I LOVED THIS BOOK! It's such a fun romcom with a wild play on the enemies to lovers trope! I also adored how the author drew inspo from a Shakespeare play... so cool! The neurodivergent MCs was such a treat to read, and I loved all of the mental health rep throughout the book. Such a special story, and I can't wait for more from this storyworld!

Thank you to Berkley Publishing Group and NetGalley for the advanced reader copy and to PRH Audio for the complimentary audiobook. These opinions are my own.

Chloe Liese is one of my favorite authors, and Much Ado About Nothing is one of my favorite of Shakespeare's plays. So I was thrilled to read Two Wrongs Make a Right.

This story was beautifully brought into the contemporary moment with texting, fake dating, hijinks, and romance. I could tell it was an adaptation, but it felt so current.

As we can expect from Chloe Liese, the book has amazing neurodivergent representation. Bea has autism, and Jamie deals with anxiety. I loved how the two of them responded to each other's disclosures. The characters are so rich and nuanced that it felt I knew them both.

There's some heavy baggage from toxic, abusive relationships. But we get to see and focus on a lovely, slow burn, steamy chemistry between Bea and Jamie.

I loved this as an audiobook. Charlotte North is absolutely fantastic for Bea's perspective and even amazing at voicing male characters. Stephen Dexter did a great job voicing Jamie, though I didn't appreciate his female voices as much.

I am especially excited to read the next book. The ending of this one set it up so well.

4.5 stars rounded up

Wow this was amazing! Chloe still reigns as one of my top favorite romance authors!

I inhaled this book in one sitting. The types of books that make you not look up until the end are just *chefs kiss*

Alright, let’s get into everything that’s amazing about this book. Per usual, I will provide in list form:

•Casual rep inclusivity and portrayal.
•Bea is bisexual and on the autism spectrum, which both are casually portrayed in the story without it being the focal plot but rather just who she is.
•Bea also is an artist with an array of tattoos and a fun personality.
•Jamie has anxiety and compulsions
•Jamie also is a pediatrician in a family of surgeons, is an overly orderly and strict Capricorn, and in true cinnamon roll fashion, he loves cats.
•Opposites attract
•Both meet each other where they’re at and support/accept each other for who they are which is incredibly important to read about!
•Annoyances turned fake dating to seek revenge on friends, then break up but catch feelings along the way.
•Great communication between the two *round of applause*
•Amazing spicy scenes *fans self*
•Genuinely smiled and Lol’ed at these two. I’ve never read a bland character from Chloe. I thoroughly loved all of the characters personalities.
•The way they talk to/ validate each other is so sweet and tender. When Jamie says “I don’t see you differently. I see you better.” 🥹
•We stan lovable side characters!

In summary, this book is amazing y’all! It never feels less than powerful to see diverse representation in a book. Like Bea, I also am a bi, neurodivergent, cantankerous Cancer *fist pumps in the air*

I will continue to inhale anything and everything Chloe Liese writes.

Reading the first half of the book, I felt like it could easily become a 5 stars. I loved the mutual pining and the faking dating trope is one of my favorites, so I knew I was in for a real treat.

Chloe Liese has a way of completely immersing me in her stories, so I could barely put the book down.

However, I found that once our two protagonists got together, I became less and less interested in their story. It got a bit boring, as I felt like there was no real conflict. I have to admit that I absolutely despised the last two chapters. I'm not a big fan of third-act breakups to begin with, but this one made me feel physically angry. It came out of nowhere and didn't bring anything to the story.

Nonetheless, I think this was a fun story, and I loved Jamie and Bea! I have a feeling that Chloe Liese has more in store planned with this world, and I'm excited to see where it'll go!

“Humanity has spoken: reading a book makes a sexy someone even sexier.”

Bea Wilmot and Jamie Westenberg could not be more opposite. Bea is a tattooed, clumsy artist who’s known for her erotic paintings. Jamie is a buttoned up pediatrician who never leaves the house without an extra set of clothes or two. But, for some reason, their closest friends think they’re meant to be and trick them into a date. There’s only one way to get revenge. Fake date of course.

It’s no secret I’m absolutely obsessed with all of Chloe Liese’s books but I had no idea what to think about a book without any Bergman brothers. Of course I had no reason to worry though. This book has as much steam, sexual tension, banter, and depth as any other Chloe Liese masterpiece.

I could not get enough of Jamie or Bea! They’re so different but also so perfect together, even if they refuse to admit it. As with any book Chloe writes, these characters are written with so much depth and even more heart. Jamie and Bea are both struggling to let love in after past relationships, but as they begin to open up to each other, it’s impossible not to root for them.

More to love:
-neurodivergent rep
-witty banter
-messy, lovable characters
-fake dating
-great communication
-chess puns

Now let’s just hope the door is open for more books with these characters!

Thanks Netgalley and Berkley for access to this arc.


I have a confession to make. I haven’t read Much Ado About Nothing. I haven’t seen the movie either. Yes, I am a Philistine. Two Wrongs Make a Right is an homage to Much Ado so it’s probably relevant I say that up front. (I expect it adds something to the reading experience if one is familiar with the play but I’m here to say the book stands well on it’s own so for readers who are like me, well, you’ll be just fine.)

When I started the book I didn’t know it had any relationship to Shakespeare at all. I picked up the book because you wrote it – I didn’t need to look further than that to want to read it. Because I haven’t been living entirely under a rock I have however heard of Beatrice and Benedick (that’s something, right?) and I clued in pretty quickly. Google is my friend.

Beatrice Wilmot is a twenty-something artist with a bad case of creative block as a result of damage from a bad relationship. She hasn’t told her twin sister, Juliet, about everything that happened in said relationship and so Jules doesn’t know that Bea has good reason to want to be single for a while longer. As a result, Juliet and their friend group, are dead keen for Bea to couple up and are on the lookout for any potential options.

Jules is dating Jean-Claude and has been for three months when the book begins. It is Jean-Claude’s birthday and his friend and roommate West is in attendance, along with their wider friend group.

Bea is autistic and has some social anxiety. She freely admits that it is mainly through Jules’ influence that she has the relationships she does and any social life at all. As a result of her autism she is clumsy and this is a problem when she first meets Jamie Westenberg. Over the course of the evening, she spills cocktails on him – twice. Bea immediately decides that Jamie is judging her for her many colourful tattoos (he isn’t, he has anxiety and some compulsive tendencies and he gets tongue-tied when overwhelmed which can come across as being snobby.) As a result of some conclusion-jumping and the cocktail-spilling, it’s fair to say that Bea and Jamie do not hit it off. One of her little rebellions is to call him Jamie rather than what everyone else calls him – West. It starts off as an annoyance. It becomes something special between them.

Because of meddling friends on both sides, the pair are corralled together multiples times over the course of the party and right up until they get stuck in a closet and they realise – with horror – they are attracted to one another, it’s pretty much awful.

Enemies to lovers is not my favourite trope. I dislike it when people are mean to one another. So that first little bit of the book didn’t work so well for me. I’m also a hero-centric reader and I identified a little more with Jamie generally so I thought Bea was too hard on him at the start. Also, I had the benefit of Jamie’s POV – something Bea did not.

After that, Jules tell Bea that she has made her a date for the following Saturday with “someone she knows” but will not give her his proper name. Instead, she says they will only know each other by their middle names for now and communicate via text for a week until they meet. Bea will be “Adelaide” and her mystery man’s middle name is Benedick – so “Ben”. Jamie is told essentially the same thing in reverse by Jean-Claude and for reasons which are a little beyond me, both agree. And, what made me raise my eyebrows was that neither even considered that who they were really texting with was their recently met nemesis. This pair have a small and close-knit friend group so it seemed unrealistic to me that they would not work it out.

Anyway, the have deep and meaningful messaging exchanges over the course of the intervening week and both are excited to meet the other – only to find out exactly who each other is when they meet. Both are angry at being played and Bea impulsively suggests they get revenge by pretending to date and fall in love and then staging a massive break up to teach their meddling friends and family a lesson. It’s a little thin.

Up until that point I was a bit iffy about the book to be honest. But then Bea and Jamie started to hang out together and everything changed. Very quickly they commit to being open and honest with one another. They are kind to one another. They do not jump to conclusions but give each other the benefit of the doubt. Jamie, a pediatrician, has a medical understanding of autism and is naturally a carer so he’s always looking for ways to make things more comfortable for Bea. Jamie is a bit starchy and rigid. Bea is a colourful whirlwind. But they fit.

I loved the kindness Beatrice and Jamie showed one another. I loved their honesty and their bravery – although I perceived Jamie as the braver one and I’d have liked it to be a little more even. I enjoyed their banter which, after that first chapter was no longer mean. I loved that they realised how good they were together and did not let silly plans get in their way.

I was quite focused on Bea and Jamie and paid little attention to Jean-Claude but it became clear that Jamie’s friendship with him was more of a bad habit than anything real or healthy. Jean-Claude was the one who stuck around. But Jean-Claude has issues and there is trouble in the Juliet/Jean-Claude paradise bubble. And this trouble spills over to Bea and Jamie in ways I understood if I squinted but which I didn’t fully get.

I saw a lot of Bea’s vulnerabilities and and equal amount of Jamie responding to them in ways which were supportive and caring and not possessive or suffocating. But Jamie had his own vulnerabilities and in the end, Bea isn’t careful with him the way I thought she needed to be. The end of the book was generally abrupt. So the conclusion of the book was not quite as satisfying for me as the middle. (And, when I say middle, that equates to about 3/4 of the book.)

What I was confident of was that this couple belong together and as long as they didn’t let others interfere, they’d be fine.

I struggled with the grade a little. That first bit and that last bit were a B. But the rest was just delightful. But the 3/4 in between, that was a B+.

A Much-Ado-About-Nothing retelling full of romance and banter and sparkling wit? Plus the emotion and depth present in this book? 5 stars all the way.

In this loose retelling of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, Jamie and Bea are seemingly polar opposites with little to recommend them to each other. Once meddling siblings, friends and roommates get involved Jamie and Bea decided to get one over on them with their fake dating scheme. Unfortunately, this one really didn't work for me. I didn't overly like any of the characters. By halfway there was no real conflict, and them continuing to insist they were dating for revenge grated on my nerves. The lack of real conflict allowed the final half to meander along adding no real stakes, or deepening of the relationship. The tension that is promised with Much Ado being the inspiration just wasn't there for me.

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Not so much an enemies-to-lovers as a bad first impression-to-lovers, but all the better. An easy to read story featuring neurodivergent protagonists that are both relatable and likeable. A good romance pick for autumn.

Two Wrongs Make a Right by Chloe Liese is full of exquisite tension, hilarious banter, steamy romance and a hero and heroine with personalities that burst from the pages. Overall, this was something I know I'll read again.

4.5 stars rounded up

Okay, this ended up being really great. A bit slow in terms of pacing early in the book, but it won me over and had some truly romantic scenes. Two Wrongs Make a Right is loosely inspired by Much Ado About Nothing (and it's setting us up for retellings of two other iconic Shakespearean stories!!), following Bea and Jamie who but heads but are pushed together by their friends and family.

While this starts out as fake dating for revenge on meddling loved ones, I like that they pretty quickly realize they are genuinely into each other. I loved their relationship- it's quirky, sweet, and very real. We get representation of neurodiversity (Bea is autistic, James has anxiety and OCD) and they do a great job of understanding and making space for each other. I really loved this and hope we get more in the series! I received a copy of this book for review via NetGalley, all opinions are my own.

This was my first Chloe Liese book and it did not disappoint. Bea and Jamie cracked me up with their nefarious plotting and planning which then completely backfired. This story had me laughing, swooning, and teary-eyed - all the emotions you want to feel throughout a great read. Looking forward to reading more of Liese's books!

When I got this book as an ARC from @netgalley and @chloe_liese I was *so excited* — as you guys know, I’m a huge @chloe_liese fan. I was almost afraid to read it because I had hyped it up so hard in my head, I mean, modern Shakespeare and a pan neurodivergent heroine with tattoos? I’m pleased to report that it was absolutely as good as I had hoped, and if you’re a fan of the Bergman brothers, you know the writing quality to expect. However, this is nothing like the feel of the Bergmans, totally different vibes, yet still an incredibly powerful message of belonging and love being something that’s accessible to everybody.

Beatrice is an artist (paint is her medium) who is in a bit of an artistic funk after a horrible relationship destroyed her confidence. She is on the autism spectrum, and while it does factor into her cantankerous views of the world, some of it is just Bea, who is not a sunshine. Jamie struggles with serious social anxiety, generalized anxiety, and compulsions. He’s a pediatrician ostracized from his family of surgeons, a workaholic loner drifting day to day trying to avoid human contact lest he face more rejection.

In Much Ado fashion, Bea’s friends, including her twin sister Juliet, pseudo-brother Christopher, and Juliet’s boyfriend Jean-Claude (Jamie’s roommate), meddle to set them up despite their “meet disaster” and their fervent belief after said meet disaster that they hate each other. The irony in this is of course that they don’t actually hate each other and despite their opposite personalities, they click.

It’s a really gentle love, as they go from enemies to friends (fake dating trope!) to more, as they learn each other’s quirks and sharp edges. It’s because of the quirks and sharp edges, and the unconditional acceptance, that this book really communicates it’s message of love for everyone.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s also sexy, they are incredibly attracted to each other and they deny themselves the opportunity to connect sexually for fear of ruining their blossoming friendship.

I just really like this, okay? The vibes were immaculate. And if I’m not wrong, I’m pretty sure Bea’s sister Kate is maybe next? 🙏

Omg this is so freaking cute I'm obsessed! I laughed, I cried, I swooned, I melted and finished this book all in one day. What a fun modern retelling with fake dating-cum-revenge, fantastic representation, sizzling spice and don't forget the Shakespearean quotes!

I love how natural and easy the romance is. There's no toxicity or miscommunication or any of the frustrating tropes and formulas I tend to dislike. Both leads are so likeable, with off-the charts chemistry and LOL banter. Jamie is soooo considerate and an absolute dream!!! Let's just say I was left as gooey as the soups he was making...

The only gripe I had was the conflict, which felt so silly from my POV. It was understandable from Bea's perspective but I still found it hard to empathize with. Thankfully it didn't last long (and hence felt like it existed solely to drive the story along), but it took away some of the magic for me.

Full of heart and beautifully written, Two Wrongs Make a Right is one of the best romance books I have read in recent months!

This is my first Chloe Liese novel but going through her backlist is no longer just a want, but a need. I have a feeling there will be a Kate + Christopher book in future and seriously can't wait!

Read/Listen If You Like:
💕 Romances
✌🏻Dual POV
💘 Mild Enemies to Lovers
👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨 Fake Dating
🔥 Slow-Burn that’s Worth the Wait 😉
🧠 Neurodivergent Representation

My Thoughts:
There is so much to like in this one for me, particularly the left handed representation with both of our MC’s as I am also a lefty and love those moments of lefty representation.

I loved the beginning bit of helping the MC’s get to know each other in a non-traditional way while being duped into a date after starting off on the wrong foot with each other. It very much felt like the perfect way for these two characters to lay a foundation when they both struggle with interpersonal interactions for different reasons.

I also loved how relatable Bea was and how both of our MC’s were written to be so full of depth that they felt so real to me. Bea and I had so many similarities, that at times I wondered if the author has spied on me a bit to help write her character…

Also, I swooned so freaking hard for these two when they decided to move from fake dating to real. Ugh, I got the chills… 💕

Thank you Berkley Romance and NetGalley for my ARC copy of this one in exchange for my honest thoughts! I truly hope we get more stories for Bea’s sisters, cause I need them!

4.5 Rounded up. I loved this book! I really felt the connection between the two main characters. This started off a sort of You've Got Mail vibe that I really enjoyed and then it switched to a fake dating trope while mixed with a little enemies to lovers. It had autistic representation and I though the author did a great job writing about it while also showcasing the struggles but also showing the love. I read a lot of romances so sometimes get annoyed at the last conflict that happens before a HEA but in this case, I thought it fit really well and didn't feel like it was added just because that's what the formula for romances are like. The steamy scenes were also really good and fit in perfectly with the plot. In addition to loving the main characters and their chemistry and the plot, I enjoyed the writing style. I definitely recommend this book.

*Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for an advanced copy. Opinions are my own.

Two Wrongs Make a Right is the first book I’ve read from Chloe Liese. This romcom contains a fake dating trope and dives into family, friendship, healing, and taking chances. Overall, I enjoyed this one! I really loved the relationship between James and Beatrice. I really liked the way that the author built the relationship between the two main characters. Two Wrongs Make a Right is the first book I’ve read from Chloe Liese. This romcom contains a fake dating trope and dives into family, friendship, healing, and taking chances. Overall, I enjoyed this one! I aapreciated the touching note from the author giving the reader a heads up about content warnings and to read with care. I really loved the relationship between James and Beatrice. I really liked the way that the author built the relationship between the two main characters. I also really loved the dual POVS. The audiobook narrators also did a fantastic job! Now I can’t wait for Kate’s story!

When one of your favorite indie authors has a new traditionally published book, you get nervous!! Will it have the same charm??
HAVE NO FEAR! Liese’s latest does not disappoint!!! I loved every second of this book!

I can’t remember a book for a while that I truly loved both characters SO much. I mean, a kind, caring, stuffy pediatrician?!? Jamie is a dreamboat!! Bea is a quirky, family loving, artist on the spectrum. These two are the ideal opposites attract!!

What to expect:
•Opposites attract
•Hate to love
•Great meet cute
•Fake dating
•Great side characters … I have to hope we are getting Bea’s sisters next???

Thanks for the free book @prhinternational and Netgalley. All opinions in this review are my own. 

In this swoony reimagining of The Bard's Much Ado About Nothing, Beatrice and West have the opposite of a "meet cute" - a "meet disaster" if you will. They couldn't be more wrong for each other, but when their friends "parent trap" them into a date, they team up to get revenge. Fake dating it is! But, whaddya know, their friends may have been on to something after all...

OMG! I was hooked at "Shakespeare", but Chloe brings a refreshing take on this story with a pansexual autistic heroine and an anxiety suffering pediatrician who will make you fall in love with them from page one.

Beatrice is an erotic artist who's in a creative block due to a breakup with a gaslighting, craptastic boyfriend. West is the lovely pediatrician whose anxiety makes him feel that he always "falls short" - with his ex, his family, his friends. Their first meeting is disastrous but when they start fake dating we soon discover that they are just perfect for each other. 

The pining - oh the pining! I know that communicating and reading social signs can be hard and those two have a hard time navigating through their own feelings and trying to understand the other's needs. As, usual, Chloe deals with this with the most delicate hand.

If you love the play, you'll see the elements there, but the story is fresh and unique.

I am absolutely in love with geriatric cats, pet hedgehogs, karaoke dates, pho and ... how did Chloe manage to make veggie soup swoony?!

Highly recommend! 

Rep and possible triggers: FMC is autistic and pan; her sister is bi. MMC has anxiety. Toxic relationship with an ex, toxic family relationships, emotionally abusive relationships