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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.
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loved it!
To be honest? It was a rollercoaster of emotions. But as always, I'm here for it! I didn't like Naomi at the start, started liking her, then started disliking her again. Probably all because the decisions she took weren't always the ones I would have wished for her to go with. So it was kinda hard reading how it turned out not so good. BUT at the end I loved it because I understood why everything happens the way it did. It maybe would've been another ending if it wouldn't have gone that way and I love the ending. I hoped for it to go that way and couldn't been happier of how it turned out. That book made me laugh so hard at some point that it's was this silent kind of laugh were you're near dying and I love that. so so good. I really love Naomi an Nicholas!
Schwieriger Start aber gutes Ende!
Anfangs war es schwer für mich die Geschichte zu mögen, da ich die beiden Hauptprotagonisten einfach echt unsympathisch fand. Sie haben sich so gemein dem anderen gegenüber verhalten und ich konnte nicht daran glauben, dass sie jemals wieder glücklich zusammen sein können. Das ist auch das Problem, weil als sie dann wieder richtig zusammen gekommen sind, konnte ich es nicht gut nachvollziehen. Außerdem gab es dazwischen auch meiner Meinung nach keinen richtigen Übergang, sondern es war wie ein Cut. Trotzdem wollte ich immer weiterlesen, weil ich den Schreibstil und den Humor sehr gemocht habe. Außerdem war die Geschichte auch immer interessant, nur nicht nachvollziehbar. Das Ende hat mir dann auch sehr gut gefallen, deswegen gebe ich dem Buch 4 Sterne⭐
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.
OKAYYY… I’m going to give this book 3 stars. I don’t know why but somehow I expected a little bit more. This is my first book by Sarah Hogle but it just wasn’t for me. The end was cute and there were definitely some sweet and cute scenes and I like and get the message about putting work in your relationship but there was just so much going on😭. One minute they are fighting and hating each other like crazy and the other they are in love with each other again and being lovey-dovey. But they spent so much time being childish and manipulative to each other that it was just a little too much for my liking. They had such a big miscommunication (sometimes I like it if it’s well done) but the whole problem would have been solved if they just TALKED with each other. Maybe it would have been better for me if we got a Nicholas POV, but we didn’t🥲. At first it was very confusing why they were even in a relationship in the first place. Maybe flashbacks would have shown us the love they once had but they also weren’t any of that. Nicholas' mother was also so fucking annoying bro and the way she was behaving and body-shamed Naomi and so much more ?? 😀. Yeah no thanks, happy not to have a mom like that. Anyway, I’m definitely going to give Sarah Hogle another chance someday with a different book and hope I’m going to like it better than this one. And don’t get me wrong, it’s not TERRIBLE or smth but that’s just my feelings and opinion !!
Dieses Buch hätte ich wahrscheinlich nie gelesen, hätte ich es nicht geschenkt bekommen und es wäre ein Verlust gewesen. Ich musste das ein oder andere mal laut auflachen und meine Augen wurden mehr als einmal feucht vor Rührung. Und ist es nicht genau das, was ein gutes Buch ausmacht? Emotionen in uns wecken und zum Nachdenken über seine eigene Gefühlswelt anregen? Es muss keine Weltliteratur oder ein Lebensratgeber sein, um eine neue Seite an sich selbst festzustellen. Dieses Buch ist wie der Honig bei einer Halsentzündung: wohltuend und süß.
Ich hatte absolut 0 Erwartungen an dieses Buch. Ich wusste, dass es sehr wahrscheinlich ein Griff ins Klo werden könnte. Glücklicherweise haben sich meine Befürchtungen nicht bestätigt. Im Gegenteil. Gott, habe ich mich kaputtgelacht. Zynismus im ganz großen Stil. Die Bösartigkeit und das Level an Cringeness ist nicht zu überbieten. Es war wirklich ein Erlebnis mitzuverfolgen, wie sich Naomi und Nicholas das Leben zur Hölle machen. Man konnte sehr schnell in die Geschichte und in die Figuren reinfinden. Der Schreibstil war angenehm und nicht langweilig. Immer wieder fließen popkulturelle Referenzen mit ein ( Mein Favorit war die Anspielung auf Planktons Frau Karen aus Spongebob Schwammkopf) Einen Stern habe ich abgezogen, weil die Handlung doch an einigen Stellen recht vorhersehbar war. Insgesamt bin ich aber doch ziemlich begeistert.
Ich hab schon viele Bücher gelesen, aber noch nie fand ich eine Protagonistin sooo dermaßen unsympathisch wie Naomi. Kindisch, egoistisch, gestört..... Das Buch hat absolut keinen Spaß gemacht. Die "Streiche" die sie ihrem Verlobten!!! gespielt hat waren sowas von kindisch und unnötig. An seiner Stelle hätte ich sie verlassen und mir jemand gesucht, der meine Liebe wert ist. Schade um jede Minute Zeit die man mit diesem Buch verbringt. Lustig ist was anderes.
…unglaublich berührend, köstlich amüsant & mit einem Rosenkrieg, der alles in den Schatten stellt… Eine Geschichte, wie es jeder kennt, man lebt sich auseinander, verbirgt vor dem wichtigsten Menschen im Leben seine Emotionen und zieht sich in einen Welt zurück. Schon mit den ersten Zeilen ist bei bei Naomi und verfällt schnell in ihre Denkweise, wird in ihrer erschreckenden, verletzten aber auch Rache lüsternen Emotionen involviert. Jedoch ist es der schwarze Humor, Sarkasmus und die Methoden zur eigenen Überzeugung, dass diese Verlobung, diese Beziehung der schlimmste Fehler ihres Leben ist, die einen mitreißen und zu Tränen amüsieren. Auf der anderen Seite ist Nicholas , der sich so abweisend zeigt, ohne Zeichen der Liebe und der Unterstützung für Naomi, zeitgleich ist er aber immer für seine Mutter da, beschenkt sie mit Blumen und Aufmerksamkeit Wie konnten diese zwei sich nur in einer Beziehung bzw. Verlobung wider finden ? Schnell übernimmt man Naomis Seite und ist mit ihr schockiert, dass sie nicht immer recht hat. Wie dieser Rosenkrieg wohl ausgeht ? Die Taten al auch die Streichen nehmen überhand, aber auch die Veränderungen im Leben. Herausstechend der Wille, die Stärke und der Mut, auf keinen Fall nach zu geben und nicht als erster allem Verpflichtungen zu beenden. Die Geschichte ist ein wundervolle, humorvolle, romantische als auch köstlich amüsante Geschichte, die mich von den Persönlichkeiten, ihren unorthodoxen Methoden, den Willen zur Liebe oder auch anderen Gefühlen eingenommen und begeistert hat. Ich bleibe daher zutiefst begeistert, wundervolle erstaunt, beflügelt, schockiert als auch geniale überrascht von dem perfekt gestalteten Ausgang und mit seufzen von den wahren tieferen Botschaft über Liebe und die Komplexität dieser zurück. Ein wundervolles Lesevergnügen, was einen vom ersten Moment verzaubert und von den Charakteren ein nimmt und gemeinsam beeindruckt. Ich kann euch das Werk nur ans Herz legen, besonders wenn ihr etwas zur Aufheiterung braucht, gewürzt mit der Hoffnung auf die wahre Liebe. Vielen Dank für das Rezensionsexemplar an den Verlag. Trotz der Bereitstellung hat dies in keiner Weise meine ehrliche Meinung zum Buch beeinträchtigt. #Istfürimmernichtvielschlimmer #SarahHogle #Blanvalet #BloggerPortal #Rezension
Was für ein gutes Buch!! Witzig, voller Gräueltaten, mit einer richtig guten Prise Humor, und nicht zuletzt auch gaaaanz viel Gefühl. Es wird aus der Ich-Form von Naomi erzählt. Es hat ein bisschen was von: Wie werde ich ihn in 10 Tagen los Trennung mit Hindernissen. Die Kombi ist wirklich sehr gut gelungen, es ist spannend, tiefgründig, schön und wirklich witzig..es liest sich sehr gut, ein wunderbares Debüt. Ich kann es mir schon sehr gut verfilmt vorstellen
- Characters and writing style were quite alright, what really carried the book was the - Amazing Plot execution => even better than the premise - Funny / great humor - feel good rom-com - only the tiniest bit of third act drama (maybe like three pages) I hate that kind of thing because its usually some stupid miscommunication drama that could be easily solved. It’s in this one as well, but as I was saying: I think it was put there because every romance books seems to need one nowadays. - the house is so amazing, I wanna live there
Final rating is 2 and a half stars but I decided to round up because I at least felt positive at the end. The huge problem of You Deserve Each Other is that the first sixty percent and the last fourty percent feel like two different books. There was no real middle connecting the two, no transition between Naomi and Nicholas hating and then loving each other. Not to me anyway. I really hated being in Naomi's head for large parts of the book because she was so bitter, disconnected and mean-spirited, especially during the first half of the book. It was really hard to read and the book simply didn't deliver on the fun ride it was supposed to me. What stuck with me is that after all they did to each other in the first half is that they would end up together. I just don't see it.
This book was so cute and funny I just couldn't put it down because I had so much fun with it. The Characters were great and did Go trough such a strong development. The writing Just made me smile all the time and I can just recommend it to everyone who needs a good laugh in the day. This is one of my first adult romance books and it makes me want to read more.
It was an okay-read. I had no high hopes in the beginning. Nicholas was so unlikable and such a mom-boy that I could not fathom that they will smooth everything out. He gave me the ick so many times, but in the end it was Naomi I could not stand. They are engaged but their relationship is in shambles and I still don´t know why, how it became like that. However, they are set to marry in a couple of months and Naomi does not see herself saying yes to Nicholas. She does not love him anymore, she doesn´t even like him. But she does not want to bear the costs of the marriage and the consequences of calling off the wedding. So she starts this feud with Nicholas of annoying each other and seeing who calls the wedding off first. But little does Naomi know that Nicholas wants to safe them and not ruin them any further. And when I learned that Nicholas still holds on to that relationship, my views changed. Yes, it is still both their faults that this relationship got to rock bottom but it was more Naomis fault to be honest. After everything he still wants to be with the woman who does not even like to be in his presence? Who puts ZERO effort into this relationship? I finished the book and I still don´t see why he held on. Anyway, as soon as their feud started the book got interesting and enjoyable. But as soon as this excitement died down, the book got really fast really boring. So I would say, yes, it was an enjoyable read, but only halfway and not really worth your time. If you already own this book, you could give it a go, otherwise I would not go out of my way to buy this.
I love RomComs. It's pretty easy to get four stars out of me. But the first 50% of the book were so mean spirited and the main character so unlikable and paranoid, it was the first time I'd hoped she'd get dumped for good. The second 50% felt like a forced way to make it to a happy ending. Their interactions and niceties felt artificial and I didn't really get emotionally invested in their relationship or how they end up as I use to in books. Three stars because the author still got me sucked into the book and made me want to finish it. (Two of the stars might be swooning over their house.)
“Has Nicholas ever looked this happy? No. What a shame, to know I've been accepting anything less than this smile he's giving me right now.” was this realistic? no. did i still feel for the characters and giggled like an idiot? YES. miscommunication and i have a love-hate relationship and this one was a hit. the pranks and trying to make the other person break up first made them closer than ever before. it's silly, it's cute, and i will definitely read more of sarah hogle's books!
3,5 estrelas ⭐I had a great time, although I felt a little angry with Nicholas at the beginning, the dear one redeemed himself by telling his mother some truths later.─── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ───Me divertir horrores, apesar de ter sentido um pouco de raiva do Nicholas no começo o querido se redimiu falando umas verdades pra mãe dele depois.
REREAD from 31 Dec 2022: it’s 3:13 am, I’m lying in the dark sobbing to The Great War by Miss Swift. good night _________________________________________________ INITIAL REVIEW from 27 Dec 2021: i don’t think i’m revealing anything new by saying this was a delight! it had the underlying lonely, wild and raw undertones that i liked about The Hating Game, while taking the relationship between Naomi and Nicholas into a completely different direction. following along as they discover each other anew had me laughing aloud and teary eyed. ↳ will i be rereading? hell yes
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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.
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loved it!
To be honest? It was a rollercoaster of emotions. But as always, I'm here for it! I didn't like Naomi at the start, started liking her, then started disliking her again. Probably all because the decisions she took weren't always the ones I would have wished for her to go with. So it was kinda hard reading how it turned out not so good. BUT at the end I loved it because I understood why everything happens the way it did. It maybe would've been another ending if it wouldn't have gone that way and I love the ending. I hoped for it to go that way and couldn't been happier of how it turned out. That book made me laugh so hard at some point that it's was this silent kind of laugh were you're near dying and I love that. so so good. I really love Naomi an Nicholas!
Schwieriger Start aber gutes Ende!
Anfangs war es schwer für mich die Geschichte zu mögen, da ich die beiden Hauptprotagonisten einfach echt unsympathisch fand. Sie haben sich so gemein dem anderen gegenüber verhalten und ich konnte nicht daran glauben, dass sie jemals wieder glücklich zusammen sein können. Das ist auch das Problem, weil als sie dann wieder richtig zusammen gekommen sind, konnte ich es nicht gut nachvollziehen. Außerdem gab es dazwischen auch meiner Meinung nach keinen richtigen Übergang, sondern es war wie ein Cut. Trotzdem wollte ich immer weiterlesen, weil ich den Schreibstil und den Humor sehr gemocht habe. Außerdem war die Geschichte auch immer interessant, nur nicht nachvollziehbar. Das Ende hat mir dann auch sehr gut gefallen, deswegen gebe ich dem Buch 4 Sterne⭐
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.
OKAYYY… I’m going to give this book 3 stars. I don’t know why but somehow I expected a little bit more. This is my first book by Sarah Hogle but it just wasn’t for me. The end was cute and there were definitely some sweet and cute scenes and I like and get the message about putting work in your relationship but there was just so much going on😭. One minute they are fighting and hating each other like crazy and the other they are in love with each other again and being lovey-dovey. But they spent so much time being childish and manipulative to each other that it was just a little too much for my liking. They had such a big miscommunication (sometimes I like it if it’s well done) but the whole problem would have been solved if they just TALKED with each other. Maybe it would have been better for me if we got a Nicholas POV, but we didn’t🥲. At first it was very confusing why they were even in a relationship in the first place. Maybe flashbacks would have shown us the love they once had but they also weren’t any of that. Nicholas' mother was also so fucking annoying bro and the way she was behaving and body-shamed Naomi and so much more ?? 😀. Yeah no thanks, happy not to have a mom like that. Anyway, I’m definitely going to give Sarah Hogle another chance someday with a different book and hope I’m going to like it better than this one. And don’t get me wrong, it’s not TERRIBLE or smth but that’s just my feelings and opinion !!
Dieses Buch hätte ich wahrscheinlich nie gelesen, hätte ich es nicht geschenkt bekommen und es wäre ein Verlust gewesen. Ich musste das ein oder andere mal laut auflachen und meine Augen wurden mehr als einmal feucht vor Rührung. Und ist es nicht genau das, was ein gutes Buch ausmacht? Emotionen in uns wecken und zum Nachdenken über seine eigene Gefühlswelt anregen? Es muss keine Weltliteratur oder ein Lebensratgeber sein, um eine neue Seite an sich selbst festzustellen. Dieses Buch ist wie der Honig bei einer Halsentzündung: wohltuend und süß.
Ich hatte absolut 0 Erwartungen an dieses Buch. Ich wusste, dass es sehr wahrscheinlich ein Griff ins Klo werden könnte. Glücklicherweise haben sich meine Befürchtungen nicht bestätigt. Im Gegenteil. Gott, habe ich mich kaputtgelacht. Zynismus im ganz großen Stil. Die Bösartigkeit und das Level an Cringeness ist nicht zu überbieten. Es war wirklich ein Erlebnis mitzuverfolgen, wie sich Naomi und Nicholas das Leben zur Hölle machen. Man konnte sehr schnell in die Geschichte und in die Figuren reinfinden. Der Schreibstil war angenehm und nicht langweilig. Immer wieder fließen popkulturelle Referenzen mit ein ( Mein Favorit war die Anspielung auf Planktons Frau Karen aus Spongebob Schwammkopf) Einen Stern habe ich abgezogen, weil die Handlung doch an einigen Stellen recht vorhersehbar war. Insgesamt bin ich aber doch ziemlich begeistert.
Ich hab schon viele Bücher gelesen, aber noch nie fand ich eine Protagonistin sooo dermaßen unsympathisch wie Naomi. Kindisch, egoistisch, gestört..... Das Buch hat absolut keinen Spaß gemacht. Die "Streiche" die sie ihrem Verlobten!!! gespielt hat waren sowas von kindisch und unnötig. An seiner Stelle hätte ich sie verlassen und mir jemand gesucht, der meine Liebe wert ist. Schade um jede Minute Zeit die man mit diesem Buch verbringt. Lustig ist was anderes.
…unglaublich berührend, köstlich amüsant & mit einem Rosenkrieg, der alles in den Schatten stellt… Eine Geschichte, wie es jeder kennt, man lebt sich auseinander, verbirgt vor dem wichtigsten Menschen im Leben seine Emotionen und zieht sich in einen Welt zurück. Schon mit den ersten Zeilen ist bei bei Naomi und verfällt schnell in ihre Denkweise, wird in ihrer erschreckenden, verletzten aber auch Rache lüsternen Emotionen involviert. Jedoch ist es der schwarze Humor, Sarkasmus und die Methoden zur eigenen Überzeugung, dass diese Verlobung, diese Beziehung der schlimmste Fehler ihres Leben ist, die einen mitreißen und zu Tränen amüsieren. Auf der anderen Seite ist Nicholas , der sich so abweisend zeigt, ohne Zeichen der Liebe und der Unterstützung für Naomi, zeitgleich ist er aber immer für seine Mutter da, beschenkt sie mit Blumen und Aufmerksamkeit Wie konnten diese zwei sich nur in einer Beziehung bzw. Verlobung wider finden ? Schnell übernimmt man Naomis Seite und ist mit ihr schockiert, dass sie nicht immer recht hat. Wie dieser Rosenkrieg wohl ausgeht ? Die Taten al auch die Streichen nehmen überhand, aber auch die Veränderungen im Leben. Herausstechend der Wille, die Stärke und der Mut, auf keinen Fall nach zu geben und nicht als erster allem Verpflichtungen zu beenden. Die Geschichte ist ein wundervolle, humorvolle, romantische als auch köstlich amüsante Geschichte, die mich von den Persönlichkeiten, ihren unorthodoxen Methoden, den Willen zur Liebe oder auch anderen Gefühlen eingenommen und begeistert hat. Ich bleibe daher zutiefst begeistert, wundervolle erstaunt, beflügelt, schockiert als auch geniale überrascht von dem perfekt gestalteten Ausgang und mit seufzen von den wahren tieferen Botschaft über Liebe und die Komplexität dieser zurück. Ein wundervolles Lesevergnügen, was einen vom ersten Moment verzaubert und von den Charakteren ein nimmt und gemeinsam beeindruckt. Ich kann euch das Werk nur ans Herz legen, besonders wenn ihr etwas zur Aufheiterung braucht, gewürzt mit der Hoffnung auf die wahre Liebe. Vielen Dank für das Rezensionsexemplar an den Verlag. Trotz der Bereitstellung hat dies in keiner Weise meine ehrliche Meinung zum Buch beeinträchtigt. #Istfürimmernichtvielschlimmer #SarahHogle #Blanvalet #BloggerPortal #Rezension
Was für ein gutes Buch!! Witzig, voller Gräueltaten, mit einer richtig guten Prise Humor, und nicht zuletzt auch gaaaanz viel Gefühl. Es wird aus der Ich-Form von Naomi erzählt. Es hat ein bisschen was von: Wie werde ich ihn in 10 Tagen los Trennung mit Hindernissen. Die Kombi ist wirklich sehr gut gelungen, es ist spannend, tiefgründig, schön und wirklich witzig..es liest sich sehr gut, ein wunderbares Debüt. Ich kann es mir schon sehr gut verfilmt vorstellen
- Characters and writing style were quite alright, what really carried the book was the - Amazing Plot execution => even better than the premise - Funny / great humor - feel good rom-com - only the tiniest bit of third act drama (maybe like three pages) I hate that kind of thing because its usually some stupid miscommunication drama that could be easily solved. It’s in this one as well, but as I was saying: I think it was put there because every romance books seems to need one nowadays. - the house is so amazing, I wanna live there
Final rating is 2 and a half stars but I decided to round up because I at least felt positive at the end. The huge problem of You Deserve Each Other is that the first sixty percent and the last fourty percent feel like two different books. There was no real middle connecting the two, no transition between Naomi and Nicholas hating and then loving each other. Not to me anyway. I really hated being in Naomi's head for large parts of the book because she was so bitter, disconnected and mean-spirited, especially during the first half of the book. It was really hard to read and the book simply didn't deliver on the fun ride it was supposed to me. What stuck with me is that after all they did to each other in the first half is that they would end up together. I just don't see it.
This book was so cute and funny I just couldn't put it down because I had so much fun with it. The Characters were great and did Go trough such a strong development. The writing Just made me smile all the time and I can just recommend it to everyone who needs a good laugh in the day. This is one of my first adult romance books and it makes me want to read more.
It was an okay-read. I had no high hopes in the beginning. Nicholas was so unlikable and such a mom-boy that I could not fathom that they will smooth everything out. He gave me the ick so many times, but in the end it was Naomi I could not stand. They are engaged but their relationship is in shambles and I still don´t know why, how it became like that. However, they are set to marry in a couple of months and Naomi does not see herself saying yes to Nicholas. She does not love him anymore, she doesn´t even like him. But she does not want to bear the costs of the marriage and the consequences of calling off the wedding. So she starts this feud with Nicholas of annoying each other and seeing who calls the wedding off first. But little does Naomi know that Nicholas wants to safe them and not ruin them any further. And when I learned that Nicholas still holds on to that relationship, my views changed. Yes, it is still both their faults that this relationship got to rock bottom but it was more Naomis fault to be honest. After everything he still wants to be with the woman who does not even like to be in his presence? Who puts ZERO effort into this relationship? I finished the book and I still don´t see why he held on. Anyway, as soon as their feud started the book got interesting and enjoyable. But as soon as this excitement died down, the book got really fast really boring. So I would say, yes, it was an enjoyable read, but only halfway and not really worth your time. If you already own this book, you could give it a go, otherwise I would not go out of my way to buy this.
I love RomComs. It's pretty easy to get four stars out of me. But the first 50% of the book were so mean spirited and the main character so unlikable and paranoid, it was the first time I'd hoped she'd get dumped for good. The second 50% felt like a forced way to make it to a happy ending. Their interactions and niceties felt artificial and I didn't really get emotionally invested in their relationship or how they end up as I use to in books. Three stars because the author still got me sucked into the book and made me want to finish it. (Two of the stars might be swooning over their house.)
“Has Nicholas ever looked this happy? No. What a shame, to know I've been accepting anything less than this smile he's giving me right now.” was this realistic? no. did i still feel for the characters and giggled like an idiot? YES. miscommunication and i have a love-hate relationship and this one was a hit. the pranks and trying to make the other person break up first made them closer than ever before. it's silly, it's cute, and i will definitely read more of sarah hogle's books!
3,5 estrelas ⭐I had a great time, although I felt a little angry with Nicholas at the beginning, the dear one redeemed himself by telling his mother some truths later.─── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ───Me divertir horrores, apesar de ter sentido um pouco de raiva do Nicholas no começo o querido se redimiu falando umas verdades pra mãe dele depois.
REREAD from 31 Dec 2022: it’s 3:13 am, I’m lying in the dark sobbing to The Great War by Miss Swift. good night _________________________________________________ INITIAL REVIEW from 27 Dec 2021: i don’t think i’m revealing anything new by saying this was a delight! it had the underlying lonely, wild and raw undertones that i liked about The Hating Game, while taking the relationship between Naomi and Nicholas into a completely different direction. following along as they discover each other anew had me laughing aloud and teary eyed. ↳ will i be rereading? hell yes