{Contemporary Romance Review} The Honey-Don’t List by @ChristinaLauren

Posted February 12, 2020 by Lindsey in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

{Contemporary Romance Review} The Honey-Don’t List by @ChristinaLaurenThe Honey-Don't List by Christina Lauren
Published by Gallery Books on March 24, 2020
Genres: Contemporary, Romance
Pages: 320
Format: eBook
Source: Netgalley
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From the New York Times bestselling author behind the “joyful, warm, touching” (Jasmine Guillory, New York Times bestselling author) The Unhoneymooners comes a delightfully charming love story about what happens when two assistants tasked with keeping a rocky relationship from explosion start to feel sparks of their own.

Carey Duncan has worked for home remodeling and design gurus Melissa and Rusty Tripp for nearly a decade. A country girl at heart, Carey started in their first store at sixteen, and—more than anyone would suspect—has helped them build an empire. With a new show and a book about to launch, the Tripps are on the verge of superstardom. There’s only one problem: America’s favorite couple can’t stand each other.

James McCann, MIT graduate and engineering genius, was originally hired as a structural engineer, but the job isn’t all he thought it’d be. The last straw? Both he and Carey must go on book tour with the Tripps and keep the wheels from falling off the proverbial bus.

Unfortunately, neither of them is in any position to quit. Carey needs health insurance, and James has been promised the role of a lifetime if he can just keep the couple on track for a few more weeks. While road-tripping with the Tripps up the West Coast, Carey and James vow to work together to keep their bosses’ secrets hidden, and their own jobs secure. But if they stop playing along—and start playing for keeps—they may have the chance to build something beautiful together…

From the “hilariously zany and heartfelt” (Booklist) Christina Lauren comes a romantic comedy that proves if it’s broke, you might as well fix it.

I received The Honey-Don't List for free. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

Carey and James are both in a bind. They can’t get out from under the famous duo of Melissa and Rusty Tripp. Carey has worked for the couple for ten years and has no education to help her move on in her design career if things blow up. James thought working for the Tripps as an engineer was a godsend after his last employer got caught breaking the law. Neither can leave the couple’s employ and are desperate to keep them together just a little bit longer.

The duo of Christina Lauren has another best-seller on their hands. The story of James and Carey desperately trying to save their employer’s marriage and careers is told with several twists and turns. We get so much story in this novel from several different places. We get a peek into the minds of Carey and James with chapters written from their point-of-view. What I also found wonderfully refreshing is the way the ladies dropped in police interview transcripts from both Carey and James, as well as Twitter feeds and other entertainment news. These all together told a fun and vibrant story of opposites falling head over heels in love. From a bargain hotel to a luxury tour bus, Carey and James have plenty of shenanigans to keep readers entertained throughout.

About Christina Lauren

Yes, there are two of them! Lauren (on the left) and Christina (on the right).

Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of long-time writing partners and best friends Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings. The #1 international bestselling coauthor duo writes both Young Adult and Adult Fiction, and together has produced fifteen New York Times bestselling novels. They are published in over 30 languages, have received multiple starred reviews, won both the Seal of Excellence and Book of the Year from RT Magazine, been inducted into the Library Reads Hall of Fame, named Amazon and Audible Romance of the Year, a Lambda Literary Award finalist and been nominated for several Goodreads Choice Awards. They have been featured in publications such as Forbes, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Time, Entertainment Weekly, People, O Magazine and more. Their third YA novel, Autoboyography was released in 2017 to critical acclaim, followed by Roomies, Love and Other Words, Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating, My Favorite Half-Night Stand, and the Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus, and Library Journal starred The Unhoneymooners, out May 2019.


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