Review: 4 - "I've had sex that isn't as good as staring at you." Stars!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 23, 2014
I absolutely fell in love with Serena Bell’s writing after reading Yours To Keep. She is an author that manages to take a love story and add a little something different to it, just to keep the interest piqued.Hold on Tight, is just as beautifully written, and again offers you a sexy-hot love story based around two average, but also extraordinary people, there is also the bonus of a child in the mix, which I always think adds an extra dimension to any story.It wasn’t like he was just some guy. He was that guy. The guy whose mouth she absolutely 100 percent shouldn't’t stick her tongue into.Mira and Jake have history, a lot of it, most of which derives from one night of almost sex, and is all wrapped up in a package called Sam. Mira has spent the last 8 years caring for her son on her own, and has just moved across country to start afresh with him. Jake an Army Ranger, who is now back stateside himself after 8 years fighting, is facing a whole heap of challenges of his own, and now has to add a son he never knew anything about into the mix.He was her Jake, a man she’d been intimate with, and he’d lost part of the body, shed worshipped.There is something about a man that is battling his own personal demons whilst trying to be the best he can be for those around him that gets me every time, and Jake epitomises everything I love about that type of guy.He was all ex. There was nothing left to him now, no present, no future.You can guess how this story is going to go, but I didn’t care, I loved the challenges that Mira and Jake faced, I loved his emails to Mira at the beginning and their texts gave me all sorts of unnecessary girly giggles. Don't be fooled though, this is a grown-up romance, it’s not overloaded with unnecessary angst or drama, and what there is adds to the story and doesn't bog it down.”It was hard. It was so, so hard. I missed you.”Another stunning book, by a hugely talented author, and I cannot wait to see what Serena has in store for us next!ARC generously provided via Netgalley, in exchange for the above honest review.