The Unhoneymooners

Heard a lot of good things about this book, so I decided to finally read it. I will admit it ended up being a sweet story. I love me “an enemies to lovers” trope just like the next reader.When it came down to it though the main characters didn’t really hate each other, it ended up being misunderstanding. Olive has a Twin who is getting married to a super douche with a hot, charismatic and hater of buffet older brother, Ethan. The ceremony took a turn and everyone but them got sick from food contamination. So they took their honeymoon.Olive and Ethan have a great back and forth throughout the book and it really leads up to the why. My favorite part was the vacation, the tension was great and they had really cute and intimate moments that made me feel butterflies. They started to care for each other and I am glad that they took the leap of faith and continued it when they got home.The only part I didn’t care for was all the gaslighting Ethan did to Olive when she kept confronting him about his slimy brother, and although I understand his reasoning due to having older brothers you want to think the best of them and not the worst, he went about hearing her out all wrong. I didn’t care for the plot with the boss who fired her on the first day because she told the lie about being married to Ethan. She should have just been straight up.Olive needed to find herself and separate the comparison she always felt next to her twin and ended up being the one her sister, Ami could look up to. She found strength and reason because of her self discovery and Ethan did genuinely love her. It was a cute read. Not my favorite but cute!

Being a twin has its perks when your identical twin sister gets food poisoning at her wedding and almost losing a FREE, nonrefundable 10-day trip to Hawaii... But here's the catch... You have to go with your nemesis, brother to the groom. Olive has never had a lot of things go her way but maybe that changes when her and Ethan are the only ones left unscathed by the food poisoning outbreak.If you like 'Just Go With It' or 'How to Lose a guy in 10 days', this is a must read that will keep you laughing for hours!!

I can’t get enough of the banter and witty writing. I love a book that can truly make me laugh out loud and enjoy the the story line as much as the talking and interactions between characters.The bathroom boat scene: 🤣🤣☠️🥹 I died!This is just as much of an emotional ride as it was hilariously funny.love it, love it, love it.

the only thing that could make this book better is if it had some spicy 😂 the build up is crazy but it’s more of a rom com

Read this for a book club and we all died of laughter and throughly enjoyed this one!

I have no words for the feeling this book gave me. I laughed with the characters, I felt the pain they felt, and I admit I cried a little about how happy they were in the end. I wish I was loved like this. Their love is so pure, I can’t breathe. I cannot even begin to describing how hurt I am by the reality of this is a book and no one loves that like. I wish I could crawl inside this book and wrap myself in it’s story. Anyways, it’s just a good book.

I enjoyed this! The storyline was familiar but unique at the same time. I love all the background you get about Olive and Ami and Ethan is just amazing. The spice is very fade to black but I still loved it.

I loved this book, in my top 3 for the year. A true romantic comedy that made me literally laugh out loud at parts. I enjoyed all the ways the characters came together and the story was perfect. I loved the ending and was ready to read it again as soon as I closed the last page.

It's the first time that I read a Christina Lauren book and I was kind of disappointed.I do love the enemies to lovers stories, they make me laugh so much.Do not get me wrong the story is well written, however at some point gives me some feelings of "The Hating Game" and that pissed me off so much.This is the story of Olive and Ethan, whose goes on the honeymoon trip that their siblings suppose to take and due to a food poisoning at the wedding they could not go. So they go to Maui one of the islands in Hawaii. So since Olive is the twin sister of the bride she just took her identity and goes to the holidays.Well these are the things that I did not like from this story is that Olive is just Lucy from the Hating Game and Ethan is just Joshua.And why they are always perfect, he is a total nerd and perfect body as well her why she has to be perfect all the time?I wish I can find a romance book where the main characters are not body perfect. I know that there is something that attract people but really? She looks amazing all the time and he has the perfect abs etc.I know that this is controversial but I never met a nerd that actually is fit.Other thing that pissed me off if that THERE IS A SCENE THAT IS THE SAME AS THE HATING GAME, REALLY? You are in a beautiful island and you go to a paintball battle? De verdad?Summarizing is a easy read? It is. I had fun. I do love the latino family

This was a brilliant summer read that was well paced, funny and with just the right amount of cheesiness.I liked both the characters of Olive and Ethan and their surface-level dislike of each other was believable and portrayed well. I was curious to get to the root of their mutual dislike, which you know all along masks deeper feelings, and I thought the reveal of this was handled very well. Much of their relationship is based on banter and humorous jibes at each other which I have seen done very badly in other books so it was a welcome change to see interactions that were genuinely amusing and appropriate for the nature of the characters.I only have two criticisms of the book that stopped me giving it 5 stars. Firstly, the plot had a tendency to take things a step too far. For example, the food poisoning that affects all the wedding guests and prevents the bride and groom going on their honeymoon was believable. However, the inclusion of the food poisoning being caused by a rare bacteria that would make all the guests unwell for weeks on end was unlikely and unnecessary. Similarly, Olive bumping into her new boss on holiday was just about believable, but also bumping into Ethan's ex there was a stretch too far.The second criticism was that I hoped for more spice! There is lot of sexual tension between Olive and Ethan but it is surprisingly coy and modest when it comes to any follow through on that tension. I know spicy scenes aren't for everyone but I certainly hoped for more!

I absolutely adored the Beautiful series. Everything for me was perfect. Strong characters, sexual tension and steamy sex scenes. In comparison, this was not my preference. Fun characters but not laugh out loud, tiny bits of tension that don't lead to anything further and a complete lack of sex in the (couple of only!!) sex scenes. If you like your steaminess to be glossed over then this is the book for you. I liked the main characters but I didn't love them. For me, I think Penny Reid gives better value for money. Sorry, not for me.

Genre: Romance, Humour, FictionRating: 🌺🌺🌺🌺/5Synopsis: 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.🌕 This book achieved one thing; it made me want a holiday to Hawaii. The way the author was able to describe the resort made me wonder if she had this idea while there herself, or just lived vicariously through photos she saw on holiday websites and Pinterest.🌕 I love a yellow cover, and not just because it reminds me of summer. Yellow covers make me happy, they look great on my bookshelf and finger prints don't show up on them. What's not to love?🌕 I would have liked the narrative told from both Ethan & Olive's perspectives respectively, especially since earlier on he was accused of fat shaming. I didn't feel like the explanations given by Ethan really explained why Olive felt fatshamed, so he always stayed a little bit of a villain in my head.🌑 The ending was very predictable, but, I didn't hate that. In fact, it gave me closure.🌜4* read. I can’t really fault the book, but, it isn’t quite 5*. I enjoyed it sure, but did it blow me away and leave me thinking about it hours later, no.

Two starsHonestly it's hard to know where to begin with this. After reading this book I felt the need to rant... a lot.I picked this up after seeing it was popular on Bookstagram... well I'm being polite when I say it did not live up the hype.I thought The Unhoneymooners started off strong; good foundations were laid, there was humour and it was initially good and kept me interested. But the further and further along I got with this book the more I started to not enjoy it.The characters and their actions grated on me. Then we get to the point in the story where our two MCs can't put off their sexual tension anymore and get down and dirty... or so you have to imagine because it only bloody FADES TO BLACK.I know it's not always about the smut but with the amount of build up in this book to just fade to black... it really annoyed me. I actually questioned whether I wanted to read any further.This book frustrated me on many levels, which was a big shame, because like I said it started off very well and I was quickly invested. Then things just went down hill from around the 45 per cent mark and it just carried on getting worse.I know a lot of people like this book and I have no judgement to the people who do, but this was just not for me. I would be hesitant to pick up another one of Christina Lauren's books in the future.