✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ 4-STAR ✩ REVIEW ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩
Funny that the first thing I “see” is the lack of tattoos on the cover model when the series is called “inked”. The colors of the brushstroke background kept making me think it was a British book although I know better. Not a fan of the cover and only the fact that I like this author’s Heathen’s Ink series prompted me to read this one.
POV ~> Alternating first-person, between three leads.
A bartender, a felon, and a cop. No, it’s not a bad joke, it’s the latest release by KM Neuhold.
UNCOMPLICATED is anything but. From the first page to the last, there are complications!
Even though Cas, Beau, and Finn are introduced to readers, at various degrees, in the Heathen’s Ink series, not enough is given about any of them prior to this book to make you feel you already know them and their story.
Cas and Beau have been living together for years, both denying the love they feel for one another. They are NOT in an official relationship though they do have an intimate one. While Cas is away for a month-long Reserves training, Beau meets Finn. Being in an open relationship with Cas, Beau brings Finn home and they become very close while Cas is away. When Cas returns, he discovers that Beau’s new beau is Cas’s first love – the one that utterly destroyed him.
All three men have major issues. Commitment phobia stemming from abandonment and cheating pasts as well as having horribly low self-worth. I like the characters and the plot concept but, for some reason, the book did not flow as smoothly for me this time and it felt MUCH longer than it’s less than 250 pages. There were some secondary characters that felt more like gratuitous cameos, not necessarily benefitting the plot.
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Rating: [R] ~ Score: 4.025 ~ Stars: 4
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