Review: Great Followup to a Crazy, Emotional Ride
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 17, 2014
*Deep Breathes, deep breathes*. Ok...so...I'm sitting at work on break trying to start this review. Am I having a hard time trying to find something nice to say? Absolutely not! I loved this book and series a million times over. My thing is, do I just go into this review guns blazing, no filter, no holds barred and just give it to you straight like the author did in her book? Yup, I am. Sometimes when you want to make yourself heard and get a point across, that's just how it has to be done."Underestimated Too" by Jettie Woodruff is the surprise follow up to Underestimated. The first novel tells you of Morgan's life with (told through flashbacks), escape from and return to Drew Kelley. As most fans of this series know, he is the one we love to hate. The bastard that stole her from her not so great life in West Virginia, moved her to Las Vegas, made her his wife and her life a living nightmare. We all thought it was him. Mastermind behind it all. Control freak and alpha male at its worst. This book is Drew's story. How he became the man he was in book 1. Why he is the way he is and if Morgan and him really do achieve that happily ever after dream.If you decide to read this series, which I think everyone should, be prepared to have your mind messed with. It's one of those books that breaks your heart and leaves you in pieces, but helps build you back into that sane person you were before reading this book. Now, when I first heard there was going to be a sequel and that really it was just the male POV retelling of the first novel. I wanted to break something. I am starting to HATE those books with a passion. Those stories become so tedious and redundant that you find yourself skipping to see if there's anything new. I did not want that for this story at all. The first book was deemed a standalone. I had my many happily ever after visions of them being happy and nothing breaking them apart and getting over all the trials and tribulations of the first novel. Honestly, in the back of my mind I felt their story wasn't complete. There were just too many things left unsaid or untold for them to truly live that happily ever after dream. Well when I read the synopsis and the teasers for this book my whole view change. Definitely one of those moments when you stick your foot in your mouth before thinking.Ms. Woodruff changed up the male POV game. His story is told through a series of flashbacks that gives you the much needed insight as to why Drew is the bastard that he is. I swear I don't know how many times I wanted to punch Drew in his franks and beans for taking his personal strife out on Morgan. But then in the same breathe I wanted to throw him down somewhere just have crazy kinky sex with him. This man is infuriating as hell, you just can't help but love him. Major, major character change and growth. I just wanted to shake him because it took him so long to see the damage he was doing to him and his family. Morgan was still my favorite. I did feel she lost her voice a bit in this story. After the accident in the first novel. She became a force to be reckon with. Tough, mean, didn't take any nonsense from anyone. I became a big fan of hers at the end. This story however, she became a shell of herself. That made me mourn for her a bit. You don't know how many times I yelled for her to fight back and give Drew a taste of what he is dishing out. The excuses she was making for him was out of this world. His biggest enabler was her. Thank God she realized that before things really got bad.In all this series is just gripping, emotional, hard to take sometimes, and honestly just amazing. This book had me breathless at times with Drew and Morgan fights. I swear I was scared and Drew. Still am. Tough subject matter but Ms. Woodruff told the story with such an ease it feels. How the heck did she do it? She has become another one of my favorite authors. Drew and Morgan will forever be etched in brain. When authors write a story that stays with you after a week of finishing the book and still doesn't want to let you go, you know they did something right! Out of a 5, I'm giving this one 5 stars! Please do yourself a favor and READ THIS SERIES!