Review: Indelibly Yours

Indelibly Yours by Monica Myers
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Joel Morris owns a tattoo parlour called Sailor Joey's, with his dark clothes and tattoos he looks like a sexy pirate. No matter how hard he tries, things always seem to go wrong for Joel, his aunt and uncle took out a second mortgage to finance his tattoo parlour , but he's not making any money and he can tell they are worried about their future. [Side peeve, instead of doing something about it Joel just mopes about being grumpy - how does he expect to get new customers without advertising or using social media?]

Olivia Reid is a harassed single mother, running her own business, and someone who has taken care of her twin brother Nolan and then her daughter Abby for so long she is incapable of accepting help from other people. Her twin brother's wife Erin owns an erotic bakery called Sticky Treats (I feel this was probably a funny idea for the first book which got out of hand) and is just expanding into new premises, premises which Joel was hoping would save his business by placing him in an area with greater footfall. Without the new premises his business will probably fail (see my pet peeve above) and his aunt and uncle will lose their money. So all in all Joel is not happy with Olivia's sister-in-law and comes round to the building to 'have a word' but meets Olivia instead and mistakes her for Erin. Typical mistaken identity, insta-lust, prickly exchanges ensue until Joel comes to realise he is unleashing his ire on the wrong woman.

This was a pleasant enough opposites attract romance, Olivia dreams of a solid, dependable Mr Right to look after her and Abby, not realising that the hot tattooed guy could be that man. Joel is afraid of taking a chance, of falling in love, of making himself vulnerable. I fell like I've read a whole load of books very similar to this by Eve Dangerfield or Scarlett Cole and other than erotic confectionary (which I could have done without), it didn't bring anything new to the table.

I received an ARC of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.

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