Hold On Tight

Great story.

I’m so loving this man of the month series; alpha men finding their love trying not to give in but having no choice to what their heart wants. A must read

Brooke and Spencer’s story is one that test time over and over. It will definitely keep you on your toes and at the edge of your seat. Most of all it’s a page turner fill with twists and turns along the way.

I'll admit I hated Spencer for a chapter. I saw where he was going and I wasn't happy. Luckily it worked out. I was so excited to see that there was a continuous side to the story. It picked up where the first one left off (maybe there was some overlap). But the characters are all still there. Each playing their role. I liked this book though not as much as the first one. I was so glad that Spencer and Brooke had history. It made it easier for them to fall in love. The only downfall I had was some of the dialogue seemed forced. It didn't flow. It felt...wrong. But I'll get over it. Still a great read.

Hold on Tight is the second book in the new Man of The Month series. This book is the story of Mr. February and the story of Brooke and Spencer. Nothing is as delicious as second chance romance with a Romeo and Juliet type feel! Brooke was introduced in book one when she met with Jenna to go over renovations for The Fix, the Sixth Street bar in Austin that they are trying to save from financial troubles. Brooke has her own Commercial Renovation Company, much to the disappointment of her parents. They are from the upper crust, her father is a lawyer and her mother is a doctor. They expected her to go to medical school and much to their disappointment, she chose another path. Spencer is from a poor family. His father went from job to job and they lived in a trailer. His brother joined a local gang and was caught and put in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. He was just in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong people. Spencer learned the construction trade from his father. Spencer and Brooke met and fell in love. Brooke’s family didn’t want Brooke to marry Spencer because of his family and background. While planning a future with Brooke, Spencer worked construction and he was good with renovations. So good he approached the network about a television show and became a network star with Spencer’s Place. All was in motion for a happily ever after until Brooke called it off and they have been incommunicado for the last five years. Spencer continued with Spencer’s Place until his friend and investment manager does some shady dealings and Spencer is in financial trouble. Spencer leaves the network and Spencer’s Place with one more season to film on his contract and returns to Austin. Spencer has been back in town for months and hasn’t run into his ex-finance Brooke until their paths cross when Brooke tries to broker a deal with the network to do a reno show on The Fix. The deal the network makes with Brooke is they will do the show if she does it with Spencer. He has a project on an old home he wants to do on Spencer’s Place, but the network plays the game if you do the reno show with Brooke then you can do the project on Spencer’s Place. They know of Spencer and Brooke’s troubled history and want that drama for the show. I really disliked Spencer in the beginning. He is bitter and very angry. He wants Brooke to hurt as badly as he did, and he wants revenge. Brooke and Spencer have not spoken in five years and he has no idea the hell and heartbreak Brooke has been through since she had to call off the wedding to the only man she has ever loved and still loves. Brooke and Spencer have a lot of issues and hurt to move through. This is a bittersweet second chance romance. There are secrets, bitterness, and regret that have to be dealt with. As the story unfolds, details are revealed, and secrets are told. My heart hurt for both of them. Spencer redeemed himself and I began to root of them to turn their relationship around. This second chance romance with a Romeo and Juliet feel is just the thing to help with the winter blahs. I really enjoyed Mr. February and really look forward to Mr. March!

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. (I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book I received for free in exchange for my open and honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.)

Meet Mr February: Spencer Dean. Spencer and Brooke are a second chance romance. Both are still nursing their broken hearts for one another and then are thrown together for a reality show to spruce up our beloved Fix on Sixth. Family tore them apart before and continues to threatens them again. Read to find out if our couple survive!

I love the concept of this series. Although this is book two, I felt that it was so well written that it could be read solo. It was that awesome. The desire between Spencer and Brooke was hot! I felt each of their sorrows and quickly became their biggest cheerleader. That kind of bond with characters and readers isn't luck. It's pure talent. And J Kenner has that in spades! A fantastic read!

Any future together for Spencer Dean and Brooke Hamlin stopped being a possibility five years ago when Brooke broke Spencer’s heart and walked away without a second glance and without an explanation as to the reasons behind her abrupt departure. But the past always has a way of encroaching on the present and when Brooke’s future career depends on Spencer’s acquiescence, it’s clear that if these two don’t make amends and have an honest conversation about what happened all those years ago, Spencer and Brooke’s hearts will never mend and Brooke will never have a chance to prove she can handle herself in front of and behind the camera. I love second chance romance stories, especially when the love the hero and heroine felt for each other never dissipated. In Spencer’s perspective, Brooke is the reason his life imploded, leaving him unable to move past how she left things and the many unanswered questions he has. But while it’s clear that it was Brooke’s actions that destroyed her relationship with Spencer, what readers are told about the circumstances surrounding their break up is much needed information - insight that absolutely proves that the decision was forced upon her and the fact that she’s berated herself and broken her own heart many times over attempting to deal with the fallout of her involuntary act shows just how much she regretted losing the only man she’s ever loved. The premise behind J. Kenner’s Man of the Month series is to provide fast paced sultry and sweet reads that invite readers to experience hot and heavy encounters between the heroes and the heroines, and while there is some backstory provided and the plot has some substance to it in terms of why the characters are coming together - to save their favorite bar - The Fix on Sixth - and how all the characters are connected, these stories aren’t meant to dive too deep into anything too dramatic or emotional, keeping things mostly light and interweaving those moments with the sizzling encounters experienced by the hero and the heroine. Two spots in the calendar have been filled, but there are still ten more to assign, and I can’t wait to see which males become Mr. March through December…I’m sure they’ll be gorgeous and also have to be persuaded to participate…just like the first two. 4 Poison Apples (The Fairest of All Book Reviews)

I don’t think a book has ever had a better title. I am so sucked in to this series. I am so glad Julie is writing this series. This is the second book in the Man of the Month series. So far as we have gone along in this series it is only getting better. In this book Spencer is a man that is from the wrong side of the tracks. Brooke is a woman that has that family that has the money and means to get things done. Luckily for Spencer,Brooke is nothing like her Dad. Five years before Brooke’s Dad made her choose between her happiness and a person’s life. Now can Spencer and Brooke get past everything to work together to better their lives. I love these books.

Hold on Tight by J. Kenner is the second book in her new 12 book Man of the Month series. Told in dual POV this is the second chance love story of Spencer Dean and Brooke Hamlin and the series story arc of this larger group of friends efforts to save their favorite bar, The Fix on Sixth. Spencer and Brooke have a past together. It's complicated if you know all the details as we readers do early on, and heartbreaking when you only know some of the details as poor Spencer has only known for the past few years. He is set for revenge on Brooke, she is, after all, the one who broke his heart and has ruined all relationships for him after their split. Brooke has been carrying the secret reason for leaving Spencer on her shoulders alone for a long time. She is still head over heels in love with him and had the best of reasons for what she did. Unfortunately, she never told him why and now, having to work together on their home improvement show filming renovations at The Fix, things get complicated and heated FAST. Well-written and well-paced, this was another great read and I'm excited with how each of the upcoming characters are gently weaved into the plots in earlier stories without being obtrusive to the current story. Enjoy!

The overall series is about the bar called The Fix on Sixth that is about to go under. Tyree trusted the wrong guy to finance the start of the bar and now this guy wants the loan paid off in full or lose it. Employees and friends do not want to see this happen so they are willing to invest in the bar and come up with ways to raise money and bring more customers in. Jenna, one of the new partners has come up with the idea to hold a Calendar of the Month contest for the public to choose each months model for the Calendar. In this installment of the Man of the Month series, Jenna contacts Brooke, a contractor, to see if she is willing to donate the materials to remodel the bar. Brooke takes it one step better and gets television executives involved to not only pay for the remodel but to do a tv series on the remodel and airing the Man of the Month contest that are being held each month. There is just one problem. The tv execs want to add a co-host who just happens to be the jilted Groom of Brookes. I'm not the biggest fan of second chance romance but I gotta admit J. Kenner had me devouring this book because of what really happened to make Brooke walk away from Spencer. Things aren't what they seem and I couldn't wait for the truth to come out. There were a few instances that I felt got a bit rushed in the story but these books are on the shorter side. I love that we get to see the same characters in each book and I'm looking forward to the next one. ARC provided by Social Butterfly PR.

"I'm going to kiss you now. Not because I want to punish you. But because I want to. And if that's a problem, you better stop me now." Holy Hotness!! I am loving this series and this latest installment is just amazing! The humor, the heartbreak, the angry ultimatums, the secrets and betrayal, the undercurrent of what could have been - it's all there. Brooke Hamlin knows Spencer Dean hates her. How could he not? The problem is that she never stopped loving him. She had no choice but to hurt him. Now they're working together and he's angry - at her, at the job, and he wants revenge for his broken heart. She can't blame him after what she did to him. She desperately wants to tell him why she did what she did, but will he hate her even more when she does? Should she try to convince him to give her a second chance, or will yet another ultimatum from her father tear them, and their hearts, to pieces yet again? Spencer Dean had it all going for him. The right girl, a hit TV DIY show, and a bright future, despite his troubled past. He's overcome it all - all except losing that right girl. Brooke was the love of his life and she ripped his world apart on their wedding day. Now he's back in Austin and working with her on a new renovation show - pure torture. He wants to hate her - sure, he wants vengeance for what she did - but his heart won't let him. Could they try again? Would she even want him after making it clear she didn't want him back then? Can they rebuild The Fix and their hearts? I love a story with an emotionally tortured man, second chance romance, and wrong choices for right reasons. This book has all this and more! Can't wait for the next Man of the Month!

This was a good second chance at love story. Brooke and Spencer were going to be married when Brooke had to walk away. Now years later they are brought together to work on a project. Spencer hates Brooke for what she did and Brooke has never moved on from Spencer. There is a fine line between love and hate and it isn't long before Spencer and Brooke are giving into all of the feelings that never left. This was a good read in this series. I loved getting to check in with last month's couple. The friends in this series are all interconnected as we watch them all find their happily ever afters while saving a bar that they love. Another good read in this series.

“A man who once would have laid down his life for her. Now, he wanted to destroy her.” Ever since I finished Down On Me I couldn’t wait to get my hands on the next Man of the Month. I would love to get inside Julie’s mind when she is brainstorming her projects. I love the concept of this series and look forward to each Man’s story. If you read about Reece ~ wait to you meet his competition Mr. February! You can’t help compare and get drawn into the excitement of the calendar contest. “he was manipulative...and she was a woman who'd sacrificed her pride for the sake of her business.” This book is filled with regret, desperation, moving on, healing, forgiveness, letting go, betrayal, secrets, jealousy and manipulation...intertwined with want, chemistry, heat and the past sneaking its way to the present. This book keeps you on your toes, engaged and always wanting more of the calendar men. "Don't ever do something just to go along...You know your own mind, and that's the path you need to be walking.”

More of a 4.5 than 5 star read for me, but loved it nonetheless. I felt like I flew through this book. This book focused more on Spencer and Brooke (the lead characters), whereas the first book in the series really set the scene and introduced a lot of the men who would be the leads in future books and possible females leads. You'll be introduced to some new characters that will probably appear in future books and get to know some characters we were introduced to in the first book. Brooke, the daughter of wealthy parents; Spencer, the bad boy from the wrong side of the tracks, with a bit of criminal past. It's your typical second chance love story of good girl and bad boy that is written well. There are no whiny characters, just strong characters dealing with reasonable self doubt. I do wish the revenge aspect had been carried out a tad bit longer. While we can all pretty much figure out what ending is going to be of the series, I'm curious to see all the twists and turns of the individual books as we learn all about all of these characters, as well as the story as a whole. Because I've read so many books from this author, I think I'm more excited for the books of characters we've encounter in previous series. Only time will tell and Book 3 will be here before we know it.

This was a fantastic addition to the Man Of The Month series!!! Spencer comes off as a butthead at the beginning of the book, but I quickly fell in love with his personality, sexiness, and his vulnerability. He has some demons from his past he’s trying to overcome, and nails it by the end of the book. Brooke is sweet, fun, and while she came off a bit weak towards the beginning of the book, she found her voice and became a heroine most of us would love to be. These two heated up the pages, and it had the perfect amount of drama. I loved when Brooke decided enough was enough, and took her stand. Of course, you can’t have the announcement of who Mr February was without something big happening, and this didn’t disappoint!! This is definitely a must read!