Several folks were nice enough to let me know that Spider’s Bite has been reviewed in this week’s Publishers Weekly. Here’s what the reviewer had to say:

Bodies litter the pages of this first entry in Estep’s engrossing Elemental Assassin urban fantasy series. In the corrupt Southern metropolis of Ashland, weather witches mingle with vampires, giants, and dwarves. A mysterious client hires assassin Gin Blanco, known as the Spider, to murder a whistle-blowing financial officer named Gordon Giles. Then the client attempts a double cross and brutally kills Gin’s mentor. Now Gin, a stone elemental with a hard-boiled attitude, a closely guarded heart, and a penchant for throwing knives, has to join forces with one of the few honest cops in Ashland, sexy detective Donovan Caine, who hates her for killing his partner. Fans of Estep’s humorous paranormal romances (Jinx; Hot Mama) may be taken aback by the gritty violence and steamy sex, but urban fantasy fans will love it. (Feb.)

Engrossing! Urban fantasy fans will love it! That’s a solid sentence-and-a-word of like. Huzzah! It’s really sad how jazzed a good review makes me. Writers … it takes so little to make us so very happy. 😉

Although there’s actually one little thing that’s wrong in the review — there are no weather witches in Spider’s Bite. None at all. What the review should say is that elementals mingle with vampires, etc. There are four main kinds of elementals in my book — Air, Fire, Ice, and Stone. And really, elemental is just a fancy word for magic user.

Still, a sentence-and-a-word of like — I’m doing the happy dance! 😉

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