[Review] You Deserve Each Other - Sarah Hogle

Summary: Naomi Westfield has the perfect fiancé: Nicholas Rose holds doors open for her, remembers her restaurant orders, and comes from the kind of upstanding society family any bride would love to be a part of. They never fight. They’re preparing for their lavish wedding that’s three months away. And she is miserably and utterly sick of him.

Naomi wants out, but there’s a catch: whoever ends the engagement will have to foot the nonrefundable wedding bill. When Naomi discovers that Nicholas, too, has been feigning contentment, the two of them go head-to-head in a battle of pranks, sabotage, and all-out emotional warfare.

But with the countdown looming to the wedding that may or may not come to pass, Naomi finds her resolve slipping. Because now that they have nothing to lose, they’re finally being themselves—and having fun with the last person they expect: each other. (Pub Date: Apr 7, 2020)


This a story about getting together after you're already together.

I'd say this is a 3+, because there were many good moments, even if the overall was still an average read.

Naomi and Nicholas have become strangers even though they are about to get married. One day, Naomi just has it: she can't cancel the wedding thanks to all the expenses her mother-in-law already made her do, but she definitely can't allow it to happen. That's how she decided she'll make her fiancé be the first to call it quits and thus be the one who pays the bill.

I had a weird relationship with this story. I didn't like it at first sight, but then it got very entertaining with Naomi's attempts to sabotage her relationship and how this gradually broke Nicholas's composed-guy mask. I had a really good laugh and am sure this would make a truly entertaining movie.

At the same time, I think this lacked something else. After the thrill of them getting on each other's nerves passes, there's not much keeping the story interesting. I did love getting to know Nicholas better, it was great that he was so much more than Naomi ever imagined, and also how charming and patient he could be. However, that was just it. And that's why I said my thing with this book weird. I liked it a lot, it's lovely, but it also was just it. I think it needed a bit more of the spice it had in the first part.

Still, do keep in mind I'm not married. I think there must be an appeal to all the getting to fall in love a second time with the real person behind your companion, which for me got boring soon but for this very public who could relate must be very exciting.

Honest review based on an ARC provided by Edelweiss. Many thanks to the publisher for this opportunity.

Rating: 3 out of 5.