Title: Solitude, Artistic Pricks, #3
By: Cat Mason
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Tour Host: DRC Promotions
Synopsis
“The most powerful spark is the one that can reignite the fire that has long gone out.”
After losing his fiancé, Mitchell Taylor abandoned everything that reminded him of her and retreated home to Las Vegas, Nevada. Now his life consists of three things: drowning his pain in the bottom of a vodka bottle, tattooing bodies in the shop he co-owns with his best friend and pissing off their office manager, Shelby. Not only does she infuriate him by challenging everything he does, but fighting with her pushes back the ghosts that haunt him.
Taking control of her future at a young age, Shelby Winston never let anyone or anything get to her. Until now. Mitch is unpredictable. One minute he is drunk and making her want to pull her hair out, the next he is doing something crazy like saving her life.
While every argument between the two has everyone around them waiting for bloodshed, something else is bubbling beneath the surface. There’s no going back once you cross that line, and once the tension erupts into something else, it could change everything forever.
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Review
Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
This was an incredible read, following on from where 'Gravity' finished but moving forward with Mitch's story. We see him in 'Gravity' hit rock bottom of the pits of despair and we see the events that led him there in 'Significance'. Here his struggles to live continue but there is hope in the form of the very sassy Shelby, who gives back as much she gets.
The journey he goes on takes him well out of his comfort zone and challenges his own beliefs and feelings at every turn. He is hurting badly but needs to deal with the hurt and start living again. Shelby manages to chip away at the wall he has built up slowly and surely with her sass and no nonsense attitude.
This was an emotional read but the banter between Shelby and Mitch gives plenty of laugh out loud moments too. It was equal parts frustrating and sweet as they both battle the feelings they develop for each other.
Other Books In The Series
Significance, Book Two
Mitchell Taylor has spent most of the last five years overseas serving his country. Finally home after months of being separated from his longtime girlfriend, Becky, has him ready for change.
Between celebrating and adjusting to him being home, the couple soon learn they aren’t on the same page with their relationship. Pain, loss, maddening friends, and fear of the unknown will test them both as they come to terms with what is really important. Love.
Will Becky let fear and doubt rob her of the happily ever after with her sailor? Laughter, tears, triumph, and tragedy are all significant parts of life that we all face whether we like it or not. It’s all how we deal with them that make us who we are.
This is their story.
Contains adult content and subject matter. Significance is prequel to Gravity, book one in the Artistic Pricks Ink series and a companion novella to Solitude, book two.
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Review
Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
We meet Mitch in 'Gravity' deep in grief and on a path of self destruction. This is his story leading up to that point with Becky.
It is beautiful, powerful and extremely emotional as their sweet love story takes a sudden tragic turn. Full of romance and completely sweet, we see the almost perfect partner that he is and how special he is with Becky.
Tissues at the ready for an ugly cry as your heart breaks for these two.
Gravity, Book One
"There has to be something on this Earth that holds you here, other than Gravity."
Luke Hanlon was focused on anything but his own life.The happiness of everyone else came before his own. He worked hard to build Artistic Pricks Ink into the profitable business that it is today and yet, it isn't enough anymore. Something is missing. Someone.
With no one to focus on, but himself, Luke is forced to take a long hard look in the mirror and doesn't like what he sees. Then he meets his mom's neighbor and something clicks into place. But can he handle what comes along with her? Can he let go of the hurt in his past and see what is in front of him?
Kionna Slade is a good girl. She helps her neighbor, she doesn't go wild and crazy. She's independent and doesn't need anyone. After losing her mother and an accident stole her dream of being a Vegas Showgirl, her life took a turn in a direction she never dreamed it would. Now 'Sabrina' runs the show at night, allowing Ki to dance again. Keeping Kionna and Sabrina separate is her main goal, until Luke. Luke Hanlon will throw a wrench in everything she ever thought.
Lives are changed and things explode all around them as they are pulled together. Luke can't stay away, even if his heart and possibly both their lives could be threatened. Can Kionna and Luke find a way to hold onto each other or will they forever be grasping at what they can't have?
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Review
Rating: ☆☆☆☆
When tattoo artist Luke sets his eyes on his mother's neighbour, he has to have her. She has the biggest heart and a huge amount of sass and character. Kionna is a dancer but more of the exotic kind as her traditional dance career was sidelined by an injury. When she dances now she conceals her true identity and never engages with the men at the club. As Luke and Kionna grow closer, this part of her life becomes like a noose around her neck as she keeps it secret and someone else doesn't want them to be together either.
This was a great read with plenty of emotion, laughter and action. I did feel it took some time to settle into it as Cat Mason sought to make the links between this series and another. It was a little over whelming getting all that information in a short space of time. Once I got through this I was able to wrap myself fully in the characters lives and immerse myself in their story.
About The Author
Cat Mason is a thirty year old, married mother of three. When she isn't writing; she is spending time with her kiddos or reading. She was born and raised outside of St. Louis, Missouri, just over the Mississippi River in Granite City, Illinois. Cat writes romance of all kinds with twists of humor.
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