The cover is so cute! It caught me the moment I was scrolling here on netgalley! if you love a woman who is hopelessly romantic then this book is for you!

Thanks to NetGalley for this eARC!

This story is a slow burn with a good pay off. Not high on the spice scale but the two protagonists, and the supporting characters will win your heart over.

On the day Kat is dumped and inherits a pet hedgehog, she also finds herself making a flower delivery to a funeral home. While there, she and Mick meet over a corpse and have the very opposite of a meet cute.

Mick is the true middle child trying to balance the family business with his two siblings while trying to carve out his own place in his family. After a second surprise meeting with Kat, they forge on with a mutually beneficial professional arrangement, as long as they can keep their personal feelings to themselves.

Kat's story is one many with empathize with navigating new and old friendships with romantic relationships, and trying to find your person.

This story checked off all my major boxes but could have done without the forced love triangle.

I want to thank Netgalley and the author for gifting me the ebook. I was able to find the audio version through my local library. Wow the very first pages we get smacked with the woke liberal stick. I can tell where the book was going. Not only foul language but also a character that crochets male private parts into cup cozies and then another character that wears pins saying they/them and everyone gets upset if that character is mis gendered.
I wish these female authors would realize that majority of readers out there don't want to read these things in your books. So this was a no thank you.

the dedication: Mom. The love you and Dad shared will always be an inspiration. As a writer of happy endings, I wish I could give you more chapters together. I’m so proud of how you continue on with your story, and all the love you continue to give. And I know Dad is proud of you too.
FMC: Kat- after being dumped by her now-ex-boyfriend, Kat swears off dating until she finds her Mr. Right who checks off all her boxes.
MMC: Mick- the sibling who can’t find his place in the family business and can’t find his Mrs. Right stumbles into his perfect women- literally. Will he be able to keep Kat’s attention away from his perfect-on-paper brother?
POV: 3rd person, dual POV
HEA: yes
spice: there were a couple open door spicy scenes, with some fade to black mixed in
TWs: some OM drama, toxic family members, fear of corpses, death of family member recounted
standalone: yes
final thoughts: I thought their friendship and flirting was SO CUTE!!! I liked how the characters were all so distinct and had their own voices. I loved the character growth in this book with coming into yourself as a person and finding your place. Something that was missing for me was “the list”. With so much emphasis on “the list” to find Mr. Right, we don’t really get to hear much of that list and why Mick fits or doesn’t fit.

read this book if you love
🌈 LGBT+ representation
💞 friends-to-lovers
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 found family
🤐 miscommunication
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 fun and likable side characters

Watching her closest friends discover love should be a happy occasion for Kat. Sadly, it is a reminder that she is falling behind. Her love life is in shambles, her career is at a standstill, and the small community she has built has all but vanished. Desperate to turn things around, Kat decides to focus on finding her Mr. Right. Will dating men outside of her norm be the answer?

I struggled reading this book. For several reasons:

1.)I am not a fan of love triangles featuring two brothers.
2.) Terrible communication and unrealistic expectations between the main characters leave me frustrated.
3.) Mick and Kat’s hookup after Mr. Schwartz’s funeral felt icky. Kat appeared to be in an extremely vulnerable place and Mick took advantage of the situation.

Special thanks to Griffin and Netgalley for allowing me to read this book in exchange for my honest feedback.

Too Wrong to be Right
By Melonie Johnson

Thank you to @netgalley and Griffin publishing for such an adorably sweet read! Kat is recently single and working in a florist shop with big dreams. Upon delivering a boutonnière to a funeral home, she runs into Mick (one of the owners of the funeral home). Will this spark friendship? Love? Business? Guess you’ll have to read and see.

Things I Liked:
- Unique Meet-cute
- The combination of business and pleasure
- Polish references
- Animal! - JoJo the hedgehog and Seamus the parrot were adorable and funny!

Things I Didn’t Like:
- The use of the pet name princess. This felt like a weird add-on that seemed unnecessary to me lol.
- The “problem”- not quite miscommunication as much as a LACK of communication.

Read This If You’re Into:
- Romcom references
- He falls first
- Found family
- The Undertaking of Hart & Mercy by Megan Bannen

4.5 /5 (rounded up)
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Too Wrong to Be Right - 4/5 ⭐️
📍 RomCom
📍 Strangers to lovers
📍 Friends to lovers

I loved it. It was wonderful!!
Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

A cute contemporary romance. There was good banter, and I liked that the main characters got to know each other as friends first before starting a relationship. Can't lie, the star of the book was the super cute hedgehog!

Too Wrong to Be Right by Melonie Johnson is a contemporary romance. While it is not labeled as in a series, fans of the author will see some familiar characters.

After her latest jerk of a boyfriend dumps her (and ditches her with his pet hedgehog), florist Kat Kowalski is done chasing after Mr. Wrong. With her two best friends moving on to more serious relationships, she’s ready to stop repeating the same mistakes that are leaving her stuck in the single lane. Armed with a list of qualities for her perfect Mr. Right, Kat swears off dating until she finds him. Then in a meet-disaster involving a corpse and a salty cockatoo, she stumbles across Mick O’Sullivan at his family's funeral home. Their immediate chemistry warns Kat to keep things platonic; after all, following her heart never worked out in the past, and this time she’s determined to listen to her head. But can Kat and Mick be just friends? As she gets to know him better, the lines blur, and Kat starts to wonder if she’s gotten it wrong and Mick is exactly who she’s been looking for.

Too Wrong to Be Right is an engaging romance, and I enjoyed getting to know the characters. I liked Kat, even if she got stuck in her own head too often. Although, as someone who does the same I really should not judge. I thought her attempts to break the cycle and find a better relationship was realistic and something many readers might relate to. I really liked Mick, and adored his family. I thought the cast of characters, and the pets, were well written and in most cases fun to read about. I liked the interplay between Kat and Mick, and thought the family dynamics and self doubt were realistic and relatable obstacles that kept me turning pages and looking to see how everything would come together.

Too Wrong to Be Right is a well written and entertaining romance.

This was a delight to read. An interesting plot with a charming cast of characters. Good beach read.
Many thanks to St Martin’s Press and to NetGalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

4/5

I had a joyful time reading this book!

I personally am forever obsessed with the hedgehog in this story. It truly made my heart so happy! The swearing bird also had me cackling multiple times, which made some enjoyable reading moments.

That being said, I'm not the biggest fan of the love triangle troupe, so that definitely deterred my reading experience at times. I was really frustrated with Kat and wanted to scream "but he's perfect for you, choose him!!!" multiple times, but I also understood where she was coming from.

I felt that the book dragged on at times and I found myself pulling out of the story.

Other than that, I thought it was cute and quirky.

Thank you, St. Martin's Press, St. Martin's Griffin, and Netgalley for this eARC in exchange for my honest review.

Kat always picks the wrong man and the latest dumping is her last straw. She decides the next man in her life has to be perfect in all the ways. Meeting Mick and feeling the instantaneous sparks can only mean a relationship with him would be disastrous.
I think the world of Melonie and her sense of humor is my kind of out there. I appreciate her brand of irreverence. While the funny is completely there for me in Too Wrong to Be Right, I couldn't connect with the MCs and I felt bad for Mick. He's a complete cinnamon roll and Kat's friend-zoning was a little too heartless.
Thank you to St Martin's Press and Netgalley for the advanced copy. All thoughts in this review are my own.

This was a sweet light hearted story. It definitely had some swoonworthy moments. Mick was a catch from the beginning but Kat was a little much and some of her actions and decisions made me wanna scream at her.
I still liked this book and the relationship the blossomed was swoonworthy but Kat could’ve been a little less irritating and it would’ve made this even better.
⭐️⭐️⭐️✨

I have liked this author in the past, but TOO WRONG TO BE RIGHT was a miss for me. Kat was very immature and unlikable.

And I cannot handle one more contemporary romance with a swearing bird. It's just so overdone now.

Had I been paying attention, I would have noticed that this was Melonie Johnson. Had I been paying attention, I would have known I was going to love this right off the bat.

Melonie does. Not. Miss.

To say I never thought I would be having feel good feelings on a book that has a funeral home as a main setting is probably accurate. Yet her I am still thinking of how this book left me giddy, giggling, and swooning.

I feel like this book reminded me why I enjoy the friends to lovers trope. Although this may have been more of a strangers with attraction to friends who still are attracted to each other to finally lovers but my case remains. It was amazing to see their relationship develop over a span of time and it felt like how we actually see people fall in love in the real world…except maybe a bit more chaotic.

Then there was also the Mr. Right Checklist that is always entertaining in romcoms especially when mixed with the MMC being the one to help the FMC find that Mr. Right. Plus on top of this there were so many mentions of romcoms and bodice rippers and the tropes we find in them and that also makes me excited.

I will say that this book resonated with me so much. Kat was at the stage of life where I currently am, where all my friends are moving on with their lives and I’m feeling stuck. I think that I’m part is what drew me into this book (along with the cozy cocks). It expressed how I’ve been feeling since my best friend got engaged and how it feels like everything is changing. It was that emotional connection with Kat that added a whole new level to the book for me, and I think it’s something a lot of people can relate to.

I also loved every moment of Kat and Mick’s story. Including there not so cute first meeting over a dead body and warring widows. I truly felt like they both were supportive of each other and there was also undeniable chemistry. I found myself truly blushing over how cute they were together.

I will also say the other characters in this book were also a bonus. They all brought something special to the story and added depth. Although the real show stoppers were Seamus and Jojo.

Overall based on how much I enjoyed this book and the characters I rated it 5 stars.

I received a copy of this book from NetGalley, my first in exchange for an honest review. I gave it 4 stars. It was an enjoyable and easy read. The characters were easy to follow and developed well throughout the course of the book. The underlying theme was friendship, between women, platonic relationships between professional men and women, and the development of a relationship from a friendship, and was all tied nicely together at the end of the book. I literally laughed out loud in some places, I like the authors writing style and look to read more of her books -

“Too Wrong To Be Right” was a fun and quick read that gave me a lot of little positives, but overall was nothing I haven’t read before–and I’ve read a lot of rom coms.

Let’s start with what drew me in. I adore the concept of our love interests having jobs that sort of just mesh perfectly. Kat being a florist, and Mick running his family funeral home business. It’s a bit morbid, the idea of flowers and funerals being a perfect match, but that’s kind of what I love about it.

Speaking of Mick, he wasn’t the greatest male love interest I’ve ever read. However, it was definitely nice to have the scruffy romantic lead as opposed to the traditional extremely hot romantic lead who secretly has a six pack that gets revealed in a dramatic way once his shirt comes off for the first time (and it will always comes off, trust).

Something I really loved that the author did was explore the friendship dynamic between Kat and her two best friends. The story revolves around Kat’s insecurities involving her friends sort of “leaving her behind.” Friendships are weird out in the real world once you each start creating your own lives. When things change amongst your friend group, it’s scary. The author does a great job of capturing this.

Tiny bits I also loved: 1). It’s not a rom com if we don’t have pets, even better if their quirky pets. Kat has a pet hedgehog and Mick’s family has a pet cockatoo named Seamus who has an Irish accent and I LOVE him. 2.) The grandmas. Queens. 3.) Loved that the classic Clumsy Lead trope didn’t just happen once in the beginning of the book–it happened multiple times throughout the entire book.

Something I wasn’t a huge fan of–but this could totally come down to the fact that I read a lot of rom coms–was Kat’s love and obsession with rom com movies. It was cute, but I just read “The Rom-Com Agenda” so it felt very redundant to me personally.

Now, the biggest issue I had with the book was the use of the miscommunication trope–my least favorite because it’s usually solvable if people just sit–between Mick and his brother Joe. A lot of confusion and time is wasted because these two haven’t cleared up their issues. Which, come on. I sort of refuse to believe that they’ve never spoken about their weird dynamic when Mick literally has multiple psychology degrees and Joe can get drunk off a few whiskeys which are always in abundance whenever the O’Sullivan family gathers. There’s no way they even WORK together and have never talked. Y’all??

Anyway, overall it was a cute book. The tiny moments are what make it for me.

Too Wrong To Be Right by Melonie Johnson is a rom com triumph! This is the second book in this series. She has a new fan in me and I will be grabbing the first book in this series and will be on the lookout for more from this author.

I love stories that center around a group of besties, intriguing co-workers and, most of all, close knit families. Each adds complexities that only add to the central love story. This book has all the elements of a great rom com. There are laugh out loud moments and moments of tenderness. It also has one of the best cute meets I have ever read involving a dead man, warring widows and one of the sweetest heroes I’ve read in a long time.

3.5/5 ⭐ - 2/5🌶 Spice

Overall this was a pretty cute story which I enjoyed, but I gotta say, this book just felt so long, for absolutely no reason. Like idk how?! So by 70% and they were still iffy, I was just over it 🙈I really loved Mick's character - the fact he was really just trying to be a good guy and be who Kat needed. At time's Kat's character just confused me with the decisions she made, and I just couldn't relate to her.

Brief Plot: After another terrible break-up, Kat declares she is dating the compete opposite of who she's dated in her past. Meeting Mick, and their instant chemistry unnerves Kat, so she decides thy can only be friends. But at they get to know each other, and Mick helps Kat with grief she's held for years, the lines begin to blur.

Tropes: Slow-burn Romance; Friends to Lovers; Disaster Meet Not-Cute

Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for an eARC of Too Wrong to be Right, written by Melonie Johnson. This is my honest, unpaid review!