Rating: 96% | A | ★★★★★ Synopsis (from Goodreads): 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. Non-Spoiler Review: Yes. That's all I have to say to this novel: yes. Yes, you should read You Deserve Each Other. Yes, you should drive to your local bookstore right now and pick up a copy of You Deserve Each Other. Yes, You Deserve Each Other is worth all of the online hype it receives. I finished You Deserve Each Other in summer 2021 and haven't stopped thinking about it since. Hogle has a perfect sense of balancing the comedic with the heartfelt, and her skills shine in Naomi and Nicholas's relationship. The concept itself is completely original—a complete reimagining of the enemies-to-lovers trope that asks the question most romance authors don't dare think about: what happens after the happily ever after? When I started to laugh, he got even madder. "DENTAL HYGIENE IS NOT A JOKE, NAOMI." The cast of characters is absolutely perfect, and Naomi shines in particular as a flawed heroine and as someone simply trying her best. Nicholas undergoes an enormous transformation from the start of the novel to its end, from villain to simply a flawed, ordinary man. Beneath the surface, You Deserve Each Other also asks complicated questions: how can those without college degrees support themselves? How should we address elitism towards those who do not hold conventionally esteemed jobs? What is the economy like these days, and who is affected the most?
I'm trying my hardest to push my sister into making this novel her next read of the year, and I hope I've pushed you enough to read it, too. It's in the very title: You Deserve Each Other.
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