Review: The Unhoneymooners

Summary

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.

Tropes

enemies to lovers, forced proximity, secrets, rags to riches, one bed

My Rating

Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️, Spice: 🌶🌶.5

My Review / Thoughts

“I can appreciate my body in a bikini and still want to set fire to the patriarchy.” -The Unhoneymooners

This book is about the main character Olive and how in order to cash in on a vacation that her sister won she must go on it with her new brother in law aka her enemy.

I liked this book so much because it isn’t just about Olive and Ethan. It also became a journey for herself to change to become less of a pessimist. Ethan also created the cutest fake dating scenes. The slow burn that came with these scenes didn’t get old like some similar books tend to do.

Overall I really liked this book because it hit all the things a good fake dating book should have and it has a lot of character development. ❤️

– TheReyaView