Spider's Revenge
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Average rating3.6
The fifth book in the “outstanding” (Romantic Times) Elemental Assassin fantasy series featuring Gin Blaco, who by day is a waitress at a Tennessee BBQ joint, and by night is a tough female assassin. Old habits die hard for assassins. And I plan on murdering someone before the night is through. Killing used to be my regular gig, after all. Gin Blanco, aka the Spider, assassin-for-hire. And I was very, very good at it. Now, I’m ready to make the one hit that truly matters: Mab Monroe, the dangerous Fire elemental who murdered my family when I was thirteen. Oh, I don’t think the mission will be easy, but turns out it’s a bit more problematic than expected. The bitch knows I’m coming for her. So now I’m up against the army of lethal bounty hunters Mab hired to track me down. She also put a price on my baby sister’s head. Keeping Bria safe is my first priority. Taking Mab out is a close second. Good thing I’ve got my powerful Ice and Stone magic—and my irresistible lover, Owen Grayson—to watch my back. This battle has been years in the making, and there’s a good chance I won’t survive. But if I’m going down, then Mab’s coming with me . . . no matter what I have to do to make that happen.
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13 primary books28 released books#5 in Elemental Assassin
Elemental Assassin is a 28-book series with 13 primary works first released in 2010 with contributions by Jennifer Estep.
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Spider???s Revenge is the fifth book in Jennifer Estep???s ELEMENTAL ASSASSIN series. You probably shouldn???t be coming to this book without reading the previous four books, so I???ll assume you???ve done that already if you???re reading my review. If not, beware of spoilers for the previous books.
In Spider???s Revenge, Gin Blanco finally decides it???s time to kill Mab Monroe, the evil Fire Elemental who destroyed Gin???s family decades ago and is now the crime boss of Ashland Tennessee. I???ve been complaining for a while now that Estep is dragging the plot out by making Gin have to deal with one of Mab???s cronies or minions in each book rather than just taking the shortcut of going after Mab herself. It seems to me that there have been two main plots going on: the first (ostensibly) is Gin???s desire to get revenge... Read More: http://www.fantasyliterature.com/reviews/spiders-revenge/
The only reason I'm not giving it 5 stars is because the repetitions finally got to me. Im well aware shes The Spider , and how she came to be. And everyones constant character and personality description. Its book 5.
Other than that, I did love the book.
While I love this series, the first few chapters of this book is gushing with rehashed facts you know from books 1-4 that do not need to be repeated.
I did enjoy this book, though not as much as the previous installments. There was a lot of filler, especially repeated filler. When you state something at the beginning of the book there is no need to say it again in the middle and end as well. The plot was true to an elemental assassin book with Gin assassinating the bad guys and the elemental show down I thought was written well. I loved seeing Gin's family band together and stay by her side, it really helped me at least feel more for the characters. Being the conclusion of the first of Gin's arcs I am interested to see what else happens in later books.
