This was such an enjoyable read! I loved Kat & Mick and how their story unfolded for them. Loved his family and Babcia and how can we forget Seamus and little Jojo! I liked the humor and little references to rom-coms and the little domestic soft moments between Mick and Kat. Just truly lovely!

This was just so enjoyable and I’m so glad I got to read it. I would purchase the physical copy to have in my collection. I’m going to have to check out more from this author when I have the chance!

Thank you to Melonie Johnson and net galley for gifting me a copy of this book.

Personally I didn’t really love Kat and truly wasn’t able to connect with her on a deeper level like I normally do with characters. I thought she was just a little stuck up

The cover is what drew me in and it is very cute.

I knew it was doomed when I realized the book was written in third person. I get so confused about who’s talking and what is happening so I struggled to get through the book.

This story was so cute and heart warming! Kat gets dumped and has a meet-not-so-cute over a body in a coffin with Mick, an Irish cutie that values comfort over professional attire. Kat and Mick become friends, as she needs help finding Mr. Right, and she came prepared with a list. Lucky for her, Mick's brother Joe fits most of her criteria...so why is she feeling sparks with Mick?

I found Kat so relatable (not the drop dead gorgeous part, but the wanting to find her person part). She was watching her friends find their Mr. Rights and really wanting to be happy for them. After dating a string of less that great men, Kat vows that the next one will be the right one. She enlists Mick to help her as a wingman, but he starts to catch more than wingman feelings.

Pros:
- friends to lovers
- strong cultures (Irish & Polish)
- cute and sassy pets

Rom com rom com! Sweet and slow burn and these are my favorite tropes but the ending kinda lacked? I do not want to spoil it a bit too much but the chemistry lacked towards the end like the reconnection felt too distant? One thing I enjoyed was Kat's POV about how her character was detailed in terms of sharing her fears and struggles!

This was a fun rom com to read. I liked the characters, and how grounded their personalities were with their heritage and motivations! It’s not every day you read about characters with Polish names doing actual things from Polish traditions.

On another note, there were a handful of quotation issues while reading. It didn’t take away from the story, but it made it a bit confusing during some moments.

*ARC Review*

3.5

Too Wrong to Be Right is a sweet, slow burn rom com with plenty of potential, but not quite enough pizazz to keep my interest. It had the makings of an excellent story with a strong female lead, a wholesome quirky male, and a lovable hedgehog. I feel like rom coms usually have dogs in the plot, so Jojo the hedgehog was an awesome addition. I loved hearing about the sweet little creature and their donut shaped bed.

I felt that the slow burn was fun to read, but the ending was pretty lack luster and unsatisfying. I didn't like what drove the two characters apart, and felt that the reconnection was rather boring. It was a cute and quick read, but for a book with such a vivacious cover, it didn't wow me.

Simply put, this was wonderful!

Too Wrong to Be Right is a warm and wacky story that follows Kat Kowalski, an aspiring flower shop owner, as she makes a list of qualities she hopes to find in a potential Mr. Right after a recent breakup. On the same day her relationship ends, she acquires a pet hedgehog and meets Mick O'Sullivan, a lovable weirdo that runs his family's funeral business with his siblings. Following their unconventional meet-cute, the two form a fast friendship and I truly could not get enough of them.

Going in, I truly didn't have any expectations for this book since I had never read any of Johnson's novels before this one. But I knew I was in for a good time after just a few chapters!

In equal measure, Too Wrong to Be Right had its silly moments where I couldn't help but giggle and its sweet moments that made me blush. Ngl, I think I need a Mick of my own! He had the cutest personality and I really appreciated that the book was dual POV, giving the audience the chance to get a look inside his head as he wrestled with his feelings for Kat.

One of my favorite elements was the focus paid to Kat's fears surrounding her future. As her closest friends begin to move away or get married and her own career is on the verge of change, Kat is feeling confused and scared. As a woman in my 20s, those feelings felt honest and relatable. I wanted to jump inside the story to give her a big hug during those parts.

After loving this romance, I am absolutely going to check out more of Johnson's work to see what else she has to offer.

— thank you to NetGalley, St. Martin's Griffin and Melonie Johnson for this eARC in exchange for an honest review

This book was such a delight to read. It had me laughing from the very beginning. The characters were so quirky and fun. I felt like they could be a part of my friend group. Kat gets dumped by her boyfriend when she thought things were going great. She then decides that since she has a type she will make a check list to find a man that isn't that typical type. In steps Mick.. could he be Kat's type?

I have to admit I was really excited when I got approved for this one, but it fell a bit flat for me. It was an average, cute, romantic RomCom!

So, Kat hasn’t been lucky in the relationship area, but she thinks it’s because she is attracted to assholes. She loves weddings and romcoms. Kat always thought to be the first one of the bffs to get married. Turns out, she won’t. Now, Mick is a nice guy that works in his family business and tries to fight his feelings for Kat to be the friend she needs. That’s the little summary I feel that I can write without spoiling too much 😂 I have to admit that reading in third person is kind of hard for me, but this book was different and easy to read. Loved the romcom references, and I felt identified with Kat when she was scared of losing the routine and the relationship she had with her besties. I also liked how both main characters had to work on themselves to be together. It’s a fun story with love and spicyness. So happy that I got this eARC, thank you netgalley and St. Martin

This book gave me all the feelings.
What a emotional and sweet love.

I really enjoyed this book.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to review it.

Thank you to the publisher for the eARC in exchange for my honest review.

I liked the plot. The meeting between the love interests was super funny. I really like how their relationship developed. Unfortunately, that's about all I liked.

I found the characters to be annoying, both the main and side characters. What little character arc there was felt forced.

The ending felt rushed, which makes sense considering there was only one scene between Christmas and Valentine's Day. The third act breakup was ridiculous and could've been solved with a conversation. Plus Kat gets upset when Mick leaves after she told him to leave. There was no apology before they got back together; Mick says he was an a-hole and then they confess their love.

Too Wrong to Be Right had potential but it was not executed well. I would still recommend this book.

This was the first book I read from thos author and it was so much to read I loved it from the very beginning it hooks you right in thanks for letting me read

I enjoyed this sweet and emotional love story. This author never disappoints, and I hope we get more from these special characters.

Kat, a florist, and Mick, a funeral home director, are an odd couple, but they work. Really enjoyed this one, although the issue with the brother seemed unnecessary to the story. She thought Joe fit her list of what she needed, and Mick was jealous. Loved the hedgehog, as it was a fun pet. Would recommend.

If loving a gregarious talking bird is wrong I don’t want to be right. But that’s not all I loved about this book… I fell in love with the fun, friends-to-lovers dynamic between Kat and Mick! I would absolutely recommend this book!

Strangers to Friends to lovers
He falls First

I was so interested in the potential of this book. We immediately meet Kat who is just being dumped and she decides to swear off dating her typical type to pursue a Mr.Right list, in doing so she meets Mick (who is honestly a great catch from the beginning, so im not sure what she is thinking there) and instead decides to pursue his brother who seems really boring. I was so interested in the beginning but toward the middle and the end of this book I just struggled.

Mick's brother is boring, and she has this instant chemistry with Mick but she waves it off in spite of that, even though Mick has proven to be nothing but nice. She overall seems sort of selfish as a character in her relationships and when her and Mick finally do pursue something only to have it end in such a trivial way I can't help but want better for him.

I really appreciate the opportunity to read this one and while it wasn't my favorite im sure some will really love it!

I really enjoyed this cute rom-com! It was a fairly quick read with a feel good ending. I do think the book became a bit repetitive by the end and there were a few plot points that didn’t really make sense (specifically the end wedding - was Mick supposed to have magically intuited when the wedding was?), but overall it was cute and I would be happy to read more books from this author!

Too Wrong to Be Right was too cute to be boring. Kat and Mick had instant chemistry, a florist and a funeral home worker - sounds like a good match to me. The book gives you so much "will they, won't they" and the miscommunication is constant. But I finished the book satisfied.

when I first saw this cover (which I LOVE) I immediately went to go read the blurb which drew me in even more. I was so excited to read, Kat the mc seemed amazing. She had just had gotten dumped by some dude and swore of men,well the men she would usually go for. Her and her friends then get together and compile a list of everything she should be looking for a “mr right” which seems like a good idea but them Kat meets Mick (the mmc). Who she thinks is too much like her usual type (but is he???) that’s the big question for Kat. Though halfway through the book I was kind of fed up with her whole adventure of finding “mr right”. Then things started to feel rushed towards the end of the book and I couldn’t keep up. Overall I did enjoy some parts of the book like the side characters!!
I just wanna say thank you to Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for providing me this arc 🙏🏾