Jennifer Estep has been on my auto-buy list since Tangled Threads came out in Spring of this year. I first got into the Elemental Assassins book in Fall '10. It's one of those series that keeps getting better with each new book. 
 Spiders Revenge the 5th in the Elemental Assassins series is the story arc we've been waiting to read since the first book Spiders Bite Spider's Bite. It really felt like this journey that we've been taking and we are finally at the end. 
 This book took off right from the opening sentence. I was hooked. Jennifer Estep has a way of doing that with this series. I can be reading a look at the page number and suddnely realize I've just read 50 pages in what felt like 5 minutes. I get so engrossed in this series. Even during the down time between Gin's assassination attempts I don't get bored. I guess because I know that in this series something can happen at any moment that will cause our main character to pull out her knives. 
 I don't know what more I can say about this book besides I was very satisfied with the outcome of everything. We've been with Gin for 5 books now and in those books we have seen her grow. In the beginning she was a little cold, she knew that she needed to separate all emotions in order to be good at her job and survive. We've seen her bring her heart to the front. I say to the front because I believe that she's always been the caring person that we've seen in these last couple of books, she just pushed in down, but now she almost uses that to her advantage. I mean if you don't feel for anything then sometimes you have nothing to fight for. 
 Gin and Bria's relationahip was going to be complicated no matter what. I mean being separated for 17 years and finding out your sister is as assasssin would be a little jarring for a good cop like Bria. But unlike with Donovan Cane in the first two books, Bria sees her sister as more. She understands that there are shades of gray in Gin's world. Gin does have a heart and does care about people despite her line of work. I'm really glad that we get to see them getting closer in this book. Estep handles their relationship very well. It would have been very easy to have them immediately forget about everything and be the closest sisters, but their relationship is going to need work and Estep doesn't side step that in order to make things move along faster. This is something we will continue to see in books to come. 
 Owen and Gin's relationship is another we see growing. I mean we, the readers, have known that Owen was great since he showed up in Web of Lies, but here is where Gin fully understands that she deserves to be with him. I think before she was waiting for him to realize that he didn't want her baggage in his life and leave, but he's always known who she was completely and he's never backed down from that. I like that he can let Gin be Gin. He doesn't try to change her. He doesn't want her to go off an get herself killed either, so he will help her in any situation he can, but he lets her do what she has to do even with the consequences involved. I hope that their relationship can continue to grow. I really like them together. 
 Of course the main storyline in this book is the showdown between Mab and Gin. Honestly, if you know that the next book in the series comes out in February '12 then you can probably guess the outcome of this book. If you go and read the synopsis for "By a Thread" then you will know the outcome of this book. I don't really think it was the point to keep us in suspence of the ending, I think it was about the journey (as have been the first 4 books leading up to this one). This is about what it takes to get the job done and how it will get done, and from there what are the consquences of doing the job (which will be tackled in "By a Thread" By a Thread I'm sure). 
 I really have mixed feelings about continuing this series on past this book. I think if Jennifer Estep an conjure up another great story arc for us to follow through another so many books it will be fine (and honestly I think she can do this), but this book was just so satisfying that she could have ended the series here and I would have been fine with that. There was a moment near the end that I really wanted Gin to commit to being retired for good this time. She just went through everything with Mab and I really felt (after reading through the whole thing) that Gin should be tired and that she needs a break. But Gin is Gin, the Spider, and while I really hope that one day (at the end of the series for real) she can just sit back and relax, that day is not here yet. 
 On the other hand, I love the characters and the world that Jennifer Estep has created and I look forward to February! Until Then!