Wow this book was fantastic! I’ve never read a book like this. This book had me giggling and actually wheezing from laughing so hard! Mrs Rose is the mother of all horrible mother in laws. I wish the book didn’t end where it did. I wanted to read more. The secondary characters were great. I loved the taming of the shrew vibes this book gave me. I loved that each gave as good as they got. This is my first book by this author. Hopefully I’ll read many more. I absolutely loved this story. I highly recommend it.

I guess I hate books that start off as mean mean, even if I know things are supposed to improve. Basically a bunch of immature characters needing to grow up, but that's just my old age talking. They got engaged too quick without really getting to know each other and never bothered to hash out how to behave as a couple--do you like flowers and gifts on Valentine's Day? can't you listen to my career concerns for once?--and didn't know how to handle Nick's mom during the whole wedding process. While this otherwise would lead other couples to say, if it's too tough a row to hoe, "Oh, Ok, this was a mistake, let's break up, nevermind," they're now stuck playing head games to see who will fold and be stuck with paying back the deposits. It got better later on, even cute in spots, but by that point I was still pretty annoyed with them. It's hard to support character growth when you don't really care for the characters in the first place.

Okay, I will absolutely read anything with a synopsis about hate to love and I loved the sound of this one.

I love love loved Naomi and Nicholas. They’re both snarky with bitter shells and it seems like they have absolutely nothing in common. I loved seeing their relationship morph from irritation to toleration to like to love. There are a few secondary characters, but this is definitely about the two of them.

Plot wise it was good. The progression of their relationship was natural and they made me so happy. I cackled out loud at a few of their pranks and felt crushed when a pointed barb landed particularly well. I couldn’t wait to get to the ending to see their HEA and even though the angsty conflict wasn’t nearly as bad as I expected, it did the job.

Overall, it was a fun and quick read and one I’ll definitely be rereading. I can’t wait to see what Sarah comes up with next.

**Huge thanks to GP Putnam’s Sons for providing the arc free of charge**

Naomi is only 40% in love with her Fiance Nicholas and three months away from a wedding she had no say in planning thanks to his mother, Deborah. Naomi is fed up and wants out. But whoever calls off the wedding will have to front the non-refundable wedding bill, which Naomi can’t afford working her minimum wage job.

When Naomi discovers Nicholas has also been faking contentment with their engagement, the battle begins. The two of them engage in a battle of pranks, sabotage and all out emotional warfare.

But with the wedding clock ticking down, Naomi finds herself starting to slip and start to notice things about Nicholas she had cast aside for so long. Last thing she expected was to have fun with her fiance who is supposed to be her nemesis.

This book was so funny! I was laughing out loud at some of the ridiculous thoughts and things Naomi said throughout the book. Like if I put my thoughts down on paper, I would be Naomi exactly. Sometimes crude, a little ruthless at times, and freaking hilarious. This is the first lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers rom-com I have read and I loved it! Nicholas at first I did not like, but I quickly started to love him. The slow burn was great. The crazy antics were amazing! This is a book that absolutely needs to be on your radar!

Thank you @putnambooks for the ARC in exchange for an honest review! This title Publishes April 7th so go order your copy!!

A Pretty good start by new to me (and I believe new to publishing) author Sarah Hogle delighted me, angered me and gave me what I was looking for in this messed up War of the Roses (pun intended). What happens when what you wished for so fervently comes out different than you expected. Naomi fell for Nicholas on their second date and though he was everything she was looking for. Fast forward in time and suddenly she finds herself not quite as enthralled when real life settles in. She embarks on a quest to get out of the relationship...but she's not the only one. What starts out as funny for me turned into the eye roll...I wanted these two to finally grow up...I didn't give up though...I hoped for a payoff and I got it. Again...not all is as it seems and sometimes, you need to give up, give in to get exactly what you wanted in the first place.

This kind of genre fascinates me, I love to enjoy a good love story and this one was really pleasant.
It reminds me so much of my older sister's relationships, that most of them are really similar to this book, and I know, are they going to tell me what am I thinking about this book taste? Well, I love clichés where love begins with hate, and most of the time it happens, in the whole story I was integrated into what would end this war of jokes, and who would end up paying all the expenses of the wedding, that's why I couldn't drop this book.
If you really like love stories that is not pure cotton candy and butterflies, you will enjoy it very much.
Thank you NetGalley and PRHInternational for giving me the opportunity to enjoy this reading.

Chapters 2-3 almost made me put this book down bc the character was so wildly unhappy with her engagement that I wanted to rip her from the pages and say GIRL END IT NOW. But I started to understand the character by chapter 4, which is that she’s a big exaggerator/dreamer, and I ended up finding her hilarious and cackled quite a few times. This is a lovers to enemies to lovers story, and I really did enjoy it. But the beginning really made me think her fiancé was a jerk Basically I’m still unsure and felt conflicted with the whiplash of the character growth, but I also was tremendously entertained. 🤷🏼‍♀️

The more I read this book, the more I liked it!

At first glance Naomi comes across like a spoiled, immature teenager (preschooler?) but at the same time her story is hilarious and original. The characters in this book are well thought out and endearing. The amount of imagination that I'm sure was poured into this work is unreal. The happily ever after ending is magical and is the best part of the book. I won't forget about Nicholas and Naomi in a hurry and I hope their story continues. I wasn't able to put this one down. Highly recommended!

(Thank you, Netgalley, for this arc.)

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for this digital arc.
Naomi and Nicholas are unhappily engaged. They haven't really talked to each other in months and they seem to despise each other. Except she can't call off the wedding because her future mother-in-law will make her pay them back for anything lost. So they push each other's buttons to see which one will break first.
I have to say right off the bat that I absolutely hated the first half of this book. The author pushed things too far and there was absolutely nobody to root for. It's clear Naomi and Nicholas are in a toxic relationship and should have broken up immediately. Instead, they are completely vile and mean-spirited towards each other. Some of the things they say to each other are atrocious and awful. I really spent the first half of the book hoping they would break up. They were physical with each other, they pulled terrible pranks, and they made big decisions without talking to the other one. Anybody who thinks it's cute to buy A HOUSE without asking your partner is crazy, just like Nicholas. His mother is also completely terrible and it takes him SO long to stand up to her. She makes changes to the wedding without asking Naomi and even orders the smallest size wedding dress without telling her.
The only saving grace of this book is the last 40 percent. They actually begin communicating and thawing out. They begin doing things together and hanging out with each other and <i>sleeping in the same room</i>. He stands up to his mother and defends his fiance. They have inside jokes and grow closer like they used to be. Honestly, I think it's too little too late because of how terrible they were in the beginning but there's potential. I can see that the author has the talent but she started out in the worst way for this book. If you can make it through the first 60 percent of this book then it's actually not half bad. I just can't believe two people with so much vitriol towards each other stayed together so long. I don't know that I would read anything else by this author.

I'm pretty sure I have found a new favorite author this year! Hogle has a distinctive voice and style that sets her apart from the pack. As is generally the case, it's probably worth mentioning that her at times snarky writing won't be to everyone's taste, though I adored this book, even the tough parts.

At the heart of the book are important lessons about the health of any committed relationship. Why do some people give up on each other when things get tough while others forge ahead and work through issues? Naomi and Nicholas are fantastically in love in the courtship stage, as we see in a poignant opening chapter. Flashforward a year and a half later in the second chapter, changes have occurred in their lives that puts their relationship in jeopardy. In-laws from hell plague many relationships and represent an external threat to the health of Naomi's and Nicholas's relationship. But, learning how to fight fairly and how to communicate in healthy ways is also crucial and perhaps more important than any other factor.

I think some readers won't like Naomi because she's prickly at times and at times terribly insecure. I sympathize so much though with her self-esteem issues as a young working class woman trying to enter into an upper-middle class family with long-standing social standing in a small town. At times I felt frustrated right along with Naomi at Nicholas's seeming indifference and lack of awareness over what she is experiencing. While both have their share of blame for their problems, this is also a very funny book that spends considerable time mocking the petty ways in which Naomi and Nicholas strike out at each other because they are hurting. In the midst of heartache are laugh out loud scenes that I went back and reread to see if they were as funny a second time around. They were.

The sequence of events and the author's use of time in this novel works so well to allow readers to reconstruct a case study for what happens to Naomi and Nicholas to create such an achingly romantic love affair, followed by a snarky cold war that had me reading at times with one eye only, followed by a poignant clawing of their way back, and finally to a love even stronger than first love. Each stage of their relationship is smoothly transitioned into the next that it's difficult to pinpoint one specific catalyst. In fact, the transitions in this book are so smooth that one minute I was laughing at silly pranks and jokes and the next sniffling over halting confessions and regrets.

Just a lovely debut novel from an author from whom I cannot wait to read more.

Wowza I love this book so much!!

You Deserve Each Other is everything I love about contemporary romance- aaaaaaand I out-loud giggled throughout it! I definitely see it staying a 2020 favorite.

It’s recommended for fans of The Hating Game, which I haven’t read yet but immediately added to my TBR list. This debut lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy centers on two unhappily engaged people each trying to force the other to end the relationship, a quirky back and forth in the hopes that whoever breaks first bears the brunt of the financial burden. The catch? They fall back in love in the process, HOW CUTE IS THAT? I love it!!

I have read enemies to lover romance books before, but never one where these enemies are a modern day engaged couple. This book surprised me by how much I laughed! While our main character is by no means perfect, she is hilarious and had such a great voice. While I felt like things wrapped up a bit too fast at the end, it probably is just that I didn’t want the story to end!

Thank you so freaking much G. P. Putman’s Sons for the advance readers copy because this book is GOOD!

The story follows Nicholas and Naomi, a couple who have been engaged for a year, close to be married, and can’t stand each other.

Chaos ensues when Naomi, who had been through a depression due to the emotional separation in their relationship, can’t take it anymore and snaps. Their wedding is approaching and she wants out, but that means she’ll have to pay all by herself for the wedding expenses so she decided to drive Nicholas into break up the engagement by finally being honest about her feelings and turn his mother against him.

How do they get their happily ever after?

This new honesty between them brings them closer as they finally get to really know each other rather and stop pretending.

This is slow, slow, slow, slow burn and I’M HERE FOR IT. They tear each other apart in a way that makes you wonder how this can possibly take a positive turn. But the line between hate and love can easily flip and all the drama, pranks, revenge and make up takes you on a wild roller-coaster ride you will take a while to recover from.

I hated their parents so so much. The way Nicholas’ mum manipulated him and took advantage of him disgusted me. His father not standing up to her, got on my nerves.

I was so happy when they both finally stood up for themselves and each other, it melted my heart.

This is a perfect lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers story and I freaking recommend this to anyone who loves books like The Hating Game or even The Cruel Prince if you wish you could have read more about the relationship between Jude and Cardan.

This is my favourite NA rom-com in 2020 and I don’t think any other will compare this year! Like I bloody loved this so much it’s a new favourite book for me. It’s in my top 5 NA romances ever. I just can’t wrap my head around how perfect this is for me.

So needless to say that I wholeheartedly recommend this book to everyone and anyone!

This is one of the best books I have read this year. I was skeptical at first but once I got into the book I loved it.

The set-up is both wonderful and wonderfully executed. Enemies to lovers is a common trope as is lovers to enemies to lovers but seldom is it done with so much emotion and such excellent execution.

The book works for four main reasons:

The sense of home and community that Hogle creates radiates through the book and really grounds it.

Naomi is a wonderful character. She is wounded and scared and so so human.

Many romance writers whiff on writing the male protagonist but Nicholas is wonderful. He doesn't have any POV chapters but as the novel progresses we see how he is wounded and scared, too. It's beautiful (and sad) storytelling.

Finally, the book is paced so well. They don't fall back in love over the course of a weekend. They did a lot of damage to their relationship and it takes them time to repair that damage. The book isn't hurries but it isn't rushed either.

Verdict: Buy this amazing, wonderful and heartfelt romance. You won't be sorry.

First of all, thank you so much @Netgalley and @PutnamBooks for providing me with an e-ARC of this book.
Second, I LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH! It’s been a long time since I have read a romance novel that has made me feel so emotional and soft!

We follow Naomi and her fiancé Nicholas and their seemingly “perfect” relationship. On the surface, Naomi takes great effort to be the perfect fiancé to Nicholas who comes from a very prestigious and wealthy family in this small town they live in. Many believe Naomi to be an underachiever, as she never went to college, including her future mother-in-law, who becomes one of the main antagonists with how demanding and clingy she is towards her son. Naomi finds herself resenting Nicholas for many reasons, and in an odd turn of events, realizes that they are both experiencing the same thing: absolute hatred for the other. This story takes us through the war that commences between the couple and the sabotages they face from one another, as well as the looming date of their wedding. It is the one of the best enemies-to-lovers and second chance romance stories that I have read in a long time.

The animosity that our main characters, Naomi and Nicholas, have towards each other is palpable, and makes for fantastic interactions between them. It underlines the fact that there really is a fine line between love and hate, and when that line is crossed, it brings forth the hilarity that occurs from hurt prides and suffocated truths. The premise of a couple who have fallen out of love, who become mortal enemies, to building their relationship all over again is such a breath of fresh air in the romance genre. It’s a slow burn re-romance as Naomi and Nicholas rebuild the foundation of their relationship, all the while, dealing with the variable that is the over attentive and controlling future mother-in-law and the event of the year: their wedding.

As much as I love the plot and the events that happen, my critique is that the first half of the book was incredibly preachy. Naomi prides herself in being a feminist, which is wonderful, however the first half of the novel felt like the author was trying to beat you over the head with the feminist message by saying “men are terrible” or “men are trash” and having the male character say things like “I let you”. It portrayed Nicholas as a two-dimensional cartoon villain by saying these things which would further the feminist plot. I understood the message and would’ve appreciated it more if it hadn’t been pushed so hard.

However, the second half of the book was what I was looking for. The way that the author broke down their relationship and rebuilt it so Naomi and Nicholas loved each other as friends again was incredibly done. I was so invested in these characters and their lives in this house in the woods and their new (again) relationship and the complexities that come with rebuilding that trust with each other that I couldn’t help but feel my heart soften for them both. I also loved the character arc for Naomi, as she started off as such an unlikeable character: selfish, self-absorbed, vain, and whiny. Throughout the book we see her character grow and open her eyes to the world around her, and it endeared her to me. Except for her sarcastic sassy personality, that she kept and I’m glad because it made for some loud guffaws and laughter to come out of me.

The humor was great, the romance was fantastic, and the pacing was perfect. Once I started this book, I did not want to put it down, and would highly recommend it to anyone who loves a good enemies-to-lovers and redemption love story.

DNF at 13%
I can't.
I have been trying to read more of this book for days, and I think it's put me into a bit of a slump.
I love a good enemies to lovers, even though this is billed as a former lovers to enemies to lovers, but the main character of Naomi is someone I cannot read from anymore.
She is a horrible person, and has been so mean to the love interest. She has constantly lied to him and then gets offended if he questions the lie. There have even been a couple lies that she has defended as feminism and I can't with her. She is apparently 28, but she feels so much younger and immature.

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for providing the E-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Well, this is difficult to rate because almost exactly halfway through, my feelings changed. The opening of this was arduous, and I had so many negative feelings because the main characters are too immature and their behavior to each other is terrible. I was hoping for more romantic tension, but all of their actions are fueled with so much dislike and anger I never felt a spark between them. Their “pranks” on one another felt like a series of misguided or cruel choices.

I had a hard time sympathizing with either one of them because we are introduced to them after their relationship is strained and they are so distant from each other. At one point, Naomi references how the transition from boyfriend to fiancé made Nick into a different person, and how it felt like a “bait-and-switch”, which would be interesting if this was explored afterwards; however, there are no flashbacks or references to aid me in agreeing with her.

It might have helped to have sections from Nick’s point of view, because he starts to try (sort of) repairing their relationship long before Naomi is willing to give him a chance. Her responses made her appear petulant and her unwillingness to open up to Nick when he was trying to communicate was frustrating.

Some of the sections towards the end were also very immature, which pulled me out of their relationship and the book itself. I found myself unable to sink back into their world.

All of their positive connection was too little too late. There were some really funny lines and some sad lines that would have had a deeper impact if I were invested.

I’d certainly try another book by Hogle (maybe this was an off book for me). If you’re into the miscommunication trope, give You Deserve Each Other a shot because it’s there to an extreme degree.

***I received a copy through NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.***

It’s been a while since I’ve read a book that made me feel as much as this one did. It’s a new take on the “hate to love” story and instead goes from “love to hate to love”. The reader initially gets the rush of falling in love and the excitement that it all brings. But then we are transported to the present where Nicholas and Naomi are struggling to keep their relationship alive. The characters were easy to relate to and even though the story is told from Naomi's perspective, Nicholas is easily likable. I would have loved to have the story told from both perspectives but the story is still great either way! While this book had its humorous parts, I think the best parts were when Nicholas and Naomi were being vulnerable and falling back into love.

The publisher and Netgalley provided me with an ARC of this title in exchange for an honest review.

This book was utter perfection. Naomi has decided to wage a war on her wedding. Even though she and Nick live together they just coexist. They stick to the rigid boundaries of their prescribed lives, trading carefully crafted insults and barbed words.

Naomi's bridesmaids are wearing the exact shade of cream she wanted for her own dress. She wasn't allowed to have a lemon wedding cake. Dreadful Deborah, the tenacious and annoying D, is the potential mother-in-law that makes Jane Fonda look like the Mother Theresa. She controls every aspect of her beloved son's wedding to the future vessel of her grandchildren.

So Naomi has decided that she is only forty percent in love with her fiancé. She is determined to sabotage the wedding because she's convinced she's not enough. Not polished enough. Not patient enough. Not complacent enough. Maybe she'll get to keep the ring so she can pawn it later or wax prosaic over what might have been.

But then Nick buys a house in the middle of the woods. Naomi falls in love with a Charlie Brown tree in the yard. An oar is lost and a canoe is abandoned in the middle of a pond. A nutcracker finds a home on a mantel. Bonding happens over the most disgusting dinner ever. And then they defend each other against D-Money.

Gradually, Naomi realizes that Nick is her best friend. She misses him when he's gone. His eyes sparkle when they look at her and when he's wearing his lumber jack inspired hat with the flaps. And she wants to get married to this man she has re-learned and fallen in love with again.

This lovers to enemies to lovers story has snark that leaps off the page, cunning that will make you laugh aloud, and a magical exploration of all of the facets that tie couples together.

I had some pretty big doubts going into this book. I love a good enemies-to-lovers trope, they tend to be witty and funny mixed with tension and longing that make up for the bitterness in the beginning. But there are a lot of times where there is so much “hate” that it can lead to moments that are cringe worthy. This story, for me, had a lot of it and ended up making it hard for me to enjoy.

I really didn’t like Naomi. She came off as selfish and self centered. She failed to see time and time again the good in her relationship and focus on the bad. She had her sassy moments that made the story entertaining, but a lot of the time I wish she would stop being so far in her head she couldn’t see what was literally in front of her. The saving part of this book was Nicholas. I just adored him. He poured his heart out and put everything on the line in this story. Though you didn’t see this story through his point of view, you were able to feel his emotions. He was funny, loving, and incredibly patient.

I feel like this story needed a dual POV. I felt like it hurt the story only being told from Naomi’s POV. This was a story about how a relationship was crumbling and being built back up and in order to get the full affect, it would have been amazing to see both sides. There was so much of Naomi and her side of the story that Nicholas didn’t have a fair shot. I will say, for it not being a dual POV, the author was able to give a voice to Nicholas and allow the reader to see parts of him throughout the story.

Honestly I didn’t believe that the author could turn this book around for me. There was just so much hate in the beginning. They were in the worst relationship and I have no idea how I was ever going to be on team Nicholas and Naomi. The author described it perfectly by comparing their relationship to Voldemort and Harry Potter, “neither can live while the other survives.” I have never read a story or characters that were so wrong for each other. They were seeing each other at their worst and they’re at the point where no one has anything left to lose.

For as much as I didn’t enjoy parts of this book, there were enjoyable parts that kept me hanging on. Once the playful pranks replaced the hurtful ones and you saw more partnership than opposition, there was a fun story after the first half of the book. The writing was good, even at its more unpleasant beginnings. And I was surprised that the author was able to get me rooting for them as a couple. This was a good read for me and with this being a debut novel, I am curious to see what she comes up with. Thank you to NetGalley and Putnam Books for a copy of this eARC