Cracks In The Armor
By: Helena Hunting
What It's About!
Chris, a sexy tattoo
artist, tries to win the heart of Sarah, a grad student with little
interest in him, in this second e-short and follow-up to Helena
Hunting’s gripping love story, Clipped Wings—“twisted, dark, incredibly
erotic…a love story like no other” (USA TODAY bestselling author Alice
Clayton).
Part owner of the Chicago tattoo shop Inked Armor, Chris Zelter is a talented artist who decorates skin with gorgeous designs. He might look the part of the typical jacked-up, inked-up bad-boy, but underneath is a fiercely loyal, complicated man. Kicked out at sixteen, Chris has had to fend for himself for the last twelve years, making his Inked Armor crew as much family as they are business partners. For him, it’s enough—until he meets Sarah Adamson.
A grad student waitressing at the local strip club, Sarah is used to propositions and crude comments. The job is a means to an end—finish her MBA, pay off the tuition loans, and get a good job. Then she won’t have to rely on anyone to take care of her. So when brawny, tatted up Chris begins hanging out at the club, she rebuffs his advances. At first. But Chris isn’t like her usual clientele: despite his hard exterior, he’s almost…sweet.
Sometimes, the people with the roughest edges have the biggest hearts.
Part owner of the Chicago tattoo shop Inked Armor, Chris Zelter is a talented artist who decorates skin with gorgeous designs. He might look the part of the typical jacked-up, inked-up bad-boy, but underneath is a fiercely loyal, complicated man. Kicked out at sixteen, Chris has had to fend for himself for the last twelve years, making his Inked Armor crew as much family as they are business partners. For him, it’s enough—until he meets Sarah Adamson.
A grad student waitressing at the local strip club, Sarah is used to propositions and crude comments. The job is a means to an end—finish her MBA, pay off the tuition loans, and get a good job. Then she won’t have to rely on anyone to take care of her. So when brawny, tatted up Chris begins hanging out at the club, she rebuffs his advances. At first. But Chris isn’t like her usual clientele: despite his hard exterior, he’s almost…sweet.
Sometimes, the people with the roughest edges have the biggest hearts.
My Thoughts!
I received this book through NetGalley in turn for an honest review.
It takes a lot to make me rate a book 1 star. I just couldn't bring myself to give this book two stars. Where or where to begin. I understand that it is a novella, but it was super short. I've read longer. This book needed to be longer. I get that it's a part of a series and there was one or so book ahead of it and I was jumping in, but the amount of confusion I had reading this book was maddening. You have to catch the reader up more. Write every book with the intention of speaking and teaching the reader about the story as if they jump in mid series every time. I was so frustrated I wanted to put the book down, but I make it a rule not to do that. Once I start a book, no matter how horrible, I finish it. It's odd to me that the story is about Chris and Sarah's love, but you start the book having them already together. No Romantic detail. In fact when I started the book. I wasn't rooting for Sarah at all. I was waiting for Chris to break up with her. She was so whiny. Not the strong heroine I look for in a female character. Chris wasn't sure where there relationship was going and how Sarah felt, and I have to say I wasn't either! I will say the clip of Tenley and Hayden's story caught my interest, but I'm so scared to even go there..
It takes a lot to make me rate a book 1 star. I just couldn't bring myself to give this book two stars. Where or where to begin. I understand that it is a novella, but it was super short. I've read longer. This book needed to be longer. I get that it's a part of a series and there was one or so book ahead of it and I was jumping in, but the amount of confusion I had reading this book was maddening. You have to catch the reader up more. Write every book with the intention of speaking and teaching the reader about the story as if they jump in mid series every time. I was so frustrated I wanted to put the book down, but I make it a rule not to do that. Once I start a book, no matter how horrible, I finish it. It's odd to me that the story is about Chris and Sarah's love, but you start the book having them already together. No Romantic detail. In fact when I started the book. I wasn't rooting for Sarah at all. I was waiting for Chris to break up with her. She was so whiny. Not the strong heroine I look for in a female character. Chris wasn't sure where there relationship was going and how Sarah felt, and I have to say I wasn't either! I will say the clip of Tenley and Hayden's story caught my interest, but I'm so scared to even go there..
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