Author: Christina Lauren
Series/Standalone: Standalone
Genre: Romance, Adult
Pages: 400
Publisher: Gallery Books
Year Published: 2019
Format: Audiobook
"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 fiance 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."
My Rating: 3.75/5
This isn't the type of romance that I've been reading lately. This is a sweet romance with a little bit of sex and hate to love relationship. It's about opening up and finding a deep love without sex, to begin with at least. And I don't know how I feel about it. Maybe I just wasn't cheering on the main character because she seemed to really hate her body and was constantly either being body shamed, or feels at though she was. I didn't appreciate the way those around her viewed her body, or how her being "curvy" was portrayed. I felt like it just wasn't a true way to encompass a "curvy" girl. Bigger people eat salads, workout and are not always clumsy. It was frustrating to read about as someone who used to be a bigger set. Overall, it was a fun book but I don't know if I would recommend it.
Thanks for reading,
Sidny
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