Take Me (Entangled Ever After, #4)

by Diane Alberts

• ISBN10: 1508883157
• ISBN13: 9781508883159
• Publish Date: 16 February 2015 (first published 26 August 2013)
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 158
• Language: English

Reviews

[Angie]

Finally one of these novellas took advantage of the getting drunk and married in Vegas cliche! Take Me focuses on Mike, the brother of Brianna and Kiersten. He's the stereotypical perpetual bachelor, who thinks marriage is for chumps. Then he meets the female version of himself. Morgan is a dancer who refuses to be tied down and give up her dream like her mother did. Of course, they hook up, but then part ways. Fate shoves them back together, they go out, get plastered, and wake up with wedding rings. Instead of immediately getting it annulled, they have more sex, and agree to give their marriage a week to see what happens. Morgan is hesitant, but Mike is convinced this all must have happened for a reason.

I actually really liked Take Me. Morgan and Mike are great together! Their chemistry is through the roof, and I loved that they weren't even looking for love, but found it anyway. I'm also a sucker for Elvis weddings. Everything was going great, if predictably, but then that epilogue happened. I could totally buy into their falling in love and staying married, but the pregnancy? No way. Morgan made it very clear that there would be no kids for her until after her dancing career is through, if ever. And yet, there they are expecting a baby. It was played off as an accident, but it was totally unbelievable given the circumstances. I wish the author had left it as just Morgan and Mike, since not every couple has to have kids, especially ones that didn't even want them in the first place.

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[Cocktails and Books]

Diane Alberts amazes me. Why? Because she manages to create these stories for Entangled that are hot, sweet and hard to put down.

In TAKE ME, we finally get to meet the woman that manages to knock Mike Worth on his ass. And the mighty have fallen fast and hard.

Mike Worth was determined to love'em and leave'em. But when he meets Morgan, the female version of himself, he suddenly finds all his reasoning for swearing off relationships, love and marriage a load of crap. Now he's determined to prove that he's more than his "stop light" theory and he can be everything Morgan wants and doesn't realize she needs.

I loved how hard and fast Mike fell for Morgan. He absolutely deserved to find a woman who was just like him and brought him down. Without realizing what happened, he fell for the dancer and didn't want to let her go. He faced a very uphill battle, against his own prejudices, coming out of the mouth of the woman he didn't want to be without. You felt bad for him. He may have spewed his nonsense around to his buddies, but he knew immediately that things were different with Morgan. It scared the hell out of him, but he was willing to try a relationship with her. Unfortunately for Mike, Morgan wasn't so willing.

Morgan was adamant she wasn't going to let any many stop her from living out her dream. When she met Mike and overheard his little speech to his friends, she figured he was just like everyone else. But fate stepped in and tied Morgan to Mike. She may not have been happy about that, but she was willing to give him a week to live out their relationship fantasy before moving on. Mike pushed Morgan for more and she continued to run away from anything that seemed like a commitment, but when Mike finally gives Morgan what she wants, she realizes that everything she thought she believed it was a lie when it came to Mike.

I really enjoyed this one and wish it could have been a bit longer, just so I could have more time with Mike and Morgan. They were an absolute pleasure to read and I wanted more of both of them struggling with their quick emotional attachment to the other. That said, this novella was hard to put down and one that I savored as I read through the pages.