Tangled Threads (Elemental Assassin, Bk 4)
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Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Author:
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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The fourth in the Elemental Assassin series finds Gin Blanco's life threatened by the most dangerous assassin yet, a fire elemental with the unusual gift of controlling electricity. Mab Malone, doyenne of the rich and criminal, has hired her to take out the Spider. Since killing Elliot Slater, one of Mab's top men, to keep him from killing her sister, Detective Bria Coolidge, Gin's been on a mission to kill off Mab's men and Mab's been on a mission to kill her - or more correctly, the Spider. Still, something feels wrong when she follows a tip on drugs coming in for Mab - and thanks to her patience sees LaFleur in action. Elektra La Fleur might be an assassin, but unlike Gin, she doesn't use weapons, she uses magic.
Things aren't what they seem and once again, when the tipster is a man with a kidnapped daughter that was blackmailed into giving out the info in a effort to lure the Spider into a trap. Gin tries to save an innocent child from Mab's plans, find a way to tell her sister who she is, and stay alive long enough to kill LaFleur so she can get to Mab - the woman responsible for killing her mother, older sister and torturing her when she was just 13.
Like all series, this book follows Ms Estep's formula, but does so with verve. Unfortunately, is has the feeling of having been written in haste - too many redundancies, not enough new material - or even new phrases, and like too many books these days, unpolished. That got old fast. Yes, we get she's the deadly assassin Spider, no need to say it 100 times in the book. Tight editing would have helped. A few proofreading errors, but that seems par for the course today.
I gave it a 4* rating, but it's more like 3.6*. Good, but not up to the earlier books because of the sloppy editing and annoyingly persistent repetition of certain phrases.
Things aren't what they seem and once again, when the tipster is a man with a kidnapped daughter that was blackmailed into giving out the info in a effort to lure the Spider into a trap. Gin tries to save an innocent child from Mab's plans, find a way to tell her sister who she is, and stay alive long enough to kill LaFleur so she can get to Mab - the woman responsible for killing her mother, older sister and torturing her when she was just 13.
Like all series, this book follows Ms Estep's formula, but does so with verve. Unfortunately, is has the feeling of having been written in haste - too many redundancies, not enough new material - or even new phrases, and like too many books these days, unpolished. That got old fast. Yes, we get she's the deadly assassin Spider, no need to say it 100 times in the book. Tight editing would have helped. A few proofreading errors, but that seems par for the course today.
I gave it a 4* rating, but it's more like 3.6*. Good, but not up to the earlier books because of the sloppy editing and annoyingly persistent repetition of certain phrases.
