Brilliant. This was a well written book that I greatly enjoyed and already plan to recommend. Believable characters and an inticing setting. Some parts were perhaps a little lengthy, but maybe because I was impatient to reach the novels conclusion! Thank you Netgalley for the chance to read this book in exchange for an honest review.

A breath of fresh air! Two Wrongs was like nothing I’ve read before and that’s why I’m recommending it today! If you’re looking for a dark thriller with some child then this is for you!
A solid 4/5.

Absolutely loved the author’s previous 2 books and got to say I did take note in the acknowledgements on how this book was written in lockdown and how difficult it was to write and how the author struggled with her concentration to write etc

This is a book about Chloe and how at Uni she gets involved with the ‘money folk’, Zadie, Max and Rav and starts to make bad choices, bad choices that almost ruin her life then, haunt her for 15 years and then come hurtling back at her ( in the present ) and as she receives a massive shock re news about Zadie decides that revenge is best served hot, very hot and then has to deal with the ensuing consequences of the whole messy business
I read it quick, over a few hours and have to say didn’t like any of the characters, not that we are meant to I dont think, Chloe is way too easily manipulated and some of her thoughts/actions are questionable at best, ridiculous at worst, the revenge plot being one of them, you would have to be 100% convicted to do as she does!
It’s easy to read, well written in past and present narration and had a 2 pronged ending, both passable and all in all was an ok read for a dreary Monday that didn’t cause any great shakes but did stop me thinking of the C word, and that has to be a plus

6/10
3 Stars

Thank you to the author, Random House UK and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This book is a fast read, as the story is told fluently and reads well, but I really disliked the story as such. Told in two timelines, one in the present day and one 15 years ago when the main characters were at university, it's a story about friendship, envy, (fragile) mental health and gaslighting. I could not understand Chloe's fascination/obsession with Zadie and Max at uni, which carried over to the present day (why?), nor could I fathom Chloe's absolutely absurd revenge plan in the present-day timeline.

If this story is meant to be about mental health issues, then it treats those issues much too casually. I felt the characters lacked depth, and were almost a caricature of themselves. There was not one of them I liked or could connect to. This could have been a good book about false friendship and dealing with a friend with mental health problems, but unfortunately, it's not.

A good read. Unfortunately, I was lax at reviewing books over Christmas and therefore find it hard to write a proper review a few weeks after reading. However, I do know that i did enjoy it.

I quite enjoyed this rather convoluted story. It is quite implausible at times to the point of being totally silly, but it was readable.
I just wish that authors could get out of this habit of "then" and "now". It seems no one can write a straight narrative any more.
However it passed on a few more hours of shielding.

Firstly a big thank you to the publishers for my copy to review on netgalley .

I whizzed through this completely drawn in by these fascinating characters. This explores the dynamics of a female friendship and the influence one has over the other even years on. Toxic relationships and obsession.

Intriguing and compelling. Utterly gripping and thrilling .

Intense and accurate in so many ways and Rebecca’s writing style is captivating and riveting. She is a expert in creating suspense and tension to reel the reader in.

Published 21st january

I found this a difficult book to read and did not enjoy it. I did not luke the characters and could not relate to their behaviour patterns. I read it all the way through hoping to find a point where I could not put it down as I wanted to findout the ending. The whole set of relationships were unbalanced and totally unrealistic.

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Two Wrongs -Rebecca Reid
Publication date 21st January 2021.
I really enjoyed this book, I liked that it was set across two different timelines.

The main characters were all interesting, I also liked the underlying themes such as Chloe’s and Lissy’s friendship.

I guessed how the story would pan out, but this didn’t spoil the book in Anyway.
⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Thank you to @netgalley and Random House U.K. for my advanced readers copy in exchange for an honest review.
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Chloe has made it to university. She’s waiting for her new roommate Zadie. Eventually she turns up. Charismatic and lively but using the room as a stage as she’s really living off site with her boyfriend Max.
The two become friends as Chloe covers for Zadie. However, Zadie is a party animal and soon leads her off track. Lots of partying and drinking.
Then one night at Max’s 21st birthday something happens to Zadie and she disappears.
Chloe goes on with her life. Married to Rav one of the university crowd. However, she hatches a plan to discover what happened all those years ago.
Told in two timelines. Past and present. Interspersed with Zadie’s memories.
Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the opportunity to read this arc. .

I must admit that I am not overly impressed by this book. At first I thought this could be a good one. But soon I was puzzled about Chloe. I did not get her fascination, her obsession about Zadie and Max. Chloe seems to me just spineless. She jumps at anything Zadie says and abandons her studies. Zadie is obviously all Chloe herself wants to be. And she obviously wants Zadie’s boyfriend Max although she never admits it to herself. And don’t get me talking about her absurd revenge plan she goes on with in the today timeline. Absolutely ridiculous. Older Chloe is even worse than the young one.

The writing is nice and fluent so I kept on reading although I disliked the story and all of the characters more and more from chapter to chapter. I am not sure what the author wants to tell me. If it is about mental health and depression then it is way too casual about it. The characters lacked depth and I did not like one of them or could connect to them. There is something missing, something that could have made this book into a good one about false friendship and dealing with a friend with mental health problems.

I read Two Wrongs over a couple of days. It follows the story of Chloe who has just arrived at University where she finally meets her roommate, the enigmatic Zadie. She’s wild and carefree and it doesn’t take long before Chloe is abandoning her studies and joining in with their life off campus. But when something happens one evening, Zadie disappears and over time Chloe realises she should have done more to help her friend.

This book is written over two timelines with interjections from Zadie which allows you to piece everything together. This book didn’t blow me away but it was compulsive reading and I just had to finish it so would rate it 3.5 stars. Thank you to NetGalley, Random House and the author for the chance to review.

Read and reviewed in exchange for a free copy from NetGalley. This was an easy and enjoyable read. Reid created an engaging story which switched well between past and present, and the main character was likeable and engaging.

Another cracking thriller from the excellent Rebecca Reid, and in this case two wrongs certainly make a right! Although the idea of past misdemeanours coming back to haunt one in the present is a somewhat over used trope in psychological thrillers, it is tackled here in a fresh and fascinating way. University life, new friends, impressionable and naive young people--what could possibly go wrong?! The plot is engrossing, the characters are well depicted and the plot keeps us guessing until the end.

This story is told in two timelines. When Chloe goes to university she cannot wait to meet her roommate Zadie, although Zadie has moved in with her boyfriend Max and will only occasionally stay in their digs.

Zadie befriends Chloe and drags her away from her studies to introduce her to a world of partying, where there is an abundance of alcohol and drugs. Chloe then struggles to keep up with her coursework.

The second timeline is when we meet Chloe again and she is married to Zav who she met whilst at university. She has never been able to forget Zadie, who she has not been in touch with since an incident where Zadie vanished without a trace.

I loved this book and found myself reading until late into the night to find out what really happened to Zadie.

Thank you to Netgalley for my copy in exchange for a review.

Chloe and Zadie met at University as they should have been sharing a room together, however, Zadie had other ideas and went to live with her boyfriend Max who she followed to the same uni. Zadie expected Chloe to keep her secret from her parents and even came to stay in the room when her family were doing a “spot check”. Zadie was a strange girl and sucked Chloe into her life without Chloe realising that perhaps she was being used. Chloe idolised Zadie and would do anything for her and that led to all sorts of problems. Eventually the relationship breaks down without me giving too much away which affects Chloe’s life as she does not really understand what went wrong and she tries to remedy this. She is married to Rav who she met at University and he suddenly tells her he is in touch with Max, Zadie’s old boyfriend. Here the title of the book comes into play – do two wrongs make a right as Chloe is trying to determine what went wrong all those years ago. Read the book and see, well worth the time

I really enjoyed reading this book. I thought the characters were well written, and believable, and even if I didn't particularly like all of them I wanted to know what happened. I did guess a little bit of the outcome but there were still many surprises along the way. I found it to be well paced with a good story, well worth a read.

Two Wrongs, Rebecca Reid

Review from Jeannie Zelos book reviews

Genre: General Fiction ( Adult), Mystery and Thrillers, Women's Fiction

Sigh...women's fiction. Again. C'mon guys, its 2020 not 1820, men read books like this, men write books like this, lets get rid of this genre please?

So, having got that off my chest once again, what did I think of this book? Well, puzzlement mostly.
Puzzled by how Chloe gave up what until now had been her dream, to just fall in with Zadie's plans, abandoning all the uni stuff she'd looked forward to, making friends, learning, throwing herself into the life. Zadie has a certain allure sure, but its clear Chloe is just a plaything for her, a toy to be picked up and put down when she loses interest. Then there's the puzzle of Max, he seems a nice-ish guy, albeit a somewhat amoral one. What does he see in Zadie, other than having been childhood friends? Why does he stay so close to her? I'm puzzled by Chloe's decision at the party, puzzled by her obsession over the next 15 years about what actually happened, when in her heart she's already decided. For a long while I was puzzled too by why Rav kept so close to Max, going out of his way to stay involved with him, telling Chloe its for work, yet arranging dinner parties with him when he knows how she feels about him.

Chloe was like a puppy in her adoration of Zadie, blowing off Lissy and others attempts to befriend her, absorbing Zadie's views on people, taking them as her own even though they are contrary to ones she's always held. She irritated me, her willingness to just ignore what was happening until of course it all goes wrong. Even then she made some weird decisions, considering what she was worried had happened.
I didn't like Zadie, she just felt truly selfish, an unpleasant person. She had no thought about her actions on others, it was all about what she wanted, when she wanted it and tough if that affected anyone else. I could see she was unhappy underneath and clearly had problems, but she was so selfish, so much a user of people. It didn't matter what Chloe wanted or needed, Zadie came first in her own mind, all the time, every time. Can you excuse people's selfishness, unpleasant actions, just because they have issues? For me the answer is no.
Max was something of an enigma, he seemed to just go along with whatever Zadie wanted, just clean up after her, indulge her, but it didn't seem that he actually loved her. They had a curious relationship. I don't think he cared enough to put himself out for her, yet she seemed to feel he adored her.
Rav, I didn't think he took Chloe's feelings seriously enough, her fears over Zadie at the time, but then neither did Max. Then over the years he just keeps quiet, even when she's still obsessing and wondering. You'd think he'd say “ for heaven's sake either let it go or track her down”. He just seemed to turn his head away, in the same way he ignored Chloe dislike of Max and continued to arrange nights out for them. Strange guy.

It seemed weird the events that happened and the followup – quite jarring, and I did understand for Chloe it felt unfinished but...its been fifteen years and she's still got that same obsession that she had with Zadie at university. It just felt odd. Twenty year olds do obsess, but surely by now she'd have either tracked her down via a PI or something or let it go. Chloe's view of their friendship doesn't really fit how outsiders would view it, or even Zadie herself. Chloe thinks they are friends, equals, yet its all Chloe that makes the running, the sacrifices, and Zadie that makes the decisions. Its a very unbalanced relationship.
Then all of a sudden its disclosure time, Chloe tries to force the issue, takes an action I really couldn't go along with but the consequences, wow, I did not expect that! I didn't necessarily believe the same things as Chloe did, but I certainly didn't see that revelation coming. The ending is somewhat ambiguous, but after all the shocks and revelations I finally found common ground with Chloe, time was needed. Lots of time to absorb what happened, for everyone.

Stars: Three, I didn't really like any of the characters, for me that tends to be a real problem and affects how I feel about the story. The only nice person was Lissy, and she's very much on the fringes of the story. There are shocks and revelations at the end but overall it seemed to drag for me, I just found the whole mystery of Zadie overdone, I wanted to know what happened, but when we finally did it was almost an anticlimax in the face of other actions.

ARC supplied by Netgalley and publishers

A great thriller that follows Zadie and Chloe and their lives at uni in the past and then Chloe’s life in the present. I liked following both characters through the decades and the story kept me guessing right through to the end.

A friendship between Chloe and Zadie at university is cut short when Zadie mysteriously disappears. This situation becomes an obsession for Chloe who was a bit obsessed with Zadie. Although now happily married Chloe keeps revisiting the past trying to get answers.The story runs a dual timelines and the small circle of characters makes the book intense.I was guessing right till the end.