How am I going to get rid of him? I cannot marry this mama’s boy.' Naomi eventually made use of this part of his life and character to wage a war of the Roses. Nicholas was such an awful mother’s boy, it was both hard and incredibly funny to read those aspects. I adored the two main characters, Nicholas and Naomi and I even loved reading about the evil mother-in-law to be. It brought beautiful escapism to my life, with light and deep in equal parts. You Deserve Each Other was unputdownable and so very satisfying. I burnt the midnight oil to finish this one because I just could not leave it with a few chapters left. A lovely reminder that love doesn’t just keep being there. I really enjoyed seeing these characters fall in love with each other all over again, remembering why they were even engaged in the first place and trying to make it better again.but you need to read the book to see if they make it to the altar in the end.Īll in all, this book made me smile. I realised as I read on that the pair of them were just guilty of not putting in enough effort.

HOWEVER, when you read this, don’t let Naomi be the reason you don’t finish this book. Honestly she irritated me so much I almost gave up. I mean, Nicholas isn’t exactly a sweetheart but.I don’t know, I think maybe it would have been interesting to see a little more of Nicholas’s thought process as it comes across a little like Naomi thinks the whole world is against her. So, firstly, Naomi in the first third of this book may actually be the most annoying woman I’ve ever come across. However I have only rated this 3 stars as at times in the first 3/4 of the book the lack of communication is what had me tearing my hair out, and even though this is thankfully resolved by the end, it is still incredibly frustrating. I think what made this toxicity bearable is that both Naomi and Nicholas (eventually) acknowledge their wrongdoings, and it is with open communication that they learn to love each other again. I also found a lot of the taunting of each other actually quite hilarious, and laughed aloud multiple times at the pettiness and immaturity of it all. However, somehow Sarah Hogle managed to truly make me root for these characters who had both been spiteful and manipulative at times, which is quite a feat since normally I run a mile at stupid toxicity in romcom relationships. I really liked the fun, lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers premise, yet when I was about 30% into this book I truly thought both the main characters were going to be irredeemable and I didn’t see how the situation would convincingly turn around. Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for letting me read an e-copy in exchange for an honest review.

You deserve each other pages