Review: Just didn't do it for me
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 10, 2012
I'm so disappointed that I was unable to connect with this book.Here's what I liked:The story itself was fine.  POSSIBLE SPOILERS: The heroine has just broken up with a low-skilled tattoo artist who has left her in severe debt.  The heroine is a college dropout who waits tables at a sports bar.  The heroine meets the hero (another tattoo artist) on a particularly bad day.  They sleep together, and their fragile relationship begins.  Like I said, the story was fine, and you get the hint of a HEA. The sex scenes were spicy, but I would not call most of them "intimate."This bring me to what I didn't like.  I didn't like the title.  Never have I mentioned my disagreement with a title in a review, but indelible means "making marks that cannot be erased, removed, or the like; that cannot be eliminated, forgotten, changed, or the like".  I get that the author probably chose the word indelibly in the title because the hero is a tattoo artist (ink is considered indelible), but the amount of intimacy between the hero and heroine didn't seem indelible to me. I simply didn't feel a palpable chemistry between the two. I would have liked to have seem more emotional intimacy in the sex scenes, not just physical intimacy.I also struggled to connect with the heroine.  She annoyed me.  She seemed weak to me, allowing her ex boyfriend to take advantage of her.  She disgusted me by the uncertainty she had in finalizing the end of her relationship with him---after he had humiliated her her by leaving her broke and alone. I simply found very little to admire about her.The hero was a sexy, sweet man, but he, too, annoyed me at times.  I felt he let the heroine take advantage of his kindness, at times.  And near the end, he nearly walked away in defeat without even putting up a fight.Finally, there was something about this author's writing style that I couldn't fully connect with.  I'm not sure how to describe it.  However, I felt the author could have done a better job detailing the hero's relationship with his parents.  They were displeased with him, but I wanted to know how far in college the hero had gotten, why the why the hero had felt pressure to satisfy his parents but his brother hadn't.  I also wanted some closure with the situation between the her and his brother, and why he felt so guilt ridden about his brother's girlfriend.In the end, this book left me unsatisfied, so I have to give it three stars.