Olive is excited that her twin sister Ami is getting married. She is not excited that she has to spend the wedding with the groom’s brother Nathan, otherwise known as her nemesis. When everyone at Ami’s wedding gets food poisoning from bad seafood, the only people not affected are Olive and Nathan. And since there is a free, nonrefundable honeymoon just sitting there, Olive is convinced to go to Maui with Nathan. She figures they can enjoy their free holiday, do their own thing, and won’t have to interact with one another. But when Olive runs into her boss at the resort and tells a little white lie and then Nathan’s ex-fiancee shows up, she and Nathan are forced to pretend to be newlyweds. Although it soon seems to appear like neither one of them are pretending.
This is an enemies to lovers romance and I have to say I liked it. I have not read a Christina Lauren book before so I can’t say how this one stands up against other books but I liked this one.
I loved the banter between Olive and Nathan. It was smart and witty. This book was also genuinely funny and I found myself laughing at several parts. The little digs that Olive and Nathan make at each other’s expense were entertaining and the situations they found themselves in were highly amusing.
I do have to confess that I thought Nathan’s amends at the end of the book was a bit cringe-worthy. I don’t want to spoil anything but he basically goes to Olive’s work and interrupts her while she is working and makes a scene. I have a huge dislike for people who come to other people’s work and bother them while they are working – this is so unprofessional on both sides and I don’t know why it is seen so often in books and movies.
The only other big complaint I have with this story is that it was told from Olive’s point of view. Since we are supposed to believe that Olive and Ethan are enemies, I wish we would have heard more from Ethan’s (aside from an epilogue, we don’t get his point of view at all). We have Olive’s pov where she says that Nathan was always giving her dirty looks and making mean statements but then Nathan says that wasn’t what he was doing. I would have liked some more clarification as to what he was thinking.
This is a good read, something that I might recommend if you are looking to get into vacation mode, especially because a large part of the book takes place during the faux honeymoon in Hawaii.
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