Sarah Hogle

"For fans of The Hating Game, a debut lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy about two unhappily engaged people each trying to force the other to end the relationship--and falling back in love in the process"--

You Deserve Each Other

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.

alie 

I just love when writers describe eyes like this. So poetic and romantic. Makes you stop and think about it. 

Arlet Isabela

His eyes are the color of a silver fir. They’re fog and moonlight.

lex 📖

I inadvertently let him in to see the ugly parts but instead of running away like I’d counted on him to do, he wrapped his arms around all of that ugliness and didn’t let go. 

It’s how my heart pounds so loud I’m certain he can hear it. It's how his closeness makes my knees weak, and his skin brushing mine jolts me like a spray of hot sparks. It's how he knows me better than anyone else, and I never meant for him to. 

I never want this dance to end. He won't let me press myself against him so that I can hide my face, gently tugging back every time I try to disappear. 

I didn't think we were the kind of couple that danced in a kitchen in the middle of the woods, but it turns out that's exactly the kind of couple we are. 

And I’d want to be here for you. Support you and make you feel better. I want you to tell me when you get bad news so that you’re not going through it alone. 

You can't treat my fiancée that way and expect to still be invited to the wedding

PERIOD PUT DEBORAH IN HER MF PLACE NICHOLAS 

She's my fiancée, she's beautiful and perfect, and I won't have her spoken to like this by anyone, much less a member of my own damn family.

"We made a good team back there." "That's the way it's supposed to be”

SARAH. HOGLE

Sophia

The forest retreats into a black smudge, cold air rushing into my lungs. The man I love is waiting for me at the pond’s edge, and I feel his pulse as if it’s my own . My senses kaleidoscope, collecting pictures and scents and sounds to preserve until my dying day.

I’ve been holding my breath since the second I met him; how strange now, to exhale at last.

Breathing will never feel the same again.

How many times did my gaze pass right over him, not realizing he was looking back at me?

“What are you doing home?” I blink several times, waiting for him to disappear. I’m still dreaming.

It’s how he knows me better than anyone else, and I never meant for him to.

I tried to keep him at a safe distance where he could only see the decent parts of me and it made us both miserable.

I inadvertently let him in to see the ugly parts but instead of running away like I’d counted on him to do, he wrapped his arms around all of that ugliness and didn’t let go.

it's kind of heartbreaking she doesn't realize why he wears it

He’s walking across the road right toward me, wearing the coat I call his Sherlock Holmes coat. It was expensive and the nicest gift I’ve ever gotten him.

He wears it from the very beginning of autumn until the very end of spring, with a scarf looped beneath the wide collar.

“You stopped seeing me, Naomi. You stopped wanting me. You’re going to figure out one of these days that I can tell when you’re starting to disassociate, and it’s the most heartbreaking experience I’ve ever had. It’s nonstop. It keeps on happening. I try to bring you back to me every time you go to leave, off into your own head where I’m not allowed.”

“I thought this would be a nice surprise. I thought you’d love it. Just like with the flowers you complained I never get for you. But then when I do get you flowers, you SET THEM ON FIRE.”

“That’s ancient history! How dare you bring that up. You already admitted you don’t care what I want.”

We give our fingers a workout with frantic Googling. My ominous delivery sure does look like oleander to me, but it also looks like a million other types of flowers. They all look the same.

We discover it would be really easy to kill someone with this kind of plant, and according to IMDb that very plot happened in a movie with Michelle Pfeiffer. Michelle’s character used them to kill her lover, a man named Barry.

Chloe Heisserer

When we next glance at the clock, it's two thirty in the morning and I'm struck by the realization that my fiancé and I are becoming friends again.

amy 

“This is how I’ll die: slightly unwilling but ultimately lazy.”

okay nicholas enough! hand in marriage now! 

Sarah 

“You came home because I missed you?”

He’s got his elbow bent on the pillow, palm under the back of his head, watching me fathomlessly. His other hand drapes across his stomach. “Yes.”

“But you still haven’t said you love me.”

“I say it all the time, I just say it very, very quietly. I tell you when you’re in another room, or right after we hang up the phone. I tell you when you’ve got headphones on. I say it after you shut the door behind you. I say it in my head every time you look at me.”

“I like it right here,” I tell him, cradling either side of his face between my hands. “You make me happy. It makes me happy that you came home because I missed you; I’m appreciative of everything you do, for me and anybody else. I’m lucky to be with a thoughtful man like you and I’m sorry that I’ve taken you for granted and acted like a jerk. I’m thankful that you stayed put until I found you again. You supporting me, and making me feel valuable, is everything.”

“Do you know you’re my best friend?”

** spoiler alert **
           i was going to give it two stars for about 70% of the book because, although the fighting was fun(ny), i can't imagine this happening in the real world. maybe a healthy relationship has spoiled me, but i can't imagine spending almost two years with someone and not knowing them, and hiding myself from them. but then it became cute. and i appreciate the idea of choosing your partner over and over again, but i think it could've been executed better

arwen

maia

this made me laugh but also left me feeling lonely. great banter. from naomi's pov, you'll think that nicholas is the villain, yet the real problem is their lack of communication

buny

the way i laughed out loud multiple times 😭 and why are sarah's men such responsible caring sweethearts 😭🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶 my naominicholas 🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶 this is true, real love, right here ;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;

aleksandra

4/5

I love them. That’s it. 


  
    „I like being around you and when I’m not around you, I’m always thinking about you. I want you to know I’m thinking about you all the time.”

„I didn’t think we were the kind of couple that danced in a kitchen in the middle of the woods, but it turns out that’s exactly the kind of couple we are.”

I enjoyed this! I didn’t think I would like it at first due to the immaturity and lack of communication, but I really appreciated the character growth. 

Kate W

Madelyne a⟢

This was every bit as chaotic as I expected it to be, but in the best way possible. It was such a fresh take on ‘enemies to lovers’ trope because it was really more like ‘lovers to enemies to lovers.’ Falling out of love with each other, hating each other’s guts, sabotaging their relationship but still trying to salvage it the only way they can and the best part is when they relearn how how to love each other again and seeing the other person in a different light. so good!!

Isabella 

It is such a good light read! I loved it so much. It was so cute, and I enjoyed reading every chapter. I don't think I found any chapter boring at all. The miscommunication trope was the main factor of the book, and normally I would get annoyed with it, but I didn't feel annoyed at all because they were able to fix it. However, I wanted more angst in the story. Overall, I still think this is a good, light book and I enjoyed it.

Loved their dynamic and loved being in her head 

Mara

kels

farrah 

nicholas and i are a parable about bottling your frustrations. we've been inflicting a quiet violence onto our own feelings by confining them to tiny spaces with only a teaspoon of oxygen, fermenting them into an ugly, chemistry incompatible with love. we've felt the glass trembling from the increase of pressure but continued suffering through our smiles.  

i was so convinced that i was going to dnf this because the miscommunication between naomi and nicholas drove me insane in the first half (no joke, half of my annotations are just me yelling at them), but my GOD i ended up being blown away. i absolutely adore hogle’s writing style and it's been so long since i had fun reading a book. naomi and nicholas may be the some of the most insufferable people ever but they really do love each other so much and i love them!!

I need Sarah Hogle to write their Married Life NOW

trixie

** spoiler alert **
           THEY NAMED THE HOUSE EVER AFTER

lexie

Naomi and Nicholas will be one of my favorite couple that i read. I understand how frustrating it is why Parents and specially mothers tend to control everything. I normally don't like 2nd chance romance but this one i LOVED this one. I never got bored in this Novel. It has a lot realizations and lessons. This book is very realistic and funny. This novel is one of a kind and it doesn't have any similar novel that I've seen. i loved this book.

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MY FAV ROMCOM OFFICIALLY i finished it in 24 hours

nuélle

3,5 me gustó muchísimo más de lo que pensé

can i have the nicholas rose meal with the "i miss you everywhere" and "i think you're beautiful no matter what" on the side, please 

Jehan Chawla

This book was a surprising delight to read. Loved reading how sarcastic and down right evil the two protagonist can get. Surprisingly the book also had many laugh out loud moments. The character of Deborah Rose was such fun to read about because all of us know one such character in our life. The banter between the characters was the best part.

Julie Burszan 

One of the most original romcoms I’ve ever read.

Bailey Johnson

I got 31% of the way in and had to quit. Idk I just couldn’t get behind the premise. I’m sure the book is lovely it’s just not for me. Plot is people got engaged prematurely and want out. But if she breaks the engagement she has to pay her bitchy mother in law back for all the decisions the MIL made about the wedding. And he can’t break the engagement because his family is important and that will look bad.

melina25

At first I was skeptical, wanted to yell at both of them for being idiots. But the more I read the more I understood their actions. This book made me laugh so hard and even cry at some parts. Definitely worth it all

Maria Schindler

This book reminded me of the movie How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days. You feel the chemistry between the two characters.

You Deserve Each Other

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