The Unhoneymooners

Written by Christina Lauren

Originally published in 2019

~430 pages

Rate: 3/5

After years of reading, I am starting to wonder if I actually don't like reading romance or if all the romance books I pick just aren't my type of romance. The last book I read that I would categorize as romance was The Song of Achilles (read 12/20/23-01/18/24) and I did enjoy that.

There was a little bit of a marketing issue I noticed with this book. The book description claims the story as an enemies to lovers romance, but that was not at all what I read. There was only one seemingly rude circumstance that later got cleared up as a misunderstanding on Olives part. There was a little bit of bickering, but it felt incredibly tame and unproblematic. I would only consider this a fake dating trope.

Spoilers ahead

The only enemy I saw in the story was Ethan's brother, but that was the plot twist. Dane being deceitful was the only element that saved the story for me. Dane and Olive made sense as enemies and since the marketing of the book said enemies to lovers for a second I thought, oh maybe this is about to get incredibly messy, but it didn't. (Thankfully, that would have ruined the story for me as well.)

Anyways, the whole story can be chalked up to Ethan being a cute boyfriend and Olivia being a insecure girl.

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