these books keep getting better

the story is well written and I am looking forward to the next book and the storyline is very strong and you can tell how Jin has evolved as a caricter

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I love this series but....

I do like this series, an elemental assassin as my ‘hero’ leading lady is a different take on the urban fantasy genre I love and I’m enjoying it. But, I do feel the writer condescends the reader sometimes.

Gin is supposedly a powerful element with more power than most because of the double elemental power thing, yet conveniently enough she doesn’t or can’t use it for some ridiculous reason when facing the latest big bad. She supposedly brought down her entire mansion home when just a child with her stone power but as an adult never manages to be able to use that power well enough as a weapon?! The best we see her do is harden her skin so she can take blows/bullets which is great and all but why wouldn’t you use it as an offensive weapon too? She also killed Mab by combining both her powers, which she has now apparently long forgotten how to do or can’t anymore. However she uses her power in one book is conveniently forgotten in future books if it doesn’t fit how the author wants Gin to be trapped or scuppered in some way. It’s slightly ridiculous and patronising.

Equally and this the thing that really got me in this book, it’s been annoying me for a few books now but in this one it just takes the biscuit. Gin is an intelligent woman, yet somehow in each book she never manages to piece together the glaringly obvious clues that are staring her in the face?!?! - IT WAS OBVIOUSLY THE BANK!! How the hell else is Finn involved, not acknowledging that is a joke. In previous books I’ve put it down to the fact that I read a lot of books and that might be why I can predict what’s next and maybe, just maybe Gin wouldn’t have guessed. BUT if she’s this intelligent woman, a deadly assassin that survives time and again, presumably she would learn?! YET SHE NEVER DOES, If anything the author portrays her as increasingly too stupid to figure anything out until it cracks her on the head! Every book she makes reference to her paranoia like that might still be a valid excuse! Errrm no, anyone with half a brain, including her friends would realise by now that her paranoia is usually valid and worth paying attention to. It’s so annoying. There is a really obvious point where even if she hadn’t figured it out before then the list of businesses would have given it away - not acknowledging that is a joke and frankly patronising, disappointing and dissatisfying.

But, I do persist in reading the books because they do have good qualities and storylines. even though it doesn’t sound like it, I do like this series, if only the author didn’t assume all readers are idiots and will easily overlook the gaping holes, and actually took the time to write Gin intelligently solving the problems she faces, these books would be amazing.

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