Tangled Like Us (Like Us, #3)
Krista Ritchie
How to protect your heart: Let your bodyguard have it. Jane Cobalt is an American princess. The loyal and painfully curious twenty-three-year-old has inherited immense pressure to preserve the Cobalt legacy. But for Jane — sex, love, and life have been a series of royal failures. After a friends-with-benefits ended in disaster, she's sworn to a “no sex” hiatus for, well, eternity — and she has no intention of letting anyone in her bed and definitely not her heart. Twenty-eight-year-old Thatcher Moretti is painfully professional. As the stern 24/7 bodyguard to Jane, thinking about unbridled sex with his sweet client is a sin. One that he keeps committing. But the real act is a hard line he’d never cross. When a family member betrays Jane's trust, the media becomes obsessed with matchmaking the perpetually “single” Jane Cobalt and unwanted attention suddenly compromises her safety. Thatcher would do anything to protect her, and one solution may level the threats: Become the fake boyfriend to an American princess. Entwined together with boiling chemistry, new “professional” parameters, and an oath, unsaid feelings threaten to rise and change everything. The Like Us series is a true series, one continuous timeline, that follows a family of wealthy celebrities and the people that protect them. The Like Us Series Reading Order: 1. Damaged Like Us (Maximoff & Farrow) 2. Lovers Like Us (Maximoff & Farrow) 3. Alphas Like Us (Maximoff & Farrow) 4. Tangled Like Us (Jane & Thatcher) Book 5 (Jane & Thatcher) Book 6 (Maximoff & Farrow) Book 7 (Oscar & Jack) Book 8 (Akara & Sulli)
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0I feel like this series is the very definition of average to me. There's nothing I inherently DISLIKE about them, but there's nothing I really LOVE about them either. They're just... average. They're just... okay.
Personally, I definitely prefer a build up, which this didn't have and neither did Maximoff and Farrow's relationship. They're immediately attracted to each other, there's no tension, no buildup. So when they get together it's like, "Well, okay." It's really not that satisfying in any way. I didn't find their relationship particularly compelling, just like I didn't find Maximoff and Farrow's relationship all that compelling.
Again, there was nothing I DISLIKED about their relationship. It was just. Meh.
It's also super cheesey. Tbh, it's a little cringey to me every single time they mention "these famous famous." They're all just like, "These people are amazing. We'd all die for them." Idk what it is, but every time I'm like, "Honestly, these people really aren't that special."
I find Jane a little annoying too. Like when she speaks French for no reason to people who don't also speak French. Is this a thing people do in real life? I only speak one language with true fluency. But one of my best friends speaks Hebrew fluently and often does with her family. Same for a friend who speaks Greek. But they never randomly speak these languages with me. Why? BECAUSE I DON'T SPEAK THEM!! Idk, I just think it comes across as pretentious to speak to someone in a language they don't speak fluently. Like, it's one thing to curse in a language that's your native language or say things that are cultural. But idk, it just doesn't feel that way with Jane.
But Jane also comes off pretty pretentious in general. Like, I'm not sure it's on purpose, but she says things like, "Oh, you'll be terribly cold" or "That's quite pretty." Who talks like that? I can't tell if the writing is just weird or if Jane is meant to sound like that but. Oh well.
The character I find most compelling is Charlie, and I really wish there was more on him. Also Oscar, but let's be real, the only reason I'm still here is for Oscar and Jack's book. Which will, hopefully, feature lots of Charlie. I have no reason to believe it will be any different, I have no reason to think it'll be anything more than average and yet... I'm still holding out hope.
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