Review: Tangled by Emma Chase

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Tangled
Series: Tangled #1
Author: Emma Chase
Release Date: 8/2/2013

SUMMARY
From Goodreads

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 THOUGHTS

Tangled is the first book in the Tangled series by Emma Chase.  The main characters are Drew Evans and Katherine Brooks.

Tangled was freaking hilarious!  As a reader, I loved hearing the story unfold from Drew’s point of view.  Yes,  a mans point of view was needed for this book.  Drew was obnoxious, conceited, and full of himself, yet it worked and I fell in love with his character.  Personally, I wasn’t a big fan of Kate in this book, but she started to grow on me with the last half of the story.

While I can say that I laughed out loud too many times to count with this story,  It did feel a little too long and drawn out.  Also, at times it came across as trying too hard to bring the funny and comical dialogue.  This is not to say I didn’t enjoy it, but at times it was “enough is enough”.

If you are looking for a romance from a male point of view — without it being sugar coated and mushy at all times — then give this hilarious read a chance to grace your reading list.  With laugh out loud moments aplenty, you won’t feel so bad about calling it a guilty pleasure buy!

MY RATING
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Review: Things Go Wrong For Me by Rodney Lacroix

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Things Go Wrong For Me
(When Life Hands You Lemons, Add Vodka)
Author: Rodney Lacroix
E-Book Edition Review

SUMMARY
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Things Go Wrong For Me (when life hands you lemons, add vodka) is a memoir of sorts, a roadmap of Rodney Lacroix’s haywire life thus far. From his childhood, through the raising of his own kids, to his vasectomy and post-divorce world … this book is more than just a culmination of outrageous stories woven into a cohesive narrative, it’s a testament for the “little guy.”

In this case, literally. Rodney is 5’3”. He’s very little. Almost tiny. Bank tellers offer him lollipops. He makes holiday money wearing green stockings and fake ears.

But even though he’s small in stature, his stories and the laughs that accompany them are definitely BIG.

There’s no doubt, if you enjoy snorting milk through your nose, and you’re drinking milk right now … you’re going to love this book.

MY THOUGHTS

Sometimes you just need a good laugh-out-loud book to read.  While cruising around the blog-o-sphere,  I came across the blog Mental Poo.  Yes, you read that correctly.  A blog that is described as “Jerking off your funny bone, one post at a time.” While laughing and trying not to pee my pants at the blog posts, I came across a link in the right hand sidebar to purchase the book.  I laughed so hard with this book.

Author Rodney Lacroix touches on some subjects that shouldn’t be funny and turns them into a work of comedy art.  I am talking about things like Chocolate Ex-Lax episodes, Sex Game Dice, and Vasectomy.  Yes, he even laughs at himself while undergoing the knife in the sensitive area.  While some men would cringe at a puff of smoke coming from below, Mr. Lacroix finds the humor in it. Plus, I will never look at a raisin the same way again. To understand why, well, you have to read the book.

Included in the series of topics, we also get illustrations that the author created as well.  A diagram becomes a tool of laughter.  I loved the chapter and pictures about the popular app “Draw Something”.

They say that laughter is the best medicine and I can honestly say that I am feeling like a million bucks after reading this.  Tears ran down my face and I might have received funny looks from my family while reading it. This is one book that I will be reading again when I need a pick-me-up laugh and a blog that I have bookmarked so I can continue on in his journey of parenthood and life.

MY RATING

Outstanding book that will stay on my bookshelf for rereading!