Tangled (Tangled #1) by Emma Chase

Posted May 21, 2013 by Yesi in Book Reviews / 1 Comment

Tangled (Tangled #1) by Emma ChaseTangled by Emma Chase
Also by this author: Tamed, Overruled, Sustained, Appealed, Sidebarred
Series: Tangled #1
Also in this series: Tamed
Published by Gallery Books on January 1, 2013
Genres: Contemporary Romance, Romantic Comedy
Format: eARC
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four-half-stars

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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 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, and 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 in life he never wanted is the only thing he can’t live without.

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Review by Yesi

 

You know when you meet an old college friend you haven’t seen in a while for coffee and it turns into a four-hour catch up session? There are laughs, tears, memories shared, and the time just flies by…that is what my time with Drew Evans felt like in the book Tangled.  This is his story and what a story it is. Drew is one devastatingly handsome and rich man. He is cocky, arrogant, and has no filter for his mouth or his mind, yet you enter a love/hate relationship with him from page one, and he just keeps making you fall harder as the pages come to life. Did I mention he is also the man-whore of the century? Shocking right?  He tells it like it is and doesn’t hold anything back. Oh and he likes to give advice too, kind of like Jack Berger in Sex and the City  when he says “maybe he’s just not that in to you” and that line turned into a shining revelation to woman all over the world.  Yes just like that.

“If a guy who you just met at a club calls you baby, sweetheart, angel, or any other generic endearment? Don’t make the mistake of thinking he’s into you, he’s already thinking of pet names. It’s because he can’t or doesn’t’ care to remember your actual name.

But here’s a fact for you—once I’m done.  I’m not the kind of guy who rides the same rollercoaster twice. Once is enough, and the then thrill is gone and so is the interest.”

So we meet Drew while he is disheveled in a smelly apartment with a horrible case of the flu. He hasn’t left his apartment in seven days and is miserable. The catch? Yeah, he doesn’t have the flu; he has a bad case of heartbreak, but the flu just sounds so much better because Drew Evans doesn’t to do love and never rides the rollercoaster twice, right? I think this is why I fell in love with him from the very first page. Even his unwillingness to face the truth is endearing and absolutely hilarious. His sister and friend come to check on him, and he confesses about his fake illness and begins to tell his story starting four months earlier and ending in present time. The way the author tells Drew’s story is unique and absolutely genius. It’s like we are those old college friends catching up. Okay, so who is this woman who finally captures his heart?

“She is magnificent – angelic – gorgeous. Pick a word, any fucking word. The bottom line is, for a moment, I forget to breathe.”

Her name is Katherine “Kate” Brooks, and Drew meets her at bar while she is out celebrating her MBA and new job, but despite Drew’s charms, she turns him down and walks away.  The next day at work there is a meeting to introduce the new associate, and yep, you guessed it, it is Kate. As expected Drew is floored and from here on out Kate and Drew kept me entertained with their witty banter, their competitiveness at work, their obvious attraction, and the absolute feeling that they were made for each other.

“It makes me want to kiss her and strangle her at the same time. I’ve never been into S&M, but I’m beginning to see its benefits.”

I could not put this book down. Kate is a strong, intelligent woman and a refreshing change from the damsel in distress we see too much of lately. Drew continues to tell us his story, and it is funny and sad and sweet and everything we want to see a former man-whore experience when he falls in love for the first time. He fights it though, because again, he doesn’t do love and it is great to get in his mind while all of this is happening.

“Apparently, I’ve grown a conscience. I don’t know when it happened, I don’t know how it happened, but I am not happy about it. If I could, I would squash that Jiminy Cricket fucker like the roach he is.”

This book has all the right elements to make it the perfect leave-it-all- behind read. It is sexy, it is steamy, it has humor, plenty of it, and it’s even more romantic which makes it a great story for me.  The lead characters have depth and the secondary characters bring it all together to make for a fantastic read.  I cannot recommend it enough.  So does he get the girl? You’ll have to read to find out…

“Edward Cullen can take his stupid heroin and OD on it. Kate is my own personal brand of Viagra.”

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Drew Evans! Read Tangled NOW!

four-half-stars

About Emma Chase

By day, Emma Chase is a devoted wife and mother of two who resides in a small, rural town in New Jersey. By night she is a keyboard crusader, toiling away the hours to bring her colorful characters and their endless antics to life. She has a long standing love/hate relationship with caffeine.

Emma is an avid reader. Before her children were born she was known to consume whole books in a single day. Writing has also always been a passion and with the 2013 release of her debut romantic comedy, Tangled, the ability to now call herself an author is nothing less than a dream come true.

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