I *loved* this book. Like practically everything about it. The idea of fake dating for revenge, which speaks so much to my soul. The slowly falling in like before they knew who each other was. The way the act quickly turned to play. The love scenes which were sizzling and had me fanning myself. All wonderful. Plus, I love the way Bea and Jamie were honest with each other about their feelings and their boundaries. Even though it had the divisive third act break up, it made sense and was quickly resolved. Like....this book was amazing and I can't wait for others to read it or to read the follow-ups because it was built up for me. Highly recommend.

• Representation: Autism, Anxiety
• Enemies to Lovers
• Fake Relationship

Oh Chloe Liese, you really can do no wrong! Once again she has delivered a book brimming with banter, romantic tension, sweet pawed family members and found family. She is an auto buy author for me, and I am so excited to learn more about the Wilmot Sisters as we get the other books in the series.

If you love enemies to lovers, funny mishap meet-cutes and fake relationships – add this one to your TBR now. As well as having some of my tropes / elements present to this story, this book also had some wonderful representation once again. Some neurodivergent representation and mental health representation – a heroine with Autism and a hero with Anxiety. I really adored both Bea and Jamie – I was so rooting for them from the very first meet-not-so-cute. I thought they both seemed really real and fully rounded out as characters for me.

This book had me smiling and happy – I whipped through it and was so happy with how things turned out. As well as being left wanting more – can not wait for Kate and Jules’ stories!! One last thing I want to point out is there is some discussion of toxic relationships and gas lighting. I really felt that this was handled so well, and with such grace.

I will continue to read anything Chloe puts out and honestly cannot wait for what’s to come – and my paperback copy to arrive! Thank you to Chloe Liese, NetGalley and Berkley Romance for the opportunity to read an early copy. All thoughts and opinions expressed are my own.

Chloe Liese can do no wrong, and this book proves that.

Hot Takes
- I am SO happy that I loved this one as much as the Bergman Brother's series. I was so worried it wouldn't stand up, but it does!
- This was the perfect fake dating situation. If you love fake dating, this does it ABSOLUTELY right.
- I rarely like slow burns, but Chloe and fake dating are my two exceptions so this book hit just right.
- It was one of the best steamy scenes I've ever read. Seriously. It was perfection.
- Per usual, the rep was chef's kiss fantastic.
- If you've never read Chloe, please change that and read this. This book is beautiful, heavy, strong and filled with so much damn love.

i hate to say it but this book was just not for me. there were too many things in this book that were just a big no for me. personally i found the dialogue too cheesy. the synopsis sounded interesting but the book fell flat. bea (the female main character) was just not my cup of tea and jamie (the male main character) was just...meh. and lastly i cant express how much i hated the fact that the author kept interrupting the two main character as they were about to kiss or have a serious discussion. like i said, its just not for me.

After hearing rave reviews of other Liese books, I had to check out this one out. Honestly, I feel like I've been missing out because this is exactly what I needed.

I’m sorry. I could not finish this book. I tried my best. It felt very flat somehow? The fake dating premise was such a stretch. This was not for me.

I honestly hate this cover, its to basic for the depth of the story in this. Chloe, you deserve better than a canva cover.

Holy. Smokes. This novel was basically emotional foreplay for the whole middle of the book, then actual foreplay for many, many pages, then the good stuff for a decent amount of pages. Like, I need cigarette after reading this!

Liese has written such a sweet, endearing novel about two people who both have had their trust broken and hearts busted by past loves. So when Jamie and Bea's friends, and Bea's twin sister, decide to meddle and fix the two up, they are beyond miffed. To get back at them, what do they decide to do? Fake a relationship, of course! But boy does that backfire because Jamie and Bea actually ended up liking one another, and their sexual chemistry is absolutely through the roof.

These two are emotionally, mentally, and physically in tune to one another, some of the best chemistry I've seen. I don't typically love the whole "fake relationship" trope, but Liese had it working hard for me with Bea and Jamie! I think they're opposites attract/two wrongs make a right (great title for this book, btw...) was spot on. I absolutely loved this book.

Two Wrongs Make a Right by Chloe Liese ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

In this modern retelling of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, Bea lives the single life by choice because social interactions generally aren't something she enjoys because she's Autistic. Regardless, one of her sisters and their friends try to set her up all the time. She starts texting someone before a date at their insistence, and when they meet it turns out to be Jamie, a man she knows whom she has not had pleasant interactions with. Together, they decide to fake date to fool their friends and get them off their backs. But will spending this time together prove their point or change their hearts?

Friends, @chloeliese did it again! I love her Bergman Brothers series and am so happy this series has started now too! I loved it and immediately spammed Chloe with questions (yes, the other sisters ARE each getting a book!! I can't wait!). I preordered my copy and you can do the same or find the book when it is released Nov 22/22.

Thank you to @netgalley and @berkleyromance for the advanced copy!

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Two Wrongs Make a Right by Chloe Liese was covered in my Fall Book Preview, where I share a curated list of the season’s hottest new titles including the books I’ve most enjoyed, the ones I’m most looking forward to reading, and the ones the industry is most excited about.
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Five stars!

I'm a fan of Chloe Liese's Bergman Brothers series so I couldn't wait to read Two Wrongs Make a Right. I couldn't put this book down, mostly because of the dreamy perfection that was Dr. Jamie Westenberg. Opposites attract here as Jamie is a straight-laced doctor in his starched shirts and chinos and Bea is an erotic artist with tattoos who works at a stationery shop. Jamie and Bea start a fake relationship to get revenge on their friends who set them up under false pretenses until they eventually develop real feelings for each other. Jamie was the star of the book for me as he was intelligent and handsome, as well as exceedingly thoughtful and sensitive to Bea's needs while also dealing with his own anxiety and issues with his family.

I did find issue with Bea's ex-boyfriend Tod being mentioned ad nauseam--we get it: she was hurt in her last relationship, and she never told anybody else about it, but to bring up an ex who never even makes an appearance in the book 14 times was overkill. Additionally, I dislike eleventh-hour breakups in romances and this was no exception as I was incredulous over the breakup in this story.

Do pick up Two Wrongs Make a Right as it's just as swoony and well-written as Chloe Liese's other books.

Many thanks to Netgalley and Berkley Publishing Group for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing for this ARC in exchange for an honest review! I am in love with this book. This was my first from Chloe Liese but it will not be my last. I picked up this book because I heard that Chloe Liese's strength came from writing neurodiverse characters and I am so glad that her voice is being amplified, especially in the romance community. This book was an utter joy, the characters are endearing and I just love Chloe Liese's writing. Definitely a favorite for this year!

Chloe Liese is a must-request author for me. I really appreciate the care she puts into portraying neurodiverse characters. In this, both Bea and Jamie are neurodiverse - Bea has autism and Jamie has what seems like pretty severe anxiety and some compulsions. They're thrown together at a party by Bea's twin sister and her boyfriend/then fiance, who is Jamie's roommate. I know this is meant to be a reimagining of Much Ado About Nothing, and there are definitely shades of that but it wasn't super over the top. Other than the characters' names (Jamie's middle name is Benedick and that's used as part of the setup), I don't know that I would have realized it was meant to draw on that source material. That's not a criticism at all - this stands strong on its own as a contemporary romance between two people who appear wrong for each other but really aren't. I also really enjoyed seeing Bea and Jamie's friendship grow into something solid and important on its own while they go through their fake dating charade. Liese's characters almost always feel to me like real people who just happen to be in a book, and this was no exception.

I received a digital copy from NetGalley/Berkley in exchange for an honest review.

I struggle writing reviews because I might like the author and the writing and dislike everything the characters do which makes me have a lower opinion of the book (which isn't particularly fair to the author). Or I might love the story but the writing (or editing) made it difficult to get through. I try my best to read synopses and reviews and TWs to keep this from happening. But sometimes, I just have to take a chance - especially when it's an author I already enjoy. And I really enjoy Ms. Liese's Bergman Brothers (and Sisters) series.

That being said, I had a very difficult time with the beginning of the book. I was in a constant state of secondhand awkwardness/embarrassment for the main characters. I don't enjoy pushy people or loved ones who try to make decisions for me. The way their 'loving' friends and family kept pushing these two together would've been enough for me to stop talking to these people - even my own sister.

<spoiler>And then, SURPRISE, it's a week later and everyone has a new (perfect) person to set you up with and we've already forgotten about their shenanigans a week earlier and of COURSE I'll text a stranger with an obvious alias and then just meet them because everyone says I should.

Uh, no.

And I don't understand revenge plots because I'm more a cut ties/no-contact kind of person. So going to all the trouble and planning and getting-our-stories straight just does not compute in my head. </spoiler>

About halfway through, I started enjoying the story, enjoying the MCs getting closer, watching the fake feelings become real feelings.

I am definitely going to give this another read through and see what my feelings are after a second chance. Because we all need a second chance, right?

“If this is wrong, I will live long and happily never being right.”

Even though Jamie and Bea are total opposites, their friends believe that they would make a perfect match and proceed to trick Jamie and Bea into going on a date. Once Jamie and Bea realise that they’ve been duped, they hatch a plan to get revenge on their meddling friends and finally put an end to their friends’ matchmaking ways…they’ll fake date, pretend to fall in love, and then have a horrible break-up. Whilst pretending to be madly in love, Jamie and Bea inevitably grow closer and start to wonder if their friends’ matchmaking wasn’t so off-base after all, but things get complicated after Bea perceives trouble in her twin sister’s whirlwind romance with Jamie’s roommate.

Two Wrongs Make a Right is a contemporary retelling of Much Ado About Nothing that invokes the matchmaking, fake dating, and opposites attract tropes. It is best suited for lovers of rom-coms like the Bergman Brothers series by Chloe Liese, The Kiss Quotient trilogy by Helen Hoang, The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon, the All-Access books by Evie Mitchell, Lizzie Blake’s Best Mistake by Mazey Eddings, and Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood. However, it is important to note trigger warnings for presence of emotionally abusive and psychologically manipulative relationships. Two Wrongs Make a Right deals with themes like appearance versus reality, autism, anxiety, communication, love and heartbreak, fear of change, loneliness and isolation, family drama, and fate versus free will. The moral of this story is that everyone deserves their own happily ever after.

Firstly, I want to advise readers who aren’t fans of Shakespeare to not be off put by the fact that this book is a Much Ado About Nothing retelling; Two Wrongs Make a Right is a contemporary rom-com that just so happens to use some of the same themes, plot lines, and character names as Much Ado About Nothing—much like how the movie She’s the Man subtly retells the story of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.

I absolutely loved this book and think it’s going to remain one of my favourite romances of 2022. Jamie and Bea’s slow burn romance is delightful and watching them become friends and then start to develop deeper feelings for each other whilst carrying out their fake dating revenge plan was fantastic. Furthermore, it was great to see how Jamie and Bea were so considerate of each other’s feelings and ultimately helped each other to overcome old heartbreaks and insecurities. Even though the novel was a slowburn, I still found that there were lots of steamy and sweet moments throughout the novel—like a “fake” paint night date and a surprise trip to the tattoo parlour. Both the main characters were easy to connect to and their various struggles appeared to be very realistic and relatable, such as loneliness, fear of heartbreak or rejection, anxiety, and sensory processing issues. Furthermore, I thought that Jamie was totally swoonworthy! In addition to being a paediatrician, he speaks French, he is a proud cat owner, and he takes it upon himself to befriend Bea’s beloved pet “therapy hedgehog”.

There really wasn’t much about this book that I disliked or would have changed… It would have been great to see Bea’s sisters’ happily ever afters, but I’m glad that Liese left these storylines open for potential sequels or companion novels!

Overall, Two Wrongs Make a Right was a fun and sweet rom-com with realistic anxiety and autism representation. It definitely exceeded my expectations and I highly recommend adding it to your TBR list immediately!

Bea and Jamie are tired of their meddling friends. Their friends seem to think that they're prefect for each other but they could not disagree more. When Bea and Jamie's friends trick them into going on a blind date with one another, they decide to get revenge. They will fake-date for a few months and then break up and a make a show of their not-so-real romance in front of everyone. As Bea and Jamie get to know each other, they realize they have more in common than they thought and are doing everything they can to resist falling for each other.

This book was pure fun and joy! I had an amazing time reading this book and it was exactly what I needed. Bea and Jamie's journey from hating to each other to can't live without one another was an amusing and entertaining journey.

Jamie is the type of man I swoon for. He was nerdy and rigid, and oddly, I found that sexy. Even though he came off as brash at first, he turned out to be a very sweet, giving, and thoughtful man who knew how to care for others. And he definitely knew how to take care of Bea in the bedroom, if you know what I mean! *wink wink*

Chloe Liese is one of my favorite writers and I am excited that her first traditionally published book as such a joyful experience for me. Her writing style is eloquent and easy at the same time. Liese writes with heart and gets me in my feels just how I like it. She has a way with words that is magical - framing her characters' experiences in a way that allows you to step into their shoes. Even her Author's Note at the beginning brought me to tears. I can't wait to read more of her work!

Pick up this book for a delightful slow burn fake dating romance!

Steam level: 🔥🔥🔥
⚠️: anxiety, biphobia, assault, partner emotional abuse

I received a complimentary eARC from the publisher via NetGalley.

Thank you Netgalley and Berkley publishing for my advanced copy in exchange for an honest review!

5/5 stars

“Don’t downplay your work,” she says fiercely. “Don’t make yourself small just because someone else has.”

“Sometimes thoughts lie, but our hearts don’t. It reminds me my heart knows best.”

I just don’t think that anything I have to say will live up to my thoughts on this book. It was absolutely phenomenal and this might be one of my new favorite couples. I love both the MCs and I think Liese did such a fantastic job at exploring their neurodivergant brains and how their unique personalities come out in a relationship. I love how it is celebrated instead of being looked down upon. I feel like an individuals neurodiversity isn’t always celebrated and books like this help readers like me who are neurodivergant realize that their differences should be celebrated instead of being looked down upon.

I also loved how Liese examined abusive relationships and how it can change a person and how they approach future relationships. I don’t want to say too much to avoid spoilers, but I feel like this is such an important topic that isn’t always dealt with like this. You truly get an understanding of what it is like to be in a traumatic relationship and how it can affect so many different areas of the persons life.

The sexual tension was next level as well! Like I have never wanted two people hook up as bad as I wanted them to get together in this book. The tip toeing around the relationship and their attraction for each other was so captivating and just kept me turn the page to see WHEN they will FINALLY realize how perfect they are for each other and get together!

Overall, I can’t recommend this book enough. I will definitely be thinking of this book and not sure if I will get this couple out of my mind anytime soon.

This review will be posted to my Instagram blog (read_betweenthecovers) in the near future!

I can’t decide if this reaches up to 4 stars. The beginning was a really rough start for me, a lot of the characters felt like caricatures with boxes checked off for including everything she could in the book. But once we got past the first 5 chapters the story really picked up for me and the romantic tension was wonderful. I also enjoyed that it was a slow burn with lots of breadcrumbs along the way. It would have been a solid 4 stars if she hadn’t thrown in the third act breakup VERY LATE in the story. I was getting excited that we weren’t going to have one. And then the reasoning behind the breakup was SO FLIMSY. So it brought the rating a little down again for me. The steam was great though and I still binged it all in one night.

Tis the season for Shakespeare inspired stories! Two Wrongs Make a Right is based on Much Ado About Nothing, in which Benedick and Beatrice don’t love each other until his friend Count Claudio and her sister Hero (who love each other) convince Benedick and Beatrice they are meant to be.

In this modern retelling told in alternating voices, Jamie and Bea literally bump into one another at a party and it’s hate at first sight (even though they’re attracted to one another). He seems stuffy and serious, and her artist persona, tattoos and creative dress seem at direct odds with his buttoned up Boy Scout persona. Her twin sister Juliet and her love, Jean-Claude get engaged, assume everyone should be as happy and in love as they, and after seeing the sparks fly, set up Bea and Jamie on a blind date that amps up over a week’s work of anonymous bantering texts back and forth. Upon discovering the identity behind their exchanges, they are less than amused, and even less to discover the culprits spying on them. To get revenge they decide to fake date and have a dramatic break up to teach a lesson. As always in these cases, it backfires and they discover a deep compatibility.

Shakespeare details abound (the family cat is named Puck; mistaken identities (Jamie is known to friends as West, Bea calls him James to irritate him and dubs him NRB (not real Ben in her phone) do favorite romance tropes (opposites attract, forced proximity, awkwardness after physicality). The writing is fast paced and witty, and the chapter headings have truly awesome names. Best of all is the protagonists are such fully realized characters, from Bea’s subtly erotic greeting card art, astrology leanings, and aversion to vegetables, her bisexuality and dating trauma, to Jamie’s pediatrics practice, fur babies, waltzing skills and family issues. Their slow burn that builds to comfort, trust and passion is a delight.

In the vein of some of my favorite authors (Olivia Dade, Talia Hibbert), neurodivergence plays a strong role in character development and is celebrated. Jamie’s anxiety and Bea’s ASD presented as real, complete, lovable and enough. Sprinkled with pop culture allusions to games and movies, their date encompass bowling, paint night, and more than one family party. This is also a smart book – big vocabulary words, a spattering of French and Latin, chess metaphors. It was a joy keeping up.

The intimacy is beautifully rendered, from the first impulsive lush kiss to their mutually satisfying no-penetration encounter to making love. Jamie comes across (no pun intended) as a perfect partner: willing to take his time, not judge, communicative, and taking pleasure in Bea’s pleasure. A minor detail that I really loved — instead of saying I’m clean, a character discloses their “STI-free” status which is a wonderfully modern and non-judgemental way to disclose one’s health to a new partner. I cheered.

Jean-Claude’s slow descent into possessive, abusive madness as Jamie and Bea’s relationship deepens sends Bea protectively to her sister’s side and retreating from her new and perfect relationship when her past traumas are triggered. She demands a break with no end in sight, he takes it as a breakup. But all’s well that ends awfully, and they come to their senses (no wedding yet though).

I’m hopeful that both twin Juliet and sister Kate are going to get their own Shakespeare treatments in future works from Chloe Liese; I can’t wait to read them.

I received a free advance reader’s review copy of #TwoWrongsDontMakeARight from #NetGalley.

🎨 fake dating
🥼 neurodivergent MCs
🎨 enemies to lovers
🥼 slow burn

Two Wrongs Make a Right was everything I want and need in a romance book. I genuinely loved every single thing about this book—the plot, the main characters, side characters, the pets, the witty yet hilarious banter, the MCs emotional backstories and the achingly sweet romance. I was a few chapters into the book when I found myself tearing up—this is a rom-com, it really isn’t that sad—because Chloe Liese crafted the most perfect hero I’ve ever read, and he doesn’t exist in real life. Jamie Westenberg quickly made his way to the top of my book boyfriend list and has set a new standard.

Bea and Jamie meet at a mascaraed party through mutual friends. It quickly becomes clear that their friends are trying to set them up, but Bea and Jamie immediately get off on the wrong foot. Following their meet-disaster, Bea and Jamie’s friends trick them into going on a date, which neither are happy about. Fueled by their desire for revenge, Bea and Jamie decide to fake date to get back at their meddling friends. But this idea backfires when they realize their friends might’ve been right about them…

The Bergman Brothers series are some of my favorite books ever, so I was thrilled to read Chloe’s first traditionally published book. Bea and Jamie are both very different yet complex characters that feel so REAL. I found the anxiety representation so relatable—the vivid imagery used to describe what Jamie and Bea are feeling during these moments were a reflection of my own thoughts and feelings in (most) social situations. Reading books with characters like these is so refreshing 🥹

Despite getting off to a bad start and being complete opposites, Bea and Jamie complemented each other perfectly. Their chemistry is undeniable from the beginning, and I loved how naturally they fell into one another. They’re both lovable characters. Bea is beautiful, chaotic and vibrant, whereas Jamie is much more reserved and “stuffy.” But together? I couldn’t get enough of them! I appreciated how well these two communicated—they were both mature and handled certain situations in ways I had hoped that prevented unnecessary conflict. There’s a line from Jamie’s POV when meeting Bea’s parents for the first time that hit too close to home, and it just made me love this man even more. Chloe Liese genuinely crafted my ideal man through Jamie.

I could go on about how much I loved this book, I genuinely never wanted it to end. Thank you NetGalley and Chloe Liese for an ARC of Two Wrongs Make a Right, which is out November 22nd!!! I’m looking forward to the rest of this series following Bea’s sisters (i’m predicting a Kate and Chris book 🤞🏼)