3.5 stars

The second book in the Torn trilogy finds Mo settling back into her old life - her life before magic, prophecies, darklings (shadowy, evil magical creatures) and the mysterious Luc. Mo is doing her best to pick up the pieces of her life but it's not long before she's pulled back into Luc's world. Mo agrees to a Covenant with the heads of the Arcs (magic-users) in exchange for her dead best friend's younger sister - Constance recieving help and training after she begins to manifest uncon More...

I liked this book considerably more than the last one. O’Rourke does a good job at fleshing out characters, but Mouse and the others seem even more alive and real in Tangled than they did in Torn. I also liked that Mouse seemed to be making choices instead of reacting based on things happening to her. She chose which guy she wants to be with, even though she still has feelings for the other one.

She chose to try to play the mob to her advantage, even though that’s a dangerous choice indeed. To p More...

After the loss of her best friend to magic, Mo feels it is her obligation to make sure that Verity’s younger sister, Constance, is watched over. When the powers that be realize that the magic is broken, and Constance gets her magical powers early, the Quartoren call upon Mo to fix the magic again. Mo in return asks that someone train Constance so that the girl is able to control herself. It is a big risk Mo takes, yet she realizes what her duties are as the Vessel.

In between dealing with the Qu More...

Constance started to keen as the air around us began to thrash and twist, the caustic scent of ozone burning my nose. As I watched, her dark gold hair began to lift and kick into knots. “I’m here. It’ll be okay.” It was the last thing I said before my best friend’s little sister went supernova in the second-floor girls’ bathroom, taking me with her.


A month ago, Mo Fitzgerald risked her life to stop an ancient prophecy and avenge her best friend’s murder. Now, she only wants to keep her loved one More...

This was such a shock for me, because I never expected it to be much better than the first book! While "Torn" was an okay book, "Tangled" was definitely great! I don't know what exactly made me love it, but I just did. The characters were amazing, and I loved the love triangle! The story almost never got boring, and everything was just fun! Mo, the main protagonist, was a determined and strong character! I especially loved how she didn't just immediately fall for the "magic" guy, but fell in lov More...

Mo isn't quite who she used to be. On the outside she still looks like the same girl but on the inside she is growing and becoming so much more than all of that. Even though she thought she had done all she could and has fulfilled what was expected of her she can't just go back to her life. I mean she can't just become who she was when she just isn't that girl any more.

This book left me torn and conflicted in so many ways it is NUTS! Not in a bad way, I really enjoyed this read. Unlike the firs More...

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Mo (Mouse) Fitzgerald is still adjusting to life without her best friend Verity and the knowledge learned from the events in Torn, including her new role in a supernatural world she never knew existed. As if that wasn’t enough…Mo has her own personal family drama going on that has nothing to do with Supernaturals and everything to do with organized crime and family secrets.

TANGLED picks up shortly after the end of TORN. Mo managed to help stabilize things f More...

Another fantastic series that picks up with a start. Poor Mo. She is being passed around, lied too, manipulated, by all the people who are supposedly "looking out for her." I don't think I have shook my head so much as I read this book. But YAY, for a strong heroine.

The plot of this book is filled with many twist and turn. Mo is dealing with the after affects of what happen in the first book as well as dealing with more family problems. I really like that in this book, the reader gets to see mor More...

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First Impressions: I didn’t realize that Tangled was the second book in a planned trilogy until I sat down to read it. Fortunately, I was informed that Tangled works well as a stand-alone novel if you haven’t read the first book. I was really hoping that would be the case once I sat back down to finish reading. I did go an order myself a copy of the first book, Torn, that way I could go back and read what I missed.

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Tangled by Erica O’Rourke
YA Paranormal Romance- Jan. 31st, 2012
4 stars

Tangled is the second in the YA paranormal series about witches called ARCs.

In the last book Torn, Mo Fitzgerald discovered that her best friend, Verity was an ARC. However, she was unable to save Verity from her evil aunt. Depressed and feared, Mo is now an outcast at her high school. Verity’s younger sister, Constance hates her but is now coming into her ARC powers and is distrustful of Mo and does not believe she is gainin More...

This book starts off a short time after the ending of the previous book in the trilogy, Torn. Mo thought she had fixed the magic but now the Quartoren are calling on her again for assistance. It appears that something went terribly wrong and the magic is coming out earlier in the Arcs and is causing all kinds of problems. Constance, Verity's sister, is one of the Arc's whose magic has come through earlier than usual. Now Mo will have to make a Covenant with the Quartoren in order to get them to More...

I guess, one of the things that I dislike most about this book is the characters. Which is pretty damning.

Between Mo who keeps switching back and forth between Luc and Colin, and everybody else who are dang unlikable, I just couldn't stop gritting my teeth in frustration.

I mean, all of them are flawed and I'm okay with that but none of them are likable except for Lena, Luc and Colin and Mo. The others, I just want to pound their head in. I mean, there's Jill who is pretty much Queen Bitch, Const More...

Dear Erica O'Rourke,

Why do you have to end every book with the world's most epicest ending? I fall so in love with the characters and their story, then I make the mistake of not having the next book with me and I sit there with EPIC disappointment.

Basically, Tangled was everything I was hoping for and I was SO excited about it. Once I started, I couldn't put it down, which became REALLY problematic when I had to do things like take an exam or tutor or ya know, go to class. It was even MORE prob More...

FINALLY! A book with a freaking love triangle that’s actually a love triangle. Gah! I’m just so excited that this book was so different. Often I find myself picking out whom the main character will end up with. I think if the heroine has some kind of feeling for two male characters the reader should feel the same way. It seems pointless if the reader knows whom she’ll pick at the end. Why add a guy the heroine or the reader won’t even consider and complicate the plot? Fortunately, Tangled is not More...

Even though I am an adult I find that I really enjoy reading the young adult genre. And it is books like TANGLED that keep me simply entranced. I found this book to be an absolute page turner.

Mo is struggling to be a normal teenager, to get good grades so that she can escape her Mob family by going to college in New York and trying to decide between two men. She is still struggling from losing her best friend a month ago but is making a new one. Now if only the magic and her Uncle Billy with the More...

I read this every spare moment that I had. I hated to put it down. I cannot wait for Bound!

All of that being said, I am really enjoying this series. I find myself feeling a variety of emotions as the story continues and I love it. I'm never sure exactly who to root for, except for Mo. One moment I'm all "Team Luc" then he does something asinine and I am hoping against hope for Colin. Then he does something out of nowhere so I start thinking "screw 'em both; who needs them!" I love how Mo doesn't More...

n the second book of the Torn trilogy, Mo Fitzgerald is trying to get back to whatever normal life she can have. But it sure isn’t easy. Constance, Verity’s little sister, has just started developing her magic skills, but has no idea that it's even happening, so of course, cannot control what it does to herself and those around her. Mo has no choice but to call on Luc to come to the rescue. When he in turn asks for her help, she feels she cannot say no because she wants to help Constance and thi More...

I just...

I can't...

I just can't do this anymore.

No, really. I was preparing to write this really outraged, snarky review about Mo turning into this bratty, slutty "KISS ME KISS ME KISS ME - now go away until I say so" heroine that just about every YA novel has because that's FEMININE SEXUAL FREEDOM TAKING CONTROL HECK YEAH or some crap like that, but then I realized that I had already written a very nice rant about love triangles for a different book. Pretty recently too. And one before that... More...

Tangled is full of intrigue. Mo, our heroine, is always in a crisis that she seemingly creates for herself. She is being chased by those in her world as well as by those in the world of the Arcs, the magic is killing her because of her apparent inability to mend the broken lines and she doubts herself endlessly. Mo cannot sort through her problems without first starting another and she's involved with a man that she cannot - no, wait - should not be with. This is only the beginning! Poor Mo is l More...

I read the first book in this series, Torn, (review here) and was very happy I had the second book on hand to start right away. I was eager to see what was going to happen next with Mo and what the Arcs were going to ask, well demand really, she do now.

We left Mo after she fixed the magic for the Arcs and thought she was out of the magic world for good, yeah right. She is trying to get back to her life before she lost Verity, but she is slowly realizing that her life is never going to be the sa More...

Readers dive, head first, back into the world of Mo Fitzgerald in Tangled, book 2 of Erica O’Rourke’s Torn Trilogy. The magic isn’t through with Mo just yet, which is unfortunate because the Chicago Mob isn’t finished with her either.
Tangled is high on drama as Mo is forced to make impossible decisions. She’s trying to keep her family and new friends safe and out of the way of the magic and the Mob. Life since she took her place as the Vessel in an Arc prophecy has become more demanding of her t More...

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This was such a shock for me, because I never expected it to be much better than the first book! While "Torn" was an okay book, "Tangled" was definitely great! I don't know what exactly that just made me love it, but I just did. The characters were amazing, and I loved the love triangle! The story almost never got boring, and everything was just fun! Mo, the main protagonist, was a determined and strong character! I especially loved how she didn't just immed More...

When I read book one in this trilogy, I was TORN... Erica is a blog-friend, so I really wanted to like it, but was afraid if I didn't. I needn't have worried. TORN was excellent.

And now, I am completely TANGLED up in the world of book two! Through this story Mo has grown, with a new sense of purpose and identity. I have to find out how it all ends up... I'm BOUND to read book three when it comes out! :)

The character development in this series really is excellent. When you find yourself rooting f More...

Tangled is filled with deception. Mo lives the life of a normal teen while also living a secret magical life. She creates a web of lies as she keeps her magical life a secret from those around her. Even Mo’s normal life isn’t really so normal after all. Her uncle is a mobster and her father is finally being released from prison after many years. Mo’s life hasn’t been easy and she is guarded with her heart. I really like that her family became a part of the story.

What’s this about magic? Well, th More...

If you liked Torn, you will also like Tangled. The story picks up right were it left off. Mo, the mob, and the ARC's (and let's not forget Colin and Luc) I liked this book a little more than the first one because it seemed like Mo was coming more into her own, she no longer has the self esteem issues she did in the last book, and has definitely grown stronger. It's a good thing because she has her work cut out for her between the ARC's who claim she broke the magic, and their world. Also, the MO More...

This was hard to get through, I almost felt as if the story of her life with the Mob and the story of her life with the Arcs should have been two different books. There was not enough time spent with her connection to the Arcs and her relationship was too one sided. Her involvement with Collin was believable and there wasn't enough time spent with Luc to make her indecisiveness more believable. But this is definitely a midway to get to the end. Still loved going through it though, I am certain y More...

Meine Gedanken zum Buch:
Bei dem zweiten Teil der Torn Trilogie ist es für mich nicht leicht eine Rezension zu schreiben. Zu einem habe ich das Buch wieder total schnell, innerhalb von zwei Tagen, gelesen und wollte auch immer wieder wissen, wie es weitergeht. Aber was ich herausgefunden habe und was sich abgespielt hat im Teil ‚Die Wächterin‘, hat mir nicht immer gefallen oder war zum Teil nicht nach meinem Geschmack.

Dieses Mal dreht sich das Buch weniger um die übersinnlichen Aspekte und es kom More...

Mo isn't quite who she used to be. On the outside she still looks like the same girl but on the inside she is growing and becoming so much more than all of that. Even though she thought she had done all she could and has fulfilled what was expected of her she can't just go back to her life. I mean she can't just become who she was when she just isn't that girl any more.

This book left me torn and conflicted in so many ways it is NUTS! Not in a bad way, I really enjoyed this read. Unlike the fir More...

I adored Erica O’Rourke’s first book, TORN, and I won’t lie: I had very high hopes when I went into TANGLED.

Well, I can honestly say that my hopes were met and then some. This sequel takes the twisted, complex plot from book 1 to a whole new level.

Okay, first off: Mo. I adore her–I adore that she’s not The Chosen One, but only the The Chosen One’s BFF. I adore that she goes from being a character to whom stuff happens to a character who makes stuff happen. Her strength–and sometimes misguided ch More...

Eh...this was kind of dissapointing, compared to the first book. Torn was awesome. I loved every page of it. I find it a very unique type of book that has magic, but without the witches and warlocks. So I was very excited to read Tangled. I did enjoy it – however, not as much as the first book.

The Good
- Like I said, I like the type of magic shown in this book, and the story just got even more intense.

- I really like the romance here...which is a love triangle. I only like love triangles that ac More...