A review by piperclover
Permanent Ink by Avon Gale, Piper Vaughn

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

I am pleasantly surprised by this. I went into it expecting to have a pretty good time but I didn't think I would like it as much as I did. I was kind of just expecting a fairly quick and simple story about an older tattoo artist falling for his best friends mildly delinquent son and that being the tension and conflict of the whole book but there is actually a lot more happening.  

Poe and his dad have a very strained relationship but they both love each other deeply but neither know how to reach out or get though to the other.  So when Poe and Jericho behin dating, there is conflict between all 3 of them.  I am a sucker for completely consensual mildly forbidden relationships so this conflict with Poe father and Landon was my cup of tea. 

 But then it continued and we got conflict between Poe and Jericho because they obviously have different ideas of what art is and what art should be and so they butt heads all the time about Poe's graffiti and the friends he graffitis with.  Poe's friend Blue is deep into graffiti and clings desperately to the starving artist image, so much so that he can't get over Poe channeling his art and passion for it into a legal career.  When Blue finally snaps, he

vandalizes Jericho's tattoo shop so then we get that conflict plus Jericho and Poe working through how to handle Blue and his mess.   If the next book isn't Callum and Blue, I'm going to be very disappointed

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