Unraveled by Jennifer Estep

Unraveled (Elemental Assassin, #15)

by Jennifer Estep

Danger and new enemies await Gin Blanco, aka the Spider—the world of Ashland’s most fearsome assassin—in Unraveled, Book 15 of the New York Times bestselling Elemental Assassin urban fantasy series that RT Book Reviews calls “unbeatable entertainment!"

What could go wrong when you’re trying to unravel a decades-old conspiracy?

As the current queen of the Ashland underworld, you would think that I, Gin Blanco, would know all about some secret society controlling things from behind the scenes.

I might be the Spider, the city’s most fearsome assassin, but all my Ice and Stone elemental magic hasn’t done me a lick of good in learning more about “the Circle”. Despite my continued investigations, the trail’s gone as cold as the coming winter.

So when Finnegan Lane, my foster brother, gets word of a surprising inheritance, we figure why not skip town for someplace less dangerous for a few days? That place: Bullet Pointe, a fancy hotel resort complex plus Old West theme park that Finn now owns lock, stock, and barrel.

At first, all the struttin’ cowboys and sassy saloon girls are just hokey fun. But add in some shady coincidences and Circle assassins lurking all around, and vacationing becomes wilder—and deadlier—than any of us expected.

Good thing this assassin brought plenty of knives to the gunfight …

Reviewed by Angie on

3 of 5 stars

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I received an ARC through NetGalley.

You know when your favorite TV show does a "movie" special? The characters leave their regular set and have an odd adventure somewhere else. Then those events are only loosely linked to the overarching plot and become a distant memory. That's basically Unraveled in a nutshell. Finn receives the deed to his mother's theme park and wants to go check it out. This whole situation seems suspicious, especially when they learn about some hidden jewels. Of course, it's an elaborate plot to use Finn and Gin to find the jewels, then kill them.

Unraveled was a fun and entertaining read. But it really does feel like the Degrassi Goes Hollywood of the Elemental Assassin series. It was just so random and outlandish. A Wild West theme park and resort? Really?! Gin even dresses up like a saloon girl! I just cannot fit this sequel into the rest of the series. It's so weird. It's not a bad read at all. It's just random. I wanted Gin to learn more about her mother and this mysterious Circle! Not run around having bar fights and looking for gems!

Well, Gin does learn some things in Unraveled, but not until the very end. Fletcher leaves her some very interesting photographs, but it's up to Gin to figure out what he's showing her. I have a feeling that big things are to come, but I am a little annoyed that I'm going to have to wait for yet another book to read about them! While Gin's Wild West adventure was fun, it was 100% filler in an already overstuffed series.

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