The Book Depository Spider's Bite by Jennifer Estep
711 ratings
TO EXPLORE MORE
Price: £9.79
Brand: The Book Depository
Description: Spider's Bite : Paperback : SIMON & SCHUSTER : 9781439147979 : 1439147973 : 01 Apr 2013 : Synopsis coming soon.. The Book Depository Spider's Bite by Jennifer Estep - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
Category: Books
Merchant: The Book Depository
Product ID: 9781439147979
MPN: 1439147973
GTIN: 9781439147979
Author: SL
Rating: 5
Review: There is an addictive 'noir' tone to the whole series. Like the best quality dark chocolate.
Author: J C Mitchinson
Rating: 3
Review: This is the kind of book which seems good on the surface, but underneath there lie a whole heap of glaring flaws which totally spoil it (for me, anyway). The story has promise: Gin is a magical assassin who gets framed and has to find out who framed her. Gin is kick ass and hard as nails, which doesn't give you a whole lot to identify with but I liked how tough she was. But the flaws- arggggh! The opening scene seems cool on the face of it- Gin has infiltrated a mental asylum so she can kill one of the counselors there. Why go to all the trouble of masquerading as a patient? Why didn't she just snag the woman when she was on her way home? The reason given is that people often get killed in asylums so the murder will attract less attention. But wait- after she kills the woman, Gin (the supposed patient) disappears. So what you have now is a murderous lunatic escaped from an asylum, which would cause far more uproar than just quietly offing the woman and dumping her body. Basically, I think the author thought of a cool opening scene (which it is) and decided to use it, plausibility be damned. Gin is an elemental- as in earth, air, fire, and...ice? The book says that water is a derivative of ice, but surely it's the other way round? Then there's the way Gin gets caught out by another assassin when she's on a job, because she's busy ogling a dude. She's supposed to be a super-assassin, the Spider, but she lets someone creep up on her with a gun cos she's checking out a guy. Apparently she's only kick ass when there aren't hot guys around. The writing is also desperately repetitious: over and over Gin thinks about how hot the Detective is, how her family was burned, how she has grey eyes, and how she's sad about Fletcher- gah, we get it, already. She looks at things with her 'grey eyes'- who thinks of themselves like that? Then every time her gaze meets the detective's, its 'grey on gold'- or should that be hazel? There's some inconsistency there. And the detective is constantly moving his eyes from her breasts to her legs and back again, like some kind of crazy bobble-head perve. Over and over. It made me want to throw my Kindle out the window. The most original and interesting thing about this book in my opinion is that they use condoms during sex and the detective comes too quickly the first time. I wouldn't go as far as to say the book isn't entertaining at all, but by the end I didn't really care what happened or about any of the characters. It's a real shame because it seems like it's going to be really good, but the holes. repetitions and errors in detail let it down. I've given it 3 stars rather than 2 because if you aren't the kind of person who pays a great deal of attention to detail, or plausibility, the book is probably quite enjoyable.
