing in her wedding alongside the best man, Ethan. The problem is the two could not be more suited and this could prove to be the day from hell for both of them. Before they even get that chance, however, the wedding party gets a horrendous case of food poisoning and Ami's idyllic wedding is cancelled. What is not cancelled, however, is the couple's all-expenses-paid honeymoon in Hawaii. So, for the heck of it, Olive and Ethan embark on the trip, with the agreed upon plan to avoid one another.

Here's the catch. To go to the paradisaical locale, they must pretend to be head over heels in love. At some point, however, it is no longer pretending. Could Olive have possibly stumbled into the happy future her sister has found? Could she possibly fall in love with Ethan?

This was a great book by Christina Laurens! It was so much fun reading this hate-to-love story. What is more, it was wonderful to see Olive and Ethan's relationship evolve along the way. It was a fun, flighty read and was thoroughly entertaining from start to finish.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Yes, there are two of us! Lauren (on the left) and Christina (on the right).

Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of long-time writing partners and best friends Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings. The #1 international bestselling coauthor duo writes both Young Adult and Adult Fiction, and together has produced fifteen New York Times bestselling novels. They are published in over 30 languages, have received multiple starred reviews, won both the Seal of Excellence and Book of the Year from RT Magazine, been inducted into the Library Reads Hall of Fame, named Amazon and Audible Romance of the Year, a Lambda Literary Award finalist and been nominated for several Goodreads Choice Awards. They have been featured in publications such as Forbes, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Time, Entertainment Weekly, People, O Magazine and more. Their third YA novel, Autoboyography was released in 2017 to critical acclaim, followed by  Roomies, Love and Other Words, Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating, My Favorite Half-Night Stand, and the Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus, and Library Journal starred The Unhoneymooners, out May 2019.

Lauren Billings (but everyone calls her Lo) has a Ph.D. in neuroscience and before she made writing her full-time job, would spend her days doing nerdy research-type things wearing a lab coat and goggles. She is silly Mommy to two littles, wife to one mountain biking homebrewing scientist, and an unabashed lover of YA and romance.

Christina Hobbs (but you’ll always hear Lo call her PQ) used to spend her days in a junior high counseling office surrounded by teenagers. These days you can find her at her desk, writing or watching BTS videos. She lives in Utah with her husband and daughter, thinks she’s the luckiest person in the world to write books with her best friend, and is an unapologetic lover of boy bands and glitter.

You can follow their shenanigans at:

@lolashoes (Lauren) & @seeCwrite (Christina) on Twitter, and @ChristinaLauren on instagram.

For official information about their books, events, interviews, movie/TV news and more, follow @christinalauren.


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