Jamie and Bea were the enemies to lovers, fake-dating characters I didn't know I needed in my life and of COURSE the incredible Chloe Liese would be who would write them for us.

Having read and loved the Bergmann Brothers series, I had high expectations for this book thanks to my familiarity with Chloe's writing style which had me beyond excited to read this one, and I was honored to receive an early copy to read and review thanks to Berkley Romance. This title still stole my heart and may just be my favorite book of hers YET. These two main characters and their love story will be a favorite for a long time to come, I was taken by them both from the moment their meet-cute occurred, cementing their dislike for each other and my love for where the book was certain to take us as a result.

"You're safe and real and perfectly imperfect. We started as a lie, and now we're the truest thing I've ever known."

I always love a good fake-dating romance, but this one had so much heart. It was easy to fall for each of the characters individually, but also the pain from past relationships, the pressure of their families and the way each of them LIVED with their neurodivergence. I admire how Chloe can write the smallest details into the biggest meaning, and how her characters communicate their wants in ways that their partners see and understands, I find it beautiful. Add in tattoos, incredible sex scenes, and the focus on good mental health and it just makes me want to shout from the rooftops, seriously cannot say enough good things about this one, but also don't want to ruin a thing so you call all enjoy it on your own. As always, I'm thrilled I went in with barely a hint of what this one was about because it was such a joy to get wrapped up in!

How can you NOT love a book with a hedgehog, that starts with a masked party and one of them is an exotic artist? Who knew all of those things mixed together would create such a must-read combination?! Add in a reference to 10 Things I Hate About You, a great cast of side characters and I hope there are plenty more love stories from this universe for us from Chloe Liese, the reading world deserves her characters and the voice she writes them in. SO many quotable lines, that I cannot wait to have a physical copy to mark and annotate, Liese just has a way with words that takes my breath away, makes me swoon, and always wanting for more all in one.

Two Wrongs Make a Right was the perfect enemies to lovers, grumpy/sunshine, fake dating, forced proximity story of James and Beatrice. Bea is a talented artist who is suffering from a creative block after a particularly bad relationship and Jamie is a total cinnamon roll whose anxiety was often misconstrued as grumpiness. Their first impressions of each other were skewed by their disastrous not-so-meet-cute.

Beatrice's sister, Juliet, and her fiancé Jean-Claude are convinced Jamie and Bea would make a perfect couple and they enlist the help of their mutual friends to set them up. Jamie and Bea are convinced they'd never work together, but they decide their meddling friends need to be taught a lesson about manipulating other people's love lives. Their plan for revenge on their friends backfires when fake dating leads to very real feelings.

Jamie and Bea were adorably relatable characters and watching them fight their growing feelings was super fun. I didn't love the third act conflict - I never do - but the ending was worth the short-lived angst. I hope I get to see more of them in the future, because in my opinion Juliet deserves her own happy ending.

Chloe Liese writes the best protagonists and the sweetest love stories; Two Wrongs Make a Right was no exception.

This book was too adorable! I couldn’t stop writing down my favorite quotes, which was basically anything out of Jaime’s mouth in the last 25% of the book!
I didn’t really like Bea in the beginning, but I think a lot of that was seeing too much of myself in her, including my own flaws. I never didn’t love Jaime. He was perfect from their meet disaster.
Their romance was perfect! I felt the tension when they both hated each other and loved each other! I haven’t read angst this good in so long, and this slow burn was worth the build up!
I didn’t really like Juliet, because I think everyone can relate to being scorned to the point of not wanting to try again, and it was hard to watch them get manipulated, even if it was (sort of) out of love. But I did appreciate the opportunity that Juliet and Jean-Claude presented in showing that not everything is what it seems.
I also am definitely looking forward to hopefully one day seeing Kate and Christopher? Hopefully?

This was a sweet fake dating romance.

I really enjoyed watching Bea and James’ relationship progress - from dislike, to fake dating, to friends, to more. I liked seeing how open they were with each other and how supportive they were.

It was lovely to see diversity in two neurodivergent characters. I liked seeing them talk about the challenges they deal with and what they need to address them.

Although I enjoyed this, I also kinda wanted something more. I am not sure what I felt was missing, but for me, there was just something. I was still entertained and would definitely recommend this one. (3.5/3.75)

I really enjoyed this book! From start to finish this had me completely engaged. I loved the characters especially Jamie and Bea. They were totally opposites, but they worked so well together. You really can't go wrong with opposites attract, fake dating and swoon.

Read this if you like
-swoon
-funny situational scenes
-opposites attract
-fake dating
-matchmaking
-really fun snoopy friends

Thank you so much for a chance to read this early!

Rating: 2.5 stars

I wanted to enjoy this one since it has a lot of tropes I usually like, but it ended up just being okay.

The book is told from two point-of-views and they come from Jamie and Bea. They have more in common then they think but getting off on the wrong foot has them bantering from the get-go. I thought that there banter was pretty humorous. They played off each other well. I thought they were both decent characters and liked the neurodiverse rep that was used. You don’t see it often in books.

For their romance, I didn’t entirely buy it. Sure, there are cute moments between them and they do take their time getting to know one another through their fake dating situation but the whole fake dating situation felt too forced. Most of the beginning of the book felt that way. So many things were just happening to them to make them get in close proximity and it just didn’t give me any feels towards it. I also was not a fan of how their plot went at 90%. Communication is important and I feel like it was just thrown in to add another hurdle but it was already too late in the game for that.

The other characters in the book were okay. A couple added more to the plot than others, like her sister and her boyfriend. It did feel like they were only there in a sense to keep the plot moving a long because even though they had plot twists as well they were very quickly handled and then the characters were brushes to the side once again.

I think what I really struggled with the most was the writing. It felt different than her other books and maybe it’s just me. I don’t know. It was a slog to get through the first half but the second half went by a lot quicker.

Overall, this was okay. I can’t say I was a fan but I know there will be readers out there who will enjoy it.

** Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley (an imprint of Penguin Random House) for an advanced e-copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review. **

Shakespeare, but make it neurodivergent with a steamy slow burn. For me, Chloe Liese can do no wrong and she proves her impeccable talent once again with Two Wrongs Make a Right.

It's lust at first sight for Bea Wilmot when she first lays eyes on Jamie Westenberg, but what should have been a meet-cute turns into a meet-disaster when she spills her drink all over him. The two couldn't be more opposite. Bea is a free-spirited artist and Jamie is a pediatrician who manages his anxiety through strict routine. When their friends decide that the two would be the perfect pair, what begins as a trick to get them together soon turns into revenge as Bea and Jamie decide to play at boyfriend/girlfriend and then stage a fantastic break up. But what starts as a fake relationship soon turns incredibly real and neither Bea nor Jamie wants it to end.

This book has it all! Well developed and quirky characters, fake dating trope, slow burn that turns up the heat for some heavily steamy bits, and excellent neurodivergent representation! If you haven't read Chloe Liese yet, please do yourself a favor and read this one!

"We started as a lie, and now we're the truest thing I've ever known."

Oh, swoon. Fake dating is my *favorite* trope so when Chloe Liese announced her fake dating reimagining of Much Ado About Nothing, I knew I'd fall hard.

Bea and Jamie couldn't be more different. But to their friends, Bea - a tattooed, erotic artist - and Jamie - a buttoned-up pediatrician - are perfect for each other. So Bea's sister and their meddling friends keep throwing them together to see if Bea and Jamie will recognize the chemistry themselves. Once Bea and Jamie realize what's happened, they vow to get revenge on those meddlers by faking the world's sweetest romance. Until the joke's on them and both of them find their feelings have always been real.

We can always count on Chloe to bring the perfect mix of heart and heat to her stories. Chloe's dedication to depicting HEAs for all has followed her to traditional publishing. Bea is autistic and Jamie struggles with social anxiety. These facets of their characters help both them and us as the reader love them better. Throughout their journey, we get to see both Bea and Jamie open themselves up to each other in ways that they only can when they felt fully known and fully loved. I actually laugh cried at the hilarious paint date night scene. This is also the first book in a new series, so there's a bit of time spent introducing other members of the family and friend group. I'm especially intrigued by Kate and Christopher (*cue smirking emoji*).

Content warnings: Bea's previous partner was emotionally abusive and there are scenes where she recalls this abuse; Bea's sister is in a similarly dysfunctional relationship so that could be hard for some readers to see on page. Jamie is estranged from his father and they have one uncomfortable interaction on page.

Thanks to Berkley Romance and Chloe Liese for the gifted copy. All opinions are my own!

Two Wrongs Make a Right is a witty and touching retelling of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, and what a fantastic retelling it is! This book gave everything it was supposed to give and so much more. Seeing as Liese is one of my favorite authors and I would read anything written by her, I was expecting to absolutely adore this and I did. It exceeded my expectations by a thousand times.

To say I loved Bea Wilmot and Jamie Westenberg is not enough. From the first moments they were amazing. Opposites in every way, but a match made in love. It was so fun reading about two frenemies who couldn’t be more different work together to get what they’re revenge but falling in love at the same time.
They were joyful, passionate and most importantly, real. Liese’s talent to make her characters so real and so extremely lovable is one the factors that differentiates her and her work from other authors in the industry.

Another factor is her passion and contribution to help diversify the romance genre. Her realistic take on metal health subjects, such as anxiety and other struggles, along with autism, help other readers relate and educate other on the matters in the best way ever, reading a book you love. If you liked this book then I extremely recommend reading her backlist, especially her Bergman Brothers series!

Having read all of her previous books and seeing the love and wittiness that she pours into her stories, this novel was one of her best!

The biggest thank you to Berkley for providing me with an early review copy in exchange for my honest thoughts.

I hard a hard time in the beginning of the story because I had trouble orienting myself in the time and setting in the book, even though it's set in an unnamed US city in I'm assuming present day; it felt like a small English village in a mid-90s romcom. And while normally that would be a a compliment, it just kind of made the reading experience confusing. West and Bea are fine characters - I like that we see them open with communication and their past relationship fears and wants for their current arrangement, but I didn't really feel like I got to know them. But they do have nice chemistry and decent communication outside the third act conflict. And while I enjoyed the family of characters around Bea and West, they were honestly just set dressing and interchangeable.


I received a copy of the book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Bea was the most relatable character I’ve read in a while. I can’t tell you how many times I found myself thinking “damn this is something I would do or say”. Which honestly shouldn’t surprise me, because every time I read a book Chloe writes I see myself and it helps me love myself more.

anywho, Jamie and Bea come together in a beautiful way. They had me laughing, crying, and swooning. I don’t have words yet for how lovely this fake dating Shakespeare inspired book is.

Thank you to Net Galley and Berkley for this ARC! I love Chloe Liese's Bergman Brothers series, so I was SO excited to read Two Wrongs Make a Right, and it did not disappoint!

I am an absolute sucker for a grumpy/sunshine trope, so I knew I was going to like this one. Our MCs Bea and Jamie are set up by their meddling friends, and while their original meeting doesn't go well at all, they decide to team up to get revenge on their noisy friends by pretending to date. Of course, their fake dating turns into more as Bea and Jamie learn that they actually have a lot in common and like spending time together - forcing them to confront whether their relationship is still just for show.

Chloe always makes her characters so fun and lovable - with all the random but perfect tidbits, but I loved Bea and her unique tattoos, hedgehog and relationships with her sisters. Also, I loved how it authentically addressed Jamie's anxiety. Overall, this story was sweet andI really enjoyed it, would definitely recommend it!

I’m sorry but this book was a big NO for me. The lies, the lack of morals, the weirdness, the characters. I could only get half way through before I started skimming the rest, ready for it to be over.
It was just an odd book in so many ways. I read a lot of contemporary romances and this was not one I’d ever recommend.
Thank you to Net Galley for allowing me to read this book. The opinions are entirely my own.

Looking for a funny, swoony, steamy read with meddlesome friends and revenge fake dating? This cozy modern re-telling of Much Ado About Nothing will satisfy your craving for an opposites attract & enemies to lovers romance. The hero and heroine share a hate-at-first-sight moment that hooked me from the very beginning. As much as I wanted to savor this book, I binge read it in one sitting because it was just that good! Aside from the well-written romance tropes, there is raw and emotional writing as well. You get to see the MC journey and personal development, as well as the toxic relationships they’ve had to deal with in their past. Which is what had me rooting for them because they deserved a happy ending. This is an open door romance where you get sexy steamy moments, with the most amazing build up and slow burn. The communication & chemistry between Jamie & Bea was great, especially in those steamy sex scenes (which is very important). If you enjoy romance reads that make you swoon, laugh, and enjoy yourself, this one is for you!

You can expect:

* Fake Dating
* Grump x Sunshine
* Slow Burn
* Shakespeare Retelling
* Open Door Romance
* Enemies to Lovers
* Witty Banter
* Angsty Romance
* Autism, Anxiety, + Queer Rep

I really enjoyed both main characters in this story. The neurodivergent aspects of the characters were well-represented. Something about the characters' chemistry fell a bit flat for me, but I did still enjoy the book and would recommend to others -- especially those who enjoy these types of characters.

A great twist on fake dating that's super sweet, steamy, and sensitive! The mental health rep is fantastic, and Bea and Jamie are wonderful to read together.

In this retelling of Much Ado About Nothing, it’s mutual hatred at first sight for Jamie and Bea. Unfortunately for them, Jamie’s roommate and Bea’s twin sister are dating- and scheming to get them together. After a sneaky blind date situation, Jamie and Bea decide to team up to get revenge. The plan? Fake date and then break up spectacularly.

What you can look forward to:
-FAKE DATING YAY
-adorable hedgehog pet
-mental health and neurodivergent representation
-delightful side characters (if Jules doesn’t get her own book I will be seriously cranky)
-some spice!

So I LOVED this and need to immediately cancel all upcoming social obligations to read all of Chloe Liese’s other books. This was such a lovely and tender story that I enjoyed immensely.

Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley for the advanced reading copy in exchange for my honest review!

Thank you Berkley Romance for a gifted copy of this ARC! All opinions are my own.

I flew through this book and I'm so glad Chloe is getting so much love from the literary world.

Things I loved:
- Great banter - I loved the way Bea riled up the serious West/Jamie/James
- Autism/Anxiety rep
- Fake Dating/Opposites attract

I adored the text exchanges between Jamie and Bea before they went on their blind date. The way they described their struggle in society was so sad but as a reader, I thought the way they connected and understood each other was incredibly sweet.

Chloe always does slow burns right! I absolutely loved this Shakespeare retelling. The fake dating was so fun to read and I thought the tension was executed perfectly! Also excellent steam! Can’t wait to read more in this series

Another perfect book by Chloe Liese. If you haven't picked up her books, and you love romance, then you absolutely must read her stuff. The amazing representation and diverse characters is so important to raise voices and amplifying these stories.

Two Wrongs Make a Right is a story about opposites attracting and fake dating. This is a spin off of Shakepeare's classic, Much Ado About Nothing, and my english major heart swooned when I realized.

Jamie and Bea were so relatable, and I loved everything about this book. Again, highly HIGHLY recommend.