Review: creepy, funny and wonderful
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 1, 2014
I am unabashed fan of the Godhunter series.The Tainted Web brings into a third and fourth realm, beyond Faerie and the God Realm.  We enter the Inter Realm and the realm of the Internet.Evil has entered the world again, through the Internet.  All of those identity thieves and evil bill collectors who track you down via the web (I used to be one, imagine my horror) are all working for an evil, truly evil God who thrives on the torture we all suffer from them!What's worse, this God uses the Web like a spider.  In fact, he takes the form of a spider, my worst nightmare!  His venom infects the digital world.Vervain must defeat him, if she can survive his mental torture, or the whole world will suffer.Sumida and her wonderful heroine show us how connected and dependent we have become on the internet while sharing Native American legends with us.  My only complaint is that Old Man Coyote has never been truly evil, just a little bit of a trickster.  But who am I to complain on that when I am in love with Kirill!I am a devotee of all things urban fantasy, gobbling up the newest stories with an unmatched ferocity.  I've met all the big stars in my imaginations - Anita, Sabine, Rachel, Merry - all of them.  But Vervain, her Gods and her men, they breathe in a way that I am unable to describe!  Vervain is strong, compassionate and loving, a trinity of true human magic.  She is willing to accept her own faults and love others because of their faults not in spite of them.The struggles and horrors she faces are so richly described, so realistic, I had a case of the shivers when I closed the book for the night.  But she faces them with courage.  When presented with a new type of creature, one that couldn't have existed prior to the advent of the Web, she welcomes him.All in all the scariest of the 8 books I've read of the series. Creepy crawlies abound!  Highly recommended, even for arachnaphobes like myself!  6 out of 5 if that we possible!  Enter Vervain's world!