Book Review – Twisted by Emma Chase

Title: Twisted
Author: Emma Chase
Series: Tangled
Published: March 2014


SYNOPSIS:

When spontaneous and carefree meets cautious and responsible, falling in love can get just a little Twisted.

There are two kinds of people in the world. The ones who look first, and the ones who leap. I’ve always been more of a looker. Cautious. A planner. That changed after I met Drew Evans. He was so persistent. So sure of himself – and of me.

But not all love stories end happily ever after. Did you think Drew and I were going to ride off into the sunset? Join the club. Now I have to make a choice, the most important of my life. Drew already made his –in fact, he tried to decide for the both of us. But you know that’s just not my style. So I came back to Greenville. Alone. Well, sort of alone....

What I've come to realize is that old habits die hard and sometimes you have to go back to where you began, before you can move ahead.

TWISTED picks up two years after Tangled’s end, and is told from Kate’s POV.



MY REVIEW:

Emma, can we be best friends? Because seriously. If you're half as funny in person as you are in writing, we need to be besties. But I'm kind of an introvert, so maybe we should just do this whole friendship thing online. Okay? Perfect.

So Drew and Kate. They are a messed up kind of beautiful. When they're on track, they're sickeningly sweet in love and wickedly awesome dirty in bed. 

What I love about the way these stories are told is that the narrator, this time Kate, talks to the reader as if we're having a conversation. And that makes me really feel like I'm part of the story so I feel every emotion (good and bad) tenfold. The humor is great, the misunderstandings are tragic, the heartbreak is epic, and the conclusion is perfect. 

I reread the playground scene several times because as big of an asshat as Drew can be, Drew in love is a force to be reckoned with. He's willing to sacrifice just about anything to have Kate...and that's just downright dreamy.

Thanks for keeping me up all night with a "just one more chapter" book, Emma. I LOVED it!


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Book Review – Tangled by Emma Chase

Title: Tangled
Author: Emma Chase
Series: The Tangled Series
Published: 2013


SYNOPSIS:

When rich, handsome, and arrogant meets beautiful, brilliant, and ambitious, things are bound to get tangled.

Drew Evans is a winner. Handsome and arrogant, he makes multimillion dollar business deals and seduces New York’s most beautiful women with just a smile. He has loyal friends and an indulgent family. So why has he been shuttered in his apartment for seven days, miserable and depressed? 

He’ll tell you he has the flu.

But we all know that’s not really true.

Katherine Brooks is brilliant, beautiful and ambitious. She refuses to let anything - or anyone - derail her path to success. When Kate is hired as the new associate at Drew’s father’s investment banking firm, every aspect of the dashing playboy’s life is thrown into a tailspin. The professional competition she brings is unnerving, his attraction to her is distracting, his failure to entice her into his bed is exasperating. 

Then, just when Drew is on the cusp of having everything he wants, his overblown confidence threatens to ruin it all. Will he be able untangle his feelings of lust and tenderness, frustration and fulfillment? Will he rise to the most important challenge of his life?

Can Drew Evans win at love? 

Tangled is not your mother’s romance novel. It is an outrageous, passionate, witty narrative about a man who knows a lot about women…just not as much as he thinks he knows. As he tells his story, Drew learns the one thing he never wanted in life, is the only thing he can’t live without.

MY REVIEW:

Un-freaking-believable. 

This book was so fantastic — funny, raunchy, and heartwarming. It's told from Drew's perspective and the voice of the entire book is so good it just reels you in. The story is told as if Drew is confiding in a friend and he holds nothing back. He tells it all....the good, bad, and the ugly. And there is plenty of all of that with Drew. 

There are so many golden nuggets of hilarity throughout the entire book, I can't even begin to name them all. I just know that I'll have certain things added to my vocabulary now, like "Going Ralphie" on someone :) 

This book is short, but it delivers big. Read it! You'll love it...and Drew.

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