REVIEW: 'Permanent Ink' by Avon Gale and Piper Vaughn
Title: Permanent Ink
Series: Art & Soul #1
Authors: Avon Gale & Piper Vaughn
Published: August 7, 2017
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Cover Artist: Natasha Snow/Natasha Snow Designs
Genre: Contemporary Romance; Erotic Romance
Length: 249 Pages
Tags: Gay; M/M; BDSM; Bisexual; May/December; Tattoos/Piercings; Standalone; Kink: Daddy Kink
About Permanent Ink
At twenty-three, Poe Montgomery is going nowhere. He still lives in his father’s basement and spends most of his time tagging with his friends. When an arrest lands him in debt, Poe accepts the front desk job at Permanent Ink, the tattoo shop owned by his father’s best friend, Jericho McAslan. Jericho is nearly twice Poe’s age, but with his ink and prematurely graying hair, he quickly takes the starring role in Poe’s hottest fantasies.
Jericho is known for his ability to transform poorly designed tattoos into works of art, but he was once as aimless and misdirected as Poe. Wanting to pay it forward the way someone once did for him, Jericho makes Poe his apprentice and is determined to keep things strictly professional. Easier said than done when Poe makes his interest—and his daddy kink—abundantly clear.
Jericho can’t resist Poe or their intense chemistry for long. But between the age gap, tension with Poe’s father, and Poe’s best friend calling him a sellout, they’ll need to ensure they’re both on the same page before they can rewrite their rocky start into something permanent.
4 HEART READ
REVIEW:
Excited to see what the writing duo of Avon Gale and Piper Vaughn would come up with, I was really looking forward to reading Permanent Ink, the first book in their Art & Soul series. Both of these authors can really write a great story and I was definitely not disappointed.
Between the creative characters, the clever dialogue, and the crazy hot sex, this story is just plain sweet and so much fun to read.
The shifting points of view between the main characters is very well done. Gradually becoming more intimate as the story progresses. We get to know Jericho and Poe both through their actions and reminiscences, as well as how they interact with the other characters in the book.
The story builds nicely from the initial attraction between Jericho and Poe to sex so hot I thought my Kindle was going to catch on fire.
They fit together perfectly and clearly satisfy each other’s need for some wonderfully dirty daddy kink (one of my favorites).
The age gap between the main characters, seventeen years, isn’t even their biggest obstacle, rather Poe is Jericho’s best friend’s son…awkward...and the authors dive right into it with some fantastic dialogue as the two older men come to grips with the new dynamic and work it out.
There’s a nice, uplifting message in Permanent Ink, about finding new paths in life and how we learn from past mistakes to make our futures better.
Jericho pays it forward and shows faith in Poe, and his best friend Blue, just as he was helped when he needed it in his younger years.
One intriguing scenario which arises in Permanent Ink is what’s going on with Blue. I’m seriously hoping the next book in this series is going to be about him and Jericho’s ex, Callum. Blue needs to get his butt kicked a bit and Callum seems like just the guy to do it. Honestly, these two ladies can’t write a follow up fast enough for me.
A copy of Permanent Ink was provided to Kimmers’ Erotic Book Banter, by Riptide Publishing, at no cost and with no expectations in return. We offer our fair and honest opinion on behalf of our readers.
Meet the Authors
Avon grew up in the southern United States, and now lives with her very patient husband in a liberal Midwestern college town. When she’s not writing, she’s either doing some kind of craft project that makes a huge mess, reading, watching horror movies, listening to music or yelling at her favorite hockey team to get it together, already. Avon is always up for a road trip, adores Kentucky bourbon, thinks nothing is as stress relieving as a good rock concert, and will never say no to candy.
At one point, Avon was the mayor of both Jazzercise and Lollicup on Foursquare. This tells you basically all you need to know about her as a person.
For more from Avon be sure and visit her website.
Piper Vaughn wrote her first love story at eleven and never looked back. Since then, she’s known that writing in some form was exactly what she wanted to do. A reader at the core, Piper loves nothing more than getting lost in a great book—fantasy, young adult, romance, sci-fi, she loves them all (and has an over-two-thousand-book library to prove it!). She’s an avid tea drinker, a hockey fanatic, a vintage typewriter collector, and loves to travel so much she has “wanderlust” tattooed on her ankle and dozens of countries on her bucket list. Recently, she discovered the world of nail art and realized she’s pretty handy with a paintbrush—as long as it’s a miniature one.
As a bisexual and Latinx person, Piper takes great pride in her heritage. She grew up in an ethnically diverse neighborhood and strives to put faces and characters of every ethnicity in her stories, so her fictional worlds are as colorful as the real one. She currently resides in the suburbs of Chicago with her husband, son, and a cat that has Piper wrapped around her little paw. Above all, she believes that everyone needs a little true love in their life … even if it’s only in a book.
For more from Piper be sure and visit her website.
