Loved itI love this one. This will always be my number one beach read.
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The Unhoneymooners (1934)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive 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.
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- 432 pages
Genres: romance
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Loved it
MixedI've also read stuff like The Romantic Agenda, Shipped, and The Unhoneymooners. None of those I loved as much.
Loved itI really liked The Unhoneymooners. This is a Christina Lauren book, and it's just so fun.
Loved itBut so far, this is much lighter, much more ridiculous than the first two books I read, which is proving to be quite a nice palette cleanser.
Loved itin the last one I liked before that was on Honeymooners I read I think two the honey don't list and the one with the blue cover with the moon and I just didn't like those
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Mixedthis is your run-of-the-mill hate to love romance there was some good chemistry but just like it's sex scenes my memory of this book has just completely faded to black
Loved itthis book filled me with giddiness I had times where I squealed out loud while reading
Loved itI adored this book it was so fun and hilarious like I was laughing out loud at parts
Loved itit just was such an enjoyable book to read because the couple is so funny and they're mean to each other
Loved itI got so much joy from this book and it's one of those that is so much more fun if you don't read anything about it I didn't know anything going into it and I had a blast
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