Web of Lies: Elemental Assassin, Book 2

Let me just start by saying I am really enjoying the Elemental Assassin series. The plot lines are well thought out, the action is great, characters are well drawn and the backline story is intriguing....However, and this is the reason for only giving 3 stars, it feels like a completely different person writes when we get to Gin's love interests. Every single time we are given the line eyes gold on grey or violet on grey or whichever colour depending on who she is interested in and every scene with Donovan has a sentence of 3 words regarding the look in his eyes whether is 'worried, lust, caution' or 'fear, lust, disappointment' or whatever combination you want to put together. And please, please stop putting Mmm at the end of these paragraphs...I actually groaned out loud on the tube when I read this yet again. It honestly feels like the author hands theses scenes over to a hormonal teenager with poor language skills. I so enjoy the rest of the book but that is why I can only give 3 stars... improve the writing on the other bits and my rating will definitely jump up.

This story continues from Spiders Bite, it's set two months after Fletcher 's funeral. Gin is now retired from the assassination business and is finding it to be boring.When she is approached by a young woman asking for the Tin Man, she finds her interest piqued. It seems that a local miner, Tobias Dawson is threatening her grandfather and herself, he wants their land and he wants it now.Gin has also drawn the attention of a very powerful lawyer who works for Mab Monroe, a fire elemental who runs Ashland with an iron fist. She stopped a couple of young men from robbing the Pork Pit and one of them is the son of the lawyer, he's also a fire elemental. When she insists on pressing charges, his father tries intimidating her and getting her to drop the charges but he's chosen the wrong woman to mess with. She's the assassin known as The Spider and she always gets her way.In the process of getting close to Dawson so she can kill him, Gin finds herself at one of Mab's parties. When she is recognised by Jake McAllister, the young man who tried to rob her place, she ends up killing him so he couldn't give her away or burn her as he promised.Dealing with Dawson soon becomes a matter of life and death as he recognizes her power and knocks her out. She wakes up to find herself deep in his mine with him and some of his men. When he challenges her to a duel, she has to use her power to defend herself and to finish Dawson off once and for all, ensuring that Violet and Warren Fox never have to sell their property or worry about being murdered ever again.This is a well-written story with great characters and none stop action all the way through. I love Gin, Finn and the Deveraux sisters. The situations that Gin gets into make me laugh out loud and I highly recommend this series to anyone who loves reading, you get magic, romance, suspense and murder. A great urban fantasy.

If you liked  Spider's Bite  then it's difficult to resist this sequel. Gin Blanco, aka The Spider,returns with her tough talk and her silverstone blades, and although she has supposedly retired from her life as an assassin, she can't help but be drawn into helping a girl and her grandfather when they're targetted by a ruthless dwarf-mineowner.This book picks up all the characters from the first book and gives us more insight into Gin's troubled early life but I have to admit that I found it a tad less engaging than the start of the series. The mining plot felt a bit tired, some of the great characters like Finn got little more than walk-on parts, and even Donovan Caine simply repeats his previous moral agonising.So I enjoyed this book but did feel that it suffers a little from sequel-itis, and the curse of being a second book. Lots of plot points have been set up for the next book - the mysteries of Gin's family background, a new romantic interest, a change in her elemental magic - so that this one feels a little like a filler. So I will read on at some point, but am not desperate at the moment to find out what happens next.

This is the second of the Elemental Assassin series, the plot has already been covered really well, so I will say you must read this series if you are into supernatural UF fist fights, a strong supporting feisty crew with attitude, with an emotionally complex & damn good action filled storyline,then this is for you. I love the Mab Monroe character a worthy adversary for future books, JE is an author to look out for.My only gripe is the detective I found him incredibly whiny & a coward, Gin's too good for him really, I really hoped she'd top him already.I suggest you read  Spider's Bite (Elemental Assassin)  first.The third book in the series is called  Venom: An Elemental Assassin Book  theres a teaser at the end of Web of Lies...

This book was good, but it was not as good as the first. I also have a big problem with Donovan Caine. He has become a spineless little twit who can't do what everyone else does for the person they love, they change, or at least don't react like a pansy-assed little girl.Gin is as strong as ever in her persona and i can understand her concept in not chasing Donovan. If the man were properly sane he should have chased her, not left all the work to Gin.Loved the Owen angle, i can see him being more of a fixture in the upcoming stories.A good book

the sequel to spiders bite, and the author ups the ante for Gin, no easy retirement for her, somebodys in trouble and it's her fault, blackmailed into helping her get revenge on fletcher lane's murderer's roslyn philips is now being stalked by elliot slater (mab monroes second in command and main enforcer) and it is not going to end well, roslyn needs help and gin feels responsible. Added tot eh mix is a new man in gin's life owen grayson, a man who knows what gin is and doesn't judge her for it, there must be a catch but gin can't find it, an excellent sequel which sets up perfectly for book three, long may this series run.