As much as I absolutely love Gin a.k.a. The Spider, all the other characters in this series and the plots, Jennifer Estep's writing literally drives me mad. The first book was fine and I didn't notice her flaw. I didn't even notice it so much in the second book but from that point forward anyone can see that Jennifer Estep loves to repeat stuff over and over. It's not just one thing that she repeats throughout a book. In each and every book Estep repeats detailed information about every character. She has little sayings that Gin says several times throughout each book. Besides this, Estep recaps detailed information about everything that happened in the books before. I highly doubt that anyone would want to read a series starting at book 4 so I really don't believe that there is any reason to go over things that happened in book 1 or 2 in book 4. If one was to start reading the fourth book, I'd think after they heard about stuff that happened in the previous book, they'd want to start from the beginning of the series. I just finished the 6th book today and the 7th will be released in August of this year. If I have to hear about Donovan Caine, how goth Sophia is, what Jo Jo does to help her clients, the runes that everyone uses, or how strong her opponent is over and over again in book 7, I might just scream. Or just end up reading half the book. Sometimes it even seems like Estep repeats entire paragraphs. Many other people have noticed this about her. It started to get to me around book 3. But for some odd reason, I can't get enough of this series. We have a love hate relationship but mostly love. I love the characters too much as well as the plot. We'll see what happens in book 7 when it is released August 2012.
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