Cover Up (Skin Deep Inc., #3)by L.A. Witt
Published by St Martin's Press
eARC
LGBT, contemporary, romance
After ten years of blissful marriage, Navy Pilot Nate Chandler is divorcing his cheating husband. Single for the first time in years, Nate is numb to all emotion and kisses any chance of another relationship goodbye.
Not only is Nate struggling to get through this divorce, but his body is branded with a permanent reminder of his failed marriage: a matching tattoo with his ex. Searching for a place to cover up his old tattoo, Nate finds himself at the Skin Deep, Inc., where he meets the young and charming cover-up tattoo apprentice, Lucas Brandt.
From just flirty glances to steamy hot encounters, Nate and Lucas dive headfirst into a fling of hookups. But worried that he’ll forever be Nate’s “cover up” rebound relationship, Lucas fears that their love won’t be anything more than just skin deep. What was once just a casual attraction, Lucas now hopes to turn into a real relationship. But will he be able to convince the still tender-hearted Nate to fall in love again?
Cover Up starts with Nate leaving a divorce settlement meeting as he's going through a divorce because his husband cheated on him. He's angry and he wants to get rid off everything that reminds him of his ex - including a tiger tattoo, which he got a matching ones with his ex. That leads Nate to meet Lucas, who's tattoo artists specializing in cover ups. It's instant lust between the two of them, and they decide to hook up. Everything seems to be perfect between them, because they both love how hot the sex between them is, and Lucas has gone through divorce twice already so he understands it's just a rebound for Nate, and he's okay with that. Their chemistry flares up and they end up being friends with benefits because they enjoy each other's company on and off bed.
Both Lucas and Nate were likable characters. Nate's a little bit lost and avoiding his feelings of grief from the divorce, but he's also funny and gentle. Lucas's struggling with confidence issues because he screwed up a tattoo not long ago, and he works three jobs just to pay off student loans. Life certainly didn't seem too easy for them, and I rooted for them. Other characters were quite likable too, well, everyone else but Nate's ex-husband but he was mostly off page.
However, there were quite some problems I had with the story. Mostly it comes down to excessive sex scenes - there were so many of them and so frequently that the story seemed to drag on, especially since there wasn't much anything else going on. There weren't many scenes were Nate and Lucas spend time separately (and even if they did, they were certainly thinking about each other). There just wasn't much plot to go on, and not much character development until the last few chapters. Quite honestly, the story felt really long even if it wasn't, and I did skim read some of the sex scenes because there wasn't anything new for the overall storyline. I wished more interaction with secondary characters and more activities that had nothing to do with sex - I would have liked to see more tattooing or army training as Nate was a Navy Pilot. There was plenty of potential to extent the story to cover more than just Nate and Lucas together, and it would have fleshed out the story more.
Cover Up was a nice story with a happily ever after, but it wasn't something that blew my mind and it ended up just scratching the surface of the potential the story could have reached. So if you're looking for something relatively light with some angst looming on the background and plenty of sex scenes, then I'd recommend Cover Up for you.
3 of 5 stars
Thank you, St Martin's Press, for giving me a chance to read and review Cover Up!
(A copy of this ebook was provided in return for an honest review.)
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