The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren | REVIEW!!!!

 

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Synopsis:

Oliver Torres is used to being the unlucky twin: from inexplicable mishaps to a recent layoff, her life seems to be almost comically jinxed. By contrast, her sister Ami is an eternal champion... she even managed to finance her entire wedding by winning a slew of contests. Unfortunately for Olive, the only thing worse than constant bad luck is having to spend the wedding day with the best man (and her nemesis), Ethan Thomas.

Olive braces herself for wedding hell, determined to put on a brave face, but when the entire wedding party gets food poisoning, the only people who aren't affected are Olive and Ethan. Suddenly there's a free honeymoon up for grabs, and Olive will be damned if Ethan gets to enjoy paradise solo. 

Agreeing to a temporary truce, the pair head for Maui. After all, ten days of bliss is worth having to assume the role of loving newlyweds, right? But the weird thing is... Olive doesn't mind playing pretend. In fact, the more she pretends to be the luckiest woman alive, the more it feels like she might be.

About CL:

New York Times, USA TODAY and #1 International Bestselling authors Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of long-time writing partners/besties/soulmates/brain-twins Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings. The coauthor duo writes both Young Adult and Adult Fiction, and together has produced fourteen New York Times Bestselling novels. Their books have been translated into 30+ languages.

My Review:

In the last year, I have grown so much to love Christina Lauren. I have really enjoyed their books. Now, Amber and I disagree on this one, I find it funny, but she loved this one and I did not. I enjoyed it but it was not my favorite by them. Amber enjoyed it more than Josh and Hazel and I did not. I wanted to love it, but I feel like there was something missing between Olive and Ethan. 

I liked their banter, it was funny. But while they were in Maui, I feel like there should have been more than what we got. I feel Ethan was very dry. He is a very dry character. There is one scene that I really loved when they were in Maui, a little massage scene that was hot as hell. But other than that, it is hard to pick up on a connection, there was a lack of chemistry.

I think the major problem I felt was missing was that it is only told in Olives point of view. It was hard to know and see how Ethan was feeling because we didn't get to live in his head and I missed that. It also isn't a common thing for Christina Lauren, I wish I saw inside his head! Also, the end, everyone thought Olive was lying about something and she wasn't and everyone didn't believe her and pretty much turned there backs on her. It upset me. 

With that being said, I enjoyed it but it wasn't my favorite by them. I do already have an ARC of their next novel, which doesn't release until October, so watch for that review to come sometime in October. 

4 Owls!