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wensa's review
5.0
Even better than Working Stiff. This was an amazing follow up to book 1. You can't go wrong with this series, or with Rachel Caine in general. She is an amazing writer, and this series just proves that even more. Action packed and full of surprises. I highly recommend this series.
si0bhan's review
4.0
Upon finishing Working Stiff, I was eager to jump straight into Two Weeks’ Notice. The first book may not have hit all my buttons, but it certainly left me addicted and wanting more. I needed to see how things played out, I needed to see what came next, and I was more than willing to jump straight into the second book.
As is often the case with such books, it took me a while to get into this second book. We had the usual element of the details being rehashed, something that I found unnecessary having just come from the first book. Fortunately, this did not last as long as it sometimes does before the story started to get moving again. I wasn’t quite sure what direction this story would go in, a part of me worried it would be a repeat of the prior book when it came to trying to achieve certain goals, but I quickly found this second book was introducing a number of new elements.
You see, I enjoyed Two Weeks’ Notice a lot more for quite a few reasons. New elements were introduced, new characters appeared, new twists were added, and as a whole a lot more happened in this one. The first book had limited action in my opinion, whereas things occur throughout with this book. There’s a lot more in terms of action, and even when we step away from the action there is still a decent amount occurring. Even in the slower sections of the book, we’re still moving towards some kind of goal.
This one certainly leaves you pulled in throughout, leaving you turning page after page as you work towards your answers. Then, when you reach the end you’re left desperate to grab the next book. I wasn’t quite sure what new element would be added for book three, but the ending left me truly desperate to grab it up. The twist added, the new element, will leave you grabbing book three instantly. It’s certainly a book that will leave you begging for answers.
Without a doubt, a much stronger second book.
As is often the case with such books, it took me a while to get into this second book. We had the usual element of the details being rehashed, something that I found unnecessary having just come from the first book. Fortunately, this did not last as long as it sometimes does before the story started to get moving again. I wasn’t quite sure what direction this story would go in, a part of me worried it would be a repeat of the prior book when it came to trying to achieve certain goals, but I quickly found this second book was introducing a number of new elements.
You see, I enjoyed Two Weeks’ Notice a lot more for quite a few reasons. New elements were introduced, new characters appeared, new twists were added, and as a whole a lot more happened in this one. The first book had limited action in my opinion, whereas things occur throughout with this book. There’s a lot more in terms of action, and even when we step away from the action there is still a decent amount occurring. Even in the slower sections of the book, we’re still moving towards some kind of goal.
This one certainly leaves you pulled in throughout, leaving you turning page after page as you work towards your answers. Then, when you reach the end you’re left desperate to grab the next book. I wasn’t quite sure what new element would be added for book three, but the ending left me truly desperate to grab it up. The twist added, the new element, will leave you grabbing book three instantly. It’s certainly a book that will leave you begging for answers.
Without a doubt, a much stronger second book.
sunsoar25's review against another edition
4.0
Two Weeks' Notice (Revivalist #2) by Rachel Caine is a fantastic sequel to Working Stiff. It's an addicting zombie urban fantasy novel that's absolutely perfect for fans of iZombie. It's great to be back with Brynn and to learn more about the tech behind the zombies, but the new characters and the epic twists make this better than the first installment. Rachel Caine is quickly becoming a new favorite author for me. I can't wait to read the finale to this series, Terminated.
gauvvaine's review against another edition
4.0
i think the thing that strikes me most about this series is how tight & solid caine's writing is. the pacing is perfect, not a single word is out of place, everything happens just where and when it should.
the world & the politics in this are absolutely fucking horrifying lmao. i didn't put this on the rape shelf because no one is sexually assaulted, but make no mistake, the people in charge could not care less about anyone's consent. the only thing is that it's never sexualized; it's all medical, all a complete and total disregard for peoples' choices when it comes to their own bodies and lives. pharmadene is as slimy as they come: they designed a drug that was originally supposed to cure cancer and discovered, quite by accident, that it actually revived people from the dead and turned them nearly indestructible, and because the revived's bodies will slowly decay without this same drug they own them body and soul, and they view them as less than human.
shit gets even worse in this one lmao. one of joe's kids gets kidnapped and held as ransom for bryn's obedience, and at one point she gets locked in a mental institute where she is tortured for several hours (thankfully off-page, with brief and vague descriptions), and later, after she escapes, the villains talk about burning an entire building of the complex down to erase the evidence, regardless of the patients still living there. there's also a brief allude in the midst of the torture to an attempted past rape of bryn by one of her fellow soldiers when she'd been in the army.
my only real complaint (bc i knew what i was getting into in terms of consent and horror; i will however admit i was not expecting the cannibalistic super zombies at the end) is that i'm honestly rly uncomfortable with bryn's reaction to the reveal of patrick's ex-wife. like, i do understand why she's hurt, and why she would react poorly; what i'm not so comfortable with is the way it's written. she and patrick have barely even begun dating at this point, and he legit thought his wife was dead. we haven't gotten any details yet, but it was apparently a very traumatic point of his life: he was under no obligation to talk to her about that? it would have been nice to see that acknowledged in the text.
anyway, this is a good sequel to a good book, and overall i enjoyed it a lot. looking forward to reading the next one at some point.
the world & the politics in this are absolutely fucking horrifying lmao. i didn't put this on the rape shelf because no one is sexually assaulted, but make no mistake, the people in charge could not care less about anyone's consent. the only thing is that it's never sexualized; it's all medical, all a complete and total disregard for peoples' choices when it comes to their own bodies and lives. pharmadene is as slimy as they come: they designed a drug that was originally supposed to cure cancer and discovered, quite by accident, that it actually revived people from the dead and turned them nearly indestructible, and because the revived's bodies will slowly decay without this same drug they own them body and soul, and they view them as less than human.
shit gets even worse in this one lmao. one of joe's kids gets kidnapped and held as ransom for bryn's obedience, and at one point she gets locked in a mental institute where she is tortured for several hours (thankfully off-page, with brief and vague descriptions), and later, after she escapes, the villains talk about burning an entire building of the complex down to erase the evidence, regardless of the patients still living there. there's also a brief allude in the midst of the torture to an attempted past rape of bryn by one of her fellow soldiers when she'd been in the army.
my only real complaint (bc i knew what i was getting into in terms of consent and horror; i will however admit i was not expecting the cannibalistic super zombies at the end) is that i'm honestly rly uncomfortable with bryn's reaction to the reveal of patrick's ex-wife. like, i do understand why she's hurt, and why she would react poorly; what i'm not so comfortable with is the way it's written. she and patrick have barely even begun dating at this point, and he legit thought his wife was dead. we haven't gotten any details yet, but it was apparently a very traumatic point of his life: he was under no obligation to talk to her about that? it would have been nice to see that acknowledged in the text.
anyway, this is a good sequel to a good book, and overall i enjoyed it a lot. looking forward to reading the next one at some point.
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