This is one of those grumpy-to-lovers books. The author though does make it work. Each of the main characters, Joel the tattoo artist, and Oliva do not want to help themselves but also their family, Joel because his adopted family took a mortgage out to fund his tattoo parlor, and Oliva wants to help her brother as well as her doing something for her daughter being a single mom. Along the way you have each of their families working at trying to keep them together and you have characters from the first book in this one as well. A good story like the first book and worth the read.

indelibly Yours was my first book from Monica Myers.
It was a great read and I loved the dual POV.
The character development was great and I felt like I truly got to know the charqacters.
I enjoyed the story, even though I'm not a fan of the single mom trope.

This is a good ok. The two main characters are Olivia and Joel. Olivia works on iWeb design. Joel runs a tattoo shop. When they meet there is an attraction. They start running into each other. Olivia gets a recommendation to go to a tattoo shop, it just happens to be Joel’s. They start dating. They each have trust issues but together they work them out and fall in love.

Joel and Olivia met outside of a shop that Joel wanted to buy. He thought she was the owner and gave her a piece of his mind. He realized his mistake after a couple of minutes.
Her grandma (I think) started shipping their relationship and invited Joel around. Their feelings started to grow.
All in all, I liked it.

Always love when I can finish a book with 5 stars

I tried, I really did, but I just couldn't get into it. The story felt forced, the characters felt flat, and I couldn't make myself move passed the 20% mark.

I had such a hard time connecting with these characters. I think it was my headspace at the time, though, because once I sat down and made it past Ch. 5, I couldn’t put it down.

This is a rollercoaster of a ride small town romance that gave me all the feels. Ten out of ten would recommend!!!

A great slow build romance book.... Opposites attract with a single mom and a tattoo shop owner.... A good would they wouldn't they kind of book...

Grumpy-sunshine, single mom, erotic bakery, found family, this book has it all. It's funny, sweet, and spicy all in one. The banter between the two main characters in great, and the tension between them can be felt from the beginning. The meddling families are a highlight as well. Joel and Olivia end up finding their way, with a few bumps in the road, but they make it.
It's a super cute, easy read.

A big thank you to NetGalley and Rosewood Books for the eARC. I am voluntarily reviewing this book. This is the 2nd book in a series, but reads great as a stand alone. I really am enjoying this series. The characters are spicy and interesting. This is Joel (a tattoo artist) and Olivia. Joel is a bit intense and uptight and Olivia is afraid to love again and a single mom. Their friends and family are amazing! Abby is great. 4 stars I think most romance readers would enjoy this book.

Cute enemy to lovers story. The characters were vibrant and interesting. Story was funny and sweet. I'm assuming this will be a series with supporting characters' stories in future books. For my library, this would be most likely purchased as a digital copy if patrons requested the author or title. I would expect this to be a popular Kindle Unlimited option.

Joel Morris owns a tattoo parlour called Sailor Joey's, with his dark clothes and tattoos he looks like a sexy pirate. No matter how hard he tries, things always seem to go wrong for Joel, his aunt and uncle took out a second mortgage to finance his tattoo parlour , but he's not making any money and he can tell they are worried about their future. [Side peeve, instead of doing something about it Joel just mopes about being grumpy - how does he expect to get new customers without advertising or using social media?]

Olivia Reid is a harassed single mother, running her own business, and someone who has taken care of her twin brother Nolan and then her daughter Abby for so long she is incapable of accepting help from other people. Her twin brother's wife Erin owns an erotic bakery called Sticky Treats (I feel this was probably a funny idea for the first book which got out of hand) and is just expanding into new premises, premises which Joel was hoping would save his business by placing him in an area with greater footfall. Without the new premises his business will probably fail (see my pet peeve above) and his aunt and uncle will lose their money. So all in all Joel is not happy with Olivia's sister-in-law and comes round to the building to 'have a word' but meets Olivia instead and mistakes her for Erin. Typical mistaken identity, insta-lust, prickly exchanges ensue until Joel comes to realise he is unleashing his ire on the wrong woman.

This was a pleasant enough opposites attract romance, Olivia dreams of a solid, dependable Mr Right to look after her and Abby, not realising that the hot tattooed guy could be that man. Joel is afraid of taking a chance, of falling in love, of making himself vulnerable. I fell like I've read a whole load of books very similar to this by Eve Dangerfield or Scarlett Cole and other than erotic confectionary (which I could have done without), it didn't bring anything new to the table.

I received an ARC of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.

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Joel Morris is hoping to boost his business by moving his struggling tattoo shop to a new location. But when someone enexpectedly outbids him, it's just another way to show him what a disappointment he is to himself and his family. He decides to confront the new owner of Sticky Treats bakery, only to meet a fiery-haired temptress in bunny slippers with a temper to match her hair.
Olivia is always there for her family, always the resposible one, so when her sister-in-law Erin asks for a favor, she's there, arriving at the bakery only to be verbally attacked by a bearded, tattooed giant of a man. She should be more terrified if he wasn't so hot. Too bad his attitude doesn't match his good looks.
This is the second book in the Tasty Temptations series. It can be read as a standalone, but I highly recommend reading The Sweet Spot first. All of the wonderful and hilarious characters from the Sticky Treats bakery are in this book as well. I loved how Olivia and Joel were both hiding their attraction behind the verbal sparring and prickly tempers. I thought the first book had more comedy, although this book also had some funny parts. But you can't beat a naughty bakery and Granny V for snort-laugh jokes and innuendo. I highly recommend both books if you're looking for a good laugh and some great steamy scenes.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Abby is a hard working single mom who has close knit family. She is always helping everyone but has little time for herself. Joel who is struggling with his tattoo business trying to make it successful comes up with a great business plan but when things fall through he unfortunately blames the wrong person.
The two of them are perfect for each other but can't seem to get past their own issues to realize it. Both characters are very enjoyable and you root for them to get together. This is a first time author for me though I thought it was missing information in some places it was still very enjoyable.

The first February romantic book I chose was “Indelibly Yours” by Monica Myers and it turned out to be a very good hit.

To be honest, I had very low expectations for this book, but it managed to refute them with its first pages. From the very beginning it managed to make me laugh receiving bonus points for that and until the very end there were moments where I was laughing out loud.

The writing style is very light and fast to read without being shallow. The chapters are short, and the story is quite fascinating, which meant hard separation from the book for me.

The characters are well developed, and of course, emphasis is mostly placed on the main ones. I can't say they're very deep, but they're by no means superficial either. At first I thought that the book had "insta-love" trope, but then I realized that it was more like immediate attraction happening, and the real feelings between the characters developed smoothly and naturally. The only thing that was odd to me was Olivia's excessive credulity in Joel, but I quickly forgot about it when I got further into the story. Their acquaintance is very tempestuos and fun, it definitely marks the beginning of interesting relationships for the reader to follow. And when they stop picking on each other, they're so awkwardly sweet with each other that they filled my heart.

Then, during the relationship, I understood both characters and couldn't pick a side between them, simply because they were both right. What is happening is not violent or illogical, the story is gradually leading us to it. The characters only needed a little more courage to get what they both wanted.

I knew there would be a climax, but the one that occurred was very different from what was expected, and yet it was interesting because it managed to surprise me.

The denouement seemed a little rushed and hastily written, especially since the book ended with it, as if in nowhere, with no definite end.

But my overall opinion of "Indelibly Yours" is positive - you definitely won't miss if you give it a chance.

✨Thanks to NetGalley for providing a copy of the book and letting me be an ARC reader of it. ✨
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Rating: 4/5⭐

I absolutely loved this book! For me personally I could relate to this book on more than one occasion as my husband and I own a tattoo shop and we very much had that grumpy/sunshine vibe going on while dating. The characters in this book were easy to invest in and I loved the plot. I love grumpy/sunshine romance books and this one hit it home!

Indelibly Yours
Tasty Temptations Series Book 2
by Monica Myers

I LOVED the cover!! I loved the fun, make-me-laugh moments between Joel and Olivia. A major grump Joel and single Mom Olivia made me smile, and laugh, and just a really feel-great book. I did not notice it was a series, but it was standalone and now will have to get 1. A feel the love and laughter book.

A sweet single mom romance, generally I liked both Joel and Olivia. I kind of wished Joel didn’t fly off the handle so much but the author did a good job setting up the rationale for why he did the things he did. But towards the end, their stubbornness became a little too overdone, with both Olivia and Joel becoming set in their irrational stances against the relationship. The ending also felt abrupt. But overall I enjoyed the story and want to read about Erin and Nolan’s story now (Nolan is Olivia’s brother)

A great read, the second book in this series. A grumpy and sunshine romance for Joel and Olivia. Can't wait for the next book in this series.

This is such a deliciously sweet and spicy romance by Monica Myers.
Joel is a tattoo artist who feels like he’s a burden to everyone he loves. Olivia is a fairly straight laced single mom who loves her adorable 7 year old girl dearly, and does everything she can to make up to her daughter’s lack of father figure. Throw them together and you get a really sweet, yet super hot, romance.
The characterization in this novel is fantastic, all the characters are very well developed and have their own unique personality. You understand why Olivia and Joel have their insecurities, faults, and strengths. There were times when both characters made me want to whack them across the back of the head due to miscommunication—however, the miscommunication was due to anxiety and self esteem issues (both brought on realistically) NOT due to just bad miscommunication.
The third act conflict between Joel and Olivia seemed pretty far fetched for me. Olivia jumped to a conclusion to a problem (that didn’t really have anything to do with Joel, in my opinion) that didn’t really fit her personality. I felt like Myers needed a conflict between them and this was the best she could come up with, but for me it didn’t work. Granted, I’m not a single mom so while I can truly empathize with Olivia about the issue at hand, my thought process and conclusion to an issue will be extremely different from hers.
I usually don’t like single mom stories but this one was sweet and one of the rare times when the child was SO adorable. This book is the third, I believe, in a series, and reading it made me want to go back and read the first two books of the series. If you want something sweet and hot (the love scenes are really sexy and steamy) this is very much the read for you.

This is the 2nd book of Tasty Temptations series, it can be read as stand alone. My first in this series and this book is good.

How cute when Joel panic he become more dickishness to Olivia, they bickering like child with a hint of hidden desire to each other. The tension between them was woww, dual pov from Joel and Olivia. Seriosly when Olivia get turn on and imagine naughty thing it affect me too lol. I like how Olivia try to support Joel business helping with his web and social media. I really enjoy this book laugh during the awkward, nervous, panic moment because somehow i can relate.

Thank you to NetGalley for provide this book, it is pleasure to review this book.

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