Review: A second chance for a forbidden love!! Hot Hot Hot!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 12, 2014
Hold Me Tight has got quite a few aspects that sucked me right into the story. Alanna's and Miles' relationship is given a second chance, a decade after their first chance. Their relationship is forbidden and Miles' best friend Jared is Alanna's big brother. And both characters are a bit broken, Alanna, by years of dealing with her father not accepting her calling as an artist, and Miles, by an unexpected event that changed the course of his family's lives, which led to an abrupt breakup and consequently broken hearts on both sides.When Alanna starts working at the ad agency with Miles, she never expected that her feelings for him would come back to her full force. Luckily she has an outlet, putting her feelings down on the canvas as she paints. Miles feels the same way about Alanna, but there's obstacles in the way, mostly the no-fraternizing policy at work. He knows that if he acts on his feelings that his entire career will be in jeopardy.I could completely relate to Alanna. Years ago, she went from having a crush on her older brother's best friend to being completely in the moments with him once he realized that he had feelings back, and then she was heartbroken when he suddenly cut off all contact with her. Her heartbreak and her anger kept her from confronting him and getting closure so all of her feelings for him came crashing back to the forefront when she started working at his company.Alanna's relationship and banter with her brother had me laughing out loud, and also made me wish I had an older brother who I know would drive me crazy, but at the same time, have my back like Jared did for Alanna.Miles definitely had his faults, like being a bit wishy-washy with his relationship with Sophie and also how he handled his attraction to Alanna, but the more that I got to know him and learned about the things in his past that shaped him into the man that he is, I was able to overlook his faults and fall in love with him myself. And if he himself wasn't enough to make me love him, all of the steamy sex scenes would have definitely helped that out!I loved Hold Me Tight. It was a relatively quick read, I was able to finish it in just a few hours since I didn't want to put it down until I found out if things were going to work out this time around for Alanna and Miles. It's the first book that I've read by Talia Quinn, but I'll definitely be on the lookout for the other books in The Greenpoint Artists series.I received a complimentary e-copy of Hold Me Tight in exchange for an honest review.