Anna S. (annapi) reviewed on 7/28/2010 + 334 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

I liked this sequel better than the first book. Gin Blanco, who is secretly the assassin called the Spider, has retired from her dark profession and is now running the Pork Pit, the restaurant her foster father Fletcher had left her. But though she does not look for trouble, it comes to her anyway, and curiosity makes her agree to help an old friend of Fletcher's who is being bullied into selling his land to the mining mogul dwarf Tobias Dawson. It's a more engaging story and with the characters firmly established, they are developing more in this second book. Estep has also toned down her penchant for repeating phrases that was so annoying in the first book, although she still does it to some extent, as we see the familiar "Mmm" for her love/lust interest Donovan Caine several times once again. But it had a playful feel to it, as if the author acknowledged her reviewers' criticisms and threw those in just to poke fun at them and herself as well. This story I felt was more solid than the first, definitely more enjoyable, and I will be looking for the third book to see where Estep takes this.

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