When your nemesis also happens to be your fiancé, happily ever after becomes a lot more complicated in this wickedly funny, lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy debut.

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. –

“Relearning you has bene the best thing that’s ever happened to me.”

I remember being so taken aback when I first read this book, because the first chapter is their second date. And in it they were so excited to be with each other. Then, the second chapter is one year and nine months later and that lovey-dovey feeling in the beginning is gone. There is a disconnect between Naomi and Nicholas. Lack of communications, and very clear that their relationship had shifted. They cited it to the fact that their relationship progressed two quickly and now neither one of them are sure if there will be a wedding.

Naomi is about to lose her job. She has no backup plan, and essentially alone in terms of family. She has Nicholas; however, he’s successful and very arrogant and hard to communicate with. And his family? His mother is an absolute nightmare. She’s rude, controlling, and inconsiderate. And his father, well, he's not all the way tuned in. And Nicholas never stands up for Naomi when she's being attacked by her mother.

In the beginning, it was hard to see why these two people didn’t just end it. They were very unhappy, and very confused about everything. Until, they start the pranks to see who would be the one to end the engagement.

The pranks were entertaining. And as they went on, it started to become clearer that it might be able to work between them. They both started opening up more. And Nicholas started standing up to his mother. Thank goodness! They started being a team. They started to fall back in love.

I would have loved to have Nicholas’ POV as well. Don’t get me wrong, I loved Naomi’s but towards the end of the book we started to see a new side to Nicholas, and I would have loved to be in his head as he graveled with everything.

Final Analysis

You Deserve Each Other is a friends to lovers to enemies to love type of story that is lightheaded and entertaining.

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