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Publication Order of Elemental Assassin Books
Poison
(2010)
This short story takes place when Gin is a teenager and is told from the point of view of Finnegan Lane, Gin’s foster brother.
Web of Deceit
(2010)
This short story takes place when Gin is a teenager. It’s told from the point of view of Fletcher Lane, Gin’s assassin mentor, and focuses on Gin’s first solo job as the assassin the Spider.
Spider's Bargain
(2010)
This short story takes place before the events of Spider’s Bite, the first book in the Elemental Assassin series.
Jennifer Estep is a New York Times bestselling author, who generally writes her books and novels in the fantasy genre. She is an author of great caliber and is highly efficient in writing paranormal romance novels. Her best work till date includes the novel series, Mythos Academy and the elemental Assassin novel series. Jennifer describes herself as a sassy and sarcastic southern girl. She is just a bit crazy and likes to do all the fun intended things. As a child, Jennifer was fun-filled child who loved to play and hang out with friends. She used to make all sorts of wild stories in her head, which eventually helped her to develop herself as a writer. Jennifer also liked to read books and fairy tales. She used to love reading fantasy stories, adventurous novels, romance and western extracts as well as mysteries. She did not have a particular choice about books and used to read everything that she could get a hand on. Her mother was a great inspiration to her and the only person who encouraged her passion of reading by taking her to the library once in a week. Jennifer believed that the greatest invention made by man was the library as she is very fond of books.
Gradually, Jennifer started developing her own stories and she began writing anything that came to her mind. She even penned down a few short stories and poems. Although she would do it as class assignments, her writing skills were getting sharpened. As a result, she decided to become a writer for a living. Jennifer graduated in English Literature and started working for the college newspaper, She started getting handsome money just by writing a few stories and discovered that she could make a healthy living out of it. After that, Jennifer earned her bachelor’s degree in Journalism and English and a master’s degree in professional communications. She is currently working as a page designer for a daily newspaper. She has worked very hard to achieve her dream of becoming a well established fiction novelist and a published author. As of now, Jennifer has published a total of four highly successful novel series and still plans to keep writing more and more novels.
Jennifer’s most successful series is the ‘Elemental Assassin’ series. This series is comprised of thirteen highly acclaimed novels, which were published from 2010 to 2014. The series focuses on the life of an assassin named Gin Blanco. She is code-named as the Spider and has spiritual powers to control the elements of Ice and Stone. Apart from killing people, she runs a restaurant which specializes in barbecues. The restaurant is named Pork Pit and is situated in the Southern metropolis of Ashland. This city comprises of dwarfs, vampires, giants and elementals such as Stone, Air, Ice and Fire.
The first book of the series is named ‘Spiders’s Bite’, which was published in the year 2010 as an adult, urban-fantasy novel. The novel introduces the principle character Gin Blanco, who like to kill people. She is considered to be the most fearful and deadly assassin of all in the southern area. She also cooks barbecues at the Pork Pit in Ashland. Gin is capable of hearing the slightest whispers and vibrations as she is a Stone elemental. She can also make occasional knives on account of her Ice magic. Gin is shown to have professional pride and does not use her powers unless he badly needs them. The novel depicts another type elementals who are very ruthless, the Air elementals. They have double-crossed Gin and also killed her handler and that is the reason why she is after them taking her revenge. She is so dedicated to take revenge that she is ready to kill anyone who comes in between. A detective named Donovan Caine is her aid who helps her to get out of difficult situations. Gin looks hot and always lands in some kind of trouble because of her looks. Even Donovan is on the hunt to kill her as he finds her a distraction, and one of the bad guys in the city. The novel got praise for its uniqueness and Jennifer Estep received wide appreciations from one and all for depicting a new world of fantasies. The cover page of the novel was very well received and was considered refreshingly accurate and eye-catching.
The sequel to the first novel was titled ‘Web of Lies’ and was published in he year 2010. This urban fantasy novel continues from where it ended in the first novel and shows Gin Blanco as a retired assassin. She believes that her curiosity is gong to get he killed someday. Even though she is retired, there is still trouble in her life. Gin faces troubles in the form of punks trying to rob her restaurant and sometimes there is gunfire taking place near her restaurant. Even though the bullets are not aimed at Gin, she always has to face the hazards. Her neighbor, Violet Fox is frequently harassed by a mining tycoon. Gin finally gives up her retirement and decides to save Violet Fox and her grandfather and protect their property from the evil tycoon. Even the honest cop, Detective Docovan Caine tries to help the needy, but finds is really hard to stop getting attracted towards the hot and sexy Gin Blanco. She also vouches for him due to her Stone elemental and Ice magic. She is able to get her man luckily every time, be it dead or alive. The combination of the bitch and savior characters of Gin was very well praised by the audience.
The novel opened to great reviews by the readers and the other noted writers also appreciated the efforts of Jennifer. She was motivated to complete the series along with a few others as well. The Gin’s persona of a tough assassin and an engaging personality was liked by many female readers. Her warm heart and sense of justice and loyalty were very well concealed throughout the novel. The plot of the novel is very much enjoyable with some wonderful action scenes. Development of the story and the evolution of the characters and their powers were very well described by Jennifer. As a result, she got praises from one and all and was recognized as an established author all over the world.
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