Title: TWISTED (Tangled #2)
Publisher: Gallery Books
Publication Date: March 25, 2014
SYNOPSIS
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.
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*ARC provided by Gallery Books via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review*
Ramblings.
For
realsies, this is the first time that I truly got lucky in the ARC department!!!
Not only I was able to snag an ARC from Netgalley but it was an ARC of a sequel
that I am very much anticipating to be released. While waiting for the email response
of Netgalley and Gallery Books, I was SO SURE that they’re going to decline my
request. Well surprise surprise, because just days after I submitted my request
I woke up with an email notification on my phone about them granting me an ARC.
Aha, I was squealing and jumping up and down inside my room because of that
news. Though, it took me a couple of days to get on with Twisted’s ARC for I
was finishing another review copy which was Sempre by J.M. Darhower and rereading
the first book of this series, TANGLED. *shrugs* Not that I forgot what
happened in Tangled but I just want to be FULLY reacquainted with my Kate-Drew
feels! Enough with that, let’s get started with our TWISTED discussion which as
much as possible I will try it to be spoiler-free.
My thoughts. Going
into reading Twisted, I had this expectation that it’s going to be more
dramatic than the last one. Why? Because when Tangled ended, Kate and Drew were
pretty much in cloud nine and just from reading Twisted’s blurb you know, we
know that there’s going to be a disaster in their lives:
“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....”
So yep, more drama involved here and it quite
spanned out in the entirety of the book.
Twisted may not be as hilarious as Tangled
but Emma Chase definitely gives us a very distinct voice for Kate. This book is
more on the serious note of everything – from the events that happened and the
tone of the book itself. Through Kate’s character, Chase was able to voice out stuff
about relationships in a girl’s perspective, which is pretty much VERY helpful
for girls, guys and couples.
In terms of the storyline, if you’ve been
observant from the very beginning I’m sure it’ll be predictable to you on what
happens next to these characters. It’ll feel like you’re way ahead in your brain
but the pages of the book are just catching up on you. BUT what makes this worth
reading goes like this, Chase gives us this very witty, snarky narrative with
the use of Kate’s character and the inserts of lessons/advice as we go along. Ooops, I forgot to mention – Twisted is as steamy as
Tangled. I highly recommend this book or shall I say this series to everyone because
all of us can really get some POINTERS in these books.
I was actually scared to start reading this
ARC because I know that it will make me cry. And true enough, Twisted really
made me a feel a lot of things towards the characters - frustration,
disappointment, anger, sorry and towards the last chapters … the sense of
elation finally settled in. As a VERY emotional reader, I ended up having my
heart broken; bawling my eyes out in some parts of the book because of the
situation the characters were in and there may or may not be parts where I want
to strangle Drew. Though, Kate and Drew were both to blame with what happened
to them here.
The biggest lesson in this book is the
importance of COMMUNICATION in a relationship, not just with boyfriends and
girlfriends but with any kind of relationship a person has. Yeah, here in this
book Kate and Drew experienced a disastrous miscommunication / misunderstanding
and for Drew’s case, I think his judgments were already clouded at that point. I
won’t elaborate more on what their misunderstanding was but you see …without healthy
communication, a relationship will really crumble down. Not that they don’t
love each other anymore (because that can’t possible happen in a snap) but Drew
and Kate or even us in our own lives could avoid a whole lot of unnecessary drama
if communication is around. Another thing is if you were already communicating
to someone be sure that you are on the SAME PAGE as with her/him.
Kate. There’s part of me that wishes that
Kate could’ve just blurted out what that “THING/SITUATION” she’s in and it’ll
be like a smack in Drew’s face then and there. Ha! It could’ve been more dramatic.
Lol! *shrugs* Lesson: Just say it. Even if it’s happy news or a sad one, just
say it and talk about it with your boyfriend or anyone. It doesn’t hurt for you
to inform them of what situation you’re currently in. We witness a character
development towards her character, which I really believe she needed. I love
that she can now stand up for her own decision and let Drew see reason.
Drew. Oh boy, Drew’s knee-jerk reaction … I was
devastated and disgusted with that. I felt so gutted when he did that. HOW WHY …
yes, he was hurt but I CRY. Here’s another lesson: Even if your friend or
someone you know is somewhat shady about things and you can’t avoid but to
conjure all these worst case scenario scenes, we must TRY not to be ahead of
ourselves, do something drastic that may jeopardize our relationship with them
and just be level headed when conversing with them.
I can’t help but cry for those WHAT IF moments Drew and Kate were mentioning towards the end of the book. It’ll never
happen for them that way (and it could’ve been perfect) because they can’t go
back in time. Huff. All they can do is move past this disaster and drama-filled
part of their lives. *pats your back* you’ll know what I’m referring to once
you’ve read this book.
Dee Dee and the rest of the gang are back and
they’re the ones that will make you crack up in some parts of the book.
Mackenzie makes an appearance in the earlier parts of the book and she’s richer
than ever.
Seriously though, I think this book is quite
short or was it just because of how I read it? Maybe it was also because of the
pacing and how engaging this book was. I was just flipping page after page and totally
didn’t notice that I already reached the epilogue of the book. Real talk, I was
really shocked finding myself staring at that EPILOGUE heading. I wasn’t ready
to end Twisted, just yet.
Twisted may be written through Kate’s POV BUT
Emma Chase returns to Drew’s POV to narrate the epilogue. AND wow, the epilogue
was truly a great one and it’s quite lengthy compared to other epilogues. He
gives us some of his insights with what happened in the roller coaster ride
they were in in Twisted. You may feel heartbroken for the most part of the book
but I think the epilogue will compensate for it and I’m quite sure you’ll be
happy to read it. There’s something big that’s going to happen in there. *squeals*
I’m totally excited for you guys to be able
to read this one. But you should totally be ready with tissues (something to
wipe your tears away – happy tears, sad tears or angry tears), a pillow (if you
find yourself wanting to strangle a character in this book, you might want to
use that) and a glass of water (to at least help you calm down). Not only you’ll
be able to feel FEELS but you’ll definitely learn a thing or two from this
book.
*grabby hands for
Book 3, Tamed*
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
This review is also posted on my Goodreads account.
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