A review by omnomicons
The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

3.0

fun little romance, didn’t want to make me dnf (rare for romances I read these days). the explosion of romance as a fiction genre has oftentimes meant authors are shoving in literally as many tropes as possible into a book, and it’s also led to the rise of many authors who would be better suited publishing on wattpad (Ali Hazelwood). The Unhoneymooners didn’t manage to completely unshackle itself from this, but it did perform better than expected. the mmc isn’t some insane possessive mafioso and behaves somewhat normally. the romance itself is pretty cute even though enemies to lovers always portrays its fmc as the stupidest person ever, unable to interpret even the clearest clue that the mmc likes her. I did think the side plot with Ami was completely unnecessary and clearly shoved in for conflict between Ethan and Olive, with the unintended side effect of me thinking Ethan was a huge dick and that they shouldn’t have even ended up together. but ENOUGH of telling me how small Olive is and how large Ethan is. ITS JUST WEIRD!!!!