You Deserve Each Other

By: Sarah Hogle

Narrated by: Taylor Meskimen

When your nemesis also happens to be your fiancé, happily ever after becomes a lot more complicated in this wickedly funny, lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy debut.

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.

©2020 Sarah Hogle (P)2020 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

"[A] hilarious debut romance...[that] rewards readers with laugh-out-loud moments and a satisfyingly sweet and redeeming ending." (Booklist)

"This book is the perfect dose of sweet, hilarious JOY. It's masterful comedy + tenderness, unique voice + rich characters. Nicholas! Swoon! We are in love." (New York Times best-selling author Christina Lauren)

"I could not get enough of this fresh, insightful, and totally hilarious book! Sarah Hogle is a master of comedic dialogue and sexual tension; she had me rooting for Naomi and Nicholas from the very first page." (Kristin Rockaway, author of How to Hack a Heartbreak)

super slow burn

If you are looking for sex keep scrolling. if you are looking for a quirky, funnny, love story pick this up. I really enjoyed this love to hate to love story and will be waiting not so patiently for anything Sarah Hogle writes next.
New to me narrator as well. Will keep an eye out for both!

I struggled

2.5 stars for me. The main character is not a very likable person. I wanted to like this book so much, but it just wasn’t a good fit for me. I love a good rom com but for a majority of the book, the main character is just a selfish jerk and her redeeming factor just didn’t feel like enough to me.

Loved! But wish there was more!

While i loved this book! (Writing the review right after listening) i wish that there was some type of input to how their relationship was in the beginning. I really had a hard time in the beginning of the book with Naomi and her stubbornness to realize what Nicolas was doing for her and how hard he was trying to just get some fire back into her! The end of the book really won me over and i give it 4 stars!

3 Stars

With mixed ratings among reader friends, I went into this one with neutral expectations hoping that it would increase my chances for a positive experience. While the writing was good, the first 60% of the story line was mostly frustrating and uncomfortable.

The first 60% of the story:

I love a fun enemies to love rom-com, but this was a couple who had fallen in love and then experienced a break in communication, as well as their fondness for each other. While engaged and living together, rather than communicating, they started to find ways to purposefully infuriate and sabotage one another in sometimes malicious ways and only occasionally, mildly humorous. Since Naomi was predominantly the instigator, it made her extremely unlikable. At the same time, Nicholas was just as implicit for not responding maturely. I found the basis for this plot line confusing and unbelievable. If a couple were't married and were working as hard as Nicholas and Naomi were to malign and sabotage one another, why stay together? Honestly, I found no reason for them to work through it, except as a plot device for reconciliation and the typical HEA. If they had been a married couple or if I had actually gotten to read about the beginning foundations of their relationship, I might have been more invested in seeing them recover. As it were, after a short prologue, I was thrust into the middle of their hateful breakdown and never had a true sense of any kind of worthwhile connection.

The Last 40%

This is where the story made a significant and noticeable shift and after the exhausting enmity in the previous part, the last 40% had a lot to make up for. It mostly succeeded. Even with some of his character weaknesses, Nicholas had most of my empathy throughout the entire book. It was this last 40% that Naomi managed to gain more of my favor as she accepted her responsibility and softened towards Nicholas and his obvious attempts to heal their relationship. As communication and honesty increased in these chapters, my agitation with the story line began to decrease.

I still think the premise wasn't well thought out, but there were positive highlights as the story progressed and the writing was solid. There were also a few memorable funny moments throughout the book which had me anticipating and hoping for better-balanced romantic comedies from Hogle in the future.

Love this book so much!

I had such a big smile on my face listening to this book! It was funny, entertaining, just darling. Nothing crude or over the top. Very tasteful in describing anything romantic. Loved the narrator. She did a great job!

Loved it!!!

I really loved this audiobook, and found myself smiling throughout the whole book. The story moves quickly, and has the perfect mix between romance and comedy. The narrator was flawless, and was one of the reason why I loved this book.

Loved it so much

I’ve had a hard month and this book brought me some joy and laughter. Adorable story!!

Seriously so good!!

This was soooo good. I loved every part of it. I liked the progression of the story and how you slowly get to understand how they got to this point. Great book, great ending.

Amazing overall

Great narrators, really brought the characters to life. Love everything about the book/story. (New at reviews lol, but this was great)

They’ll totally be divorced in five years

It was a fun little romance. It was rather serendipitous that I just happened to pick up this book at the tail end of October while living in Wisconsin.