Sweet Madness!!!
Those are the first two words that came to me as I got done reading "Entwine." I cannot begin to count the amount of times that I said to myself "What the hell???" while reading.
Some authors fall short in their follow up books in a series where the first book in the series remains the best and the others manage to be progressively worse. Thank God Evelyn Harper has stayed away from this trend.
I had so many conflicting emotions while reading the book but at the end of it I could sum up both stories by saying “Any time you open up your heart, you risk getting hurt.”
I screamed at Jennifer throughout the book for being such an over-thinker. I thought I was good at over thinking things but Jennifer takes the cake. Things are very rarely as they appear to be or rather as we think they appear to be.
What I saw as I read was that both ladies Jennifer & Amanda have poor self-esteem…both continually put themselves down thinking that the man they’re with couldn’t possibly want them. He should want someone prettier, smarter, sophisticated, well-connected, wealthier…this made the characters seem real in the sense that there are millions of women who do this constantly…we are our own worst enemies at times comparing ourselves to other women. Someone will always be prettier, smarter, and wealthier than you…but you have to trust that if a guy is with you there must be something special about you that he can’t get in anyone else or doesn’t even want to try finding it in anyone else.
For the life of me I couldn't understand how Amanda would trust Mathis so blindly and I wondered if there was any truth to the saying that says "Love is Blind." I don't think love is blind at all though. I think it sees the sign slapping it across the face and it repeatedly turns the other cheek because it hopes.
This book has left me beautifully frustrated in that I felt like so much was said yet at the same time. Ms. Evelyn is doing a great job of not revealing all her cards too soon. This was definitely worth more than 5 stars.
Eager to see what happens next.