The Christina Lauren Getaway Collection: The Unhoneymooners, Twice in a Blue Moon, The Honey-Don't List

by Christina Lauren

Celebrate the best of New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren with this boxed set featuring the “joyful, warm, touching” (Jasmine Guillory, New York Times bestselling author) The Unhoneymooners , the “emotional, sweet, and surprising” (Shondaland) Twice in a Blue Moon , and the “touching romantic comedy” ( Shelf Awareness ) The Honey-Don’t List .

In The Unhoneymooners , unlucky twin Olive Torres is not looking forward to her lucky sister’s glamorous wedding. She’s especially dreading being forced to spend the day with the best man (and her nemesis), Ethan Thomas. But when the entire wedding party gets food poisoning—except for Olive and Ethan—her sister’s free Hawaiian honeymoon is up for grabs. Agreeing to a temporary truce, Olive and Ethan head to Maui pretending to be newlyweds…but soon realize that pretending isn’t so hard, after all.

In Twice in a Blue Moon , Tate Jones confesses her deepest secret—that she is the hidden child of a famous movie star—to her first love Sam Brandis. But when it becomes clear that her trust was misplaced, her world is shattered. Fourteen years later, Tate, now an up-and-coming actress, walks onto the set of her first big film and is shocked to find Sam there as well. Forced to confront the man who betrayed her, Tate wonders if “once in a lifetime” can come around twice.

The Honey-Don’t List follows Carey Duncan—assistant to home remodeling gurus Melissa and Rusty Tripp—as she helps bring her bosses to superstardom with a new TV show and book. The only America’s favorite couple despises each other. Meanwhile, James McCann, recently hired as an engineer for the Tripps, is trapped in a job he hates. Neither Carey nor James can afford to quit, so they agree to work together and keep their bosses’ secret for at least a few more weeks. But if they stop playing along—and start playing for keeps—they may have the chance to build something beautiful together.

Charming, witty, and full of heart, this boxed set proves once again that “you can never go wrong with a Christina Lauren novel” ( Entertainment Weekly ).

Genres: Romance, Enemies To Lovers, Summer Reads

1120 pages, Paperback

Published October 20, 2020

About the author

Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of long-time writing partners/best friends Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings. The coauthor duo writes both Young Adult and Adult Fiction, and together has produced twenty New York Times bestselling novels. Their books have been translated into 30+ languages. (Some of these books have kissing. Some of these books have A LOT of kissing.)


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Reviews

[Erin Erbeck · Rating 3 out of 5]

I actually was very entertained throughout the first two thirds of this book. Though it was predictable, I loved Olive’s jokes and all her one-liners and cracked up at many of them, filing them away for playful teasing with my husband. But the last third blew it for me. It honestly felt like I starting reading an entirely different book. I do understand why it was different, but I was no longer laughing and just wanted it all to be over. So maybe just read the first two-thirds!

[Nora Martinez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Olive 👩🏻 y su gemela Ami 👩🏻 son mejores amigas y el día de la boda 👰🏻‍♀️🤵🏻‍♂️de Ami con Dane, Olive se encarga de todo✨. Todo sale perfecto hasta que todos se intoxican con la comida, incluyendo los novios 🤮🤮🤮 y no pueden ir a su luna de miel en Maui 🏝, y le ofrecen a Olive ir con Ethan, el hermano de Dane y con quien se lleva fatal. Después de pensarle terminan yendo y vas siguiendo su historia esos 10 días en las vacaciones y como se topan con el jefe de Olive y la ex de Ethan.
El libro está divertidísimo, me encantó 😍. Los diálogos entre Olive y Ethan son lo máximo, el diálogo interno de Olive es muy chistoso, como se desarrolla la novela y aunque ya sabes a donde va y que va a pasar, la manera de llegar es maravilloso. De esos libros que te hacen reír y olvidar el mundo, por que a veces es justo lo que necesitamos. Si te gusta chick lit, este es uno bueno.

[Autumn · Rating 2 out of 5]

the lack of smut was infuriating… but good otherwise. WARNING IT ALL FADES TO THE NEXT CHAPTER UGH

[Joanna · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is 100% predictable, easy read that makes you chuckle solid couple of times. Very good romantic comedy

[Elena · Rating 4 out of 5]

Traditional romantic comedy, easy to read, very enjoyable!

[guna · Rating 4 out of 5]

loti cool gramata😛 milu to storiju un jaaa, lasiju tik ilgi jo vnk nebija laika, bet tka uzreiz ka saku katru reiziti lasit, nevareju beigt!!!

[Clara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sehr süßes Sommerbuch, witzig und kurzweilig 🌟

[emi' · Rating 4 out of 5]

GÉNIAL

[Ines triki · Rating 4 out of 5]

Je mettrais 4,5 à la limite du 5
Il est vraiment pas mal du tout
Un livre à lire sous le soleil au bord d’une piscine

[Olivia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Love this book. Easy read. Relatable and fun.

[Ginny-23 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Als auf der Hochzeit von Olives Zwillingsschwester alle Gäste außer sie und der gehasste Bruder des Bräutigams an einer Fischvergiftung erkranken, bleibt den beiden nichts anderes übrig als gemeinsam in die Flitterwochen ihrer Geschwister zu reisen. Doch auf Maui kommen sich die beiden näher und Ethan erweist sich gar nicht als sooo schlechte Gesellschaft. Woher kommen nur all diese Gefühle? Und was wird aus den beiden?

Was für ein wundervolles Buch, lustig und liebevoll, verhasst und voller Missverständnisse. Einfach genial! Die Liebesgeschichte konnte ich richtig fühlen.

Olive kann ich sehr gut verstehen mit ihren Selbstzweifeln und den verwirrenden, widersprüchlichen Gefühlen. Sie ist liebenswürdig, lustig, ein bisschen verunsichert und doch stark!

Ethan ist wundervoll, in ihn hätte ich mich auch sofort verliebt. Sexy, lieb, ein wenig verwegen, aber er hat das Herz am rechten Fleck.

Das Buch ist toll geschrieben, flüssig zu lesen und mit viel Witz und Charme. Die Beschreibungen der Insel waren fantastisch und man hat sich gefühlt als wäre man direkt dabei. Und es hat mein Fernweh ganz sehr angekurbelt, ich hoffe ich kann nächstes Jahr auch auf die Hawaiianischen Inseln fliegen um dort Urlaub zu machen. Ich kann das Buch wirklich nur jeden empfehlen!

Von mir bekommt es 5 Sterne!

[j🤍 · Rating 5 out of 5]

LOVE LOVE!!

i thought this book was everything i needed. from them slowly entertaining the fake relationship to the jokes they constantly had with each other. it was great.

but the way that ami so clearly pointed out her flaws was so rude. ami just decided that it was her moodiness, inability to like people, or her inability to be happy for someone else was the reason she was trying to “ruin” her and danes relationship. she tells her TWIN sister that her newly HUSBAND has been cheating and all this and she comes back with so much heat it breaks olive. AND FOR ETHAN TO BREAK UP WITH HER?? u have got to be kidding me.

but i’m just glad ethan apologized - he owed it to her (so did ami but she didn’t.. it’s whatever)

the ending could of been a little better - the restaurant scene was cute but not what i was expecting

book - 4.9
ending - 4.4

[Kristin SH · Rating 3 out of 5]

The premise (at least for the "enemies" part of enemies to lovers here is razor-thin - had trouble believing these two could have gone on for so long without having a confrontation that cleared up the original misunderstanding.

That said, I do appreciate that the required falling-out in the third act felt grounded in reality, with true rather than melodramatic stakes. Might be the best and most gutting "screwed up" that I've read.

[Mary Winstead · Rating 5 out of 5]

Unhoneymooners- Loved this book. Olive's sister is marrying Ethan's Brother. At the reception everyone gets sick except Olive and Ethan. They have to take the honeymoon or it will be lost. Olive can't stand Ethan because of how he treated her the first time they met. While on the cake honeymoon they get to know each other and things are going great. What will happen when they get back? Great read.

Twice in a blue moon-

[Laurie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book started slow for me as the one character Olive, was a negative Nancy , looking for the worst, believing in the poor me, everything happens to me. Over thinker for sure. Push through that and give this book/writer a chance. It definately improved with humor of karma! Ollie and Ethan were such a great match for the hilarious adventures that happen. I found myself giggling out loud at times. Glad I pushed through those first few chapters! A very good easy, nice read to lift up spirits.

[jen 𐙚 ˑ༄ؘ₊ · Rating 4 out of 5]

really cute in my opinion. very much enemies to idiots to lovers and which you realize pretty much half way through the book. the brother was so annoyingly gross and his girlfriend deserved better 100% like
and i could’ve gone with more smut but everything was mostly predictable.
would read again one of my favs

[Kira Turner · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ok I alr wrote a review on instagram but this book was SO funny and cute and such an easy read. I loved the Torres family dynamic and I felt like I was one of the cousins. Some of the parts of this book had me DYING I haven’t read a book that’s made me laugh like that in a while. A problem I had with it though is the second half of the book being so boring and irritating. I had to push through it and the end was lowkey not that great…Idk it was mediocre.

[Marcela · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a pretty good romance novel ngl. It did have me giggling and laughing on multiple occasions. The drama was there. I was kinda expecting it to be more spicy🌶 but it wasn’t. Now don’t get me wrong it did have lots of tension and minimum spice. So if your looking to read a nice romance with little to no spice. This is perfect for you.

[Arielle · Rating 4 out of 5]

I came into this with very high expectations because i read “Love and Other Words” before it and loved it. For that reason I think it made it 4 and not 5 stars. My high expectations aside it was a very sweet and easy read.

[Rania yousife · Rating 5 out of 5]

I laughed a lot at this one.

probably one of the best enemies to loves i read this year.

and I would probably add Ethan to the list of ' one of my Favorite guys' - not that i was pleased of his attitude towards Olive ..but he redeemed himself.

[Amy Cook · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really liked this one. It was a very easy fun read. I plowed through it in 2 days. Perfect enemies to lovers while still being funny and sweet. The miscommunication trope isn’t my favorite but I really liked it in this one. Felt very relatable actually. Overall really enjoyed it.

[Laura Rye · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great mindless reading.

[Amy]

Pandemic read

[Tara Ball · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this book! My favorite Christina Lauren book. Funny and sweet moments.

[Anna Suarez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ame mucho mucho

[Allison Fitzgerald · Rating 3 out of 5]

This started off so strong and so funny - there were laugh-out-loud moments. And while the story is still strong, the LOLs end about halfway through the novel.

[Abby Stearman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Funny, lighthearted, fast paced read. The ending was a little too predictable to me, but nonetheless a pretty good book.

[Georgina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved it!!!! Devoured this easy, warm, light read in a couple of sittings. Perfect Sunday reading!

[Kelsey · Rating 5 out of 5]

So good! Fun, easy read!

[Luciana Coelho · Rating 5 out of 5]

Li apenas the unhoneymooners.
Surpreendeu! Ótima leitura pra começar o ano.