• Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
• Jennifer Estep’s Website
• List Price: $7.99 US/$9.99 CDN
• Publisher: Pocket; 1 edition (May 25, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 143914799X
• ISBN-13: 978-1439147993

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You might know me as the Spider, the most feared assassin in the South. I’m retired now, but trouble still has a way of finding me. Like the other day when two punks tried to rob my popular barbecue joint, the Pork Pit. Then there was the barrage of gunfire on the restaurant. Only, for once, those kill shots weren’t aimed at me. They were meant for Violet Fox. Ever since I agreed to help Violet and her grandfather protect their property from an evil coal mining tycoon, I’m beginning to wonder if I’m really retired. So is Detective Donovan Caine. The only honest cop in Ashland is having a real hard time reconciling his attraction to me with his Boy Scout mentality. And I can barely keep my hands off his sexy body. What can I say? I’m a Stone elemental with a little Ice magic thrown in, but my heart isn’t made of solid rock. Luckily, Gin Blanco always gets her man . . . dead or alive.

Time for another Review Revisited. Spaz has once again beaten me to the punch and already reviewed Web of Lies, but I wanted to get in on the action! Once again, I totally agree with Spaz..go figure.

In the second installment of Jennifer Estep’s Elemental Assassin’s Series we find out Gin has retired from the assassin business and is working once again at the Pork Pit, the restaurant she inherited. Of course, retirement doesn’t go easy for Gin especially when an attempted robbery happens in the restaurant which is quickly followed by a shooting. At first Gin thinks the two are related but they turn out not to be and Gin comes out of retirement…she was bored anyways.

I loved Web of Lies, you can tell Ms. Estep is more comfortable with the world she has created. The story is action packed and there are so many twists and turns, you can’t stop reading. There is also all sorts of snark, Gin is awesome for the snark people. She is fast becoming one of my favorite novel characters, because she is so cool headed in the face of all the danger she puts herself into.

I have to tell you, I cannot stand Gin’s love interest Detective Caine. He grinds my gears to no end, his morals make him come off so high and mighty, he just isn’t good for Gin unless he can get the hell over his black and white attitude. He doesn’t deserve Gin I tell you!

I still had a few issues with Gin’s overuse of certain terms, “soapy scent” and “mmm” in relation to Detective Caine. I get it Gin and it creeps me out! There was also a little too much summary of what happened in Spider’s Bite, which is great if you are reading Web of Lies as a stand alone, but irritating if you’re reading the books back to back, which I was.

Web of Lies totally sets you up for Venom (released September 2010), with new characters coming in and old characters leaving, it makes you really anticipate whats coming next for Gin.