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Review

How can such a heartwrenching read be so much fun?

I freaking loved it! 4.5 stars!

After falling in mad love with Tangled when it was released, I admit that I was terrified by the idea of this follow up. I had heard rumours and wasn’t sure whether I wanted to go subject myself to it, instead finishing off Drew and Kate’s story in my head the way I wanted to. But I’m so glad I was finally curious and brave enough to dive into this one because I loved it! Sure, it’s not the direction that I wanted their story to take, but people make mistakes, and I loved watching them work through it all. This is an emotional and dramatic read, but still with the humour and fun that Emma Chase is so good at, and I loved the story.

This book picks up two years after the ending of Tangled. Drew and Kate are together, in love and committed, still having fun together and still as passionate about each other as always – those opening scenes are so freaking hot!

“Get that delectable ass in the shower so we can go. The sooner we eat, the quicker we can come back here and fuck till the sun comes up.”

This book is written entirely in Kate’s POV, which I loved, as we got to see their relationship from a different perspective as they live out their HEA… until it all goes wrong. And when I say it goes wrong, I mean that it goes horribly, explosively wrong. I was shocked, my heart broke, and I honestly couldn’t believe what I was reading. And Drew, the man who stole my heart so completely… all I can say is that I was so, so disappointed. I’m disappointed in the lack of communication, I’m disappointed with the jumping to conclusions, and I’m SUPER disappointed in the way that he chose to ‘deal with it’. OMG, so much disappointment!

I should have known better. Arguing with Drew is like dealing with a terrorist. He has no boundaries; nothing’s off limits. There are no depths he won’t sink to to win.

Drew Evans doesn’t burn bridges. He sets dynamite to them. Decimating the bridge, the mountains it connects, and any other living thing unlucky enough to be within a fifty-mile radius.

But it provides an opportunity for us to get to know Kate as she retreats and heads back home to reanalyse her life and figure out what her future holds, and as much as Drew completely stole my heart in the first book, I loved that we got to see this part of Kate because OMG, I just love her!! She is smart, funny, sensible and a bit of a badass, and I loved being inside of her head for a while. And along with Kate comes her best friends, Dee Dee and Billy. Yes that Billy – Kate’s ex and thorn in Drew’s side. But I have to say, seeing him and Kate together as friends, he really grew on me. And add Dee Dee to the mix, and it’s a recipe for rude, crude, filterless fun – and a whole lot of support and love as Kate works to get through all that she’s going through.

There’s also a lot of soul-searching to be done, and my heart ached for Kate. And the glimpses of Drew suffering were heartwrenching (even though he totally deserves it). It’s a bit of an emotional rollercoaster, but the resolution is WELL worth the wait!

“I love you, Kate. Everything that’s good in my life, and anything that really matters is only there because of you. If we hadn’t met? I’d be fucking miserable – and probably too clueless to even realize it.”

This was a strange read for me. Usually this kind of storyline would turn me off, and I haven’t read this book before now for that very reason. But I loved this book! Yes, the argument was stupid and everything would have been different if they just TALKED. TO. EACH. OTHER! But the WAY they handled everything after the big event, the insight we got into Kate, and their relationship, and the way it was all resolved, made a really great read.

Loved it, and so, so happy that I got to experience this couple all over again.

4.5 stars.

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