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Web of Lies (Elemental Assassin, #2)
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Web of Lies is the second book in Jennifer Estep’s Elemental Assassins series. Our heroine Gin Blanco has now retired from her extremely lucrative career as The Spider and has now settled down working at her restaurant The Pork Pitt. Gin finds retirement a little boring. When the opportunity to help Fletcher’s old friend Warren Fox arises, Gin agrees to do the job.
There are a lot of things to love about this series. The author builds an imaginative world where some people have the ability to control elements such as fire, ice, stone, air or a combination of some of the elements. The descriptions of the magic were intriguing. Gin’s elemental ice magic was handy for cooling drinks, creating lock picks, and ice knives. Her stone magic was useful as an alarm system among other things. I liked how the characters used magical runes to symbolize their abilities and distinguish themselves. This world also has giants, dwarfs, and vampires. The giants were huge imposing figures, the dwarfs stocky and strong, while the vampires were a little wimpy for my tastes.
The cast of characters are great. Gin shines as an assassin trying to run a business in a very corrupt town. Gin is witty and thinks on her feet, she has confidence except when it comes to love. Her attraction to Donovan Caine drove me crazy. I couldn’t stand her mooning over this character. Donovan Caine behaved in a way that just did not jibe with his righteous and moral ways. I despised his character. I loved the characters close to Gin, namely Finn, Sophia and Jo-Jo. They are the closest thing Gin has to family. Finn was just an awesome character - I love Finn.
There was a lot of repetition in this book. We are told that Donovan Caine smelled clean and soapy several times. The author uses “eyes” a little too much – “my gray eyes” appears in the text well over 20 times. There are also a lot of extraneous details that could have been left out, for example her description of a chicken salad sandwich was pretty much the recipe. A tighter edit would have made this book more readable.
Despite these things, the story itself was good, with a lot of action and excitement. I will definitely continue to read this series.
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Web of Lies is the second book in Jennifer Estep’s Elemental Assassins series. Our heroine Gin Blanco has now retired from her extremely lucrative career as The Spider and has now settled down working at her restaurant The Pork Pitt. Gin finds retirement a little boring. When the opportunity to help Fletcher’s old friend Warren Fox arises, Gin agrees to do the job.
There are a lot of things to love about this series. The author builds an imaginative world where some people have the ability to control elements such as fire, ice, stone, air or a combination of some of the elements. The descriptions of the magic were intriguing. Gin’s elemental ice magic was handy for cooling drinks, creating lock picks, and ice knives. Her stone magic was useful as an alarm system among other things. I liked how the characters used magical runes to symbolize their abilities and distinguish themselves. This world also has giants, dwarfs, and vampires. The giants were huge imposing figures, the dwarfs stocky and strong, while the vampires were a little wimpy for my tastes.
The cast of characters are great. Gin shines as an assassin trying to run a business in a very corrupt town. Gin is witty and thinks on her feet, she has confidence except when it comes to love. Her attraction to Donovan Caine drove me crazy. I couldn’t stand her mooning over this character. Donovan Caine behaved in a way that just did not jibe with his righteous and moral ways. I despised his character. I loved the characters close to Gin, namely Finn, Sophia and Jo-Jo. They are the closest thing Gin has to family. Finn was just an awesome character - I love Finn.
There was a lot of repetition in this book. We are told that Donovan Caine smelled clean and soapy several times. The author uses “eyes” a little too much – “my gray eyes” appears in the text well over 20 times. There are also a lot of extraneous details that could have been left out, for example her description of a chicken salad sandwich was pretty much the recipe. A tighter edit would have made this book more readable.
Despite these things, the story itself was good, with a lot of action and excitement. I will definitely continue to read this series.
Check out my review on Badass Book Reviews
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Reading Progress
June 10, 2010
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May 18, 2011
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Started Reading
May 19, 2011
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22.25%
"Way to throw in a chicken salad sandwich recipe along with a lovely fruit salad. -- I am finding the attention to minute details a little annoying."
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May 19, 2011
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29.75%
"I'm usually really bad at figuring out who the "bad guy" is. But pretty much everything points to one character with giant arrows. Wonder how long it will take Gin to figure it out?"
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May 20, 2011
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88.5%
""Too bad the smile was on the face of the wrong man." --Are you kidding me? He's Mr. Right!"
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354
May 20, 2011
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Finished Reading
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May 22, 2011 05:47AM
This is the weakest in the series IMO and Caine has lots to do with it:( Keep reading though, the next one's much much better!
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Good to hear. I'll probably change my star rating down to 3 stars by the time I get around to writing my review. Hated, hated, Caine. What an idiot!
He's a jerk. I couldn't agree more. But the next one has no Caine but a new, very yummy hero!
I'm looking forward to that book!
And me of the 4rth one! I have to wait until the 27th of May when my new credits in audible will become available:(
Awesome review!! I loved reading it with my GREY eyes ;)
Thanks, Greta. I loved reading it with my hazel eyes...LOL.
I'm glad you're enjoying those. I don't think you're alone in finding the repetition irritating. It never bugged me while reading, but I've heard that complaint a lot.
Catherine wrote: "I'm glad you're enjoying those. I don't think you're alone in finding the repetition irritating. It never bugged me while reading, but I've heard that complaint a lot."I guess it might make an interesting drinking game...LOL.
Repetition drove me crazy too. AND the chicory coffee thing. But it's a good series. Nice review!
Thanks, Lisa. I agree, she has some great stories there.
I wonder if we could find anyone (in the whole world) who liked Donovan Caine's character. I think the only thing keeping him from being the most hated male character ever is that this series is not a super hit. For his sake, I hope it never gets made into a movie or TV show.
Actually, it would be cool if it gets made into a TV show or movie. We could speculate who would play the hated Donovan Caine. I think that there would be a lineup of actors.
