A real romance about a real woman!

I feel like I haven’t a character or story like this before and I enjoyed it a lot. In a male-dominated industry, Ginger Holtzman owns her own successful tattoo shop. She is fiery, prickly, scrappy - the epitome of an angry woman who has fought hard for everything she’s achieved. In most romances, the female protagonist changes once she finds the ‘right man’. Ginger doesn’t. While she welcomes Christopher’s calm warmth, compassion, and strength, she doesn’t rely on him or feel the need to change for him and this makes for a realistically bumpy road. Author Roan Parrish uses a purposefully lopsided literary device: Ginger narrates the bulk of the story in first person giving us a front row seat to her emotions, while we get snippets of Christopher’s take on things through the occasional short email to his brother. This is an inner-monologue story as Ginger wrestles with her workload, her feelings, and the way she reacts to others, the few external conflicts are almost just noise as Ginger rejects the world’s expectations about how women should behave. Is Jo Raylan the most natural sounding audio narrator ever? She’s certainly in the running, she channels Ginger perfectly, I felt like she was just talking to me (currently free on the Audible Plus catalogue)!

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