Read my review of the Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren. I am obsessed with fauxmance stories and twin stories, so this book seemed perfect for me!
The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren. Published by Gallery Books on May 14, 2019.
Synopsis: Olive is always unlucky. 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. But when the entire wedding party gets food poisoning, 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 the weird thing is that she doesn’t mind playing pretend. In fact, she feels kind of… lucky.
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Review: The Unhoneymooners
I’ve read a few Christina Lauren books and enjoyed them overall. This one had some things I really liked:
- Twin Hijinks – since I saw the Parent Trap when I was little, I could never get enough of those! Yay!!
- Hate to Love – the reasons these two hated each other (cheese curds?) was either comic or quirky. (If you understand cheese curds please explain to me in the comments!)
- Fauxmance – not only Fauxmance, but Faux Honeymoon, which is so much spicier!
Then there were things I liked less, but those were personal to me:
- Brothers & Sisters Romance – no, NOT a brother with his sister, but two brothers and two sisters, one pair who really are a couple and one pretending to be. That was a mind bender at times.
- A lot going on: I generally prefer my books more streamlined, but especially in a romance, where a lot of time spent on other things means less time to develop the main characters and watch them fall in love.
So… the parts of this I liked I really did like, and that outweighed the parts that bothered me. If you’ve read this, what did you think?
I think the romantic coupling structure made it complicated, because of the way things played out, but I did love this book. I loved Olive’s big and crazy family, and I enjoyed watching this relationship take root and grow.
Yes, thanks for putting it in a more coherent sentence. I think having the two relationships in one book made it complicated and gave less time for Olive and Ethan’s story.
I loved the UN-Honeymoon part. So fun! And I didn’t even really mind the family conflict – because I thought it was unusual and made it really complicated – as in not an easy fix – but I thought the way it was resolved was weird. A funny rom-com big gesture seemed out of place for how serious it was and that you know who would be in their lives forever. And dude needed to grovel WAY more IMO lol
Karen @ For What It’s worth
I can agree with that. I think that some CL books aren’t really rom coms (like Twice in a Blue Moon) as family issues and complex plots sort of crowd out the romance, and maybe this falls into the Un-Rom-Com (haha) category.
I had forgotten about the cheese curds, lol. I really enjoyed this book but totally get where you’re coming from on your dislikes.
Oh, cheese curds. I did enjoy it, but I almost felt it should have been two companion books.