You Deserve Each Other

You Deserve Each Other - Sarah Hogle

Genre: Romance / Romantic Comedy

Release Date: 11th February 2020

Naomi and Nicholas are made for each other. They look like the perfect storybook couple. Nicholas Rose holds doors open, brings his mother flowers and comes from the kind of class and wealth anybody would be lucky to marry into.

Everyday is the same, everyday is like their anniversary.

... And he never remembers their anniversary.

But regardless, Naomi is going to be Mrs Rose in a few months time. Partially because she still loves him but mostly because whoever backs out first is footing the bill. She is falling apart, and their relationship has turned into an escalating game of chicken that nobody is winning. They're close to tearing each other apart but sometimes tearing something down leaves room to rebuild ... or walk away with nothing.

Hilariously disastrous, heartbreaking and completely captivating, I honestly didn't know what to expect as Naomi and Nicholas' antics got even pettier and I was kept guessing the whole way through right until the very last paragraph.

Delving into the simple truth that we don't always love at 100%, love changes and grows and sometimes takes more work than we expected in the first place. I was hooked right from the get-go, I honestly thought I'd hate our two lovebirds and all their cruel tricks but instead I found myself point-scoring and rooting for them at some points, and desperate for them to listen to each other at others. This is a romance that throws the rule book out the window and shows us true, ureliable, messy love in a way thats so refreshing and will stay stuck in your mind for far too long.

I sat and tore through this book in one sitting and if you like fun, you probably will too.

RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Thanks you to NetGalley and Sarah Hogle for my copy of 'You Deserve Each Other'

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