Review : Inked Hearts by Lindsay Detwiler
Title: Inked Hearts
Author: Lindsay Detwiler
Publication Date: October 21st, 2017
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Rate: 3,5 / 5 stars
This book tells the story of a
woman who just got divorced after finding her husband cheating. Tired of all
the advice, gossip and pity from friends and family, she decides to move states
and leave her life behind in pursuit of a new Avery, a Avery that does
what she wants, explores and tries new things and gives old interests a second
shot. Avery finds a new home, new friends, a new job and new love interest, a
love interest that is sweet, brings adventure into her life, makes her try new
and old things, is sexy AF, especially with all those tattoos.
Both Avery and Jesse have
their own ghosts and when they face each other they don't come out
unscarred. Jesse has been disappointed by women since a very early age and
is afraid it will happen again. Avery doesn't know if she can trust a man with
her heart again.
This love story is very
realistic, it's about second chances, opening your heart again to the
possibility of love and learning to trust again, not just someone else but also
yourself.
It was a good and sweet story,
I just don't think I connected with it, hence the 3,5 stars.
Blurb:
“Six years, a complex about my freckles, a love for pastrami, and a fear of failure.That’s what he gave me before slaughtering my heart and my faith in men.”
Suffering from the sting of betrayal, twenty-eight-year-old Avery Johannas quits her job and moves hundreds of miles away to Ocean City, the beach town of her dreams. With the help of her zany roommate, Jodie, Avery finds a new career, home, and freedom. Throughout her self-exploration, she makes only one rule: She won’t give her heart to a man again. She’s living for herself this time.
But then she meets Jesse.
A tattoo shop owner, the green-eyed Jesse Pearce is wild with a touch of mystery. As Jesse and Avery explore Ocean City and their friendship, they’ll have a hard time drawing a line in the sand between their hearts.
When summer nights get a little more heated than either expected, they’ll have to ask themselves: Can they let go of their notions of love, or will their hearts be permanently inked by past pain?
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About Lindsay Detwiler
An English teacher, an author, and a fan of anything pink and/or glittery, Lindsay’s the English teacher cliché; she loves cats, reading, Shakespeare, and Poe.
She currently lives in her hometown with her husband, Chad (her junior high sweetheart); their cats, Arya, Amelia, Alice, Marjorie, and Bob; and their Mastiff, Henry.
Lindsay’s goal with her writing is to show the power of love and the beauty of life while also instilling a true sense of realism in her work. Some reviewers have noted that her books are not the “typical romance.” With her novels coming from a place of honesty, Lindsay examines the difficult questions, looks at the tough emotions, and paints the pictures that are sometimes difficult to look at. She wants her fiction to resonate with readers as realistic, poetic, and powerful. Lindsay wants women readers to be able to say, “I see myself in that novel.” She wants to speak to the modern woman’s experience while also bringing a twist of something new and exciting. Her aim is for readers to say, “That could happen,” or “I feel like the characters are real.” That’s how she knows she’s done her job.
Lindsay’s hope is that by becoming a published author, she can inspire some of her students and other aspiring writers to pursue their own passions. She wants them to see that any dream can be attained and publishing a novel isn’t out of the realm of possibility.
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