I read Emma Hart for the first time this year and she is proving to be quite the master at writing romantic comedy. Mixed Up was well mixed up; long time enemies turn to frenemies and more in this rip roaring hilarious story that was fun to read. 
 Raven Archer is a successful mixologist and owner of the bar Dirty where she happily creates drinks with you guessed it suggestive, dirty names. She's a big of a workaholic and adding a kitchen and food menu to her bar is only adding to her plate especially since she is having a hard time finding an executive chef willing to work in a bar in Whiskey Key, Florida. To top is off her entire big, Greek family is descending in less than a week for a family reunion that her mother has decided should be held in her bar. Her chef brother has taken another job for the summer, but recommends his best friend and her moral enemy, Parker Hamilton, for the job in her kitchen and under duress she has no choice but to hire him. 
 Raven and Parker are a perfect example of two people who have spent years in a pattern of behavior and have no idea how to change it. While at times they seem complete opposites; Raven is sassy and impulsive and Parker is calm and stoic in their domains they are masters; Raven is a cocktail genius and Parker has proven himself as a chef earning three Michelin stars. The barbs and insults that fly between them had me laughing out loud and the tension between them ratcheting higher every day. They were attracted to one another, not that they would ever admit it and Parker is determined to not go there with his best friend's sister. 
 I enjoyed watching the way their relationship changed over the course of this story and the way they began to respect one another's ability at what they do, and then the ways they noticed every little thing about each other. When their animosity towards one another fuels the lust they can't seem to deny, their encounter is smokin' hot and while they want to say it was mistake neither one can deny they want to do it again. 
 Add in Raven's crazy, large family, Parker's meddling mother, co-workers who suspect something is going on and friends whose advice changes constantly and you have one crazy, mixed up romance that leaves you laughing out loud. 
 Mixed Up was flat out funny, but I also loved the fact that these two people who had spent years trying to get under each other's skin, found that they really didn't know one another well and couldn't wait to find out every special little thing about each other. Seriously, that people is what romance is all about! 
 ARC provided by Inkslinger PR for a voluntary review.