Author: Sarah Hogle
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Genre: Romanzo
Language: Inglese
Rate: 2/5 ⭐️
The plot:
How we met is insignificant in light of how we met again. We met again while each trying our best to push the other one away.
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.
You deserve each other is a love story, a romantic comedy which tells the story of Nicholas and Naomi. The two are planning their wedding, a wedding that neither of them really wants because, despite what everyone thinks, Nicholas and Naomi really can't stand each other anymore. Naomi has even created a Word file in which she has marked all the merits of Nicholas, a document that she repeats in her mind when she wants to leave home. If she were to ditch Nicholas right now, she would have to pay all the bills of the missed marriage.
After realizing that Nicholas also thinks the same thing, this is where starts the real story: jokes, quarrels, teasing: they go against each other. Naomi even starts challenging Nicholas's mother every week at Sunday's dinners. If this behavior bothers him at first, he reveals a secret to her over time: he likes too to take his mother to the edge, but doing it with her would be more fun. From this moment on, the two are more relaxed when they're together and rediscover the passion and love for each other. An "I love you at 18%" becomes an "I love you 100%" (🥰) and eventually they come together to challenge Mrs. Rose (an almost comical scene), a story turbulent, full of twists and turns.
Don't be fooled from the beginning of this story, because if at the beginning it seems boring (at least to me), the rest of the story is not and, as you can imagine, it's a story full of tension between the two protagonists (not always positive) and anguish. I loved this book and Sarah Hogle's way of writing, a simple, flowing style that makes reading it easier, even if you're not a native English speaker (like me!)
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