Started: April 14th
Finished: April 19th
TSM Rating: 3/5
The Unhoneymooners follows Ethan and Olive as they travel to Maui on his brother and her twin sister’s honeymoon after the entire wedding party is infected with an awful case of food poisoning from seafood Olive and Ethan opted out of.
This was fun and frustrating all at once. Olive and Ethan are such a fun couple. Their banter is fun and sexy. It makes you wonder why they aren’t together in the first place, then you realize that through manipulation they’ve been kept apart.
While their banter is fun, their relationship frustrated the hell out of me. When push comes to shove, he doesn’t support her. He basically calls her a liar, while also making her complicit in his brother’s lies to her sister.
I’m all for flawed characters, but Ethan is so obtuse that he’s unwilling to trust Olive’s instincts about his brother and what she knows to be true about her sister. He isn’t even open to the possibility. Instead he calls her a liar and accuses her of being jealous.
*****SPOILER ALERT****
Then all of a sudden he fixes it with a public apology in front of her family that she doesn’t really had a choice but to accept. I felt uncomfortable reading her put on the spot like that. I’m not a fan of the public grand gesture.🤷🏽♀️
Overall, I liked the book. It wasn’t Love and Other Words, but it was a fun read. Christina Lauren wrote an audio original as a follow-up called The Honeymoon Crashers on August 1st, which I’ll listen to just because I want Ami — who was also a bit of an ass to Olive, although that is typical sibling behavior — to have her happy ending after her awful, short-lived marriage with Dane.😖
The Saucy Mama 