Fractures in Ink by Helena Hunting

Fractures in Ink (Clipped Wings, #3)

by Helena Hunting

Sometimes the things we shouldn’t want become exactly what we need . . .


Waitressing at a seedy strip club isn’t ideal, but it pays Sarah Adamson’s tuition. Her goal is to finish her master’s program and get a job that doesn’t involve tight skirts and groping hands. She doesn’t need distractions. Especially not the one that comes in the form of a hot-as-sin tattoo artist who works across the street from her apartment.


Kicked out at sixteen, and a high school dropout, Chris Zelter is familiar with wanting things he can’t have. His fractured life has never been easy. As the product of someone else’s bad decisions, he knows exactly what happens when the wrong person controls your marionette strings. Now an accomplished tattoo artist in a renowned studio in Chicago, Chris has it together.


Mostly.


Apart from his infatuation with Sarah. She’s way out of his league, and Chris knows it.


But he’s willing to be her bad decision. At least for now.

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I am so happy Chris and Sarah got their story. For anyone who's read Tenley and Hayden's 2 books, you know this was a couple that had you wondering if they would ever be able to get their shite together.

Chris and Sarah have had a thing for a few months by the time FRACTURES IN INK start Both of them have feelings for the other, but are both terrified to put any label on it. But when Sarah pushes Chris away, it's time to cop to the feelings and figure out how to move forward.

Both Chris and Sarah have their own demons chasing after them. Chris' has to do with his lack of self-worth thanks to his mother and step-father and Sarah's from her mother and terrified she's going to be just like her. Those demons ride Chris and Sarah hard. And it seems no matter how hard they try to get away from them, something pulls them closer. What both of them seem to forgot it they have this other person they could lean on for support. Someone to help them talk through whatever they're going through and figure out what to do next. They both need that support, but for some reason they don't feel like burdening the person they're sleeping with. It was frustrating, but at the same time you could see why they were doing it. As the story moved forward you had to hope they would figure it out and things would get better for them.

Helena Hunting is great with romantic comedy, but I'm glad she went back to this angsty series. This is what introduced to me to Helena and she picked up the angst right where we left off with Tenley and Hayden. I thoroughly loved this book, these characters and how they fought so hard to get that happily ever after. Definitely a top read for 2016.

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