A review by beckyyreadss
Tangled up by Sophie Andrews

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I got this book during one of the Stuff Your Kindle Days and this cover and storyline sounded cute, and it looked like it was going to be a fun romance. I was rooting for this to be great, but it had two major problems that I hate in books – pregnancy trope and miscommunication trope. 

This book has two points of view. The first is Gemma Turney and she is a walking contradiction. She is short-tempered, foul-mouthed vegan yogi and an environmentalist with a tongue sharp enough to bring a lesser man to his knees. Unfortunately, Jason Mitchell is not one of those men. When they are thrown together for a wedding, she does everything she can to get under his skin. Which works, just not in the way she is hoping. She's a thorn in Jason’s side that he has no interest in removing. So, it’s no surprise that one minute they are nose to nose in an argument, and the next Jason has Gemma pinned against the wall.  

This book started off so stronger with the enemies to lovers and the way they both have different lifestyles and didn’t like each other and now they were both the maid and man of honour at the wedding but had to work together. I loved the banter and how Jason ended up winding Gemma up on purpose because he loved pushing her buttons. I liked how the reaction was slow between the fact that they were enemies and then they were lovers, and it wasn’t done instantly from the second they got over the original conflict.  

It was all going well until she got knocked up. Why ruin a perfectly good book with a pregnancy and then instead of being adult and having a conversation, they were avoiding each other, faking illnesses, being petty. I just wanted to scream at them both. Like I understand that being pregnant is scary and things but if you loved and trusted your partner then I don’t get why it was hidden.  

I’m assuming the other books in the series are to do with the girls that we met in the friendship group which I'm intrigued to read about as they sound fun and cool from the few chapters, we saw with the friends together.   
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