Permanent by Kim Carmichael
Series: Indelibly Marked, Book 1
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Publisher: Breathless Books
Pages / File Size: 346 Pages
Source: book provided by publisher for review
Tags: Contemporary Romance
Blurb:
What is Permanent?
Always on the outside looking in, accountant, Lindsay Stevens, has calculated her transformation from a small town, nerdy bookkeeper to a sleek, high-powered accountant down to the last penny. With all her checks finally in balance, she moves to California to start a new life free of her embarrassing past she never wants revealed.
As Hollywood’s hottest tattoo artist, Shane Elliott thrives on standing out. Charismatic and free of commitments, he travels through life with a wink and a smile, hiding the letters he receives from the IRS as if they don’t exist. Now with bills to pay and tax collectors breathing down his back, for the first time in his life Shane can’t charm his way out of his situation. However, when his new neighbor literally falls into his life, he knows he has struck gold once again.
Though Lindsay tries to keep her distance, she suddenly finds herself trying to hide her true self as she thrust into a world she doesn’t think she belongs, but can’t resist. In his good-time life, Shane must discover there is more to life than a party if he wants something more.
With their lives intertwined, the two must learn accept each other, themselves and their love.
Worlds collide as they decide what is truly permanent.
Permanent is the first book in the Indelibly Marked Series that follows the lives and loves of those surrounding Permanent Tattoo. Every book in the series stands on its own
Crystal’s Review:
This book was one that was great and can teach you a great message in life. I feel in love with the cover and I had to read it.
Lindsay Stevens is leaving Ohio and her small town life and working with her father. She moves to California to start a new life and change who she is. She seems to be doing ok until five days after she moves into her apartment she falls down while wearing high heels. For some reason she thought she could break them in while hanging pictures. She lost her balance and fell and made a huge gash in her forehead. All of a sudden someone breaks her door down and she gets the shock of her life. Shane Elliott is not your normal guy.
Shane has his own business named Permanent Tattoo. He is Hollywood’s hottest tattoo artist and has his tattoos on magazines. He makes pictures come alive and everyone wants a tattoo by him. Everything seems to be going good until the IRS starts sending him letters. He has to find a way out of this mess before he loses everything and his brother and sister are counting on him. Lindsay seems to be the answer to his prayers. Who knew that they would have sparks between them?
The author did a great job bringing this book to life. You also learn a lesson. You have a guy who has tattoos and a blue Mohawk and a woman who has changed everything about herself. They change who they are because they think it is what the other wants. All they needed to do was trust themselves and be who they really are. Shane does a lot of growing up in this book and he becomes a man that loves a woman and it doesn’t scare him as much as he thought. The only problem is Shane’s older brother, he tells him that he isn’t what Lindsay needs. Even though the characters in this book are not your normal family they take care of each other and that is all anyone would really want.
I truly feel in love with this book and the characters just came alive off the paper and become real to me. I got so lost in the book that I forgot it really wasn’t real. I could just imagine all the tattoos that Shane did and see them in my mind. This book just showed me that you never judge people on what is on the outside, you need to look on what is inside. That is when you know how someone really is. I can truly say that this book was well written and I can’t wait for the next one. I would tell everyone to take a chance on this book because you won’t regret it.
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