You Deserve Each Other, by Sarah Hogle

I couldn't resist and enjoyed a good little American romance this week. Popular, relatively predictable and heartwarming, you don't risk much with this kind of book (although sometimes we can have unexpected reactions). I spent my weekend reading this and after that I was on cloud nine and full of faith in humanity. I call that a successful book.

Summary

This is a good example of an enemies-to-lovers story (if you are curious, there is a list of love story patterns here Nicholas and Naomi are engaged to be married in a few months, but there's one major problem: they can't stand each other. They don't want to leave each other, though, because 1) Nicholas's mother has been bugging him forever to have a wife and kids, and if he leaves his fiancée, he'll never have peace; 2) Naomi spends her time bragging about her supposedly perfect relationship on Instagram, and if she leaves him, she'll look like a hypocrite. So Naomi decides to play a game (without consulting her fiancé): the first one to crack the other wins.

But the more Naomi plays this destructive game, the more she wonders. What if, after all, she still loved Nicholas? What if the only thing they really need is a little more love?

Impressions

This book was really too cute. Naomi is funny and the way they try to drive each other crazy in the first part of the book is pretty creative. But how happy are we when they start to make up and everything suddenly becomes magical: Nicholas defends Naomi against her horrible mother, Naomi realizes that she's been pretty mean to Nicholas for a long time and starts doing all sorts of nice things to him, love returns, they get married in their backyard on a whim, and oh, so cute!

We won't escape the clichés, though. Obviously, the guy is rich and really handsome. The girl is comfortable in her own skin while remaining attached to "girl" things like makeup, social networks, etc. And there's quite a bit of fate mixed in with their meeting for my taste.

That being said, none of that stopped me from loving the book. It was right up my alley, and it did its job perfectly.