Tangled (Tangled #1) by Emma Chase.
Publish April 2rd 2013.
254 pages.
My Rating: 2.5/5
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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 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 ReviewThis was entertaining to say the least, and I enjoyed it a lot… for the most part. This has been on my to read list for a really long time now and the only series I’ve read from Emma Chase I absolutely loved, so I finally decided to go for it.
As a pattern with books where the hero is a manwhore, we have the dreaded slut-shamming. It’s like they’re both intertwined, and I used to overlook that a lot in books, but now it’s something that really annoys me and I can no longer look past it. Something I thought it was ironic with this one though, is that Kate calls the women Drew hooks up with sluts but then she says her best friend likes to have fun with guys no-strings-attached and she’s completely fine with it. So what is it? A girl can have fun hooking up with guys with no commitment if she’s your friend otherwise she’s a slut?
I didn’t particularly cared much about Drew and Kate either, don’t get me wrong, I liked them, they’re fun and witty. But when it came down to it I just wasn’t all that interested in their story. The side couples like Dee-Dee and Matthew and Alexandra—btw calling her a bitch is wrong in so many levels I won’t even start on that—and Steven caught my attention more and I’m very excited to read Tamed.
I really loved the storytelling aspect of it, Drew’s pov is so unique which it’s not something you’d expect from your typical rich-white-manwhore hero we’ve seen oh-so-many-times before. Emma Chase did a great job writing from a man’s perspective and I loved the way she wrote it, she made it a lot more entertaining and funny as hell.
Now I understand why my goodreads friends either gave this book a really high rating or a 1-star-rating. To me, it was a difficult book to rate and I gravitated a lot between 2 and 3 stars, I can see the appeal of both sides, it has a lot of nice things to it, but it also has a lot of bad aspects in the story, so now that I read it, I get why it’s so divided. Overall, I believe my rating is somewhere between 2.5 and 3 stars.
