Trick You: Rebel Ink, Book 2 by Tracy Lorraine

My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I hated to trick her…but I knew she would never go for the real me.

She was beautiful, smart and funny – everything I could want. And I was…well. Me. Tattooed, foulmouthed bad boy.

I told one little white lie hoping to meet someone different. And I did.

Danniella Abbot.

She wasn’t who I was expecting, and I guess she could say the same, because Danni made it very clear she wasn’t interested in me or my reasons for lying.

The fact that she was my best friend’s little sister only complicated an already impossible situation.

I didn’t intend on tricking her. I just wanted her to give me a chance, to discover who I am underneath the ink.

She can fight me all she likes because we both know that I’m exactly her type. She just doesn’t know it yet.

What happens when you wake up married to the woman you tricked into a date?

You kiss the bride and prove her wrong.

Trick You

I didn’t like the heroine!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗
World building: 🌏🌍
Character development: 🙂🙁
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Duet Narration

The heroine: Daniella (a.k.a. Dani) – she didn’t want to do any more online dating, she kept getting matched up with guys who only wanted a quick hookup, and she wanted something more, someone she could spend time with and get to know. Though she has been giving one guy a chance lately. He has been terrific over chat, but didn’t get her hopes up for their date that evening. He has been a bit too good to be true.

The Hero: Carter (a.k.a. Titch) – He is manager for one of the tattoo shops that Dani’s brother Zack owns. He and Zack had been best friends for quite a while, though he never met Dani. Carter has had it bad for Dani since he first saw her picture on the dating site. He tricked her into going out with her by chatting her up via text messages on a dating site, posing as a banker.

The Story: When Dani found out that her date is not a banker, but instead is a tattooed bad, boy she walks out on him. Two weeks later he is surprised when she shows up at his coworker and friend Biff’s apartment while he is there. It turns out that Dani and Biff are best friends. The two of them end up getting together, hooking up and Titch confesses that the photo he posted online was his twin brother who is the banker in the family.

Dani is a bit unlikable; she thinks she is too good for Titch. She makes all kinds of assumptions about the kind of person he is based on his bad boy looks. He keeps apologizing for the bit of catfishing he did on the dating site, and she just won’t give him an inch despite hooking up with him. She was the one that first expected him to only want to hook up because he is a bad boy, but then she hooks up with him and wants to dump him right away, while he wants more with her. Yet she continues to rebuff him for a long time.

I usually really love the accidentally married in Las Vegas trope, but these two bickered for too long and got to know each other too well and I kind of enjoy the strangers who get married in Vegas more than this situation. I guess Dani’s superiority complex, and attitude made me not really give a hoot what happened for her, I like to identify with the heroine more, but she was so haughty. I think that Titch could have done a lot better and shouldn’t have settled for her. Of course, she got better as the story went on, but for me it was a bit too little too late.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view and was narrated in duet narration by Shane East and Stella Hunter. I love Shane East, he has a great accent, and a deep, sexy voice that hits just right. Stella Hunter also has a terrific voice, I am not quite as fond of her British accent, she does the accent well, but she sounds to posh and uppity. Both these narrators are expressive and very natural, and I just love that this was done in duet.

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