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My mother always gave the best advice. I just wish she had advised me to stay away from bull riders.
One in particular.
Connor Bennett is a walking red flag I could see coming from miles away, but I was a sucker for his rakish smile, his irresistible charm, and that world class behind always wrapped in a tight pair of Wranglers.
I told myself I’d learned my lesson when I woke up and discovered he ghosted me, leaving a note behind on the pillow where his head should have been. Unfortunately, that wasn’t true.
High emotions and too much booze during a mutual friend’s wedding lands me back in his bed, but this time I make sure I’m not the one left high and dry once the sun comes up.
Even though I can’t stop thinking about him, I convince myself I’ve worked him out of my system. However, two pink lines a few weeks later make it impossible to pretend he doesn’t exist.
We make an agreement. We’ll co-parent once the baby is born, but nothing more.
There certainly won’t be any more hanky panky.
But it turns out Connor has other ideas and wants to share more than just custody with me.
I’m trying so hard not to fall for that charm a second time, but my hormones are going crazy and he’s doing and saying all the right things.
Despite all reason, I find myself wanting to get tangled up with him all over again. I just don’t know if I should trust the bull rider not to trample all over my heart.
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars
I remember Ivy as a sassy little preschooler in Hayden and Micah’s book (Love To Hate You from the Hope Valley series), so I was happy to see her all grown up and still a bit of a wild child! (Connor, meanwhile, is the son of one of the Cloverleaf couples; I have not read that series from Jessica Prince’s back catalog, so I didn’t have that connection going into this book that I had with Ivy.)
We got to see the beginning of Ivy and Connor’s friendship in The Little Things, as he is friends with Zach and occasionally worked on the ranch when he was in between bull riding stints. Tangled Up With You picks up after Ivy and Connor spent a wild night together — and then he freaked out and took off without a goodbye, leaving her humiliated and brokenhearted.
Once they got over their issues, I thought that Connor and Ivy balanced each other out well. At first, I didn’t like Connor all that much for ghosting Ivy. Ah, but he was burned by his ex and his mentor, and the boy has intimacy issues. When he returns to town for Zach and Rae’s wedding, Ivy consumes all of his thoughts and eventually he realizes what he let go and sets out to win her back.
Overall, I really enjoyed Tangled Up With You. I wish there would have been more of Connor and Ivy together as a couple. So much of the book is the push and pull between them, him trying to make things up to her, and her keeping him at a distance because he’d already broken her heart once before. I felt like their actually being together was rushed, and I didn’t get to enjoy that payoff.
I was super excited to hear from JP that Blythe will be getting a book and Tanner Fine will be coming back to town!
I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
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