My intro to the Bergman Brothers is late, but Only and Forever did not disappoint!
Only and Forever by Chloe Liese was a slow-burn, deliciously spicy, cozy romance.


Viggo loves romance books, happy endings, and building things, is easily bought with food, and dreams of owning a bookstore. Tallulah is tough, independent, cynical, and doesn’t believe in love. As different as they are, they are clear on one thing: they want each other (thanks to this, we are gifted with some very memorable spicy scenes). The problem is that while Tallulah is comfortable with a physical relationship, Viggo will only accept the type of intimacy love brings to the table.

Conveniently, he needs help setting up his new books store, and she needs help writing a love subplot that is falling flat in her next thriller novel. So they each have something else the other desperately needs, and they see an opportunity to collaborate. Tallulah moves in to help him open the store, and Viggo, an avid romance reader, provides his expertise on how to write the perfect love story. Their agreement is only for two months, but the chemistry is undeniable, and they know it. If they can only get on the same page on what type of relationship they want, they could be forever perfect.

I won’t tell him the truth, that when I was overwhelmed by all the people, my gaze kept slipping toward him, hoping he’d break in and save me with that flashy smile and some diversionary tactic. That I almost caved when the buzz kicked in, almost wandered his way and told him, Ask your damn questions. And kiss me senseless while you’re at it. But then I asked myself, what would be the point? Why put the emotionless moves on a hopeless romantic? He believes in destiny and swoons and happy endings. I believe that’s all a crock of shit.
Tallulah
Viggo & Tallulah Forever
Bee Jess described Chloe Liese’s books as stories where the characters want to be better versions of themselves because the other person is worth it. I find that beautiful, pure, and wholesome. It’s also on point with how I would describe Viggo and Tallulah’s love story. They want to be better people for each other.

I loved 90% of this book and dream of a love story exactly like this one, but my inherent incredulity sometimes pulled me out. Chloe Liese is conscious of the lack of flaws on this fairytale man she created for us and uses Tallulah’s less romantically inclined approach to ground him, but it’s still missing a touch of realness for me. (But isn’t escaping the confines of our reality the beauty of reading? SMH. This is why I read!)

“I’ve started to realize, Tallulah, that life, people, connection, most of it is unclear and undefined. I love that romance novels break it down into these linear, straightforward steps. But . . . that’s not how life works, not how people or relationships work; not how you feel about someone, how healing and growing and taking risks, works.”
Viggo
I’m now committed to this series
Only and Forever is the last in the Bergman Brothers series and my first Chloe Liese book. I wish I had read this series in order as I think I missed some necessary context in Viggo’s story. However, I’m going to rectify this by going back to the beginning of this series. I know with absolute certainty that I want to read more Chloe Liese and I have a feeling that the Bergman Brothers might be the cure to any ailment of the heart, including my sometimes extreme cynicism.

Please also check out Bee Jess reviews for Two Wrongs Make a Right and Better Hate Than Never, which are also Bergman Brothers stories!

Thank you so much to Berkley Publishing, Chloe Liese and NetGalley for this arc. All thoughts are 100% my own.

I really enjoyed this story because it was from the perspective of the youngest Bergman being a hopeless romantic and pining for someone unavailable. We’re so used to MMCs being manly, assertive or gruff and it was so lovely to read about a man who was openly soft. Grumpy x Sunshine is one of my favourite tropes but especially when it’s reversed.

As usual, Chloe did a great job with the Type 1 diabetes rep. I was pleasantly educated about the advancements in technology for people living with T1D. As a character, Tallulah was also very complex. I found myself having empathy for her and all that she was holding in, even though it made her come across as mean sometimes.

The pacing was great and the humour sprinkled throughout was fun. I just wish that we got more information about Virgo’s ADHD. However, I think this was a beautiful end to the Bergman Brothers series.

This is my first book by this author and it definitely was a cute romance with a lot of slow burn! 🔥 If you’re looking for a found family romance with a female black cat energy and male golden retriever energy you’ll like this book.

Viggo is the last sibling to be looking for love in his family. He’s an avid romance reader and wants the love like he sees in books, but is that realistic? Then walks in Tallulah (Lu) with her opposing views of what love is and she wants to stay far away from it.

They end up living together as roommates because Viggo needs help in his book store and Lu needs a place to crash. The tension and angst is angsting and will their friendship flourish into more?!

I felt like the book was slow in parts is why I gave it a 3 ⭐️ I was getting bored tbh and just needed something to happen and at 85% it finally did.

Some quotes I loved:
“You and me, Lu. We’ll be brave together. Little bit by little bit, okay? No pressure to do or be something by a certain date, no shoulds or judgments or deadlines. Just you and me, trying our best, cheering each other on. How’s that for a deal?”

“Our parents’ journey is not ours, Tallulah. Therapy helped me figure that out—that what they showed us, in what they called ‘love’ and ‘marriage,’ does not define those terms for me. What I have with Gigi . . . whatever you might want with someone, someday, we get to say what that means. No one else.” She licks her ice cream. “But that’s really only possible after a shit ton of therapy to unlearn all the bullshit we internalized growing up.”

Thanks NetGalley for the early copy for an honest review

There were great expactation form this book. I loved all the series, and this family so much, and was terrified the last instalment wouldn't hold up. I didn't need to worry.
As usual Chloes Liesse uses her voice to bring to life characters full of love emphaty. Full Fleshed human beings with hopes, and problems that hits incredibly close.
Viggo and Talullah' story is the perfect ending to a great journey. Their love story is a quiet one, Growining in safe moments inside a book store, in evenings of cuddling with pets. In conversations and undestanding.

this was my first by Chloe Liese but it will not be my last! I totally understand the hype and will be finishing this series (definitely from start to finish haha). Chloe writes such sweet, yet realistic romance and it's almost like it's a genre of it's own. I'm obsessed!

Only and Forever is the final book in the Bergman Brothers series. It was so bittersweet. I loved seeing all the family members interact throughout the book. The love story between Viggo and Tallulah was the best for last! I love this series so much!

It’s the end of an era and what a perfect end it is!

Thank you @BerkleyRomance for my e-arc and free copy
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Viggo captured my heart early on in the series, and we finally have his book, and it is truly everything we could have wanted for him and more. Viggo and ​​Tallulah were so open, honest, and vulnerable with each other, and it was just so special to experience. And seeing them slowly realize how in love they are with one another was everything!! I just love Viggo and Tallulah and this book so much.

The last few chapters and the acknowledgments had me in so many tears! And I wouldn't have wanted it any other way.

Thank you Chloe for creating such a beautiful series full of love, vulnerability, and acceptance.

cw: toxic family relationships

The Bergman Brothers have come to the end. Although this was not the best story of the series, I did enjoy most of it. Viggo is a special character who loves books as much as I do and opens a book store; a romance book store no less. He is living my dream. That being said, I just couldn't feel the connection between Viggo and his leading lady. Maybe because the story was rushed or there wasn't as much adversity between the two characters, but I found myself wanting to quickly move through this story to just finish it.

thank you for the advance copy.

I’ve said it many times, and I’ll say it again and again. Chloe Liese is a magical goddess who writes the best, and I do mean BEST, rom coms.

I want a Bergman brother 😔 They’re all so perfect.

I loved this book, I was actually really looking forward to seeing Viggo meet his match because he was always so involved in everyone else’s lives and loves. He always had his secrets though, and I really wanted to know them.

Tellulah is a perfect match for Viggo- their chemistry was perfection, the tension was phenomenal and I could not have imagined a better story for our last Bergman brother.

These two lil babies were everything to me. I love the roommate trope but especially when there’s been simultaneous secret pining between the characters. This was the perfect way to end the series and I already miss them all

Only and Forver is the perfect book to end the perfect series! Couldn’t love the Bergman Family more! I will read anything Chloe Liese writes-she’s never let me down!

Viggo and Tallulah’s story was so genuine as they both struggled to redefine their version of what love really is. I felt Liese’s portrayal of an adult with ADHD and another with Type 1 Diabetes were accurate and informative without being “clinical.”

Loved catching up on what the rest of the Bergman Family is up to! Can’t wait to see what Chloe Liese gives us next!

Thanks to Net Galley for this book!

"If there’s one thing you should know about me, it’s that I love a happy ending."


I didn't cry when I finished the final Bergman Brothers book, but I am in tears writing my last review for this series. I don't know how Chloe managed to finish this and turn it in, because if this was my series I'd be procrastinating the finale until I die and then it would be published posthumously. But she did it. She wrote the last book in this series that legitimately changed my life. And I don't know how I'm going to move on.

CW: toxic family (all off-page), divorce

The beauty of the Bergman Brothers series is how diversity and disability is not just accepted and included, but celebrated. Nearly every single member of this massive half-Swedish family is disabled in some way, but we see them fall in love, grow their families in each passing book, always there to support each other, not a drop of toxicity on the page.

There's not even much internalized ableism in these books either. Being disabled is almost treated like a privilege, and you know what? It should be. No amount of therapy helped me reframe my disabled experience like this romance series has. No prescription medicine or meditation app changed the way I viewed myself as a potential life partner. I am sooo worthy of a relationship, and there is surely someone out there who is going to be my partner and treat me like I damn well deserve.

I have many favorite romance novels and authors, but there's just something about these books that is different.

"That’s how you know you really love something, Tallulahloo, when it feels worth the hassle, when even the hardest parts of it feel like a gift.”


We finally got Viggo's story. The hopeless romantic, the meddler, the one who helped all his siblings find their happy ending—now he gets to shine. I almost feel like his arc of forever waiting for "The One," expecting a meet cute and for falling in love to feel like a romance novel, despite having no real experience when it comes to relationships or intimacy, was written on purpose to shake all of us readers and remind us that we can't live our lives waiting for the IRL version of a fictional character to waltz into our lives.

Maybe we already found them, and we just don't know it yet.

The scenes in this book were so lovingly crafted, it felt almost sappy at times. The cover art is from an actual scene, at the A-frame, of course. They do mundane things like build furniture and go to Ikea. They are honest with each other in a way I rarely see in books, communicating right away when something goes wrong or they feel bothered or upset. There isn't really a third act breakup? There's developed emotional intimacy before physical intimacy. It's signature Chloe Liese, and it's wonderful. It makes you believe in love.

I think I have a new favorite microtrope? Acting out scenes from books—in this case to help Tallulah write her novel. But I wouldn't be opposed to a character being a reader and wanting to recreate their favorite scene from a romance novel, either.

“I think love is . . . wrapping your arms around every emotion, even the hard ones, even when being numb seems so much safer. Love is hoping, even after disappointment has taught you not to. Love is that bone-deep hum of peace through your body when you’re hugged hard, when you’re listened to well, when you’re not left alone in your sadness. Love is stubborn and persistent, an indomitable weed that springs up in those slivers of soft soil in our concrete-jungle existence."


You probably noticed that I gave this one 4 stars and the other books were all 4.5 or higher. When Chloe announced the rights to the series were acquired by a traditional publisher and the finale would only be published traditionally, I was a mix of excited for her and the massive deal she brokered, and terrified that the final book would feel different. I am truly sad that my fears came true.

Viggo's character arc was beautiful and fleshed out, and I didn't have qualms with it. But Tallulah's story deserved so much more. We're told in the content warnings that she will have a toxic family situation, but literally all of it was off-page. (view spoiler) I couldn't root for her in the same way because I don't know her origin story! Theoretically, I know why she struggles with the concept of love, but her overcoming that mental and emotional obstacle felt like cruising in a fancy car. It was nice, but not powerful.

When Charlie was introduced I literally was the scene from Mean Girls, going "She doesn't even go here!" Like. Whomst? It felt like she came out of nowhere, and suddenly her love story was taking precedence over Viggo's for a tiny bit. I think she was mentioned in Ziggy's book, but it really felt like I was sitting in the first day of AP Bio again and I had no idea what a prokaryote was. No shade to Charlie as a character—she was important in the end—but her introduction was jarring.

And if I had to read about Viggo pulling his ball cap lower one more time I was going to throw a chair out of a three-story window. Thankfully, it was mostly present in just the first half, but it was literally in one chapter TWICE. How the hell did no one notice that? I can only hope that the final version will not include that phrase so many times.

Also, I really thought (and desperately hoped for—still do, btw) that Viggo's story would be a single parent romance. She's burned by love, he comes from a big family so he's used to having room to love lots of people, she lives in Escondido, he still opens the bookstore but it's in her neighborhood... And tbh I think that my plot was better! Sorry. Kind of.

“My heart has been, and always will be, only and forever yours.”


I can't believe this journey is ending. I can't believe how much the last three years has consumed my life and changed my reading habits. I'm supposed to go into 2025 without a Bergman book release date on the calendar? I can't comprehend that. And I refuse to try.

This conclusion wasn't my favorite book (and it seems like that's a general consensus), but it was still a satisfying finale, and I do think Viggo got the ending he deserved.

Chloe is not going to read this, but in case she does: Thank you. Thank you thank you thank you.

Rep: main character with type 1 diabetes; main character with ADHD; side sapphic couple; multiple side characters with disabilities and multiple queer side characters

Thank you to Berkley Romance for an early copy in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

At the end of the day I think we all just wanted a little more for Viggo. My suspicion is that like so many who came before her, Chloe Liese just ran out of steam. It's hard to make it to a seventh book and have things feeling original and fun. My biggest complaint with this book/series I that every book and character just felt like we were checking off a to-do list of tropes and attributes.

This book was a great conclusion to such a wonderful series. I thoroughly enjoyed finally getting Viggo's book and watching him get his HEA after meddling so much with everyone else. Viggo was such a sweet hero and a total dream. Tallulah was a fun heroine with great growth throughout the book. Their story was very sweet and low-angst, which I thoroughly appreciated. I also appreciated that Viggo's bookstore seemed to mirror elements of The Ripped Bodice, a fantastic bookstore that I encourage all romance lovers to check out. The only reason I gave this 4 stars instead of 5 is because at times this book read very saccharine, which got a bit frustrating, however, I still enjoyed it and felt like it was a satisfying conclusion to the Bergman series.

UGHHH an end of an era. Chloe Liese really changed the game for Chronic Illness, Disability and NeroDiverse representation with this series and it will forever mean the world to me. I loved this adorable story. A golden retriever hero and a black cat heroine. Perfect.

Thank you @BerkleyRomance #Berkley #BerkleyPartner for the free book. These opinions are my own.

Viggo's book! We finally get to learn what is in Escondido. Reaching the end of this series is the most bittersweet feeling. I have simultaneously wanted to binge this book and delay it's end as long as I can. I have loved this family for so long.

You always hear about book boyfriends. But Viggo is so much more than that. I relate to Viggo more than just about any character I have ever read, and certainly more than any male character. And he is so well matched in Tallulah.

I loved their romance, the books, the A-frame, the fantastic representation, all the kids, and all the times where the whole family came back together. The scenes where little Linnea talked to Viggo about his feelings about broke me. I don't know how to say goodbye to the Bergmans because they have come to feel like family through this series. So for now, I just intend to re-read this series over and over. And if you haven't started it yet, I recommend reading this entire series in order more than once.

4.5 stars rounded up

The final chapter in the Bergman series have arrived and it was everything I hoped for and more. Chloe Liese created such an amazing world with these characters and showed heroes and heroines with real human conditions (not flaws, just part of their humanity) and Viggo and Talullah were the perfect end to the series. I will miss these characters so much and hope the surface again in Liese's books down the road.

This was a great end to the Bergman brothers! We were all waiting for Viggo, fellow romance reader, to have his time to shine. I resonated with him so much. We were in the same page. Lula and Viggo’s story was the best to end this series.

This story was perfection and Viggo was absolutely the right Bergman sibling (brother) to end the series on. My heart is still recovering from how wonderful Tallulah and Viggo's book was. Chloe Liese did such a wonderful job of giving our most romantic Bergman the sweetest friends/roomies to lovers romance that he didn't see coming. I loved how Viggo has been looking for that big over-the-top getting hit with all the feelings kind of love story, but instead he finds himself attracted to the cynical Talullah who isn't sure she believes in love and they find themselves slowly falling for each other over the small things the other does to show their support. The Bergman Brothers series is one that will always be close to my heart and Viggo and Talullah are no exception.

Thanks to Berkley and Netgalley for my copy to review.

P.S. If you listen to audiobooks, Nelson Hobbs is Viggo Bergman, there is no better voice for him.

Truly the perfect ending to this amazing series. Getting to be back with all the Bergman’s one last time was such a treat.

Viggo finally gets his HEA in the most perfect way - his own real life romance story.

I absolutely loved everything about Viggo and really enjoyed getting to know him even more in this book.

Tallulah is his total opposite, but perfect match in every way. I loved her cynical about love ways and how she learned to soften her edge with Viggo’s love.

The hate to love was light on the hate which always works well for me.

The ending = perfection.