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Olive Torres has known her whole life she is definitely unlucky. There was the incident from her childhood that’s still available for anyone to view on YouTube, and there are plenty of daily reminders to back that up. Her twin sister, Ami, on the other hand, is ridiculously lucky. She’s getting married and has managed to win just about everything related to her big day.
Ami’s fiancé, Dane, is a “dudebro” in Olive’s opinion, but he makes her beloved sister happy, so she accepts him as “firmly adequate.” On the other hand, Dane’s brother, Ethan, seems to have just pretty much hated Olive since they first met a few years before, judging her for enjoying a nice basket of cheese curds from the fair and being generally impossible to stand. And his very good looks? Just wasted on a jerk.
The wedding goes well, though Olive has to put up with Ethan throughout the event. But then everyone gets sick from the seafood buffet, and Olive and Ethan are the only ones spared the horrific food poisoning. Ami begs Olive to take her place on the honeymoon trip — they are identical, after all — so the (free) 10-day Hawaiian vacation doesn’t go to waste. Unfortunately, Dane gets his older brother to take his place as well, so Olive and Ethan end up in Hawaii, aiming to do different activities and stay firmly out of each other’s way.
One thing leads to another, though, and they end up having to do a lot more pretending to be happy newlyweds than they had expected. And as annoying as it feels initially, Olive finds Ethan isn’t quite as bad as she thought. She even starts to enjoy some of their fake relationship moments. And her luck may even be turning.
The Unhoneymooners is a pretty standard rom-com setup — force two people who supposedly hate each other to spend time together and then watch them fall for each other. But it makes for a ton of fun. There’s lots of good banter between Olive and Ethan, and their attraction is undeniable. I laughed out loud and admittedly cheered a bit inside when they inevitably kissed. The story takes a bit more serious of a turn when the bumps in their budding relationship also inevitably arise (that’s the formula, after all), but I was happy to see them through it all.
Rated: High. Almost 20 instances of strong language, about the same number of uses of moderate language, a few uses of the name of Deity; sexual content includes a fair amount of talk about sex, a couple of sex scenes with some mild to moderate detail, and references to a character having affairs.
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