Pricked by Winter Renshaw
Rating: 3/5 Stars
Synopsis: All I wanted was a tattoo.What I got was a broody, enigmatic demigod with an electrifying touch and a mysterious past.We were night and day in every way possible, not an ounce of anything in common, and yet, I wanted him in the worst way.It didn't matter that he was emotionally unavailable or that he was exactly the kind of man who would give my father a coronary should I dare to bring him home. It didn't matter that his heart was wrapped in barbed wire or that he made me promise never to fall for him.None of it mattered because he was the most perfectly imperfect, beautifully tortured soul I'd ever known, and I was besotted, addicted to all the thrilling and wondrous ways he made me feel when we were together.They say a single moment can change the entire trajectory of your life. But looking back, I never could have imagined all the ways my world would change the moment it collided with his.I learned too late that he kept his past a secret for a reason.
Synopsis: All I wanted was a tattoo.What I got was a broody, enigmatic demigod with an electrifying touch and a mysterious past.We were night and day in every way possible, not an ounce of anything in common, and yet, I wanted him in the worst way.It didn't matter that he was emotionally unavailable or that he was exactly the kind of man who would give my father a coronary should I dare to bring him home. It didn't matter that his heart was wrapped in barbed wire or that he made me promise never to fall for him.None of it mattered because he was the most perfectly imperfect, beautifully tortured soul I'd ever known, and I was besotted, addicted to all the thrilling and wondrous ways he made me feel when we were together.They say a single moment can change the entire trajectory of your life. But looking back, I never could have imagined all the ways my world would change the moment it collided with his.I learned too late that he kept his past a secret for a reason.
Pricked was a great premise of a novel, first, we meet two very different people. Madden, the owner of a tattoo shop is seen as broody and struggling to succeed in his life. Then here comes Socialite Brighton an unhappy, wealthy, young lady who wants a tattoo in an act of rebelling. While don't get me wrong the story had its high points, the chemistry between the two is strong, and you want to root for them. Yet, I could not get passed the bits of cliches in this novel.
First, their names which are to me just signified too much. Then it was their financial status, I had to pause when I read how there was absolutely nothing in Madden's mother's fridge and shake my head, then to see how rich Brighton was. Lastly, I couldn't connect to Brighton and I felt at her age (22) she could have just done something more than mope. I could be a bit too harsh but these things kept popping up within the book that just made it unrealistic for me. Some of the good points come in the secondary characters such as Devanie who was just the right amount sass, and power this book needed. Thanks to her the book was able to move forward for me. While I wasn't a big fan of it doesn't mean you can't be!
I recommend this book for any reader of Romance stories/Opposite Attract
