L-L-L-Little Reviews #64: July 2024

I only have one book I read this past month that was not part of a scheduled review. So it gets this post all to itself.

The Honeymoon Crashers (Unhoneymooners #1.5) by Christina Lauren

The Honeymoon Crashers by Christina Lauren
Series: Unhoneymooners #1.5
Narrator: Jessica Marie Garcia, Harry Shum Jr., Lee Osorio, Cynthia Farrell, Deacon Lee, Adriana Sananes, Stephanie Nemeth-Parker, Ines del Castillo, Kimberly Woods, Tim Paige, Jennifer Aquino, Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Published by Simon & Schuster Audio Originals on August 1, 2023
Genres: Adult Contemporary Romance
Length: 04:47
Source: the library
Format: Audiobook
My Rating:
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A perfectionist maid of honor and a carefree, surfer-bro best man team up to plan a wedding and end up finding a spark of their own in the first audio original from author duo Christina Lauren, a full-cast sequel to their New York Times bestseller The Unhoneymooners.
Ami is determined to break the Torres family wedding curse. Her own disaster of a reception ended with all the guests getting food poisoning, and she left her cheating husband soon after. But even though she’s still processing her own divorce, Ami won’t let her twin sister Olive’s day be anything but perfect. Olive may think she wants a private ceremony in Maui, where she and her fiancé Ethan first fell in love, but Ami knows better and secretly flies the whole Torres family out to surprise the couple. Now she and her meticulously organized binder have less than two weeks to get everything together for the big day, thousands of miles from home.
Enter Brody, Ethan’s best man, who happens to be living in Maui and insists on helping with the preparations. His playfully elaborate schemes and happy-go-lucky attitude are the last thing Ami needs. When sparks start to fly, could it derail all her carefully laid plans?
Equal parts hilarious and swoon-worthy, this full-cast production is your ticket to the ultimate destination wedding, bringing to life both a captivating couple and an unforgettable family. The Honeymoon Crashers is Christina Lauren at their charming, hilarious best.

My Review:

I meant to get to this one a lot sooner as I adored the first book in the series, The Unhoneymooners. There were so many different narrators on this one too! I loved Harry Shum Jr., although it did make me think a little of his character on Glee at first when I heard his voice. But soon enough he became Brody. The chemistry between him and Ami was so much fun. I loved seeing Ami shed her uptightness as they worked to plan the best wedding for her sister Olive. I also loved how Olive had kind of figured out she could get her family there the way she did, even with just saying she wanted to go off and marry Ethan without worrying about the supposed family wedding curse. And in the end when Ami had her relapse with things going wrong, it made a lot of sense for her to be that way. I didn’t quite understand one thing Brody said about his job being one that people in Ami’s job didn’t like, especially once we found out what his job actually had been. Another wonderful story from the writing duo of Christina Lauren!