BOOK SPOTLIGHT AND SALE! Underestimated Series by Jettie Woodruff
May 18, 2014
Underestimated and Underestimated Too are on SALE for the entire month of May for only $2.99 each!
My Review:
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Yes ladies and gents its one of those books. The books that take you on a bizarre and emotional journey of a woman who has been to hell and back only to be back in hell…or so we think. And you find yourself more than conflicted about what she should do with her life and who she should be with in the end. Lord, save me. I think I’m going to need to talk to someone on a professional level after reading this book.
“Underestimated” by Jettie Woodruff tells the story of Morgan Kelley, nope, now she is Riley Murphy. Morgan Kelley has escaped the hands of her crazy, sadistic, torturous, and sexy ass husband, Drew Kelley (he doesn’t become sexy until the second half of this book. I know I’m sick, but let me explain later!) After six years of being married to this sociopath, she has decided to run and never look back. She has moved herself, with the help of a close friend, to a small town in Maine. Working for a small coffee and trinket shop and making new friends along her path of new found freedom. She realizes that she will never set upon a normal life outside of what she was use to. She starts a relationship with the town sheriff, Dawson Bade, and soon he sees for himself what she is running from with the constant nightmares of her husband. She talks herself into believing that she can make a life with him and live the Happily Ever After dream…if only it were that simple. After going back to her hometown on business and relaxation she is found by her husband’s assistant and gets involved in a high speed chase resulting in a horrific car accident that leaves her with little to no memory of her time in Maine and her fiancé waiting for her back home. She is soon back in Drew’s hands as his wife. But soon they both realized that neither one of them are the same resulting in a bizarre, steamy and crazy ass book!
Ok, I have to stop reading books that make my mind go haywire. I just finished and questioning myself for how I am feeling about this book. Why am I loving Drew “fucking” Kelley. As said by Morgan/Riley herself! He did the most despicable, humiliating and God awful acts to her imaginable. Just so you know this author sugar coats not a damn thing. This book is beyond graphic, which does not bother me in the least. Now if this was a movie, I would be singing a different tune. Drew was just nasty to her and I could not stand him in the first half of this book. I wanted to watch him get hit in front of a moving bus and watch his body shatter into pieces. That’s how much I hated that man. Now on to Dawson, cause I loved him too. He was sweet heart and just all around good guy to Riley. He talked her through a lot her self doubts and nightmares. When she talked through her nightmares to Dawson, she found herself getting turned on from the previous “events” in her life and found that troubling. I didn’t blame her cause I found them troubling too.
I loved how the author gave you the whole series in one book. There were no freaking cliffhangers and waiting a month or two for the sequel or final book to come out in the series. You got it all…the good, the bad and ugly. The second half of this book had me wanting to shoot myself after she wound up back in Drew’s hand. You just knew because the author kept making you feel that things were just too good to be true and that the bottom would drop out eventually. Boy did it! She has no memory and with that bastard who’s acting all sweet and innocent knowing he can’t stand her and wants things to start up exactly the way they were before she disappeared. Problem with that is she had changed from the meek mouse she was when she was with drew. She was a bitch to him, demanding and didn’t back down when he wanted her to. This caused a change in him and made him take the stick out of his ass and see the beautiful woman before him that he thought he destroyed. Her memory is back in full force after a run in with Dawson and that’s where the tug of war begins. Should she be with Drew or should she be with Dawson. I swear at one point I didn’t know who she was picking and honestly I didn’t know who I wanted her to be with either. That scared me. Drew caused irreparable pain to her and there is an inkling that she should go back with him on a chance that he is changing? I don’t know after awhile I was rooting for Drew. Drew changed. Plain and simple and I feel anyone in this world deserves another chance and no one should judge unless you were put in that person’s shoes.
The conflict with this book was at an all time high. After a slow start I found this book to question a lot of my opinions and morals. I love when a good book does that. Out of a 5, I’m giving this book 4 ½ stars. Kudos to the author for picking a tough subject matter to write about and making a not so easy happily ever after to achieve.
“Underestimated” by Jettie Woodruff tells the story of Morgan Kelley, nope, now she is Riley Murphy. Morgan Kelley has escaped the hands of her crazy, sadistic, torturous, and sexy ass husband, Drew Kelley (he doesn’t become sexy until the second half of this book. I know I’m sick, but let me explain later!) After six years of being married to this sociopath, she has decided to run and never look back. She has moved herself, with the help of a close friend, to a small town in Maine. Working for a small coffee and trinket shop and making new friends along her path of new found freedom. She realizes that she will never set upon a normal life outside of what she was use to. She starts a relationship with the town sheriff, Dawson Bade, and soon he sees for himself what she is running from with the constant nightmares of her husband. She talks herself into believing that she can make a life with him and live the Happily Ever After dream…if only it were that simple. After going back to her hometown on business and relaxation she is found by her husband’s assistant and gets involved in a high speed chase resulting in a horrific car accident that leaves her with little to no memory of her time in Maine and her fiancé waiting for her back home. She is soon back in Drew’s hands as his wife. But soon they both realized that neither one of them are the same resulting in a bizarre, steamy and crazy ass book!
Ok, I have to stop reading books that make my mind go haywire. I just finished and questioning myself for how I am feeling about this book. Why am I loving Drew “fucking” Kelley. As said by Morgan/Riley herself! He did the most despicable, humiliating and God awful acts to her imaginable. Just so you know this author sugar coats not a damn thing. This book is beyond graphic, which does not bother me in the least. Now if this was a movie, I would be singing a different tune. Drew was just nasty to her and I could not stand him in the first half of this book. I wanted to watch him get hit in front of a moving bus and watch his body shatter into pieces. That’s how much I hated that man. Now on to Dawson, cause I loved him too. He was sweet heart and just all around good guy to Riley. He talked her through a lot her self doubts and nightmares. When she talked through her nightmares to Dawson, she found herself getting turned on from the previous “events” in her life and found that troubling. I didn’t blame her cause I found them troubling too.
I loved how the author gave you the whole series in one book. There were no freaking cliffhangers and waiting a month or two for the sequel or final book to come out in the series. You got it all…the good, the bad and ugly. The second half of this book had me wanting to shoot myself after she wound up back in Drew’s hand. You just knew because the author kept making you feel that things were just too good to be true and that the bottom would drop out eventually. Boy did it! She has no memory and with that bastard who’s acting all sweet and innocent knowing he can’t stand her and wants things to start up exactly the way they were before she disappeared. Problem with that is she had changed from the meek mouse she was when she was with drew. She was a bitch to him, demanding and didn’t back down when he wanted her to. This caused a change in him and made him take the stick out of his ass and see the beautiful woman before him that he thought he destroyed. Her memory is back in full force after a run in with Dawson and that’s where the tug of war begins. Should she be with Drew or should she be with Dawson. I swear at one point I didn’t know who she was picking and honestly I didn’t know who I wanted her to be with either. That scared me. Drew caused irreparable pain to her and there is an inkling that she should go back with him on a chance that he is changing? I don’t know after awhile I was rooting for Drew. Drew changed. Plain and simple and I feel anyone in this world deserves another chance and no one should judge unless you were put in that person’s shoes.
The conflict with this book was at an all time high. After a slow start I found this book to question a lot of my opinions and morals. I love when a good book does that. Out of a 5, I’m giving this book 4 ½ stars. Kudos to the author for picking a tough subject matter to write about and making a not so easy happily ever after to achieve.
My Review:
*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!
- Lynne
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