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A review by robinbridgefour
Bitter Bite, Volume 14 by Jennifer Estep
3.0
WOW….I made it to #14 thanks completely to the crew at BB&B I totally wouldn’t have made it here without you guys to buddy read with.
Things I’m Happy About:
✫ - The bad guys have been pretty good recently. Instead of the main driving force being threat of rape which is how the first books started out this one the bad guy is a woman capable of some major emotion manipulation of Finn. And like Gin it was hard to tell what was heartfelt with her and what was just fake.
✫- It was interesting to see Gin’s crew torn a little as Finn struggles with his mommy issues and try to decide where to fall. It was also interesting that I didn’t figure out the final plan until we were well into it. I’ve guess most of the final plots up to this point.
✫ - Silvio is the best assistant ever and I really like how well he assists an assassin that doesn’t really think she needs an assistant
✫ - The setup of the new big bad in the series. Yes….yes it is all very formulaic but it is good that now Gin will in the future have something bigger to go after than the random bad guy who strolls into Ashland.
Things that bug:
☠ - Okay so the repetition is so much better than it used to be but it is still there. Is it just me that has this pet peeve that Gin and Owen are still using condoms and so we get that line in every book about white pills and condoms? They have been together for like 11 books now. Get a test and move on.
☠ - Fletcher has left all of these clues for Gin along the way. This wouldn’t bug except he didn’t have any kind of power and so I get a bit bugged the solution usually comes from fletcher or his notes he hid around his office for Gin. I get it if he had some air elemental power of precognition so that he knew to leave them but he didn’t so now that he has been dead quite a while it just seems like an easy writing cop out.
☠ - The new bad guys. Yes I like there is a new overlaying plot arc. She needed one if she was going to continue this series on. BUT….there seemed to be some glaring discrepancies between this new ‘understanding’ of the past and some of the early books. Maybe since it if 9 books after Mabs death we aren’t supposed to care but I just thought it could have been handled a little better.
Overall
The writing in the series is definitely getting better but this isn’t a series that I’m going to read and reread time and time again. Once is enough since I don’t think on a reread I’ll find anything extra I missed the first time through. Still it is an engaging series once you get through some of the earlier books.
Things I’m Happy About:
✫ - The bad guys have been pretty good recently. Instead of the main driving force being threat of rape which is how the first books started out this one the bad guy is a woman capable of some major emotion manipulation of Finn. And like Gin it was hard to tell what was heartfelt with her and what was just fake.
✫- It was interesting to see Gin’s crew torn a little as Finn struggles with his mommy issues and try to decide where to fall. It was also interesting that I didn’t figure out the final plan until we were well into it. I’ve guess most of the final plots up to this point.
✫ - Silvio is the best assistant ever and I really like how well he assists an assassin that doesn’t really think she needs an assistant
✫ - The setup of the new big bad in the series. Yes….yes it is all very formulaic but it is good that now Gin will in the future have something bigger to go after than the random bad guy who strolls into Ashland.
Things that bug:
☠ - Okay so the repetition is so much better than it used to be but it is still there. Is it just me that has this pet peeve that Gin and Owen are still using condoms and so we get that line in every book about white pills and condoms? They have been together for like 11 books now. Get a test and move on.
☠ - Fletcher has left all of these clues for Gin along the way. This wouldn’t bug except he didn’t have any kind of power and so I get a bit bugged the solution usually comes from fletcher or his notes he hid around his office for Gin. I get it if he had some air elemental power of precognition so that he knew to leave them but he didn’t so now that he has been dead quite a while it just seems like an easy writing cop out.
☠ - The new bad guys. Yes I like there is a new overlaying plot arc. She needed one if she was going to continue this series on. BUT….there seemed to be some glaring discrepancies between this new ‘understanding’ of the past and some of the early books. Maybe since it if 9 books after Mabs death we aren’t supposed to care but I just thought it could have been handled a little better.
Overall
The writing in the series is definitely getting better but this isn’t a series that I’m going to read and reread time and time again. Once is enough since I don’t think on a reread I’ll find anything extra I missed the first time through. Still it is an engaging series once you get through some of the earlier books.