Fractures in Ink by Helena Hunting

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

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.

Fractures in Ink

Complicated relationships!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙❤️💚💜
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌎
Character development: 😕😊😄😘
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Sarah – she is going to college to get her MBA and is nearly finished. She has worked her way through college working at a few seedy strip clubs as a waitress and she doesn’t like it but doesn’t have a choice. Currently she owes her boss money and a favor and she is really worried about what he is going to ask her for. She thinks the favor might be dancing on the pole or even serving tables on the left side of the stage, which is basically where the customer know that anything goes, even with the waitresses.

The Hero: Chris – he never finished high school; he comes from a bad background. His mother was never stable, and she married the father of her younger sister who is pretty much a deadbeat. He was kicked out in his teens and wasn’t in the best situation until he got into tattooing. He now works at an up-and-coming tattoo shop and is a known tattoo artist.

The Story: Chris has had it bad for Sarah for quite some time and though they have a romantic relationship, he thinks she is going places and is too good for him. She lives in the apartment above the café across the street from the tattoo shop where he works. He knows she works at a strip club while finishing her degree and worries about her while she is at work. Never more so than after she suddenly breaks up with him and doesn’t answer his calls or texts.

Helena Hunting is one of my favorite writers. She is one of those people who write complicated relationships very well. There are plenty of side storylines, but the main story is about the interactions and the love growing between these two realistic people. She puts plenty of emotion into her stories and you can definitely feel the tension between Sarah and her boss. You feel for Chris who dated another girl in his past who worked at a strip club and ended up on drugs and prostituting herself. You also feel what a great guy Chris is, especially in how he treats Sarah and how he helps out his younger sister.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Rose Dioro and Jacob Morgan. I really like both of these narrators and they did a great job with this audiobook. Rose had a soft, youthful sounding voice that is very pleasant. Jacob Morgan has a very genuine voice which sounds like a good friend you would like to have. This was a good one.

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