The Unhoneymooners ~ Christina Lauren

The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren is an enemies-to-lovers story. After her sister gets food poisoning at her wedding, Olive takes her place on the honeymoon. Unfortunately, the best man, and Olive’s sworn enemy, takes his brother’s place.  It sounds like a nightmare. Then, Olive runs into her new boss and has to pretend that she and Ethan are married. Over the next ten days, Ethan and Olive get closer and work out their issues. The Unhoneymooners is a lighthearted summer romance.

I’ve seen this book on TikTok more times than I can count and added it to my TBR expecting it to be one of those books that I’ll probably have forgotten about by the time I actually get around to reading it. And then, The Unhoneymooners was one of the books we received in a mystery book box. Needing something a little lighthearted it quickly bypassed many books on my physical TBR. 

The first half of this book is the silly, fun, enemies-to-lovers, summer romance that doesn’t take much focus to read because you know the end result. Even the conflict was not that serious and was predictable in how it was going to be resolved. And then, just over halfway through, things became a lot more serious. The lighthearted tone was still there but the conflict was bigger and the resolution didn’t seem to be all that predictable. I was really invested in this part and read the second half in one sitting (and ended up going to bed far too late when I was at work the next morning).

The characters in this were interesting. I wasn’t quite sure how to feel about Olive being the twin with all the bad luck and Ami with all the good luck. I know it plays its part in the book and that is part of the character development but it didn’t seem too strong in some places. There was this theme of you make your own luck but it used slightly too far-fetched moments where it really was bad luck. It also kind of made out that Ami winning all those competitions and giveaways were luck of her own making but I struggled to see that. I didn’t take away from the plot just made me pause a little.

I enjoyed this book, it was exactly what I needed to read at that point. Overall I gave it four stars. TikTok was right on this one. 

C🌙