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A review by booksafety
Permanent Ink by Avon Gale, Piper Vaughn
3.0
Book safety, tropes and tags down below.
You know those books that you know are well written, the content is good, you enjoyed it well enough, but it's still somehow a little underwhelming? That was my experience with this book. There wasn't any one 'bad' thing in the book, I guess I just didn't connect too much with the story, and that's okay. Not every story is going to resonate with me. Maybe it will for you.
It might have been 4 stars if we got to see a bit more of the caring/intimate non-sexual moments between Poe and Jericho. I think they had one or two on-page hugs, and in one of those, you get the feeling that wasn't normal or enjoyable for the MCs. To be fair, I am a sucker for the caregiving Daddy types, touchy-feely characters and all the casual intimacy. That shit is like drugs for me, making me all tingly and warming my cold heart.
The book ended quite abruptly, and I do wish we had gotten an epilogue. This was book one in what looks like it was going to be a series, but no books have been added to it since, and it was released 6 years ago. We probably would have seen more of Jericho and Poe in any future books in the series, so I won't hold the ending against the author.
Book safety
Cheating: No
OM drama: Not in a romantic way, but Poe has a friend that creates a few problems
Third-act breakup: No
POV: 1st person, dual
Strict top/bottom: They don't switch during the book, but Poe (the bottom) is bisexual and has topped
TW/CW: Explicit sexual content, recreational drug use (marijuana), mentions of police arrests, vandalism, mentions of child abandonment
Tropes and tags
Age gap, dad's best friend, bisexual, tattoo studio, apprentice, graffiti, tagging, vandalism, toxic friendship, needy bottom with a submissive streak
Favorite quotes
"Pete, stood in the door and cleared his throat. 'Uh. Jer?' I hated being called Jer. Hated it. 'Yeah, Pee?' He didn’t get it."
"Never doubt that art can change your fucking life. Or that you should use a goddamn spell-check program before you let someone near you with a fucking tattoo machine."
"What could I say? I fucking loved being used. It turned me on like nothing else."
"'Art is sacrifice, Poe. Do you think van Gogh would’ve sunk to doing tattoos for cash?' I rolled my eyes. 'I think he, like a lot of artists, died broke as hell and probably would’ve been grateful for any job that paid him to create, to be honest.'"
You know those books that you know are well written, the content is good, you enjoyed it well enough, but it's still somehow a little underwhelming? That was my experience with this book. There wasn't any one 'bad' thing in the book, I guess I just didn't connect too much with the story, and that's okay. Not every story is going to resonate with me. Maybe it will for you.
It might have been 4 stars if we got to see a bit more of the caring/intimate non-sexual moments between Poe and Jericho. I think they had one or two on-page hugs, and in one of those, you get the feeling that wasn't normal or enjoyable for the MCs. To be fair, I am a sucker for the caregiving Daddy types, touchy-feely characters and all the casual intimacy. That shit is like drugs for me, making me all tingly and warming my cold heart.
The book ended quite abruptly, and I do wish we had gotten an epilogue. This was book one in what looks like it was going to be a series, but no books have been added to it since, and it was released 6 years ago. We probably would have seen more of Jericho and Poe in any future books in the series, so I won't hold the ending against the author.
Book safety
Spoiler
Cheating: No
OM drama: Not in a romantic way, but Poe has a friend that creates a few problems
Third-act breakup: No
POV: 1st person, dual
Strict top/bottom: They don't switch during the book, but Poe (the bottom) is bisexual and has topped
TW/CW: Explicit sexual content, recreational drug use (marijuana), mentions of police arrests, vandalism, mentions of child abandonment
Tropes and tags
Spoiler
Age gap, dad's best friend, bisexual, tattoo studio, apprentice, graffiti, tagging, vandalism, toxic friendship, needy bottom with a submissive streak
Favorite quotes
"Pete, stood in the door and cleared his throat. 'Uh. Jer?' I hated being called Jer. Hated it. 'Yeah, Pee?' He didn’t get it."
"Never doubt that art can change your fucking life. Or that you should use a goddamn spell-check program before you let someone near you with a fucking tattoo machine."
"What could I say? I fucking loved being used. It turned me on like nothing else."
"'Art is sacrifice, Poe. Do you think van Gogh would’ve sunk to doing tattoos for cash?' I rolled my eyes. 'I think he, like a lot of artists, died broke as hell and probably would’ve been grateful for any job that paid him to create, to be honest.'"