Blog Tour: Inked Hearts - Lindsay Detwiler

Inked Hearts

by Lindsay Detwiler 

Publication Date: October 21, 2017 

Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

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“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?

I was super excited when the blurb for Inked Hearts crossed my desk.  This sounded so good.  An inked hero?  Sign me up.  Then I started reading it.  This is a slow burn folks.  And I mean slow.  It made the story seem to drag at times.  That being said, it was an incredibly sweet story and a journey about finding love after getting burned with a little bit of finding yourself thrown in.

Avery has spent years conforming to what she thought she should be.  And it just resulted in her getting burned.  Scorned, she takes off to find a new life away from the old.  She’s a little bit spunky, a whole lot of sweet, and definitely guarded.  Jesse Pearce helps to wipe away an old memory with the pain of his tattoo needle.  He’s a closed off, tender alpha man that’ll be sure to make you melt.  I really enjoyed the connection that these two formed.  It was a strangers to friends to lovers type of situation.  But like I said, it is a slow burn.  If you’re looking for sparks right away, find a different book.  Also this is a “closed door” romance.  So if you want to see some action, this isn’t the one for you.

Overall, a really sweet story but a little slow for my taste.  There is a tiny bit of drama that seemed a tad out of the blue but did fit with the story line well.  All in all, a pleasant way to spend an afternoon.

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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