You Deserve Each Other - Sarah Hogle

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Title: You Deserve Each Other
Author: Sarah Hogle
Genre: Chick-lit
Rating: 3.5/5
# pages: 368
Date read: July 2021

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.


2 stars for the first 50% - 4.5 stars for the last 50%, so I'll average it out.

The first half suffered greatly from many of the same issues as the movie "How To Lose a Guy In Ten Days" (which I hated!). It's just... not pleasant to read about a couple deliberately setting out to hurt the other person. Fortunately in this case it was less "hurt" and more "play pranks upon", meaning I never really considered giving up on it, but still - I was seriously wondering why it had been recommended to me.

However, the second half redeemed it for me. Suddenly they were fighting for each other instead of against each other, and it made all the difference. I still thought certain aspects were resolved too quickly and easily (especially regarding Nicky's mother), but loved seeing them present a united front and build each other up, instead of tearing each other down.