Good story, moved a little fast for me, but nice easy read.

I have chosen not to finish this title. I really liked the first one, but I felt that this one sort of drops you into the same world without any context, and I felt like the book was telling me I should know who these characters were, but didn't know enough about them to be invested. By about 25% I still felt this way, so I have decided not to finish the book.

Thanks for the opportunity!
Laura

Loved the story of Max and Bree, friends to lovers story. Max and Bree have been friends forever and afraid to take it to the next level but Max is ready to settle down. Bree, on the other hand, lives life to the fullest and always wants new adventures. From chasing tornadoes, rebuilding and eating hot fudge sundaes, they soon find out their chemistry is hot but is it enough for a lifetime.

I fell in love with Max, such a giving person and supporting Bree with her carefree attitude. Love the small town of Chance and catching up with other town people, now I'm looking forward to Dillon and Kit's story. I'm now off to eat my own hot fudge sundae. I highly recommend this story!!

Max and Bree have been friends for a long time. According to Max, Bree needs adventure in her live and she gets bored with things easily, so for the last ten years he has lived away from Bree but has come home on a monthly basis to see her and do adventurous things so that she doesn't get bored of him. On his latest trip home, his town of Chance has had a tornado. Bree and Max were together when the storm touched down and Bree saw Max in a whole new way and that is when they decided to take their friendship to the next level.

This is the second book in this series and Erin Nicholas did not disappoint. I loved the connection the two had. I especially liked the ice cream analogy and how it compared to their relationship. This was a great read and I look forward to reading even more by this author.

Another heartwarming story with a little bit of steam added. Max and Bree have been best friends since they were kids and Max has loved Bree all that time, but he doesn't believe that he could ever be "enough" for her. Bree lives life to the fullest, taking chances with high adrenaline rushes to feed her zest for life ... she had to live her life for her and her deceased brother. Max tried romancing Bree a few years earlier, but she wasn't ready and now he believes that she will never be ready. Max is ready to put down roots in his hometown and wants Bree to be a part of his forever, but he wonders if she will always crave fast and dangerous. If you are looking for a sweet sexy romance, then this is the book for you.

I received an ARC copy courtesy of Montlake Romance through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Couldn't get into this. Characters not for me. I did not finish this so couldn't' give a review of the whole book.

Received an advanced and free copy of this novel from the publisher courtesy of NetGalley for an honest review.

Tangled Up (Taking Chances) is the second book about the people (and of course the women) of Chance, Nebraska. Chance is the Tornado magnet - and the books in this series show the event of one tornado (and the following ongoings) from different perspectives.
Tangled Up is about Bree McDermott, one of the police officers and Max Grady, her livelong friend. Both share the love for adventures, new experiences - but they never took the chance for a romantic relationship. They don´t want to loose the friendship they have and both try very hard to ignore the sexual attraction.

But a tornado tends to stir up things ....

I read the first book - (Twisted Up) - so sometimes it was a little bit too much about tornados and it took a while until I became engrossed into the book. But I enjoyed the story about Bree and Max a lot and loved to read how they were able to find a way to express their real feelings.

Tangled Up can be read as a stand-alone book. - and maybe - if you don´t like repetitions - it is better to read as a stand-alone.

Max has loved Bree for almost all of the twenty-five years that he's known her. But he knows that they can never be anything more than friends. She's made that abundantly clear. Literally, she's told him that she just wants to be friends. And, practically, he knows that she changes her mind about things all the time, moving from job to job. She can't even keep a favorite ice cream. So no, they're better just being friends. Even if a near-miss with a tornado made for some adrenaline-pumping moments where they hooked up. Well, mostly.
For her part, Bree isn't sure where these feelings are coming from. She loves adrenaline and getting the feeling of a nice rush. So why is Max so against it? Yes, her feelings for Max are sort of out of the blue but why not have some fun?

Three stars
This book come out January 17

Have you guys visited the little town of Chance, Nebraska, prone to tornados of the weather kind and so much more of the tempestuous kind? Definitely all twisted and tangled in the game of love and passion!

Book two of Erin Nicholas’s Taking Chances series, has Max Grady chasing the storm of his lifetime with Bree McDermott. Adrenaline junkies they may be, but Max is feeling the need to put roots and Bree is all tangled up in inexplicable feelings of passion, care, love and the big commitment.

“Tangled Up” is one of those books that had to be read every word to feel the emotions, taste the passion, understand the sublime dynamics of Chance, enjoy the witty dialogues and savor the wholesome love story that Erin Nicholas created with so much care, depth and detail, created in tangent with “Twisted Up”

And this is where her prowess as a writer, a master of imagination and the queen of plotting is seen firsthand. Max and Bree will warm themselves into our hearts as they work out their fears and insecurities between heating up the sheets and cooling off with ice cream!

Do not miss one single line of this love story with its depth of emotions, wealth of family and friends, bucketful of witty banter and topped with hot fudge and cherry of love!

Received an ARC from Montlake Romance via NetGalley for an honest review.

Love this story so much! It was such a fun & romantic read. I loved getting to know Max & Bree on a deeper level. It was nice to see their friendship & how it had always been simmering with something deeper. It is such a great read & would highly recommend getting it. You won't want to put it down!

I've never read an author that can write Friends to Lovers as well as Erin Nicolas. This story is told from a different perspective but same time frame as Twisted Up.
I immediately fell in love Bree. She's a hell-raiser/adrenaline junkie turned police officer that can't sit still to save her life.
Enter her BFF, Max. The Storm Chaser.
When trouble strikes their small town, Max decides to go for broke and let Bree know how he really feels about her.
Erin's story telling seems to be growing with every book she writes.
I hope you take a chance and pick this book up!

Bree and Max grew up together. Max has wanted more from Bree but when he tried it didn't go well. Bree is scared to take things with Max further until he starts to question if she can really stick to anything. Twister hits the town and things heat up for Bree and Max now they need to figure out how they fight together.

This is the 2nd book in the Taking Chances series by Erin Nicholas and I loved it just as much as the first book ( Twisted Up). The setting of this book runs concurrently with the first book but follows its own story line. Chance NE is a small town with all the hallmarks associated with small town life... neighbors helping neighbors and a strong sense of family and community.

Max and Bree have been best friends since early childhood and have had many adventures together. Max knows that Bree is an adrenaline junkie and that she loves to do anything that is daring and exciting. He feels deep down that even though he loves her and wants to settle down with her that she is not capable of sticking with a relationship for any length of time.

Bree is concerned that if she admits her true feelings that she will lose her friendship with Max. She loves how he supports her in her adventures but questions as well if she can settle down and make a relationship stick.

The story follows them as they deal with the aftermath of a tornado in their hometown (where Bree is a policeman and Max is a storm chaser/ weather expert who is in town for a high school reunion.) They grow closer and they have their share of adventures. But the question remains... can they overcome the hurdles that they both perceive are standing in the path to their HEA?

This is another winner from Erin Nicholas and would recommend it highly. I am looking forward to the next book in the series.

I have been waiting for Max and Bree's story since Twisted Up by this author. In Tangled Up, we got an amazing story. Max is a storm chaser who grew up in Chance and is back for the high school reunion. Bree is his long time best friend who is currently a police officer in Chance, but is looking for her next big thrill. She loves to spend time with Max and heads out with him to chase a storm before the reunion. Little do they realize just how close they will get to the tornado and just how much it will change their relationship. As they help Chance rebuild yet again from a tornado, will it bring them closer or push them further apart?
I don't know that there are very many authors who write romance in small towns quite as well as Erin Nicholas. She has this way of drawing readers into her stories and making us feel like we belong there. I voluntarily reviewed an advanced copy of this book provided by NetGalley.

I’m going to call this my first real read of 2017, not because I’m an old coot who turns a nose up at near everything that comes my way (although it sometimes seems like it) but because I'd found myself engaged and absorbed in Max/Bree’s story for most of it.

Bree McDermott lives for the adrenaline thrill and at first glance, I’d associated her with someone who has that kind of compulsive behaviour that needs therapy at the very least. I’m glad to see Erin Nicholas pinpointing the complications of problematic risk-taking behaviour early on: that her restless nature cannot and will not permit the supposed attraction for Max to last beyond a tornado episode. That she was always seeking a newer, riskier high however, was an issue I’d waited to see if that would have been sufficiently addressed, because it seemed necessary before she and Max could move on together. But I also liked that Bree had some sense of self-awareness, that she wasn’t completely steeped in self-denial, or that she wasn’t a reckless, all-in female character who went on and on without a care for anyone else, although I thought there was definitely more to explained about when it came to the psychological issues behind how the death of her brother had affected her behaviour up until now.

For Max Grady, the attraction to Bree had always been there. Gut-deep, visceral and yearning…even though being tied to him, as Bree had once cruelly said, would have been ‘boring’. I could appreciate how Max was acutely aware of his desire never to hold her back, while recognising that she needed to see him for who he was rather than as the next high to conquer.

I was—pleasantly—thrown for a loop really: I’d expected the consequences of chasing the next high to be dire, leading to an equally, shouting-match dire climax, but Nicholas surprised me with that. Bree knew her own mind, had some personal epiphanies and while I kept waiting for her to run when the thrill wore off, she surprised me by not being afraid to see what she had been missing all along. Suddenly, it became about Max and his own gun-shy insecurities about not being able to keep up with her because he has made Bree’s noncommittal stance to be everything he didn’t want. Add to the strange ice-cream analogy, the story took off in a direction that didn’t quite conform to my expectations. And that wasn’t a bad thing, because I’d wondered whether this was going to be a straight-up story about unrequited love when it really wasn’t quite one after all.

But what I think I’m really looking forward to? Kit/Dillon’s story and judging from about of sparks generated here, well, let’s just say I’m more than up for it.

A fast-paced, steamy love story of two people meant to be together and are too scared to see it through. Bree is an adrenaline junky, always looking for her next big thrill. Max is her best friend, her safe place. The one that's been along for the ride since they were kids-skydiving, mountain climbing, anything to get a thrill and bringing a smile to Bree's face. A heated embrace in a dangerous situation causes Bree to want more from Max. Max is afraid of change because Bree has a track record of getting bored and moving on. But they have to decide if some things are worth the risk. This story line encompassed me and played in my head like a sweet, sexy movie and left me with an analogy that will stay with me every time I eat ice cream . This story had me ready to laugh and cry while wanting to shake some sense into Bree and Max and rooting for their well deserved HEA.

Tangled Up (Taking Chances,#2) by Erin Nicholas

Tornadoes, plenty of likable characters inhabit the small, pleasant country town of Chance, Nebraska.
This is the second installment to the series. I have not read the first in the series and seemed to be easy to pick up where the first book leaves off. Max Grady is some type of meteorologist that chases tornadoes and he helps the community rebuild and repair itself. Max has been life long friends with Bree, who happen to be driving out in the country in the middle of a tornado. Bree and Max dive for cover on the side of the road, in a ditch with a tarp and some sizzling, steamy sex.

After the storm, Bree who is a police officer spends her time helping Max with repairs. The two of them have been skydiving partners and vacationers together about once per month. Bree is an adrenaline junkie who after already many years prior was Max's girlfriend. She thought that his form of romance was boring so until they have that sexual encounter during the tornado they are best friends. Since they had their sexual encounter they decide to try it again in the men's locker room. Max is deeply in love with Bree and if she isn't going to be his girlfriend, he will go back to Oklahoma and continue their friendship. The community is filled with likable characters.

I knew this was in the romance genre and I was still surprised how sexually explicit and I would definitely warn anybody that is in the mood for a romance that this is quite graphic. I enjoyed the storm chasing and the idyllic community and setting.

Thank you to Net Galley, Erin Nicholas and Montlake Publishing for my digital copy in exchange for an honest and fair review.

Tangled up is book 2 of the series titled Taking Chances. The stories take place in Chance, Nebraska, a town that seems to be a magnet for tornadoes. Max is a storm chaser and is respected around the nation for his expertise. Bree has been his best friend forever , and while she has been a thrill seeker, he has been his “rock” . Little does she know he has been in love with her all her life.
That said I had some issues with the book.I have always loved Ms . Nicholas’s writing, and had been looking forward to book 2 , especially after reading the first one of the series titled Twisted up. Sadly, I was disappointed. First, I was totally confused because I felt I had already read it, and went back to check on the title. After a bit I realized that what I THINK the author was trying to do was create the same scenario , and time, the the tornado hits but we get to know a different couple and how they interact after the tornado. Sort of a rewind with a different set of characters. This confusion sort of threw me off.
Secondly, as much as I liked Max, Bree , for me , was not the most likeble character.
But each story affects each of us differently , as do the characters.
I did appreciate the fact that Ms. Nicholas reminds us that who we are today. is really a product of our youth , our parents, and our experiences as children.
I was gifted this book by Netgalley and Montlake. The opinions expressed are solely my own.

This was my first time reading a book by Erin Nicholas and I enjoyed her writing and the unique idea of storm chasers. She managed to make the reader understand the after effects of a natural disaster on a community and really gets the reader thinking of crisis management. I loved the dominant side of Max's character as well as his sweet, romantic and protective side, however I hated the fact that he was trying to change Bree to fit his idea of the correct girlfriend and he was always so judgemental towards Bree and her actions. Bree's character was strong and independent, but she could never seem to commit and always seemed so confused which was annoying. I loved the chemistry between Bree and Max because it was sizzling hot and the way their friendship flowered into love was beautiful. I did feel that the chapters were too long and that the characters were so confused about their feelings that they kept on going back and forward which became very boring and irritating. This was a good book and I look foward to the rest of the series.

Plot

Max Grady, a storm chaser, is back to his home town Chance for his high school reunion, when he can feel that a tornado is about to hit his beloved town. He decides to chase after the storm and he asks his best friend and adrenaline junkie Bree McDermott to join him. Max has always been secretly in love with Bree and when they are stuck in the tornado and end up kissing a whole bunch of emotions come to the surface.

Bree is always looking for excitement and her next adrenaline rush and when their kiss fufills her with that rush, she decides that she wants more. As Max and Bree work together to clean up the aftermath of the tornado, their attraction begins to hard to ignore. Will Bree and Max be able to get over their insecurities in order to find love?