Review: This one will keep you on the edge of your seat!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 6, 2014
I was a huge fan of the first book in this series, Weak For Him, so when the opportunity came around to read the second one, I was all over that! Unfortunately, this book falls short of the entertainment and complexity of the first book.Weak Without Him picks up right where the last book leaves off, with Jennifer being fired from The Elite for essentially breech of contract because she is no longer a virgin. For the sake of not wanting to spoil any of the plot, let’s just say that there are ulterior reasons for firing Jennifer, and don’t worry because it looks like Jennifer and Finn are going to make a go of it. It also felt like maybe the author was trying to answer some of the questions that were asked by reviewers whom may have rated the first book lower. For instance:“Why did you strip in my office so willingly? Or agree to sell your virginity? Normal, logical people don’t do things like that. You’re a smart intelligent woman, and it seems out of character, almost unrealistic in a sense.” “Sometimes a person does something just to do it. I don’t understand why that’s so hard to understand…”I thought we had a pretty good idea of why Jennifer did the things she did in the first book. It seemed strange to rehash an old argument. And what a strange discussion to have with a former employee, didn’t he have an entire staff of women that stripped in his office, including some that had been virgins as well? Was Jennifer the only intelligent one?For perhaps the first 2/3 of the book there is a lot of back and forth between Jennifer and Finn, and a lot of he said/she said, lack of communication, kind of angsty stuff going on, which got to be a little tiresome. It’s not until we’re left with only 1/3 of the book that things really start to get interesting, however the event that happens (again, no spoilers!) seems really out of place in the book….it just didn’t seem like we made a natural progression from point A to point B to the conclusion.The plot twists that did take place were doozies though, that’s for sure! There will be one that you’ll see coming that started brewing in the first book, but then there is another one that will knock your socks off! I was certainly kept on the edge of my seat, but it happened so late in the book that it almost felt like too little too late.Maybe it is that the first book was that good that I had such high hopes for this one, but for me, this was a three and a half star read. In the first book we had more depth, both in character and storyline development, whereas this once just seemed a bit more rushed. I did enjoy and I will certainly stick around for the last installment of the series, No Longer Weak, comes out later this year.