I listened to the audio version of this book in dual narration by Patrick Zeller and Victoria Connelly. Their narration were great and perfect for this story. The voices were pleasant to listen to and easily discernible.

This is the first book in the Tangled Hearts series, and it does not have a conclusion. Guess I'll be looking for the second. It is an office romance with some power issues thrown in. Rowan's family has owned their business for decades and Holden is swooping in to buy a majority part of it. Somebody forgot to tell the two not to miss business and pleasure, but that makes it better for readers. The steam is really hot. There is also a part about Holden's past that really adds to the story.

The book is fairly long and then there is no conclusion. The reader is left hanging. If that's not your thing, move on.

Thanks to Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for the audio copy. All thoughts are my own.

Wowza! This book follows Holden who despite being wealthy hates those around him and is seeking revenge and Rowan who is old money wealthy but finding herself constantly silenced.

This book is definitely the start of a solid series and I am excited to see where it goes. It was a little bit of a slow starter for me because I needed something to get me hooked and the way their relationship develops was what got me there. Then once I was hooked I found myself not ready to have the book end. And that spice was a 10 out of 10!

That ending ... How could they do that to us? I will definitely be picking the next up in the series.

Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read this series.

First things first: THIS IS NOT A STANDALONE! This is important because it ends on a cliffhanger so if you go into this one expecting everything to be all wrapped up with a bow at the end you are going to be surprised when it is not.

Okay now, I listened to an ALC from MacMillan Audio (thank you all so much!!) narrated by Victoria Connolly and Patrick Zeller who do an AMAZING job. I love when audios have dual narration because it makes it easier to picture the characters in my head and feel more connected with their stories. This is my first book by K. Bromberg but will definitely not be my last! I was invested in Rowan and Holden's story and I liked that there's some mystery and darkness in this book but still has romance and lots of steam. This is an enemies to lovers, forbidden romance, revenge plot between the daughter of a wealthy family and the very wealthy and mysterious man who is taking over her family's company. Since he's become her boss now it's also a workplace romance(; Rowan Rothschild is the black sheep of her wealthy family; she's strong, intelligent, and fully capable of running the family business that she's worked so hard for but since she's a woman, her family and the rest of the town expect her to get married and settle down into a domestic role she has no interest in while her brother gets everything she dreams of and he doesn't deserve. Holden Knight is a mysterious self made billionaire intent on taking down her family's business from the inside and Rowan's brother has handed him the keys to their downfall without even realizing it.

The chemistry between Rowan and Knight is off the charts and you know they're inevitable despite all the reasons Rowan should run long and far in the opposite direction. I enjoyed how their relationship develops and the pace of the story. As secrets come to light, we see why Knight acts the way he does and why he hates Rowan's family so much. And honestly she should hate them too but is very loyal to them throughout despite how misplaced that loyalty is. The banter is great and there are many steamy scenes and moments of tension that will have you anxiously waiting to see what's gonna happen next. I look forward to seeing where this series goes and hope to continue with the audio version because the narrators are fantastic and I felt like I could listen to them for hours straight. They perfectly fit the characters and are clear and easy to listen to.

This is a quick, drama filled, spicy, tense romance coming out on September 24, so if it sounds like something you're into definitely check it out! I definitely recommend the audio to any audio fans out there.

🖤enemies to lovers
💙billionaire romance
🖤revenge
💙forbidden romance
🖤dark elements
💙forced proximity
🖤flashbacks
💙touch her and die
🖤reluctant attraction
💙workplace romance
🖤dual pov
💙hate to love

Thank you MacMillan Audio for the digital ALC. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
Out September 24, 2024 so add to your tbr.

This audiobook is really good but man is it extra spicy with open door action. The story is perfectly crafted with revenge, lust, deceit, and falling for each other . Holden buys a family company and plans to destroy the elder brother and the company but falls for Rowan, the little sister. It is going to be a brutal wait for book #2!

🎧 Book Review 🎧 This book was juicy!!! I was too young for Dynasty but I did watch some of the reboot and this one gave me all the complex familial vibes but with so much more depth. While Rhett may be the shiny golden trophy boy of the Rothschild family, Rowan is the true brains and heart of the family. Reeling from the loss of the matriarch, and with the risk of losing the family business, a new face in town, Holden Knight swoops in to take over Tin Spirits. Revenge may be best served cold but K. Bromberg writes one hot story, filled with so many twists and turns beautifully read by Victoria Connolly and Patrick Zeller that will absolutely keep you listening for more.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

I’ve read every book by this author and it is by far her best book. Rowan is a strong female lead whose family takes her for granted. Holden is a powerful man with revenge on his mind. Of course, being strong willed they clash a lot. Angst, intrigue, romance and a WTH cliffhanger. Can’t wait for the next book in the series. Audio was provided by Netgalley for a honest review.

NOT AN ENDING WITH A TWISTY CLIFFHANGER!!!!
😩😩😩😩

While I’m not the biggest fan of billionaire romances, I do love a revenge love story. What I don’t love? Cliffhangers!! Ugh. Even though I knew this was the first in a new series, I wasn’t expecting the ending to be so… twisty, surprising, and unresolved.

That being said, I liked the MMC and his revenge plan for justice for his family. I also liked that there was a good amount of spice from the start. Spice was 3-3.5/5 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Honestly can’t wait for the second book because I’m invested now!!

(Thank you, Tor Publishing Group, Macmillan Audio, and NetGalley, for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.)

Tropes:
Revenge romance
Enemies to 🖤
Workplace romance
Boss x employee
Billionaire alpha MMC

I did not realize this ended in a cliffhanger and now I’m deceased. 😭

3⭐️
3🌶️

Aah didn’t know this was first of a series! At the ending I cussed a bit as it ends in a cliffhanger! ;)
I should’ve known as I’ve read Driven series. This one is way better in my opinion. Both FMC and MMC are strong characters. The pace is just right. Can’t wait for the next book! Narration was good.

Happy to have received this ALC from Netgalley for my honest opinion.
I’ve always enjoyed this author’s books so I had a feeling this would be no different. I did not know this was a cliffhanger but it is so good I didn’t even care. I will anxiously await the next one.
The narration is excellent and added such a level to the emotions in the characters that you can’t always get by reading and helps to really connect with both of them. Young Holden really got to me. In fact, even the way older Holden expresses his feelings is done so well by this narrator I felt him.
I love a good enemies to lovers romance and this story is really good and sucks you right in. I love Holden and Rowan, can’t wait for book two.

Thank you macmillan audio for the #gifted ALC to read and review

Well… I was unaware that this was not a standalone and my jaw just hit the floor when the credits started 😆☠️ so… I’m going to need the next book immediately 😅

Expect 👉🏼 Billionaire, Enemies to Lovers, Office Romance, Alpha, Revenge

Rowan is desperately trying to prove to her misogynistic family that she deserves a seat at the table. Her brother is a man and gets handed everything, while Rowan has had to work her way up from the bottom. Under her lazy brother’s leadership, the company is in trouble. In walks Holden Knight to save the day.

Through the secret meetings and underhanded deals, Rowan finds that Holden is a better ally than her family. The chemistry is strong and the sparks fly with these two. But Holden is still keeping secrets.

I love a good revenge story! The plotting and scheming and payback? I’m here for it 😆😅🫣 but I also wasn’t kidding. I NEED the second book. I was not ready for that cliffhanger 😅

Okay, so for some reason I had in my head that this was a fantasy book so imagine my surprise when, in fact, this is a contemporary romance with hella rich people, a sexy jaded male lead and a misunderstood and fierce female lead.

All things I love, I just spent the first hundred pages waiting for one of them to turn into some kind of mythical creature.. Spoiler, they don't. I’m just an idiot. 🤦🏽‍♀️

Okay so its a contemporary romance and when I realized no one was a shifter or faerie, i quickly fell in love with this book. The characters are dynamic as hell, with backstories that will make you weep and motivation that has made them into stone.

Rowan comes from a wealthy family where it is assumed her role is to be barefoot in the kitchen cooking a bunch of buns in the oven. Holden is the selfmade bajillionaire that basically buys out her family company. He has secrets and motivations that, if ever came to light, would destroy so much of what he has built. Rowan just wants a seat at the table, she wants the company and the job and a worth beyond being a homemaker.

Its messy and complicated and the end left me shook. Idk when the next book comes out but i’m going to need it now, please and thank you!

I absolutely could not put this down. Twisted Knight is a story that just grabbed me from word one and did not let me think about anything else even days after I finished reading it. I was consumed by Holden and Rowan's story of small town secrets, power plays, and fiery sexual tension. Holden is a mysterious man who buys his way into Rowan's family business. A business she wants to run, but being a woman she has been overlooked for her entitled brother. Rowan is the only one who sees through the easy purchase, and is trying to figure out Holden's end game. Holden is back to avenge his brother. But the closer he gets to Rowan, the more distracted he becomes. They don't fully trust each other, but their chemistry is a pull their bodies can't fight. As they get closer, they let their guard down for each other. But when secrets are revealed, the ultimate betrayal changes everything! Holden and Rowan are both great characters and I loved their banter, the push/pull between them, and their chemistry is explosive! Rowan is smart, strong, and caring, and is the kind of heroine I want to read about. Holden is a mystery, and I loved the way Bromberg told his story through flashback sequence, helping me to learn, understand, and empathize with him. Their gripping story is breathtaking and so beautifully written, slowly revealing some secrets, but adding more intrigue as well. I am so invested in Holden and Rowan and was completely stunned at the end! I can't wait to find out what happens next!
The narration by Patrick Zeller and Victoria Connolly was outstanding! They are so perfect as Holden and Rowan, as they not only build the tension of the story, but the fiery attraction between them as well. They conveyed the depth and complexity of all the different emotions so beautifully. I always love Zellers work, but this is my first listen to Connolly and she was awesome. I always love finding new voice actors to listen to. Zeller and Connolly's narration was breathtaking, and I was completely lost in their moving performance!

4 stars for the narration. No rating for the book.

Okay. *Inhales deeply, exhales slowly* Twisted Knight is marked as fantasy on the main shelves on Goodreads. Yes, I know how the shelves work. It’s also published by Tor Bramble—Tor is a SciFi/Fantasy publisher and Bramble is a romance imprint. The cover presents as fantasy. Based on this information, I inferred Twisted Knight would be a romantasy. It is not. No, I haven’t read anything by the author before. I haven’t ever heard of the author. After listening to it, I did look at the main Tor Bramble page, and it says Bramble puts out contemporary (non-fantasy) books as well.

I did not enjoy the book. It’s not my genre, and I don’t like reading explicit content, which the book has a TON of. I’m not going to be a tool and give it a low rating, though. I wouldn’t normally read this genre or content, so it wouldn’t be fair to ding it.

The underlying story for this did pique my interest. The main conflict, a hostile company takeover by a man who has an axe to grind against a wealthy Southern family that wronged him when he was younger. It was pretty intricately plotted, I was able to suspend my disbelief a bit (some of the stuff wasn’t really Southern, such as “crayfish” they’re either crawfish or mudbugs) If the story had been set in a world with magic and swords and stuff and fantastical weirdness, it would have appealed more to me.

I’d say the narration is pretty good. Connolly’s voices were great and Zeller matched Holden’s personality perfectly. The accents were kinda generic, but not too badly done.

Content warning: copious amounts of explicit language and sexual content.

My thanks to Tor Bramble via Macmillan Audio for the ALC, for which I willingly give my own, honest opinion.

#twistedknight #macaudio2024 #kbromberg #explicitcontent #romance #tor #bramble

At first, I wasn’t sure this book was any different than any other millionaire romance. It’s a plot of revenge and that is very intriguing! It was well written with an intricate plot and well developed characters. I didn’t like Rowan at first. She seemed needy and weak, but her character grew throughout the book. Both Holden and Rowan had solid goals throughout the story. Their relationship was sexy and sometimes serious and sometimes fun. There was definitely a lot of push pull conflict between the two of them. The spicy scenes were hot. Sometimes I felt like the author was telling me about their relationship more than showing me. How about that ending though? Wow! I’m looking forward to the next one! The narrators were amazing really bringing this story to life! Huge thanks to Macmillan Audio and Netgalley for allowing me to listen and review this audiobook.

I really, really, really wish I would have known that Twisted Knight was the first book in a series. I was hoping so badly for resolution by the end of the book and was so sad that I have to wait for book 2!!! K. Bromberg's books are instant reads for me, so now I will try to wait patiently for the next part.

Holden is a ruthless business man who is planning to take over Rowan's family's company. Rowan has been pushed into a corner even though she is the smartest business person, not just the face of the alcohol brand. Holden has a serious vendetta against this family and we start to learn more and more. I truly did not like Rowan's family... but Holden ended up getting to see Rowan for the amazing woman that she is. Of course, it is never that easy. Intrigue, business ventures, and backstabbing, this was super fast-paced and I LOVED how Bromberg was able to make me love Holden, despite initially thinking that he was an incredible jerk.

Narration by Patrick Zeller and Victoria Connolly was spot on - even when they were reading the character of the opposite sex, it wasn't jarring - flowed very nicely.

I want to start by stating that the reaction I had after listening to this audiobook for *not a short period of time* just to get to the end and *BAM*, was visceral in nature and just sucked all the joy out of me. It wasn't so much that we were getting a cliffhanger, because I knew after just a handful of chapters that if this particular story ended in just one book, the author wouldn't be able to give the saga/revenge plot justice or the romance for that matter, but rather because NOWHERE does it state this book is 1 of a number, nowhere. To me, that's a form of deception, and it happens more often than I care to even dwell on right now. I need to trust that the information set forth in advertising is truthful and complete. This wasn't and it makes me angry.

That being said, let's talk about the "cliffhanger" that set this entire story on fire. Seriously? That's the best you can do? After a reader goes thru 400 pages or 14 hours of listening time, THAT'S what you use as a plot-twist? Well, that notched up my anger to nuclear and REALLY sucked my joy.

I keep mentioning *my joy* because I loveD this story! I loved the premise and the writing. I especially give props for not dragging out finding out the circumstances of Holden's brother, because it gave Holden 's character justification and rationalization. The smalltown *haves/have nots* was represented very well and even Rowan's character was identified perfectly for that scenario. It was ALL pretty perfect, until BAM.

It took me 4 days to be calm enough to write this with a few F-bombs LOL and I'm proud of myself, but to be honest, I'm really not sure I will be trusting my limited free time to this story or this author from this point forward AND I HATE THAT MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE.

Thank you, Macmillian Audio, for allowing me to listen to this ALC in exchange for honest feedback.

Let me start with… oh. my! This audiobook grabbed me from the beginning and the tension with enemies to lovers. The shift in their interactions, the denial from both of them, and when you finally get to acceptance, you hit with massive betrayal from both of them. My only criticism is the ending that leaves you wanting more!

Twisted Knight is the perfect combo of Kings of Sin/Twisted series by Ana Huang and books like The Hating Game by Sally Thorne! It’s got angsty, revenge wanting Holton Knight who is new in the scene (but is he really?👀) who is buying out the family company that Rowan has always wanting to come into control of. There’s workplace romance, spice, enemies to lovers, slow burn, an amount of suspense, dual timeline(ish) and so much more!
This audiobook was crazy and I was so wrapped up in wanting Rowan and Holton’s happy ending but let me tell you, I DIDN’T GET IT! And I kind of loved that?👀😂 A romance + suspense book that ends on a romance cliffhanger was kind of crazy and so unexpected that I loved it!
I’m really looking forward to keeping an eye out to listen to the next book and I’m so thankful I was able to listen to an early copy of this audiobook, thanks to Macmillan Audio!💛

✨ALC Review✨

Y’all. I am so into this revenge plot. Fair warning: It does end on a cliffhanger and you will scream into the void because you NEED the next book.

So, we have Rowan, a VP in her family’s spirits empire, who plans to take over the company someday. But wait. What’s this? Holden Knight swoops in and gets a majority share in the company. She’s furious but also super attracted to the handsome multi-millionaire who is ruining her life.

Holden has his own reasons for obtaining control of her family’s company. All will be revealed eventually.

In the meantime, he’s luring her to his dark side with his good looks, confidence, charisma, and seeing her for who she is not just what she looks like.

This is narrated by one of my favorites, @victoriaconnollynarrator, and a new-to-me, @patrickzelleraf. They did an exceptional job and I’m metaphorically dying to get my ears on the next book.

Thank you to #netgalley and @Macmillan.Audio for the ALC. All thoughts are mine alone.

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