New Ink on Life (Thorn & Thistle, #1)

Posted on 01 September 2017 by Jennie Davids

Quiet does not equal weak Leaving a dependable job to apprentice as a tattoo artist was a drastic step after surviving breast cancer, but Cassie Whiteaker is nearly five years cancer free Nearly She s not ready to go out on her own until she clears that all important hurdle Also off limits are relationships and sex something Cassie is sure she ll never want again.Struggling tattoo shop owner MJ Flores doesn t give a damn what people think, but losing Thorn Thistle would mean losing everything When her former mentor s prot g arrives at her door, MJ hires her out of obligation at first Cross stitching goody goodies are not her type, but Cassie s business background might just get the shop back on solid footing They strike a bargain Cassie will enact new marketing plans and MJ will teach her to find her inner bitch.Only when clients request to see Cassie having learned of the beautiful, compassionate tattoos she creates for survivors and their families does MJ realize all Cassie has endured And as Cassie s fears fade, she finds it harder to keep her admiration for her bad girl boss from reawakening all she d feared was lost.This book is approximately 82,000 wordsOne click with confidence This title is part of the Carina Press Romance Promise all the romance you re looking for with an HEA HFN It s a promise Read New Ink on Life (Thorn & Thistle, #1) author Jennie Davids – kino-fada.fr 3.75 Stars I didn t really have any expectations going into this book I don t have any tattoos but I ve always been the support friend to go and help distract my friends from the pain of theirs Personally, I d love to geek out and get a big dragon tattoo going down my arm, but I m not doing that at the local buy one get one free tattoo shop I would want to go to NYC or LA and get a real piece of art, so until then I m inkless But luckily, being inkless didn t stop me one bit from really 3.75 Stars I didn t really have any expectations going into this book I don t have any tattoos but I ve always been the support friend to go and help distract my friends from the pain of theirs Personally, I d love to geek out and get a big dragon tattoo going down my arm, but I m not doing that at the local buy one get one free tattoo shop I would want to go to NYC or LA and get a real piece of art, so until then I m inkless But luckily, being inkless didn t stop me one bit from really enjoying this book I was hooked from the first few pages and I found the story had a nice flow that was ...I seem to have read quite a few novels recently with angry women as leads but this one is a little different in that it is less about her finding her gentler side andabout her counterpart finding her own fire and anger Cassie Whiteaker turns up at MJ Flores tattoo shop, Thorn Thistle, asking for an apprenticeship MJ is abrasive and bitter, and really has no interest in an apprentice except that Cassie was recommended by her own mentor Reluctantly she takes her on but doesn t I seem to have read quite a few novels recently with angry women as leads but this one is a little different in that it is less about her finding her gentler side andabout her counterpart finding her own fire and anger Cassie Whiteaker turns up at MJ Flores tattoo shop, Thorn Thistle, asking for an apprenticeship MJ is abrasive and bitter, and really has no interest in an apprentice except that Cassie was recommended by her own mentor Reluctantly she takes her on but doesn t really like the fake sweetness and spinelessness that Cassie portrays Cassie has been cancer free for nearly five years but when MJ realises ...F f romance set in a tattoo parlour, with foul tempered MJ setting out to teach deeply insecure people pleaser Cassie to beassertive OK so unlikeable heroine is normally my catnip It tends to mean a woman who doesn t settle for less or sacrifice herself for people who don t deserve it, all of which I am here for However, for the first 50% of this, I found MJ just awful She s horrible to her staff, aggressive to people who have done nothing to merit it, totally self centred, and a F f romance set in a tattoo parlour, with foul tempered MJ setting out to teach deeply insecure people pleaser Cassie to beassertive OK so unlikeable heroine is normally my catnip It tends to mean a woman who doesn t settle for less or sacrifice herself for people who don t deserve it, all of which I am here for However, for the first 50% of this, I found MJ just awful She s horrible to her staff, aggressive to people who have done nothing to merit it, totally self centred, and a workplace bully who is borderline sexually harassy at one point And doesn t use her indicators when she drives side eye She steamrollers a cancer survivor over her own medical decisions Her influence is probably best shown by a sequence where Cassie wishes she was the kind of person who d give her doctor unsolicited explicit details of sexual acts during a medical consultation, because MJ would like that Please don t be that person, Cassie, that s gross If I was a slow reader I would probably have bailed ...To just be super perfectly honest, this one drew me in right away just because of the cover For me, that s really rare, since I read on a Kindle and rarely look at the cover, but something about this one just drew my attention Nice job, cover artist More than that, the blurb grabbed me with the book being set around a tattoo shop That part really caught my attention too since lately I ve been debating getting another tattoo on my ribcage Now that I ve read this, wish I could go to the To just be super perfectly honest, this one drew me in right away just because of the cover For me, that s really rare, since I read on a Kindle and rarely look at the cover, but something about this one just drew my attention Nice job, cover artist More than that, the blurb grabbed me with the book being set around a tattoo shop That part really caught my attention too since lately I ve been debating getting another tattoo on my ribcage Now that I ve read this, wish I could go to the Thorn Thistle First off, I want to mention that I appreciate that this was published by a mainstream publisher, Carina Press They re a Harlequin subsidiary Kudos to them for expanding and trying to bring inLGBT novels to the line I love seeinganmainstream publishers pushing LGBT novels As a novel, this one was a good read Personally, I was bothered in the begi...Nice debut book from Jennie Davids.MJ Flores is the owner of a tattoo shop in Portland, Oregon Cassie is a tattoo artist that searches out MJ to help complete her apprenticeship These two characters could not bedifferent from each other While MJ is brash and doesn t give any thought to what people think, Cassie is reserved and overly worried about others opinions.I was uncomfortable with the setting tattoo shop and characters tattoo artists Completely not my scene at all While I Nice debut book from Jennie Davids.MJ Flores is the owner of a tattoo shop in Portland, Oregon Cassie is a tattoo artist that searches out MJ to help complete her apprenticeship These two characters could not bedifferent from each other While MJ is brash and doesn t give any thought to what people think, Cassie is reserved and overly worried about others opinions.I was uncomfortable with the setting tattoo shop and characters tattoo artists Completely not my scene at all While I can appreciate ink on other people, I do not have any tattoos myself The author painted a picture of what I stereo typically perceive those establishm...I was a fan of the show Miami Ink I Kat Von D Not allowed to have tattoo s but always picture a cake tattoo on my wrist surprisingly since the latest gadget that I bought, I named it Vader s Third Cousin Maybe I am suffering from the book flu but the lead in this book made my blood temper urine boil I don t have enough patience to wait for her to turn into a decent human being, so. So long sucker Congratulations, Ms.Davids, you successfully wrote an assholic boss DNF 17% I was a fan of the show Miami Ink I Kat Von D Not allowed to have tattoo s but always picture a cake tattoo on my wrist surprisingly since the latest gadget that I bought, I named it Vader s Third Cousin Maybe I am suffering from the book flu but the...4.4 stars I loved this book Ordinarily I wouldn t have picked this because I don t like tattoos much, but some of the reviews made me curious and think that I would like this one I am glad that I took the chance to read this book Never heard of the writer, but I ll certainly be on the look out for any new books, especially the next one in this series This book was a little different from most romances, because Cassie, one of the main characters had cancer and was waiting for her five year 4.4 stars I loved this book Ordinarily I wouldn t have picked this because I don t like tattoos much, but some of the reviews made me curious and think that I would like this one I am glad that I took the chance to read this book Never heard of the writer, but I ll certainly be on the look out for any new books, especially the next one in this ser...This has been a story that goes a little out of the ordinary, because of the disease and the profession of the protagonists The set has been quite nice although at first it seemed that it was going to be a bit bleak, but it hasn t been that way.Once the two protagonists decide to overcome their initial reluctance, especially MJ, they make a couple a little out of the ordinary but at the same time complemented Cassie is apparently a fragile woman and MJ quite the opposite But reality is not This has been a story that goes a little out of the ordinary, because of the disease and the profession of the protagonists The set has been quite nice although at first it seemed that it was going to be a bit bleak, but it hasn t been that way.Once the two protagonists decide to overcome their initial reluctance, especially MJ, they make a couple a little out of the ordinary but at the same time complemented Ca...Lex from GR was dead right when she thought I d enjoy Jennie Davids debut novel, New Ink On Life after I read her review which prompted me to take a closer look at the story s blurb Cheers, Lex Needless to say, I thoroughly enjoyed the story from start to finish An original story with one specific detail that I never came across in my lesfic romance reading yet Well, Ronica Black s The Last Seduction, had that subject matter broached but definitely not told from that MC s POV But Lex from GR was dead right when she thought I d enjoy Jennie Davids debut novel, New Ink On Life after I read her review which prompted me to take a closer look at the story s blurb Cheers, Lex Needless to say, I thoroughly enjoyed the story from start to finish An original story with one specific detail that I never came across in my lesfic romance reading yet Well, Ronica Black s The Last Seduction, had that subject matter broached but definitely not told from that MC s POV But in Davids story, I was delighted that it was Finding romance post breast cancer, in a 5 year remission Not an easy setup to create a compelling romance around it especially when there s always a possibility of a relapse, innit That was what piqued my interest the most.I was curious ...Pretty great debut novel I especially liked that it s told in alternating first person POV, especially since Cassie and MJ are so different They both have excellent arcs, as Cassie helps smooth some of MJ s awfully hard edges...

01 September 2017

Jennie Davids