When I got to 44% (chapter 10), I had to put this one down.  The more I read the more I wasn't liking the female character Naomi and the story was losing my interest. Another one where the premise sounded interesting, but then it just started to get ridiculous with the two unhappily engaged people each trying to force the other to end the relationship.  I really think this story would have benefited from a dual pov from also hearing from Nicholas's pov.  That might have made the story more interesting.

I received this book at my request and have voluntarily left this unbiased review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for allowing me to review this book.

I. LOVE. THIS BOOK. Where do I begin? Naomi and Nicholas are the perfect, fairytale couple--beautiful, hard working, doting. Except, it's all a lie. Sarah Hogle took the classic trope of hate into love and turned it on its head. Here, we have a couple that is engaged, but aren't happy at all. In fact, Naomi is sure they actually hate each other, and sets out to blow up their relationship. What happens, though, is that the two of them begin to discover that their carefully constructed public personas have almost killed what was once a genuine relationship. 

The characters are AMAZING. From the beginning, I felt like I knew Naomi personally. She could be me. She's so real she all but steps from the pages. Smart, sarcastic, snappy, sassy. She has a snarky streak a mile wide, and a host of qualities that make her less than perfect, but it is in her imperfections that I came to love her so much. She has this tough shell that hides deep insecurities from everyone, including Nicholas. She is one of the most vivid characters I've read in a long time. 

Nicholas is also well fleshed out. He is a man trying to be everyone for everybody, but somewhere along the line has forgotten to be himself. Watching him become who he wants to be is thrilling. The character growth isn't huge or unrealistic. The couple's problems aren't sugarcoated, and watching them try to work through them is a thing of beauty.

In short, this is everything you want in a snappy read. It's funny. It's real. It has heart. You don't want to miss this one!

*Thank you to NetGalley, Sarah Hogle, and Putnam for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review*

Oh wowzers! I am really happy that NetGalley threw this on my dashboard and I was approved for it! I originally got pulled in for the ‘fans of the Hating Game’ remark, and while it was similar in the enemies to lovers type genre, this book was it’s own great goodness. I don’t even want to COMPARE it to that book. 

Nicholas and Naomi are the perfect engaged couple on the outside — family dinners, hella cute instagram posts, boujee wedding plans — but on the inside their relationship is anything but perfect; it’s absolutely terrible. They barelytolerate each other, but NEITHER 👏🏻 OF THEM 👏🏻 WILL 👏🏻 CALL OFF 👏🏻 THE 👏🏻 WEDDING 👏🏻

This book is SO FREAKING REAL. Relationships are not all fluffy, romantic, and swoon-worthy 100% of the time. Couples struggle through liking and not liking their significant other; being with someone is hard work. Nicholas and Naomi are trying to figure out how to get back to the ‘good ole days’ of being head over heels with each other and I loved seeing them work through that. 

The things they did to one another were so cringeworthy, but so hilarious that I just wanted to keep reading to see how the other would retaliate. Obviously, the very best part of this read was the HELLA CRAZY GODZILLA MOTHER IN LAW. Oh my goodness. I feel sorry for anyone who has to endure anything remotely close to this mother; chick is psycho crazy. 

“There are mini marshmallows swimming at the top, and I’d stake my soul she put in thirty-two of them, one for each of Nicholas’s life”

Why didn’t it get five stars? I REALLY wish that this book had been written in dual POV. I found myself really frustrated that I couldn’t tell what Nicolas was ever thinking; did he want out as badly as Naomi? How did he feel during his interactions with his mother? What went through his head when he was making Naomi’s life miserable? Honestly, this was the only thing missing for me. If there was dual POVs this book would have hit it out of the park for me. 

For a debut novel, this was a great read! Add this to your Goodreads list and make sure to grab a copy when this book comes out. 😀 / 😩🙁😐😀😍

You Deserve Each Other is so much fun. Parts of the book had me laughing out loud. It's a very sweet romance about a couple rediscovering what made them fall in love in the first place. Looking forward to more by Sarah Hogle.

Relationships are hard! No matter how long you’ve known the person no matter how in love you are; relationships can be down right brutal! Hogle did the most amazing job highlighting just how hard love and relationships can be! There is so much that has to be down individually and together than if communication is lacking it’ll all fall apart! 

Nicholas and Naomi are going through one of their toughest times when it should be the most precious time in a relationship! It was amazing seeing them fall in love as they got to know one another again! 

I won’t lie at times I was like what omg she’s so juvenile and he’s just a jerk! As I kept reading I kept seeing glimpses of myself in the early stages of my marriage and I began to relate to Naomi and understood her insecurities and why she was so reactive! What I loved most was just how much Nicholas loved Naomi! He didn’t give up and made sure to go head to head to battle for their love and that’s something i absolutely adored about this book! 

This is my first novel by this author and it most definitely isn’t my last!

Usually, I hate the idea of second chance romance, or a story where we start with a couple established and play the game of going back and forth from history to present.  
However, this story was so fun and interesting.  There was not a lot of backstory given, but I preferred it that way.  There was enough provided that you could feel the loss of love and chemistry, and why it happened without the chaos of every other chapter being a different point in time.  
It was so funny and beautiful to see them find the paths that they needed to grow separately/together.  The flowers were hilarious, and so dramatic.  It was so funny to know at the beginning of the story you want to see them tear them apart, but by the end you want to see them figure it out again.

Nicholas Rose and Naomi Westfield have the perfect life, her Instagram says so. Who wouldn't want to marry a successful dentist who has parents that are paying for the whole wedding? Naomi, that's who. Feeling exhausted from trying to meet her future Mother-in-laws ridiculous standards, tired of being bulldozed by said future Mother-in-law, and feeling ignored by her fiancé and like she doesn't even know him any more, Naomi decides it's time to call it quits, she wants out. Unfortunately for her, who ever calls it first will end up paying for the wedding. Now all she has to do is convince Nicholas to break up with her first.

This book is a solid 10/10, five isn't enough, and 10 might not be either. Naomi is fed up but doesn't want to be the first to break, her plotting and planning had me honestly laughing out loud, it's been a while since a book sent me into a fit of uncontrollable giggles. I absolutely ADORE Naomi and her refusal to quit, she's so funny in a dark sort of way. I wish I was more like her, or that she could be my real life friend. I can 1000% relate to some of the unhealthy relationships in her life and just wanting the person who's supposed to love you most stand up for you. It's so hard to have an opinion of Nicholas since the story was solely from Naomi's pov. I just wanted him to love her and tell her, but of course that's not the way it's written, so I was left guessing. The single pov absolutely adds to the emotions of the book, the uncertainty of their future. The descriptions are fantastic, the details of events or locations painted a really complete picture in my head. I tried to take notes but all I ended up with were Naomi thoughts and quotes. There are not enough words for me to say how FANTASTIC this book is, I'm excited to see where this author takes her story telling.

This books started out slow but ended up picking up. In the end. I really enjoyed the book. I will now read more from Sarah Hogle. This book tells such true stories of relationships and makes you really think about things you have been through.

I’m on the fence about this book. I hated the characters at first. And hated what they did to each other. I really think there should be a TW about domestic violence too. But the book DOES turn around and they find the right way to communicate/ love each other, and I start to like the characters. But the domestic violence really made me upset to read about and I don’t like to read that.

The author was really great with imagery, character development, plots, etc. Its just the subject matter for me.

So I don’t think I will review this on Amazon/ Goodreads then, to bring your ratings down.

Just not my cup of tea. I thought it was well written, and engaging, but just did not like the characters at all.

This book was so much fun! There were times when I hated both Nicholas and Naomi. At times, I wanted to shake or scream at one or the other of them. But when they worked together, they really worked. I loved watching them kick and scream their way back to each other.

This was such a cute and different story!  I really try to avoid knowing the plot line of a story before I begin reading it, and this was really threw me for a loop!  Such a cute story about a couple who is engaged and has some issues they need to try to work out.  I loved the main characters, I thought they were expertly drawn as really dynamic people who had pluses and minuses.  Everyone has things they can work on, and I though Hogle did a great job of creating people who were both fun, and funny, and yet still realistic and had faults.  I really didn't know what to expect, and ended up devouring this book - such a fun, funny read!

The cute cover and the reference to The Hating Game definitely drew me to You Deserve Each Other. Unfortunately, it was just not for me.

Naomi has to be one of the most unlikable characters I have ever read. For about the first 60% of the book I really thought she’d be better suited as the narcissistic villain in a psychological thriller rather than the heroine in a Romance. She is just so, so awful and self-centered. She spent the early days of her relationship with Nicholas lying to him and then got mad when he thought that’s who she was. She refused to communicate and every time Nicholas tried to be honest, she would not take any responsibility for the things she’s done wrong, but would turn it back around on him. She was so mean and vindictive. I really couldn’t stand her. Nicholas also didn’t hep matters by often retaliating her bad behavior. However, he wasn’t trying to get her to break up with him like the sick game Naomi thought they were playing, but wanted to get an actual reaction out of her and get their relationship back on solid ground.

Even though I was not enjoying the book at all, for some reason I kept reading it and a little over halfway through it began to get better. Naomi and Nicholas finally have real conversations and start to make positive changes. There were even several cute and humorous moments. It made me sad that the first half of the book was so frustrating because it had the potential to be such a sweet, fun story, but the second half was not enough to make up for the first.

Overall, You Deserve Each Other ended up disappointing me. It did have some funny and cute moments, but Naomi was just so unlikable for the first half of the book (and still not great in the second half). She really came across as a sociopath to me and I felt bad for Nicholas. While I wouldn’t personally recommend it, I’m sure that there will be many people that find it funny and enjoy it much more than I did.

Overall Rating (out of 5): 2 Stars

Thank you netgalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
This novel was ridiculously funny and heartwarming! Naomi and Nicholas fall out of love with each other after they move in and find hilarious ways to get on the other's nerve. Unfortunately we only have Naomi's point of view so we don't really know if Nicholas really wanted to break their engagement.
I was laughing out loud at some of their antics. I loved that the author shows us how they slowly earn each other trust and rebuild their relationship based on friendship and having each other's back. Well done.

Naomi and Nicholas have a picture perfect love story...or do they? Look beyond their Instagram photos and you'll find that almost as soon as they were engaged, things started to fall apart. Now they are locked in a battle of wills...who will be the first to give up and break off the engagement? This hilarious and heart-wrenching title is like reading "Kristan Higgins meets the The Hating Game". A refreshing and reflective look on relationships, this atypical romance shows the work required for two people do to fall in love with each other again. Hogle does a great job bringing to life Nicholas' motivations through the eyes of Naomi. Readers will root for this couple while also wondering exactly how things are going to turn out. This was a very enjoyable, captivating read full of characters both quirky and realistic. Here's hoping we see a movie version of this sooner than later! (Advanced copy read courtesy of NetGalley. Opinions are my own.)

Thank you to G.P. Putnam's Sons and Netgalley for my free copy!

YOU DESERVE EACH OTHER by Sarah Hogle won’t be published until April 2020, but I advise you all to mark your calendars now because this book is hilariously charming. The story follows Naomi and Nicholas, a couple who’s about to get married but have fallen out of love, yet are trying to find their way back to one another before the big day. I’m not sure I’ve ever read a contemporary romance that follows this trope, but I enjoyed it a lot! Not only is the writing full of wit and humor, but I think at its core this novel is about the importance of communication in relationships. I predict this will definitely be a hyped romance come next April.

Review: Okay, so I don't want to be one of those snobs who starts their review for a romance book by saying "I don't normally read romances, but... " BUT, I really don't normally read straight-up romances, and let me delve into why, here. I hate reading about people who are cruel to each other and wind up getting together. I hate reading the same tired tropes of fake relationships, bickering Darcys and Lizzies, childhood friends who secretly harbor unrequited feelings, and genetically perfect humans who take one look at each other and know: they're destined to be. I hate all the stock unhealthy behaviors that show up in these books over and over again, the lying and the passive aggression and the utter lack of boundaries and good communication. I like romance, I really do, but I don't want to feel depressed about the human condition while reading what most people consider to be a feel-good genre.
With that out of the way, let's talk about this book. I had some definite misgivings - see above paragraph on unhealthy behaviors in romance books, and from the synopsis, it absolutely could have gone in a horrific direction. But, wonderfully, it didn't. What I love about the shenanigans Naomi and Nicholas pull on each other is that every one of them requires intimate knowledge of the other person. These aren't just your garden variety pranks that make you cringe in secondhand mortification as you read, unsure if you can go on. These are two people who have loved each other well enough to know just what strings to pull, and you can feel it in every sentence they utter, every description of body language. Furthermore, Naomi and Nicholas are on equal footing - the reader never has the sense that one party is being abused or is truly afraid of the other. And when we dive deeper into their underlying issues as a couple? I said it on Goodreads and I'll say it again here: I'm convinced this is the greatest couple since Harry met Sally. These two rediscovering their tenderness for each other and learning to meet each others' needs is one of the most beautiful yet hilarious love stories I've ever experienced. It felt novel, it felt healthy, it felt human and full of heart. In short, the perfect romance.

This was such a great debut for Sarah Hogle!!!  I went into this with equal parts intrigued and wary.  I am not a fan of a lot of angst or the snippy back and forth.  It gives me real anxiety.  I am so glad I gave this a chance.  Naomi's crazy was so funny and real. And with ALL the interaction between her and Nicholas you could feel the love under al the antics.  We get to see them discover each other again and become so much stronger for it.  Loved it!!

What an absolute gem of a book!  Anyone in a relationship will be able to relate to many parts of this book.  It is brilliant at showing how each of us perceives things that can ultimately start hurting our relationship.  Misunderstandings, family dynamics that can wreak havoc on any relationship, a lot of battle of wills... but ultimately two people who truly love each other, grow apart, and then find each other again.  So many parts of this book hit home for me and made me open my eyes and change the way I have been doing things.  This book is hilarious and had me laughing out time multiple times throughout reading it. 

I loved how Naomi and Nicholas were able to overcome huge obstacles once they started truly communicating and standing with each other.   

This was one of those rare books where I absolutely couldn't put it down, but at the same time was almost devastated when I realized the story was almost over because I didn't want to say goodbye to these characters!

I honestly can't wait to read more from this author!

This books was very entertaining and had me laughing/cringing with all the pranks and fights the couple got into! The first few chapters seemed to drag a bit and i wasn't sure if I liked the characters but once i got a little deeper in and they started to communicate it became a really fun and sweet read and I finished it in two days while shirking other responsibilities lol. 
I definitely wanted to knock Nicks head against the wall concerning his parents and Naomi's inner dialog was a bit of a drag sometimes. I get that Some of it was crucial to the story but sometimes I felt the author made her whine and drag on a little to long in these boring pity parties. Once she got over herself and realized she was part of the problem the book became so much better! 
Sarah Hogle did a good job making these characters unlikable at first but still redeemable and lovable by the end and she really wove a story with skill. I wish there had been an epilogue to see how things were with his awful parents and see how they got along after everything but even without that I felt the author wrapped the book up well and made you super happy for them.
All in all I would probably read it again and I would recommend it to my readers advisory patrons who are looking for a pretty light and fun read.