Fran P. (bookgirl411) reviewed Knit Two (Friday Night Knitting Club, Bk 2) on + 31 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 8
You MUST read Friday Night Knitting Club for Knit Two to make any sense. You will LOVE Friday Night Knitting Club and you will WANT to read Knit Two. However, you will be very disappointed. Knit Two takes more than 15 chapters to FINALLY find it's voice. When it finally does, the story line is weak. You are able to catch up with "old friends" however this book almost makes you "not really care". I know that this is a stong and negative review and I hope that you do read and form your own oppinions. I WANT to like this book and I WANT to not be disappointed...but fact is...I am, and I'm afraid you will be too.
Helpful Score: 7
It was great to see what the girls have been up to! Anita still remains my favorite character. Knit Two takes most of the gang to Italy for the summer. A few go for work, a few go for pleasure and one goes out on a mission to find a long lost relative. I enjoyed reading Knit Two, but The Friday Night Knitting Club had more depth and was a better book overall. If you enjoyed the prequel, you will enjoy this book.
Marianne S. (sfc95) -
Helpful Score: 4
Certainly not as good as the first book, it did take you back to the knitting club. It appeared to be written in a hurry, in order to probably sell to all the fans of the first book, but I would have waited longer to have a better developed story. There is alot of infighting between the members and you see people in a new light that just wasn't as captivating as the first book, but then maybe the entire idea was that georgia was the glue that kept the club together and the friendshhips strong. In the end it becomes a good story of lasting friendships and it certainly opens itself up for a book three. I hope that the time is taken to write book three to help me fall in love with the characters again as i did in the first book.
Helpful Score: 3
this book was a sad disappointment to me. it was hard to get involved into the lives of the characters. there was no connections and i found myself not caring about what happened. ultimately, i gave up and didn't even finish this sequel.
Helpful Score: 2
Enjoyed this one as much as the first one!!!
Helpful Score: 2
This is one of those story's I wish could go on forever. I not only cheered the characters on - they became my friends:)
Helpful Score: 2
I liked it, but the first one was better. It was kind of hard to read in the beginning but it got better in the middle and the end. I don't know if it was really neccessary to write this sequel but as far as sequels go it wasn't all that bad.
Brenna B. (demiducky25) reviewed Knit Two (Friday Night Knitting Club, Bk 2) on + 161 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
This is the sequel to "The Friday Night Knitting Club." The story picks up about five years later and shows how the lives of the Club members have changed, but how they are still on their journeys to becoming their best selves. Most of them have to reconcile with things/ people in their past in order to move on (more than one character still is grieving Georgia's death), a few characters are dealing with changes in their families/ family dynamics, and a few characters are dealing with career issues. Some characters are dealing with all of these things! While I did enjoy reading this book and was excited to see what would happen next, it didn't have all of the magic of the first book. It's been a while since I read the first book, but that one seemed to be more even in its treatment of each woman and had one main focus character. "Knit Two" doesn't have the main focus character and feels like it short-changes some of the characters. About half the Club takes off for Italy for various adventures while the rest stay in NYC and the NYC group, KC and Peri in particular, really seems to get the short end of the stick by not getting as much "face time" with the readers. Still, if you enjoyed "The Friday Night Knitting Club," then you will like reading "Knit Two" to see what happens to everyone.
Helpful Score: 1
I enjoyed this book, but nowhere near as much as I liked the first one. I couldn't put down the first one, but this one took me a long time to get through. It just didn't grab me the way The Friday Night Knitting Club did. Finally in the last chapter or two things really seemed to pick up in this novel.
Helpful Score: 1
A sequel seems to never be as good as the first. It was enjoyable, but somehow a bit cornier with the writing. ? Would still recommend it if you're a fan of the characters, though!
Danielle S. (danistewart) reviewed Knit Two (Friday Night Knitting Club, Bk 2) on + 3 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
I truly enjoyed the friendship, relationships of the Friday Night Knitting Club book. Light reading but enjoyable. This continues the stories of the women's lives and you get to see what happens next. A few unexpected changes, but that is what makes the book a little more interesting. Don't forget to also get the last installment - Knit the Season which closes out the chapter of their lives and you get to see how they all continue to knit their friendships within their personal lives.
Great sequel to The Friday Night Knitting Club
This book is just as good as the first book. I really enjoyed reading it and hope to get the next one to read too.
Sequel to "The Friday Night Knitting Club". Is just as good if not better than the first book. It continues with the lives of the Knitting Club about 5 years after the end of the first book.
Christina M. (LILarchitect) reviewed Knit Two (Friday Night Knitting Club, Bk 2) on + 10 more book reviews
OMG, this book made my day, week and year. It was so much fun and entertaining. I missed the gang so it was great to be reunited with them again! I love how Kate brings them all back together five years later and the way their lives are intertwined and their relationps are exceptionally moving. Jacobs continued the story of their lives perfectly and not at all how I would have expected! A must read for the Friday Night Knitting Club fan. I can't wait for the movie and this would be an awesome sequel!
It was like meeting up with old friends, finding out how the characters in The Friday Night Knitting Club carried on with their lives. A continuation and journey through their individual lives... growing, sharing and finding themselves and each other. This is an easy read, sometimes predictable, sometimes a bit corny, but so is life sometimes. I enjoyed it!
This book is a continuation of the first. I enjoying reading more about the people in the book and how their lives continue.
great read
love this story!
Didn't think it was as good as the first one, but liked it. Tied alot up.
Have already read it, and resold it.
Thank you
Have already read it, and resold it.
Thank you
A good sequel!
I really liked the first book in the series, The Friday Night Knitting Club. Sequels are rarely as good as the original, and this was no exception, but still worth reading if you enjoyed the first book. If you were only lukewarm on the first one, don't bother with Knit Two.
The book starts five years or so after the end of the first one. Lucie's daughter, Ginger, is a 5-year-old tornado, Darwin is (finally) pregnant with twins, Anita is trying to track down the sister she hasn't spoken to in forty years, Peri's handbag business is taking off, and Catherine and Dakota are trying to find themselves at the Phoenix and NYU, respectively. The international adventure in this book finds the gang in Italy, but they won't come back to things ever being the same again. Light read, not bad. I enjoyed it.
The book starts five years or so after the end of the first one. Lucie's daughter, Ginger, is a 5-year-old tornado, Darwin is (finally) pregnant with twins, Anita is trying to track down the sister she hasn't spoken to in forty years, Peri's handbag business is taking off, and Catherine and Dakota are trying to find themselves at the Phoenix and NYU, respectively. The international adventure in this book finds the gang in Italy, but they won't come back to things ever being the same again. Light read, not bad. I enjoyed it.
After finishing "The Friday Night Knitting Club" and hating to see it end, I was excited to find out that there was a sequel. It was not disappointing! The characters remain interesting and the way their stories intertwine is delightful. I hope there will be a third volume of this series!
After reading this book it makes me wonder if I should waste my time with the 3rd book. It sort of dragged on and on. It fast forwards to 5 years after the death of Dakota's mother Georgia. In the begining she seems too much of a spolied brat with an annoying way of carrying herself around the adults. Not to mention the fact that they carried over the annoyance of the she's half black and half white and no one will understand attitutde. If the book were written for a different era when that would matter it wouldn't have been as annoying but to be written in present day, let it go already!
The father seems a bit over bearing for someone not in her life for the first 12 years. Too much of a control freak in what he expects her to become once she's graduated college. There are parents that can be that way to a fault but to not allow her to become a pastry chef because he sees that as lowering herself to serve the "white" world is ridiculous, again too much attention is brought on that subject. There could have been another way of having him tag along to Europe with his daughter that would be babysitting for their friend KC while she did some filming of a rock star. But again they play the race card. They could have just left it at he didn't want her going alone and he could do some work out there while she did her baby sitting gig, but sadly the writer chose not to go that route.
Darwin was somewhat less annoying, and seemed actually helpful in some small ways. However, I really could have done without the mini stories of the happenings with the shop since the majority of the main characters were in Europe. The writer kind of wasted paper and ink with most of those parts.
Catherine, was actually more annoying in this book than the last. She's too needy and a bit of a tramp. To make the excuse of we're both adults, there's two bedrooms, and we should both stay in Anita's home with her married son Nathan was just down right wrong, especailly since this Anita is supposed to bebsomeone that is her friend. To sleep with her son in Anita's room or house for that matter was just down right gross. It was actually quite funny to find out that Nathan told his mother Anita that he slept with her because she kept coming around the apartment when she did not initially make the first move. And to make himself seem as though he was just minding his own buisness and made himself appear to be innocent, was just too funny.
Somehow I can see Catherine is either going to try and hook up with James or just have him as another sexual romp until the writer is bored and one of them ends up dumping the other for some stupid reason or the writer will tease the idea of them getting together just for it to fall apart and nothing ends up happening. Maybe Marco the wine guy that Catherine has telephone flirtations with will come back into the picture and create more drama. Well we shall see. Hopefully the 3rd book is her last.
The father seems a bit over bearing for someone not in her life for the first 12 years. Too much of a control freak in what he expects her to become once she's graduated college. There are parents that can be that way to a fault but to not allow her to become a pastry chef because he sees that as lowering herself to serve the "white" world is ridiculous, again too much attention is brought on that subject. There could have been another way of having him tag along to Europe with his daughter that would be babysitting for their friend KC while she did some filming of a rock star. But again they play the race card. They could have just left it at he didn't want her going alone and he could do some work out there while she did her baby sitting gig, but sadly the writer chose not to go that route.
Darwin was somewhat less annoying, and seemed actually helpful in some small ways. However, I really could have done without the mini stories of the happenings with the shop since the majority of the main characters were in Europe. The writer kind of wasted paper and ink with most of those parts.
Catherine, was actually more annoying in this book than the last. She's too needy and a bit of a tramp. To make the excuse of we're both adults, there's two bedrooms, and we should both stay in Anita's home with her married son Nathan was just down right wrong, especailly since this Anita is supposed to bebsomeone that is her friend. To sleep with her son in Anita's room or house for that matter was just down right gross. It was actually quite funny to find out that Nathan told his mother Anita that he slept with her because she kept coming around the apartment when she did not initially make the first move. And to make himself seem as though he was just minding his own buisness and made himself appear to be innocent, was just too funny.
Somehow I can see Catherine is either going to try and hook up with James or just have him as another sexual romp until the writer is bored and one of them ends up dumping the other for some stupid reason or the writer will tease the idea of them getting together just for it to fall apart and nothing ends up happening. Maybe Marco the wine guy that Catherine has telephone flirtations with will come back into the picture and create more drama. Well we shall see. Hopefully the 3rd book is her last.
Leslie R. (darcy0207) reviewed Knit Two (Friday Night Knitting Club, Bk 2) on + 44 more book reviews
I enjoyed the first book, set in NYC on the Upper West Side. Being a native New Yorker, I love recognizing the landmarks.
This is a continuation of the story with familiar characters, so was fun to read. I am looking foreward to the third in the series.
This is a continuation of the story with familiar characters, so was fun to read. I am looking foreward to the third in the series.
Michelle A. (cocos-mom) reviewed Knit Two (Friday Night Knitting Club, Bk 2) on + 67 more book reviews
This novel was mindless and lacking depth. I read the first book and liked it much better. This book was slow in the beginning and got better in the middle. However, I found the ending a little too neat. Overall, I didn't like this one.
I was tempted to quit reading this book at the beginning. Perhaps I would have enjoyed the beginning more if I had read the previous book in the series. There were all these characters that seemed to get mixed up in my mind. I stuck to it, though, and all of a sudden I could not stop! The problems faced by these friends are familiar to all of us. The solutions provided by the author make this a real "feel good" read. It is worth your time.
Not as good as the first one
Carol F. (cactusflowerwomen) reviewed Knit Two (Friday Night Knitting Club, Bk 2) on + 628 more book reviews
i read Knit One and enjoyed it, but not enough to read this one. My sister did however, and gave it a so-so rating.
Leola C. (swamponkeymom) reviewed Knit Two (Friday Night Knitting Club, Bk 2) on + 353 more book reviews
I did not like this book as well as the first. It was not realistic that most of the club could afford to go to Italy. Could not get into the characters thoughts and reasoning as I did in the first book. It was very disappointing.
Jeanette R. (thebeakeeper) reviewed Knit Two (Friday Night Knitting Club, Bk 2) on + 167 more book reviews
i was so excited to get this because i liked the friday night knitting club so much. i loved this continuation! even though it's been a while since i read the first one i picked thsi up and had no problems remembering the characters. i just hope this isnt the final book!!!
Patti F. (patticake1951) reviewed Knit Two (Friday Night Knitting Club, Bk 2) on + 163 more book reviews
I had a hard time following the plot at first but as I read further I finally got it. After that I couldn't put it down. More situations are revealed and the ladies are discovering things about themselves and others. Can't wait to read the third book in the series.
I LIKED THIS BOOK, GOOD STORY, DID WANDER A BIT TOO MUCH FOR ME. I RECOMMEND THIS BOOK.
Crystal J. (dorolerium) reviewed Knit Two (Friday Night Knitting Club, Bk 2) on + 212 more book reviews
We enter into this book approximately five years after the end of the first one. Some of the club members lives have changed quite a bit, yet the constant is still that they get together on Friday evenings to knit, chat, and support each other. They encounter new struggles: children, relationships, marriages, college, not to mention the lingering grief from the death of one of their own.
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Elizabeth H. (willowandholly) reviewed Knit Two (Friday Night Knitting Club, Bk 2) on + 56 more book reviews
Sweet story that continues where the other left off - it's like visiting old friends.
Carol M. (Tunerlady) reviewed Knit Two (Friday Night Knitting Club, Bk 2) on + 581 more book reviews
A wonderful sequel to "The Friday Night Knitting Club"....the continuing story of the characters as they navigate their lives without Georgia (friend, wife, mother)..I will definitely want to read the next in this series!
Not a bad sequel. But, I liked the first one more.
