book club thursday - reading challenge

carpe librum 

seize the book

Thanks for stopping by for BCT (Book Club Thursday). My name is Cyn and each week myself and by BFF Ann@ Romancing the Readers blog about book related themes. 

Today is: 

Reading Challenge dates feature a review of a book that must meet/fit one of our “challenge” themes (we each will pick three challenges from the categories below and also complete our Must Do list):

Book Cover features

One you don’t like

Mis-match (cover doesn’t fit the book)

Trifecta (cover, title, blurb fit perfectly)

Animals

Nature

Single Person

Objects

Body Parts

Clearing Off the Book Shelves

Read

An author whose books you are 2+ behind on

Any new to you author

Start a new series

A book you’ve had for six months or less

A book you’ve had for over a year

A book you’ve had for over five years

A book you keep meaning to read

Must Do

Read any Someday…Sunday you featured

Read any Friday or Sunday book featured by the other blogger  

  

Reader’s Choice

     Anything Goes

     Just Because

     Double Dip

     Recommended by

     Re read

     Second Chance  

     Try Again

     I really tried, but…        

*completed 

my challenge pick 

any new to you author

Olive Torres is used to being the unlucky twin: from inexplicable mishaps to a recent layoff, her life seems to be almost comically jinxed. By contrast, her sister Ami is an eternal champion . . . she even managed to finance her entire wedding by winning a slew of contests. Unfortunately for Olive, the only thing worse than constant bad luck is having to spend the wedding day with the best man (and her nemesis), Ethan Thomas.

Olive braces herself for wedding hell, determined to put on a brave face, but when the entire wedding party gets food poisoning, the only people who aren’t affected are Olive and Ethan. Suddenly there’s a free honeymoon up for grabs, and Olive will be damned if Ethan gets to enjoy paradise solo.

Agreeing to a temporary truce, the pair head for Maui. After all, ten days of bliss is worth having to assume the role of loving newlyweds, right? But the weird thing is . . . Olive doesn’t mind playing pretend. In fact, the more she pretends to be the luckiest woman alive, the more it feels like she might be.

although ms lauren's books always sound and look so AMAZING, i've always shied away because of the whole dual first person POV's (his/hers). NOT. A. FAN. especially for a book billed as a romance. 

when early buzz started for The Unhoneymooners, i found myself really really wanting to read it but was worried about, well you know, the above.   

on another blog, some readers had read ARCs and were giving it so much LOVE that asked about the POV. they told me it was only Olive's first person POV - thus i made the decision to try it...

I LOVED THIS BOOK

it was freaking hilarious. not to mention realistic and utterly romantic. 

i rooted so much for Olive and Ethan (even if he did seem like a jackass sometimes (that's nicely dealt with though))

do yourself a favor and read this book!

indiebound

july 3rd

trivia thursday 

now take a peek at RTR's challenge pick:

Romancing the Readers