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Loved It: Snared by Jennifer Estep Series: Elemental Assassin 16
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Publisher: Pocket Books

Irony 101—The Spider herself snared in someone else’s web… Reading Jennifer Estep is the equivalent of having a chilled glass of martini on a hot Summer night. It's refreshing, exciting, and the buzz Gin Blanco gives you is distinct and will make you come back for more.

So it's killer v killer in SNARED. There's a serial killer in Ashland aptly named Dollmaker because he makes up his victims before brutally killing them. Although this appears to be an episodic part at first glance, this whole mess led Gin a small step closer to the Circle.

Not much is revealed, bits of info are trickled into Gin's memory from the night her mother was murdered by Mab Monroe. I noticed that these dream sequences are becoming a very convenient plot device to expand Gin's history, injecting forgotten pieces here and there to tie the whole thing to the Circle. I'm holding any judgment for now but I'm hoping this pattern will break at some point otherwise it seems like Gin went about resolving things in a roundabout way. One could even argue that the head honcho of the Circle is manipulating the course of events in some way, testing Gin and the extent of her powers, calculating his/her last best move before going for the kill.

I love SNARED in the sense that it's comforting. I knew what I was going to get and JEstep delivered. However, that's also a set back because the progression of this arc about the Circle is slow to move as the clues are doled out in crumbs instead of chunks, giving this installment a slight filler book feel to it.

Nevertheless, SNARED is yet another entertaining action-packed Elemental Assassin novel. JEstep's fight scenes are, like always, vividly described and play out like a movie and the serial killer plot is different and totally lent a sheen of dark & disgusting creepiness into the case. SNARED is not to be missed, another definite hit volume from this best-selling series. Posted by Talk Supe Labels: Book Review, Elemental Assassin, Jennifer Estep, Pocket Books, Snared, Urban Fantasy