Release Blitz – Hold on Tight by J. Kenner – {Review}

Posted January 30, 2018 in features, release blitz, reviews / 0 Comments

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Hold On Tight, the newest standalone in the Man of the Month Series by #1 New York Times bestselling author J. Kenner is LIVE!

Title: Hold On Tight

Author: J. Kenner

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Publishing Date: January 30th

A hard body. A dangerous past.

Meet Mr. February.

Reality-TV star and reformed bad boy Spencer Dean doesn’t trust women. Not after his fiancée, Brooke, left him at the altar five years ago, breaking his heart and hardening his soul.

Now, Brooke is close to a deal for her own show that will launch with the remodel of a popular Austin bar. The problem? The network insists that Spencer step in as her partner.

He’s tried to forget her-but he can’t deny that he still wants her. More than that, he wants to punish her. And so he agrees, but only on terms that are provocative, demanding, and wildly sensual.

It’s the perfect set-up for extracting revenge. But he doesn’t expect to fall for Brooke all over again…

Revenge never looked so hot.

**Hold On Tight is part of a binge read series by New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, and #1 International bestselling author of the million copy Stark series, J. Kenner.

Review

Hold On Tight by J. Kenner is book #2 in the Man of the Month series. In order to save their local bar the owners of The Fix are doing a man of the month competition and a bar renovation reality tv show. Spencer Dean has lost a lot in his life, his brother to jail, and the woman of his dreams on their wedding day. Most recently he was scammed out of his money. He has one more renovation on his reality tv contract and renovating The Fix will get him past that and on to a show renovating a mansion he has always wanted. The only problem, Brooke Hamlin, the woman who left him at the alter is who he will be working with. Will that be a deal killer, or an opportunity for retribution.

Brooke has been trying to get out from under her family’s thumb and having her own renovation business, highlighted in a reality tv show to revitalize The Fix is perfect. Spencer’s involvement is gut wrenching. Leaving him 5 years before was a choice that was forced on her, but what will Spencer do with her? To her? Her need to get her business off the ground is first and foremost and Spencer is a wild card in her plans.

I liked the use of locations and atmospheres that were both in flashbacks to Brooke and Spencer’s past as well as the present day. Their history is passionate and the family details from both are driving forces for the situations they have been in. The dynamic between them in undeniable and I liked that it was not needlessly torturous. Yes there was a sense of past hanging over them, but the positive side of their history and love was not dampened. I enjoyed the development of the overall story arc as well as specific plot in this book. Spencer and Brooke are the driving forces amid a torrent of various eddies.

Overall I enjoyed Hold On Tight by J. Kenner and Brooke and Spencer’s characters. This was a passionate, fun and fulfilling book.