1. Chloe Liese can do no wrong.
2. While I knew what was going to happen through the whole book, it didn't stop me from devouring and LOVING this book.

Beatrice and James were so incredibly adorkable. I loved every minute of each of their chapters, not something that I always say about DPOV. I related so much to Bea and everything she feels in regards to social interactions and it was so nice to read someone who is similar. I loved how there was never any doubt that James had Beatrice's back no matter what. It's really lovely to read books with a stand up guy as the male main character.

Chloe's characters are so relatable and human and Chloe never shies away from depicting real people and all their foibles.

I am so excited to read the next story in this series. I am already assuming it's coming because I need it!

Review posted on Goodreads (August 11, 2022)
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5/5. STARS!

A very big thank you to Chloe and Berkley Pub for sending me an E-ARC of this book for an honest review.

The way that Chloe Liese owns all of my heart and soul at this point… I will read anything this woman writes. I am so happy for her and this release, and I am so excited to see another own voice autistic romance traditionally published and available for so many people to read and consume.

Where this book does have different pacing from some of Chloe’s other books (I found the pacing very fast at the beginning of the book), I still found myself equally invested in this romance and these two incredible characters. Did I cry in public while reading this book? Yes, YES I DID, because a book like this, that celebrates autistic and neurodivergent joy, AND Queer joy, is so SO important and honestly means the world to me.

This book is amazing!
Fake dating for revenge!
Autism and Anxiety rep!
Hate to friends to love!
Amazing Bi rep!

Honestly, I will not stop screaming about this book so please go read it.

Thanks for reading,
Caden

Please NOTE: Blog post will be live about two weeks before Release on November 15

Two Wrongs Make a Right by Chloe Liese has taken a simple romance formula and made it welcoming in a way I didn’t expect. This takes the story of Much Ado About Nothing and twists it into something, that while I feel like is low-angst, also has an interesting conflict and a sweet, sweet story.

The two main characters of this story. Bea is an artist suffering from artist block due to some past trauma and unresolved issues. She is also autistic but makes no apologies for herself, being honest and open in communication. It was absolutely delightful to read from Bea’s both prickly but loving perspective, something I could really relate with. Jamie is the straightest laced pediatrician I’ve ever seen but he was absolutely attentive and adorable. His sweetness nearly bled off the page. I have a real soft spot for cinnamon roll type heroes and Jamie fit that too a T.

The final third act conflict was more of an external one, and I do want to add in here that some readers may want to be aware of the content warning for emotional abuse that occurs, not directly too our characters but very close to them. It was a little bit of a shock to me, and had I not been in a good mind set it might have been triggering. As it was it did make for a riveting conflict, I was anxious to find out how it resolved.

My only real complaint with the book is that it perhaps follows the traditional formula too close to the letter. I am afraid it’s not going to be something I remember in the future, but it is one I would happily return to. I enjoyed the care that both characters took with each other and I also enjoyed the relationship between Bea and her sister. I will definitely pick up more, especially if either of Bea’s sister’s get books (I’m dying to know about Christopher).

3 Bumblebees out of 5

Two Wrongs Make a Right by Chloe Liese
Pub day: November 22

Fake dating alert! This time *for revenge* against meddling matchmakers!!

When Bea and Jamie meet, they do not hit it off. This doesn't stop Bea's sister, Juliet, and her boyfriend, from fixing up Bea and Jamie on a surprise blind date. When Bea and Jamie realize the level of trickery and meddling that their friends had been up to, they decide to fake date to teach everyone a lesson! Oooobviously, Bea and Jamie catch some gorgeous lovey dovey feelings.

There is so much to love about this book!

-Twin sister relationship dynamics
-Fake dating for revenge against meddling matchmakers
-MCs are an erotic artist and a pediatrician (I eat this opposites attract scenario with a spoon, please!)
-This book is for the lovers of the starchy hero with the softest heart! Jamie is a starchy cinnamon roll!
-There's social anxiety and autism rep with these soft, sweet, kind characters working to understand one another.
-I sense (and am praying for) sequels for the siblings/side characters 🙏

The WRITING is so gorgeous and funny. It's sensual and immersive. I feel like I'm living it all through their perspectives.

A historical romance reader writing contemporary romance just hits different! I feel like Chloe Liese knows what level of pining and desire I need in my romance novel, and she just effortlessly delivers.

If you've ever read a romance novel and you were like, "I'm just not feeling the chemistry between the characters," ha.. haha.. boy do I have the fix for you! It's Chloe's books! And this one especially because these characters can't stop won't stop with the accidental touches and just utterly lusting after each other!

This book was perfect. I can't wait to hold a physical copy come November, until then I will be raving and highly recommending and re-reading my favorite parts! Thanks so much Berkley and Netgalley for a chance to read this in exchange for my honest thoughts!

When two people meet and instantly don't get along, their friends and family take it upon themselves for them to end up together. However, Bea and Jamie quickly realize erst their family is doing and decide to pretend to date to get revenge on their gloating.

In Liese’s clever adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, the only thing lead characters Jamie Westenberg and Bea Wilmot have in common is they don’t like each other. Jamie is a nerdy pediatrician with anxiety disorder, and maybe just a touch of OCD. Bea is a brash, free-spirited, erotic artist who is on the autism spectrum. They’re each on long rebounds from painful breakups and aren’t looking to risk their hearts again anytime soon. Except their siblings see things differently and arrange for Jamie and Bea to meet. And therein lies the rub. Things start off badly, in hilarious fashion. But ultimately, the only people Jamie and Bea end up fooling are themselves. Liese’s sense of humor and fast-paced writing style energize the plot, for these two very unusual, very lovable characters. Fun stuff.

Well, I’m just a giant pile of mush after reading this one. Yet again, Chloe Liese has melted my heart and made me squeeze my kindle so tightly to my chest, I thought I was going to break it.

I’ve never felt more understood by a book before until I started reading Chloe Liese’s. As someone who struggles daily with anxiety (which sometimes can be crippling), I forever appreciate when the representation is so spot on. The hardships & life situations each person goes through in each one of her books is so relatable. Reading them makes you feel like you’re hearing a story from a friend, rather than holding it in your hand. Every single one of her characters in every single one of her books is incredible. Jamie’s character reminded me so much of my husband; his personality, wit, and quirks were so eerily similar that it gave me comfort. Bea & Jamie’s love radiated through the pages, even long before they knew it was love. I think it’s safe to say that Chloe Liese is easily one of my top favorites, especially after this refreshing read. 5 ⭐️s

A HUGE, HUGE thank you to Netgalley, Berkley Publishing, and Chloe Liese for this e-arc. Check out Two Wrongs Make A Right on its pub date 11/22!

Y’all Chloe Liese has done it again. THIS BOOK. We’ve got “enemies” to lovers, fake dating, grumpy/sunshine, neurodivergent MCs (autism and anxiety), LGBTQIA+ rep and just heaps and heaps of swoon. Best of all - an MMC who goes to therapy and openly talks about it!! As you know, there is nothing sluttier a man can do than go to therapy.

To top it all off, it’s super funny and when the steam hits it HITS. Jamie is a stern brunch daddy with an excellent *bedside* manner. 😏

I CANNOT get this main couple out of my mind. Allow me to introduce them:
James Benedick Westerberg aka West aka Jamie aka Jame: pediatrician, cat dad, cook, listener and absolute stern brunch daddy for the GODS. A *highly* acceptable blonde man

Beatrice Adelaide Wilmot aka Bea aka BeeBee: e r o t i c artist and creator of Prurient Paper - a line of stationery featuring hidden seggsy pictures, hedgehog mom, twin to Juliet, force of chaos and mega-klutz. A highly relatable heroine.

Jamie and Bea’s friends basically badger them into several failed meet-cutes for the first 15% of this story, and after figuring out they’ve been part of a ruse to get them to date, the couple sets out on a plan to get revenge by pretending to date and break up in a highly dramatic fashion. Of course, these adorable idiots totally fall in love with each other instead. 🥰

This book is Chloe at her finest. It’s soft and sweet and shows the reader so many awesome family and friend relationships. Through the course of the book you simply cannot help but fall for Bea and Jamie and you can’t help but root for them. The thing I love the most about Chloe’s books is that I always feel safe reading them. I know she’s going to show me something heartbreaking from time to time but she will ALWAYS put me back together in the most beautiful way. 🥹

Chloe always puts a content note in the beginning of her books so make sure you check that out! This one has a couple of side plots involving abusive family and intimate relationships.

👍🏻RECOMMENDED. This is Chloe at her absolute best. Funny, swoony, sweet, heartfelt and steamy - just a delight of a book! If you like the Bergmans, Bromance Book Club, or the Brown Sisters, you will love this!

I think expectations got me here because I am so obsessed with 4 out of 5 of the Bergman books. The first 20 percent of this book was so hard to slug through for me, but it did improve as they opened up to each other, The sister plot line was so out of pocket to me that it distracted from the main romance and while I believe that was to nicely set up the series I think it was at the detriment of Bea & West's love story.

Chloe Liese forever.

Part of me wants to leave it at that. But here's more.

Liese has a gift for making characters so dimensional. They are attractive, kind, complicated, deep, complex people. I feel like I know them- the decisions they would make, what they would like and not like. This is her deepest skill which is so harder than people give it credit.

Bea is an artist. Jamie is a doctor. They meet- it doesn't go great. They end up fake dating. Which we all know how that goes...

READ THIS BOOK AND ALL HER OTHERS

Two Wrongs Make a Right is my first book by author Chloe Liese.

Bea and Jamie have both steered clear of dating for some time now for personal reasons. Does that stop the mutuals in their lives from trying to set them up? Nope.

Boundaries are crossed by their loved ones to try and get artist Bea and pediateician Jamie to fall for one another. After a trick to get them on a date results in anger and frustration on both their parts, Bea comes up with a plan to get revenge: the two of the will fake-date and then had a dramatic breakup blowout in front of everyone. Their problem? Bea and Jamie actually have amazing chemistry, and lines begin to get blurred

I enjoyed this book and look forward to more from this author.

I’ve only read one book from this author and now this was my second. And it won’t be my last. I ADORED this book. Not only did I love the plot, I love the representation throughout the book. It made me love the characters all that much more.

The characters were unique and funny and addicting to read about. This entire book was such an escape from reality.

Loved it!

This was honestly one of the sweetest and most romantic reads I’ve read in a while. You’ll get lost in the charm of these delightful characters.

Liese did an incredible job including autism and anxiety rep. If that’s rep you’re looking for, I can’t recommend this enough.

The only reason it’s not a five star is because, to me, the ending was a little bit rushed. But overall, the book was an enjoyable read.

Thank you to Netgalley and Berkley Publishing Group for providing me with an e-Arc in exchange for my thoughts.

at this point i am a chloe liese stan first and everything else second. this is my fifth book and first traditionally published and chloe liese just has a way of writing characters that are impossible not to fall in love with. i love my pansexual, tattoo covered, erotic artist bea so much!! and don’t even get me started on the literal love of my life jamie westenberg who makes being uptight so hot. two wrongs make a right was fun from the start and such an easy book to fall in love with. i definitely recommend reading it!

Chloe Liese does it again 😭 I will read anything Chloe writes at this point.

4.5 stars only because I thought the major conflict didn’t make sense but I was happy it resolved itself pretty quickly. Fun, spicy, autistic rep, lovable characters.

Very grateful to have received an arc of this! Thank you!!!

4.5* just because there were some parts where I was getting the ick.

Regardless, this book was really good, the opposites attract trope done so Fkn well. The writing is so good too, the book had me hooked. It’s a fun plot with a good pace that’s set.

Jamie is such a refreshing male character because of his A1 communication skills. He’s 10 and he’s good with kids? 100/10! I absolutely love him so much with my whole heart. He notices and acts on the little things the FMC displays and it just had my heart fluttering.

The author also had anxiety rep. autism rep and LGBTQ rep, it’s great to see authors being so inclusive.

Tropes:
-Opposites attract
-Fake dating for revenge

P.S. come on look at the cover you have to add it to your TBR after that!

Thank you NetGalley and Berkley for this eARC!

New favorite book of the year. Chloe does not miss and she does not disappoint. Do you ever feel like a book is written just for you? This is how this book makes me feel! This book does have some fake dating but it’s not like the other books who use this overdone trope. This one still has the characters getting to know each other, opposed to randomly falling in love. Jamie is my new book boyfriend and wow the sex scenes were so hot too. So much communication, so much understanding, and just so so realistic and I loved it. Enemies to lovers done absolutely right. I can’t wait to read it again.
Once again, and with no surprise Chloe smashed it.

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. It is important to note a trigger warning: presence of emotionally abusive/ psychologically manipulative relationships. Two Wrongs Make a Right deals with themes like appearance versus reality, disability (autism), mental health (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/ 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. I adored Jamie and Bea’s slow burn romance; I enjoyed watching them become friends and then start to develop deeper feelings for each other whilst carrying out their fake dating revenge plan. Furthermore, I loved 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 slow burn, 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). I really connected to both main characters and found their various struggles to be very realistic and relatable (e.g., loneliness, fear of heartbreak or rejection, anxiety, sensory processing issues, etc.). Furthermore, I thought that Jamie was totally swoon-worthy! In addition to being a pediatrician, 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…I would have loved to see Bea’s sisters’ happily ever afters but I’m glad that Liese left these storylines open for potential sequels/ 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 will be highly recommending it to others!

Chloe Liese has done it again 👏🏻. This book is perfection and unequivocally one of my favourite reads of 2022. Chloe's writing positively shines in Two Wrongs Make a Right (so much so I highlighted over 50 passages like a maniac).

Here's what to expect:
- Dual perspectives
- Much Ado About Nothing modern retelling
- A banging playlist and song accompanying each chapter
- Opposites attract: Mr Prim and Proper versus Bea’s “brand of chaos”.
- Disastrous meet cute: “I’d never trade our meet-disaster for anything”.
- Fake dating for revenge
- Enemies to friends to lovers
- Paediatrician x erotic artist
- Curmudgeonly Capricorn and cantankerous Cancer
- Geriatric cats and a therapy hedgehog
- Diverse characters (#ownvoices autism rep, plus pansexual and bi characters)
- Complex character burned in the past and not looking for a relationship. Bea had a manipulative ex while Lauren chose her career over Jamie, making him feel once again like he wasn’t enough.
- Spotlight on 10 Things I Hate About You aka the best rom-com.
- The sweetest cinnamon roll hero with all the swoony considerate moves. I don’t want to spoil but the SOUP! The tattoo! The bedroom picnic! 🫠 Prepare to fall in love with Jamie. "Sometimes, Beatrice, I want to ruin you for everyone else."
- Amazing chemistry & slow-burn tension & Chloe's signature spice!

Once Bea and Jamie warmed up to each other it was game over for me. My heart was fit to burst with how perfectly imperfect they were together. They were honest (we love when MCs communicate 👏🏻), vulnerable, a little insecure, a little awkward and a whole lot adorable. “He doesn’t see me differently, he simply sees me better.” They were a safe space for each other and accepted the other completely, flaws and all 🥹.

P.S I thought we were SO close to not getting a third-act break-up because the spice hit right at the end, but no such luck. Luckily it was quickly resolved and Jamie was his usual charming self.

P.P.S. I 100% cried at the end and while reading the acknowledgements. Chloe, we don't deserve you.

Eternally grateful to both Chloe and PRH International for the free book.

This is the year I've fallen in love with the Bergman Brothers series, so naturally I was also very VERY excited for this book! This was a 5 star prediction for me, but ultimately it wasn't quite up there for me, which feels a little disappointing. I do think, however, that I might enjoy this even more a second time around, so I'll likely reread this.

The first quarter of the book, where Bea and Jamie first meet and set up their fake dating scheme, felt really rough to me, and I admittedly was afraid I wouldn't enjoy this book very much. Luckily though, it did really pick up for me further into the story, as Bea and Jamie got to know each other and started to get along better.

I love Chloe Liese's autism rep, because she writes so many varying portrayals and no two of her autistic characters (because there are several in her other books) are the same. For me, Bea wasn't the most relatable one, but of course that's okay. Jamie especially spoke to me though - he has anxiety, and he's just such a kind-hearted person, and I absolutely ADORED him.