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.

This book was AMAZING! From Max, who is seriously the perfect man (awesome romantic side, with a dirty sexy side) to Bree, who has a carefree attitude and is a bit on the wild side. These two are the perfect balance for each other, and I love how much they are willing to do for each other. Loved catching up with the secondary characters, and can't wait to see what Erin has in store for us next.

I have mixed feeling about this book. I liked it but the constant back and forth between both characters was tiresome. It seemed like they were never on the same page when regarding their friendship/ relationship. Maybe I was just tired when I read the chapter that dealt with the ice cream analogy, bu5 I found it very confusing and wanted to skip over those parts. I liked it but wouldn't read it again.

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!

Talking about twisters!!! My mind was spinning with excitement and found myself biting my tongue and wanting to read faster so I knew what was happening but not wanting to finish the book!!! Bree and Max were amazing and their story was sole shaking and amazing!!!! Another amazing book!!

Tangled Up is the second book in the Taking Chances series centered around the town of Chance, Nebraska and Town's weird phenomenal pattern of tornadoes.

Remember what feelings happens in a ditch sometimes doesn't stay in the ditch. 

In Tangled Up, we get Bree and Max's story of friends to lovers. Bree is an adrenaline junkie that works hard but plays even harder. Max is her best friends and partner in crime when it comes to high pressured adventure. When Max takes Bree out to storm chase to watch for tornadoes they find themselves in a ditch clinging to each other has a tornado passes over them. The wild emotions fly has they share a kiss. Max has been in love with Bree forever and thinks the sudden kissing is caused by the near mess of the tornadoes. As Max and Bree help rebuild their hometown after a EF4 pass through, Bree has to figure out if her sudden feelings for Max are real or just an after effect of the storm. I loved the connection that Bree and Max have and I was routing for them throughout the book. I loved that Bree was able to discover things that she didn't know about herself and show Max that he was wrong about some of his assumptions about her. Like most of Erin Nicholas's book I got a sudden craving for food products (wink wink). I think the best part of the book is all the analogies about ice cream flavours. 

Like I said before this is the second book in the Taking Chances series. Twisted Up is the 1st book. They are both standalone novels but take place around the same time period. I recommend that you read them together only because you will love Avery and Jake's story just as much. I can't wait for the third book to come out with Kit and Dillon's story.

Book 2 in the Taking Chances series by Erin Nicholas brings us the story of Bree and Max. They have been friends their whole lives but Max has deeper feelings and has been fighting his attraction to Bree. She's a town cop and a bit of an adrenaline junkie who loves taking risks. 
He's a tornado specialist and construction company owner whose been her partner in many of her thrill seeking adventures. She always likes to change things up while he's the romantic guy who's ok with things being simple and comfortable for the most part. Can they overcome their differences and meet somewhere in the middle. Is it worth taking the chance of ruining their best friend relationship in hopes of it becoming more?  It will be a wild ride that much is for sure, you won't want to miss it so be sure to order this one and ride out the storm with Bree and Max and follow along as the try to find their happily ever after.

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.

Erin Nicholas has done it again! She hasn't written a book yet that I don't completely love, but I feel like she has outdone herself with Tangled Up!! It's no secret I have one specific hero of hers that's my #1. And while I love love love all her book men, no other guy has had the potential to knock him out of that spot until NOW! MAX!!!!!!! He makes me swoon in a serious way. He's the exact kind of hero I totally melt over. The best friends to lovers story line is one of my top favorites, so it's no surprise that when I read the blurb I knew I would be hooked. But dang! It was beyond expectation. 

I wish I could have a little of Bree's personality. I wanna be adventurous, exciting, brave, spontaneous like she is! She's one fun lady! But, she likes adventure just a bit too much and somehow......someway.......when Max is in a relationship, he's boring!??!!! Yep, these two go way back! 
And Max? You already know how I feel about him. He just does it for me. His sexiness throughout the whole story is off the charts for me! He's had his heart broken once by his best friend. But that doesn't stop his heart from wanting her. From wanting to settle down. But is he going to be enough for her? He had me wanting to wrap him up in a big ol' hug. I just loved him. 

Both Max and Bree knew what they wanted. And they didn't stop until they got it. Did the hit some bumps along the way? Sure. That's what a good romance book is full of! ;) 

I adore this story! :) You will too!!!!
Happy reading!

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 is the second book in the Taking Chances series. I knew this going in, and after a tiny bit of initial confusion over the timeline, I quickly felt up to speed. The book is set in the small town of Chance, Nebraska (I love a small town setting!). Main characters are storm chaser, hero extraordinaire, and all around nice guy, Max Grady and adrenaline junkie/police officer, Bree McDermott. Friends since childhood, they tried the dating thing as teens and it didn’t work out. This seems to have been more Bree’s choice than Max who seems a little bitter about the whole break up. Either way they are content being travel friends and best buds until during a terrifying moment they find themselves hunkered down in a ditch hiding from a tornado and moving straight from friend zone to third base. As they team up to repair the devastation to their beloved town, things get a little angsty (good angsty, not bad) and sexy .

This was such a fun story. I don’t think I have ever read a book about storm chasers and thought that aspect was super cool. I really enjoyed both main characters and their team of friends (who I assume we see more of in books one and three). The setting was exactly what I look for in a contemporary romance (small town, quirky characters, everyone knows your business). I loved the second chance at romance theme. Max and Bree are really perfect together.

Minor peeve would be: Max was a little frustrating at times. He just couldn’t let a good thing happen and accept Bree for who she is. He was overanalyzing everything and seriously needed to stop obsessing over his knee. Goodness! I get it though (especially with what happened on one of their adventure vacations). I was just kind of tired of hearing him whine. Thankfully he eventually pulled his head out of butt and got it together :)

I am thrilled to have discovered the author. I've read another of her books since finishing Tangled Up and she does not disappoint.

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.