Tangled Up In You (A small town grumpy sunshine romance!)

Love getting to visit Whisper Lake again. I live in Colorado and can picture the quaint mountain town very clearly. I’ve been intrigued by Adam in the previous books as he’s always so serious and can tell he’s closed off. Yet he is always the first to help his family and friends out. I knew it would take a sassy, firecracker to bring him out of his shell and loosen up. Molly is a free spirit, who has always longed to form roots and settle down. She spent almost 3 years in Whisper Lake as a teenager and has very fond memories of the town and people. When she literally collides into Adam, you know that they are in for a wild ride. Barbara weaves a beautiful story, with great main and secondary characters that draws you in. It can be read as a standalone, but I always suggest reading the entire series. I voluntarily reviewed an Advanced Readers Copy of this book.

Barbara Freethy has done it again! I absolutely loved Tangled Up in You, it is an incredible love at first sight love story. It is the sixth book in the Whisper Lake series. Each book in the series gets better and better, but I think that Tangled Up in You is my favorite story in the series so far. Barbara Freethy has once again shown that she is an amazing storyteller. I could not put it down. I loved every moment on every page. I really enjoy how the book is told from the perspective of the main characters. I love getting the insight and feelings from the different characters. Tangled Up in You is a love at first sight love story and is filled with heartbreaking and heartwarming moments. I love the lighter moments where I find myself smiling and laughing out loud. My favorite moments are the ones that pull at my heartstrings that cause me to sigh, as I read the heartbreaking moments. Tangled Up in You is filled with such moments, and with so much emotion. It is filled with all those things that we have come to love and expect in a Barbara Freethy love story, especially the poignant and bittersweet moments that filled this page turner. I love how Barbara Freethy always manages to create the "perfect" heroine, who is a strong, sassy woman on her own, to balance out the sexy, swoon worthy man. Tangled Up in You is the story of Adam Cole, Whisper Lake police detective and Molly Trent, new owner of A Better You. Molly and Adam meet when Molly accidentally runs into an injured Adam running after someone broke into A Better You. Molly recently inherited A Better You from Phoebe Haller following her unexpected recent death. Molly spent some of her high school years in Whisper Lake working for Phoebe. Conversation between Molly and Adam flows so easily, I love that both Molly and Adam share secrets with one another that they have not shared with anyone before, especially his feelings about what happened with Gina that Adam reveals to Molly. I love that they were both so vulnerable and that they both change because they are willing to take the risk to have a relationship. As Molly and Adam spend time together, with Adam investigating the break ins, things change between them. I love all the changes that Molly was willing to make in her life, because she wants a future with Adam. I loved the multiple plot twists in the story, and how they are all so wonderfully resolved in this incredible love story. I loved that Tangled Up in You is a more than just a romance, there are dilemmas that both Molly and Adam are facing that need to be resolved. I love that there were multiple storylines: Molly’s fear of staying in one place, Adam’s recovery from his injury, the mystery behind Caroline Montgomery’s missing diamond, but most importantly Molly and Adam’s love story. I love how all the storylines get so beautifully resolved. Love Molly’s heart-to-heart with her mother, Diana. I love all the descriptions of the Whisper Lake setting that Barbara Freethy detailed, it makes me want to visit. Tangled Up in You is filled with the poignant and bittersweet moments in the story as well as the plot twists, that I have come to love and expect in Barbara Freethy's stories. I love the cast of characters in Tangled Up in You, and I am looking forward to reading the other books in the series. Who doesn’t love family and friends that always have each other’s backs? Reading Tangled Up in You felt like a family reunion, because the reader was able to catch up with the other characters in the series. I love Molly’s interactions with Chloe, Hannah, Lizzie, and Chelsea, they felt like real friends, but my favorite part was Adam’s exchanges with his sisters. My favorite part was the epilogue and how it went above the happily ever after, especially with Adam’s proposal. Love what Molly did with Phoebe’s ashes. I thoroughly enjoyed Tangled Up in You, who doesn’t love a love at first sight love story. Highly recommend this incredible love story and am so looking forward to reading the next book in the series. 

ARC for honest review with no compensation Tangled Up in You is book 6 in the Whisper Lake series by Barbara Freethy and another awesome read! Up next is Adam Cole and Molly Trent. Molly is back in Whisper Lake after receiving word of an inheritance and hoping this may be the start. Crashing into Adam Cole, detective on the police force but on the DL starts a series of events that’s leads to discovering who, what and why they are trying to break into Molly’s store. Suspense, vulnerability, risks, romance and more…such a well written book that hold your attention the the last word is read!! Can’t wait for the next book in this series.