I did not want this book to end. I couldn't get enough of Rooney and Axel. This pair had me laughing, frowning, hurting and smiling. What an incredibly well written book this was! Chloe Liese is an amazing author with a truly special gift. The way she writes such authentic characters, blows me away! The fact that many of her heroes and heroines are neurodiverse just makes the books that much more enjoyable!

Rooney and Axel were the epitome of a tantalizing, slow burn romance. The tension and chemistry between them could be cut with a knife. I think the denial of feelings made this read so much more fun because you just sat on the edge of your seat waiting for them to give in. Just waiting for them to stop lying to themselves and each other. The anticipation kept me so engaged in this story.

I can't say a single negative thing about this book. It was the perfect story. Another amazing 5 star read by this fantastic author!

With an opening note that this involved a romance between a character with ulcerative colitis and another who was on the autism spectrum, I wasn’t sure how much I would get into their romance. But I had enjoyed the earlier books about members of the Berman family and really appreciate the author’s writing and characterizations. An earlier book included a character who is autistic and the author included a note that she is also on the autism spectrum. So I really felt that readers benefit from her descriptions of what an autism person feels and how he or she experiences the world.

This book continued that tradition with Axel, the oldest Bregman brother, having to offer a home to Rooney, a friend of the family. For some unbelievable reasons, they have to get married while resisting the attraction that they feel for each other. So the novel is a bit of a slow-burn. The alternating POVs help us see how each person feels unworthy of the others and is afraid to open up. It’s an old plotline when you just read the outline, but Liese’s writing and the personalities help this rise above to be a very enjoyable read.

I voluntarily reviewed an advanced reader copy of this book that I received from Netgalley; however, the opinions are my own and I did not receive any compensation for my review.

As someone with a diagnosed chronic illness and someone with suspected, undiagnosed ASD, this book was amazing in every way. The characters were relatable, multi-dimensional, and realistic. The story was funny, heart-breaking, warming, and incredibly lovable.

I love everything I’ve read by Chloe Liese and she did not disappoint with this book! I think this book was her most powerful and the book I connected with the most. As soon as I met Rooney and Axel in the first book, I could not wait to read more about that. Their love story was sweet and encouraging. I loved everything about it!

I read this book so quickly! Having the two main characters each with their own challenges made this even better than I’d hoped. Axel’s autism and Rooney’s health issues were handled sensitively and realistically, their chemistry was amazing, and the slow burn kept me turning the pages. Though this book is fourth of a series, it’s good as a stand-alone also. Thank you for approving my request to read this!

Wow this was so good. I don't have any complaints. This was another beautiful and heartfelt romance by Chloe Liese. Not much really happens and it's just two characters figure out themselves and each other which is my fave type of book. Chloe Liese's writing just keeps getting better and each book keeps replacing the last as my favorite. This series is amazing and features so many different types of representation with characters that are so lovable.

WHAT I LOVED
-The cabin setting – In a lot of the books they visit the cabin, but I loved how this one was at the cabin the whole time
-Although I will say I need a visual of the cabin because they refer to it as “the A frame” but A Frame cabins are rarely big? And the entire Bergman family comes and visits at one point?
-I love how Rooney loves the Bergman family so much and how they have just sort of taken her into the fold.
-We have marriage of convivence aka one of my favorite tropes
-As always Chloe is writing neurodiverse stories that are just so good. Axel has autism and I loved how this was presented and written (I am not austic and cannot comment on the rep, but Liese is austic)
-I loved seeing Rooney’s experience with chronic illness on page and how it impacts so much of her life, but she tries to hide it.
-I loved the moment she finally tells Willa
-I don’t have a chronic illness, but I know a few people who do and the way Liese describes it matches to what a lot of them have shared.
-Chloe Liese always writes stories where you are rooting so hard for the characters to admit their feelings because their chesmistry is so appartent
-I’m pretty sure I teared up a few times
-The animals in this are so cute and so are the side characters
-Axel showing his family that he loves them through taking care of the cabin renovation was so cute and made my heart hurt.
-Fun Fact: Chloe Liese describes Axel as looking like Ben Barnes and he wears glasses so I mean that should be reason enough to read this one.

WHAT I DID NOT LOVE
Honestly I don’t love the titles because I never remember them LOL and this cover isn’t my favorite


Overall I would recommend this to anyone who likes contemporary romances. Chloe Liese’s writing just keeps getting better and better and I can’t wait to see how the next Bergman’s story pans out. I think it is Oliver’s story?

Oh guys! I have been waiting for this book since I first met Rooney in "Only When its Us" which i have read three times.

What can I say....im a whore for Chloe Liese books.

This book delivered. It was exactly wanted. Axel and Rooney are so so swoony. Look at me rhyming! I'm just so excited.

I love how Liese continues to give us real characters who love super hard but are 100% authentic. She doesn't draw out complications and is always on point with her advice.

She is simply the best. (Queue Patrick singing to David.)

The rating system is bonkers but platforms need it for books success so my rating is 4.5 rounded up. My only...only criticism is that I wanted more. I would have loved a bit more conclusion. I needed to know how the family reacted to Rooney and Axel. That is all. I wanted more. Then again...I always want more when its Chloe!

I recieved an advanced ebook copy of this book in exchange for my honest feedback. All opinions given are my own.

Thank you so much to @netgalley and for this ARC of the upcoming Bergman Brothers book from @chloe_liese !!!

This book was a payoff of four books of longing between Axel, the grumpy grunting painter brother (the Ben Barnes-y one) and Rooney, the sunshine 🌻, Willa’s super smart best friend, the law student.

The book starts out with Rooney fleeing her life in the wake of a serious flare up of her IBD, ulcerative colitis. Willa has offered the A-Frame as a hidey hole, where unbeknownst to Rooney, Axel is also residing. (Those meddling little brothers! 😍)

Rooney drops in right as Axel is assessing the serious structural damage to the A-frame that will require costly renovations. Their chemistry is incendiary, and of course that means they’re going to awkwardly deny it until it explodes. Cue some mutual pining, and a tentative friendship that explodes because Axel’s inheritance has a marriage clause and well, Rooney’s game to get married to help her family by choice, the Bergmans.

This is an own voices book, so it handles Axel’s autism with great care and understanding. He has a hard time processing feelings, whether they’re his or they’re other people’s, and a harder time verbalizing the feelings once he’s processed. Axel’s atypical processing of his love for Rooney is done so very softly and tenderly.

I love a character that really just *gets* the indignity of having to poop in a field because there isn’t another choice. Axel’s unabashed kindness and unreserved straightforwardness really shows Rooney what it’s like to be loved as a whole person. Rooney’s acceptance of Axel’s autism is equally as straightforward and loving - he is who he is, which includes autism, but isn’t only autism.

It is a slow burn and the sex is emotionally charged, with sexy consent talk. It’s not as smutty as previous books, but it’s right for the characters on the page.

I am constantly pleased with the care in which @chloe_liese gives these atypical characters and the love stories they’re allowed to have even while flawed and imperfect.

This comes out September 14 - preorder it now!!

This was my first Chloe Liese and I loved it! It’s the 4th in the series but can be read as a stand-alone.

The story follows Rooney and Axel Bergman as they navigate an awkward situation. The stress of law school is getting to Rooney so she’s taking some time away in a secluded Washington vacation home. The Bergman house is supposed to empty but Axel is the middle of fixing som big issues.

He needs money and access to an inheritance, but with a caveat: he has to get married. Rooney agrees to fake-marry him; however, they’re forced to stay in his tiny cabin on the same land. They each have a secret crush on the other and through this process, they end up falling in love.

I love that the characters are not you’re “typical” characters: Axel has autism and Rooney has ulcerative colitis. While they both have challenges from these diagnoses, neither one lets it stop them from following their dreams and finding love and acceptance. Axel is one of the sweetest make characters I’ve read in a while and I immediately liked him! Liese did a phenomenal job of portraying serious issues like toxic masculinity, autism, and IBS in way that readers can really connect to.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

4 stars

This book was a delight to read! I previously read and adored the first two books in the Bergman Brothers series, so I already went in knowing that I enjoyed Chloe’s writing style. The book was overall very sweet and heartfelt, and I loved how Rooney and Axel found love and affection for each other at their own pace.

Often contemporary romances jump right into insta-love in order to get to the spiciness, but the slow burn between Rooney and Axel was so much more believable and lovely. Both characters are dealing with their own life stresses and health-related issues, yet also are unwilling to burden their loved ones with their problems. Little do they know that a marriage-of-convenience between the two of them would be just what they need set them on the path of opening up and sharing their truths. As an OwnVoices author, Chloe also discusses Axel’s neurodivergence with care and respect, and I loved how With You Forever was so therapy-positive, which is sadly not as common as it should be.

Overall, I really liked this addition to the Bergman Brothers series, and I especially wanted to see Rooney get her happily ever after. I ended up rating With You Forever with 4 stars, mainly because I still felt that the story left something to be desired. While I really liked the main characters together, I often felt that their individual internal dialogues did way too much telling me of their desire for one other, rather than being shown through their actions and conversations. So the chemistry ended up feeling a bit forced in the beginning and sort of pushed upon me as the reader. Another reason behind my rating was due to the climax of the story, where things tend to go wrong, being far too close to the end of the book for my liking, and because of this, I felt the resolution was a bit too quick and cleanly wrapped up to be realistic.

Please pick up With Your Forever by Chloe Liese and give it a shot, because I guarantee you will laugh and probably shed a few tears along the way!

Chloe Liese is the voice I want to be highlighted as the future of romance. I cannot tell you why I waited until June to read the previous three Bergman brother's stories, but after I flew through them in nearly a weekend I knew that I needed to get my hands on Axel and Rooney's grump/sunshine love story!

This book is EVERYTHING. RUN, DON'T WALK! Liese writes amazing, swoony romances, however, it is so much more than that because she is actively inclusive. She has this uncanny talent for writing books that straddle the line of perfectly including voices that we don't always get to see while still giving us a great romance book that doesn't rob the characters of just being them and falling in love. Sounds simple enough, I know, but we sadly just do not see it enough.

Rooney is a sunshine filled woman who is an incredible friend, a scholar, and someone who is suffering from chronic IBD. Axel is a shy, grumpy guy who would rather stay in the woods and work on his art while also coming to understand being on the autism spectrum in his adult years.

The chemistry is off the charts and Liese really builds it up in this slow burn book full of sweet and steamy moments! I love these two so much and I love this story, it easily fits in my top 5 of the year. In all fairness I will say my one complaint is that I love the Bergman family so much that I was missing them a little in the first two-thirds of this book while they were tucked away at the A-frame, but I know that was probably very helpful in order for Axel and Rooney to build their relationship.

I truly cannot wait for everyone to get their hands on this book and I will be screaming from the rooftops how much of a must read this is! I cried a little at how honored and seen I felt while reading about Rooney's chronic illness and how it did not get in the way of her happily ever after AND it was not made to be a joke. Chloe Liese's work is as important as it is exceptional. Again run, don't walk people!

Thank you to netgalley for an ARC of this book.

I absolutely loves it i feel like i have been waiting for it forever. Axel is by far my favourite character of the whole series and he did not disappoint.

I have absolutely adored all of the Bergman Brothers books thus far and With You Forever is no exception! What is not to love about this grumpy & sunshine marriage of convenience slow burn romance with ASD representation? Nothing. All of Liese’s books cover serious topics and they make you think about the bravery that is required to enter into a romantic relationship. However, With You Forever also packs a punch on the comedy front and I found myself laughing out loud more than once. This book is steamy and sweet, it is hilarious and it is heartfelt, but most of all, it is literary perfection. Liese proves that opposites attract… or maybe Axel and Rooney aren’t so different after all.

• WITH YOU FOREVER • #gifted @chloe_liese @netgalley • Pub Date: September 14

I've been not-so-patiently anticipating Axel and Rooney's story since it was first hinted at and I was not disappointed. Each book in this series has been incredible; I'm a little sad that we're over halfway through now (but beyond excited for Oliver's story next!)

Every story by Chloe has such wonderful characters, they feel like friends, like real people. Whenever I pick up one of these books I've been able to find something I can relate to, but also an experience different from mine that I can learn from.

I thought this was the perfect story for Axel and Rooney, full of angst, pining, tenderness, humor and a slooowww burn that was so worth the wait. I'm already looking forward to re-reading this when my paperback copy arrives.

If you haven't read Chloe Liese, what are you waiting for?! Her books are some of the most beautifully written, and they absolutely sweep you away. Each book is better than the last, and they are all incredible. I fell in love with this story and Axel and Rooney (and Harry and Skugga!) and didn't want their story to end. This book was unlike any other I've read, and Rooney was such a well written character that you feel everything she's going through. And Axel? The grumpy, sunshiney, flannel-wearing man just stole my heart! You just feel all the love he has in droves! And I love appearances by our favorite Bergmans...I just adore this family, and can't wait to see where Chloe takes us next!

I will never get enough of Chloe’s words…they are truly magnificent. The realness, the tenderness, the rawness…the heart bleeds through the page and it wraps you up and you feel safe and happy and warm while reading this story. This story will make you feel like you're reading in the woods in Washington, and wish you have an Axel in real life! Another beautiful Bergman story, and one that will stick with me!

Another 5 star Bergman Brothers story. I read this in one sitting because I fell in love with these characters on page 1 and couldn't step away. Sweet, swoony, sexy trip to a little cabin in the woods with lovable but reserved Axel and Rooney ❤

I didn’t think that a Bergman would steal my heart away from Ryder but Axel is a different story all together.

Chloe Liese provides her characters with so much insight that you feel like you know them. You can tell that the medical issues in this book have been thoroughly researched and planned through to give an authentic representation which is one of the main consistencies with all of her novels.

I loved the overall premise of this novel and how the characters went out of their comfort zones to really get to know each other on their own time and without the involvement (mainly) of others. How it provides a positive notion on asking for help when you need it and surrounding yourself with a good support system. This novel really hit home about how important it is to be able to open yourself to the people you love. And Axel and Rooney’s love story provides you with a whole lot of that mixed with a little bit of steam.

Chloe’s characterisation has left me unable to decide whether I want to date a Bergman or be adopted by them.

Can’t wait for the next books in the series!

With You Forever by Chloe Liese is the fourth book in the Bergman Brothers series and I don’t think I’ve ever loved a fictional family more. Returning to their world and getting to watch a different relationship unfold each time is an absolute JOY.

Fans of the books have been waiting (im)patiently for Axel and Rooney’s story since Liese hinted at it in Always Only You, and it’s finally here!

One of the (many, many) things I love about the series is that each book has different tropes and different kinds of representation - in this case, Axel is autistic and Rooney is chronically ill - because everyone deserves a love story if they want one.

An unexpected marriage of convenience forces Axel and Rooney to confront their feelings for each other (feelings? What feelings?), but it also gives them space to acknowledge being a little lost and figuring out what’s next. Axel is isolated and artistically blocked, while Rooney is reeling from being forced to take a medical leave from law school. Axel’s love for the A-frame and his determination to care for the people closest to him in his own way is beyond swoony, and their quiet love story in the woods with hikes and twinkle lights and small children being adorable and cinnamon rolls and rescue pets is so special.

If you haven’t picked up this series yet, I seriously can’t recommend it enough. I’m already beyond excited to read Oliver’s story next year!

TW: chronic IBD (UC), autism

I have read all of the books in this series, and was slightly disappointed with the last one.
This one MORE than made up for it. It was an absolute joy to read. This authors writing is simply beautiful in the way she can describe her characters and make them come to life. Dealing with both the hero and heroines differences was challenging and much different than the norm. I also enjoyed the Swedish aspect , of course. And the yearning. All of the yearning. A great slow burn romance. I loved it. Thank you to netgalley for the arc.

I am enjoying this series in general, but this was my least favorite of the four so far. There was a lot of repetition in this one as well as a lot of long sections of monologuing. However I am reading it primarily for the rep and cast of characters, which I continue to enjoy. For people who want an easy read it will be enjoyable, as well as disabled readers who wish to see themselves on the page.

It is a 4 book from series and it is yet another amazing love story. I loved it how yet again author shows us a person with flaws and shows us that that person could be loved. Amazing slow-burn romance that I enjoyed reading every page of.
I volunteered to review an ARC of this book for NetGalley