Score: 5/5 Bookmarks

Steam Rating: 🍆🍆🍆/5

The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren was a refreshing and hilarious read. And I do mean hilarious. While listening to the audiobook I frequently snort-laughed…out loud…making my husband jump every time. It’s not all side-splitting hilarity though, the story is balanced nicely with a little drama and some real emotion.

The writing is wonderful, making this book effortless and a pleasure to read (or listen to) and the dialogue is witty and feels very natural.

I absolutely loved Cynthia Farrell and Deacon Lee’s narration. They really brought the characters to life and made it feel like I was really there with them, watching the drama unfold. It was so good that I binge-listened to it in one day. I just couldn’t stop!

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Synopsis:

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.