The Unhoneymooners

Romance · Comedy

Print length: 432 pagesLittle, Brown Book Group Limited, 2020

Description

Olive has always considered herself the unlucky twin, especially beside Ami, whose good fortune seems limitless. At Ami's wedding, Olive must endure Ethan, the groom's best man and her sworn enemy. Then food poisoning incapacitates nearly everyone except the two of them, leaving an all-expenses-paid Hawaiian honeymoon unused. Olive and Ethan agree to take the trip while concealing that they are not the newlyweds—and planning to avoid each other whenever possible. Their scheme becomes harder when Olive encounters her future boss and invents a marriage that Ethan must help perform. The Unhoneymooners uses forced proximity, mutual suspicion, and comic deception to test whether old assumptions can survive the pleasures of pretending to be in love.

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Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).

Writing: How much attention the sentences and language require.
Ideas: How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
Structure: How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
Background knowledge: Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
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Writing style

Conversational · Dialogue-driven · Direct · Witty

Pace

Brisk

Tone

Humorous · Playful · Romantic · Warm

Structure

Linear

Focus

Character · Relationships

Emotional intensity

3 / 5

Reading complexity

1–5 · higher means more demanding

Writing: 2 / 5
Ideas: 2 / 5
Structure: 2 / 5
Background knowledge: 1 / 5

Themes

FamilyIdentityLoveMarriageTransformation

About Christina Lauren

Christina Lauren is the shared pen name of Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, a writing duo whose work spans contemporary romance and teen fiction. Their novels usually begin with a sharply defined romantic complication, then gather momentum through direct, conversational prose, quick dialogue, and characters forced to revise confident first impressions. The Unhoneymooners turns an enemies-to-lovers pairing into sustained comic deception when Olive and Ethan impersonate newlyweds on a Hawaiian trip. Love and Other Words uses a different structure, moving between adolescence and adulthood as Macy and Elliot’s bookish friendship, separation, and reunion gradually reveal the cause of their estrangement. Questions of secrecy and self-presentation recur beyond adult romantic comedy. In Autoboyography, a teenager’s semester-long writing assignment becomes entwined with his hidden relationship with a Mormon class mentor, allowing the act of composing a novel to organize a story about faith, family pressure, and what can safely be disclosed.

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Book details

For the print edition listed above.

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Language: English
ISBN: 9780349417592

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