Tangled Threads (Elemental Assassin, #4) Review

Tangled Threads by Jennifer Estep
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This fourth book of Elemental Assassin was as awesome as the others. The only thing that would have made it better would be if Mab had met her death.

I love how Gin and Owen’s relationship has grown. He never stops amazing me. His relationship with his sister is sweet, how much he cares for her, worries, and loves her. They were both so welcoming of Gin and who she was. They never judged her for what she did. It was sweet how Owen invited Gin and all her friends/family over for Christmas. In addition to Owen wanting Gin, he’s also 100% behind her going after Mab. She had killed Owen’s parents when he and his sister were only children. He wanted her dead just as much as Gin did.

I really wish that Gin would stop mentioning Donovan. It’s not as if she knew him well and they’d only had sex a couple of times. I don’t really understand the infatuation with him. Maybe it was the fact that she knew it would never work out so she wouldn’t have to get close to anyone. She never mentions any other lovers that she’s had in the past so the fact that Donovan wasn’t man enough and he couldn’t accept her shouldn’t have gotten to her so much. She shouldn’t be comparing Owen to him at all. If anything her love issues should have to do with her family dying when she was a child. I wish she would stop thinking that Owen is going to not want her because of things that she does. He has never given any indication that anything about her bothers him. Honestly, Owen fell for her way too easily. Don’t get me wrong. I love Owen so much but since he’s as nice as he is, Gin should stop thinking so badly of him.

After Bria found out who Gin really was, I had hoped that she would be accepting. I felt like she really wanted to know her sister even though she wasn’t the same girl that she knew from childhood. I thought that she may be able to move past Gin being an assassin. I didn’t want it to be another repeat of Donovan. But it’s starting to seem as though it is. Even with Bria’s wariness, she still decided to attend the Christmas party. It was a great ending to another great book.

Elektra, a well known assassin comes to town in this book specifically hired by Mab to kill The Spider. The first battle that Gin had with her was so bad that I wasn’t sure how Gin would bring her down. But I was impressed with Gin. She found Elektra’s weaknesses and because Gin is so smart and strong that she figured out a way to defeat Elektra. For a while even Gin isn’t so sure that she can defeat Elektra LeFleur because Elektra’s electric abilities are about as strong as Gin’s stone and ice powers.

The one down fall of Jennifer Estep’s writing is that she is so repetitive. She repeats things from prior books in every book. Sometimes it does seem as if she’s copied paragraphs of information about characters to let us know things that we already know. Since most readers would not start a book series at book 4, there really isn’t a reason to repeat information from the prior books over and over in the fourth book. Character details, runes that each character uses, things that Gin says over and over (“enemy enemy enemy” for example) and in this book how strong Elektra is was repeated over and over again.


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