The Darkest Link

The Darkest Link A Second Circle Tattoos Novel

Scarlett Cole2016
The breathtaking finale to Scarlett Cole's smoldering tattoo series. When her car breaks down off the side of a lonely highway far from her sunny Miami home, tattoo artist Lia never expected her very own white knight to ride up on the back of a barely street-legal motorcycle...and she never expected to fall for her dark savior. After a string of failed relationships and a bruised heart Lia is not looking for forever, and the hot mechanic, with his sexy scruff and shaggy hair, is simply impossible to resist. He's the perfect candidate for a mind-blowingly-perfect, no-strings-attached one-night stand. Reid left his life in Chicago far behind him and hasn't been back, but he's never been able to escape the guilt he feels about his own painful role in inviting a monster into his baby sister's life. A monster who almost destroyed her. Being with Lia is an unexpected gift, one he doesn't feel he deserves. As unique and beautiful as the designs she inks, theirtheir one night together has him wanting more than he should. When he surprises her at her tattoo studio, Second Circle Tattoos, in Miami, he's in for a shock—and a fist to the face—when his past and present collide. With secrets coming to the surface, Reid and Lia are thrown into a world of betray and lies that threatens to pull them under, and the last link to his former life may be the darkest of them all.
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Samantha Emery@samj
3 stars
Oct 17, 2021

Check out this and my other reviews at My Blog, Facebook, Google+, Twitter and Pinterest Copy received via netgalley in exchange for an honest review ★Book Basics★ Genre : - Cont. Romance Series : - Book 4 in the series Love triangle? - (view spoiler)[No (hide spoiler)] Cheating? - (view spoiler)[No (hide spoiler)] HEA? - (view spoiler)[Yes (hide spoiler)] Would I read more by this author/or in this series? - Yes Rating - 3 stars ★Review★ Ok, loved book 1, book 2 was ok, loved book 3. And I was really looking forward to this. I have wondered about Harper's brother since book 1. But for me this fell short, and I had the same complaints in this as I had in book 2. The over use of "coincidence". In book 2, Drea just so happens to somehow (cant even remember now) become involved in some drama with Cujo's mother, who he has not seen for years ya ya ya. Here, Lia just happens to meet Reid, Harper's long lost brother, then HER dad just so happened to have connections with the father of the man who attacked Harper, and was Reid's ex best friend. And as with book 2, excess drama. Reid coming back and reconnecting with his sister would have been enough, Lia and her being emotionally estranged from her father, would have been enough. Add them together, then some other drama involving hit and runs and Molotov cocktails quite frankly verged on the too too much in far to little pages. And this book felt rushed! The relationship between Reid and Lia went so fast I did not even have time to grumpily mutter "insta love". Reid reuniting with Harper felt rushed. And it is BECAUSE there is so much excess drama. Ok, I know I am in the minority, but for me this author peaked at book 1. Oh and btw, we live in the age of google, you can literally find out anything. If you want to add something in your book (ie the reason your heroine's father supposedly hates her so much) make it actually factually correct. Apparently her dad hates her as her twin died in the womb, as her mom developed twin to twin transfusion syndrome. Ok, but her twin was a boy, hence making it impossible!! The whole point being they share a placenta, so therefore HAVE to be "identical" twins. It is medically impossible people. Anyway, now that I have ranted, as i can do. 3 stars, since I was glad to have the Reid issue from book 1 resolved, and I liked him as a hero, the heroine was a bit one dimensional for me. All 50's pin up sex kitten and heels and not much else. But it was a nice enough end to the series.

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Sarah Hayes@smdj1
5 stars
Oct 15, 2021

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