Book Review: Tangled Up in You by Christina Lauren

3⭐
Genre ~ fairy tale fantasy
Series ~ Meant to Be #4
Others in the series ~ are unrelated and share a theme only
Setting ~ road trip from Washington to Georgia
Publication date ~ June 25, 2024
Est Page Count ~ 320 (38 chapters)
Audio length ~ 9 hours 56 minutes
Narrators ~ Patti Murin, Eunice Wong, Andrew Gibson
POV ~ multiple 3rd
Featuring ~ grumpy/sunshine, slow burn, no steamage

My review:

I’ve watched the movie Tangled a gazillion times and it’s one of my favorites, so I had to see what this retelling had to offer.

Ren (22) is our Rapunzel. She’s been living on a homestead with her parents for 20 years, never once attending school. Now she has an opportunity to go to Corona College, where she meets Fitz (22), our Flynn Ryder, AKA Eugene Fitzherbert.

An assignment has her submitting her DNA and the results were shocking. She hitches a ride with Fitz to Georgia to get some answers.

I must say that the authors did an excellent job of making this resonate with the movie. I love that Fitz’s mustang is named Max to go along with the horse in the movie, Maximus. Ren is as naively depicted as you’d expect, however it gives the story YA vibes. She did tell some good jokes, though.

There were some cute moments, like the detours they took on the road trip, but overall, this was so slow moving and I was quite bored for a good portion of it. I didn’t feel the ending on the farm was authentic to the story, but I suppose it’s just their spin on things.

Narration notes:
I did not listen to this one, but am just giving the info above for reference.

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Book blurb:

A witty and deeply romantic modern reimagining of Disney’s Tangled, by the New York Times bestselling author duo Christina Lauren, part of the acclaimed and bestselling Meant to Be collection.

She has a dream. He has a plan. Together they’ll take a leap of faith.

Ren has never held an iPhone, googled the answer to a question, or followed a crush on social media. What she has done: Read a book or two, or three (okay, hundreds). Taught herself to paint. Built a working wind power system from scratch. But for all the books she’s read, Ren has never found one that’s taught a woman raised on a homestead and off the grid for most of her twenty-two years how to live in the real world. So when she finally achieves her lifelong dream of attending Corona College, it feels like her life is finally beginning.

Fitz has the rest of his life mapped out: Graduate from Corona at the top of his class, get his criminal record wiped clean, and pass himself off as the rich, handsome player everyone thinks he is. He’s a few short months from checking off step one of his plans when Ren Gylden, with her cascading blonde hair and encyclopedic brain, crashes into his life, and for the first time Fitz’s plan is in jeopardy.

But a simple assignment in their immunology seminar changes the course of both their lives, and suddenly they’re thrown out of the frying pan and into the fireon a road trip that will lead them in the most unexpected directions. Out on the open road, the world somehow shifts, and the unlikely pair realize that, maybe, the key to the dreams they’ve both been chasing have been sitting next to them the whole time.

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