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Heat Stroke (Weather Warden #2)

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Accused of murder, Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin was chased across the country—and killed—by a team charged with hunting down rogue Wardens.

Five days later, Joanne had a lovely funeral and was posthumously cleared of all charges. Her human life was over, but she had been reborn in Djinnhood. Now, until she masters her enhanced powers, Joanne must try to avoid being "claime...more

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Dec 21, 2009 Natasha rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

If you haven't read Ill Wind(book 1) this review may contain spoilers. If you have, read on!
Heat Stroke is the second installment in the Weather Wardens series by Rachel Caine. Joanne, once a powerful, yet impulsive Weather warden is now a Djinn. David turned her and now he's trying to teach her the ropes. Jo now must leave all things human behind(which she finds easier said than done) and learn how to be a djinn. What she doesn't realize is what Daivd had to go through to create her and now th...more

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Mar 02, 2012 AH rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I need the next book!

The Weather Warden series by Rachel Caine is not like any other urban fantasy series. There are no werewolves. No vampires. This series focuses on a talented group of people known as the Weather Wardens. Their mission: to control the weather and ensure the least amount of damage to people and property. The Weather Wardens are assisted by powerful djinns (genies).

The world building in this series is well done. Rachel Caine has the ability to describe almost every particle a...more

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Dec 10, 2011 Sandy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Heat Stroke is the second installment in the Weather Warden series by Rachel Caine. It picks up where Ill Wind finishes and follows Joanne Baldwin, former Weather Warden turned Djinn, and her Djinn lover David, as they begin a new journey together, as free-range, unclaimed Djinns. Before Joanne was a powerful Weather Warden who possessed a Demon Mark and died becoming a hero.. but what nobody knows (except for Lewis) is that she was reborn into a Djinn thanks to David. Now that the damage has be...more Heat Stroke is the second installment in the Weather Warden series by Rachel Caine. It picks up where Ill Wind finishes and follows Joanne Baldwin, former Weather Warden turned Djinn, and her Djinn lover David, as they begin a new journey together, as free-range, unclaimed Djinns. Before Joanne was a powerful Weather Warden who possessed a Demon Mark and died becoming a hero.. but what nobody knows (except for Lewis) is that she was reborn into a Djinn thanks to David. Now that the damage has been done, she must learn the ropes to harnessing and using her newfound powers (which are pretty cool!).

Danger in the form of a rift in the aetheric finds their way to David and Joanne, who both are stumped and clueless when they come across coldlight (aka blue glitter/sparklies) that is both unheard of and questionable, leaking from the rift. Trouble calls when they are both ordered to see Jonathan - the first and most powerful Djinn (aka their god). Turns out the consequences of David breaking laws and turning Joanne into a Djinn must be paid. What Joanne doesn't know is that David's actions caused him to become weaker and weaker ('suicide by girl') as he continues to pour his energy into sustaining Joanne as they are both just half a Djinn. She has a week to learn the hard way how to fully adjust by learning under the tutelage of Patrick - the only other human who successfully changed into a Djinn. She can no longer rely on David's help as he's now under Jonathan's control.

Learning from Patrick is not the hard part - it is escaping being claimed when the pair, along with Lewis, are paid an unexpected visit from Yvette Prentiss - a beautiful female version of Bad Bob - and teenage stepson Kevin. As it turns out, Patrick owes her a favour and that favour is repaid by taking Joanne. Joanne is now claimed for the first time by her horny, lecherous stepson. But she's only a means to an end. Yvette is really after David, and has been for a long time. This is when the action starts to escalate as Joanne must find a way to save David (as he eventually comes to save Joanne and gets reclaimed by the evil, sadistic Yvette to pay the price for her freedom), free herself from Kevin, and help repair the rift - oh and save the world at the same time, with very limited help.

The Weather Warden series is fast becoming one of my favourites. The storylines are not always enticing but the plot really does thicken and the action kicks in about halfway through this book. Joanne is a spectacular force to be reckoned with. She's smart, lethal, heroic, and has nine lives. She's also witty, sarcastic, fearless and isn't afraid to question authority. As far as heroines go, she's likeable and well-rounded and remains constant, although the other characters around her change and grow. I definitely recommend this series to any romance/paranormal/urban fantasy/adventure fans. I have very few complaints. You really get sucked into Joanne's world and as a reader, find it pretty hard to get your head out of the book! 4.5/5 stars.(less)

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May 19, 2011 Kate rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Should I read it? Probably not. The first book of this series had problems, and there are only more in this book. With nine books in this series, I suspect Caine didn't really know what she wanted to write at this point. The plot is shaky, everything is overly cliche, and the characters ultimately aren't that likable. Unless you really loved Ill Wind, don't bother.

What's the short and skinny of it? Official summary: "Mistaken for a murderer, Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin is hunted down and kille...more

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Jan 29, 2010 Summer rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: demons-angels, magic, paranormal, urban-fantasy, favorites

I think I'm in love with this series now. I'd gush more about it but I'm buried under a mountain of homework again. I stayed up until 1:30 in the morning the other night just to finish this book and lost a lot of sleep over it. But it was totally worth it.

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Jul 25, 2012 Jeann rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: paranormal-uf, own, magic, 5-star, favourite-books, favourite-series, buddy-reads

WOW what an exhilarating ride! Heat Stroke was a way slicker book than the first one, fast-paced and easier to get into than simply a road trip and reminiscing about the times which was pretty much sums up Ill Wind.

I absolutely love the cool factor of both Joanne and her powers, either as a Djinn or Weather warden. This book contains descriptions of meteorology that border on being too scientific, but wow they just blow my mind! Not to mention the descriptions of how Djinn draw their power. The...more

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May 10, 2012 Jex rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Sep 28, 2011 JoyfulK rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Caine's novels are mind candy. The plot moves faster than the main character normally drives, and that's saying something, given that she likes to drive classic sports cars at speeds in excess of 100 mph. The character development, although there is some, is slow. Although the titles are based on weather, weather isn't the point. The plot development focuses much more on the corruption of power and of institutions created by persons. The character focus is not between the Weather Wardens and the...more

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Dec 30, 2011 Gaijinmama rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, paranormal

I'm definitely sticking with this series.
The protagonist, Joanne is cool...kicks butt even when wearing lime-green Manolos. Caine writes snappy dialogue and her takes on paranormal weather control and djinn
(yes the kind that have to stay in bottles until their masters call them) make sense.
And David. Swoon. Drool. What a hottie. I do enjoy a bit of the Adults-Only, but this is one of the few books that keeps me going, even at strictly PG-13 level. It's just a damn good story, and there's nothing...more

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Nov 02, 2007 Laura rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: dark urban fantasy fans

Shelves: urbanfantasy

This is Book Two in the "Weather Warden" series. It is well written, but has its ups and downs. Some of the downs, which really made the plot drag, were hard to get through and seemed rather silly to me. However, by the end of the book I found them all to be important to the plot, so hang in there! The ending is a good one and sets you up for the next book in the series. I can definitely see why I was advised to read this series in order...the storyline does flow continuously from book to book.

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Jan 18, 2013 Angela Oliver rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: paranormal-romance, urban-fantasy, kick-arse-chicks

I've started this series and now I just can't stop.

I was lucky enough to find five of the six books in the Value Paperbacks stack in the pile where I work, and thus picked up number one and two to "give them a go" (the remainder are 4,5 and 6, so I shall need to use other means to obtain #3, alas). And now I've started, I'm finding it impossible to stop. These books are like an adrenalin rush - there's hardly room to breathe, let alone for the characters to chill out (I imagine they do that betw...more

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Jan 01, 2013 Nathan Burgoine rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Jo is dead, a Djinn, and her hottie boyfriend/djinn who brought her back from the dead (but not to life, to djinnhood) is actually quite the key player in the world of the Djinn. Indeed, he might have ruined everything by turning her into what she is.

But this new life isn't even as stable as that unstable foundation - she has a pretty short time limit to learn how to do - well, everything - or she's going to be cut off from what keeps her alive (and it might just cost more than her own life in t...more

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Sep 23, 2012 Sylvia D rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

*Very mild spoilers ahead*

This series (all both books of it that I've read) is... only just OK. I read the first one, and I was like, 'Meh'. I listened to this one on audiobook, and even though the narrator was AWESOME, I was *still* like, 'That was meh'.

I don't know what it is. I guess I like trudging through it because it's such an odd bit of fantasy and supernatural that it's almost like a breath of fresh air. I mean, thus far, there hasn't been a single vampire or werewolf, so for that much...more *Very mild spoilers ahead*

This series (all both books of it that I've read) is... only just OK. I read the first one, and I was like, 'Meh'. I listened to this one on audiobook, and even though the narrator was AWESOME, I was *still* like, 'That was meh'.

I don't know what it is. I guess I like trudging through it because it's such an odd bit of fantasy and supernatural that it's almost like a breath of fresh air. I mean, thus far, there hasn't been a single vampire or werewolf, so for that much I'm thankful.

But... I don't care about ANY of the characters. Joanne doesn't really appeal to me. And, it's not because there's anything unappealing about her character. Rather, there's not anything that really sticks out. She's a spitfire, questions authority, loves fashion and cars... but most of the time, I'm just like, 'So what?'. David, I never felt the love connection there. It was seriously something that just like instantly happened and was established by the end of the last book, and it's not really explored any further in this novel. And, they're apart for most of the novel anyway. So, aside from being really good-looking... why do they love each other? The villain of this book, Yvette, sort of just... shows up, and I'm not really sure why or where she came from.

Lewis, I do kind of like. I like that he's patient, compassionate, caring in spite of being so put upon and long-suffering. That's an interesting duality. And Kevin was amusing here and there. And believably fucked up enough to be set up as the next villain.

But, as with any story, it's probably not a good thing for your reader to like secondary characters and villains better than your main characters.

The plot moves *very* fast and never really slows down. And it felt like... I don't really know how to describe it. It felt like thing A happened so that thing B could happen so that thing C could happen, so on and so forth, but thing C doesn't ever come back to thing A in any meaningful way. Is there a name for that sort of plot? It would've helped if we had some sort of explanations or world-building to help things slow down a bit, but like I said, things happen way fast in this novel.

And maybe my biggest 'meh' factor is that this novel or the novel before never really took the time to sell the premise to me. I'm a fan of world-building that really convinces me and lets me suspend my disbelief (and I guess because of that, I like characters that learn things as the reader learns them), but at the beginning of the first novel, Joanne has been in this world for a number of years already. And it's like, 'This is how things are. Buy it or don't.' So, it took me like two months to get through this entire audiobook, and every time something fantastical would happen, I'd be like, 'Huh, that's funny/weird.' Not like, 'Oh my god that's so cool' like I should have been.

This is not nearly as coherent as my other reviews. Mostly because I don't understand my feelings about this book. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't particularly good, and aside from what I've already touched upon, there's something that I can't quite put my finger on for why...(less)

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Sep 15, 2012 Naoms rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: nook, paranormal-urban-fantasy, read-in-2012

I'm not really sure how I feel about this book. It was entertaining and I sped through it pretty quickly, but I can't say that I loved it. The issue is that I like the characters so much, that when bad things happen to them, I get irrationally angry.

"Heat Stroke," picks up almost immediately after the events in "Ill Wind." Joanne is now Djinn, having been brought back to life by her Djinn lover David. Unfortunately, life isn't perfect for Joanne and David. To bring her back, David broke a lot o...more

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Sep 02, 2012 Kay_Vee rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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More 3 than 2 stars (2.75)

While I saw lots of reviews for book 1 (Ill Wind) starting off slow, I did not find that to be the case at all and tore through it. I thought I was going to gobble up the whole series but I found this one much slower going. I trudged through the first half but then I found myself skimming. A lot of times if there is good stuff In a book where I started to skim I find myself needing to go back a read what I skipped over because there were parts worth reading. Unfortunate...more

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May 22, 2012 Kate rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I read this, the second book in the Weather Warden series, because the first was alright, and I liked a different series by the same author and was hopeful. This book was a train wreck (a nasty, fireball of a train wreck).

The back of the book says "[Joanne's] human life was over, but she had been reborn into Djinnhood. Now, until she masters her enhanced powers, Joanne must try to avoid being 'claimed by a human. But when a hazard that only a Djinn could sense infiltrates Earth's atmosphere, Joa...more I read this, the second book in the Weather Warden series, because the first was alright, and I liked a different series by the same author and was hopeful. This book was a train wreck (a nasty, fireball of a train wreck).

The back of the book says "[Joanne's] human life was over, but she had been reborn into Djinnhood. Now, until she masters her enhanced powers, Joanne must try to avoid being 'claimed by a human. But when a hazard that only a Djinn could sense infiltrates Earth's atmosphere, Joanne must somehow convince someone to do something about it-or the forecast will be deadly. So who said being all-powerful was going to be easy?"

If that was the book, it would have been great. But it isn't. Instead, the book spends much torturous time on all sorts of uninteresting (or occasionally disturbing) other plots. Joanne meets the very powerful (view spoiler)(less)

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Apr 01, 2012 Fangs for the Fantasy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Joanne is now a djinn. Saved from certain death by David in the last book. She now has to learn the realities of her n ew life, with the new senses, the new body, the new powers and the sheer new world that comes with being a djinn, a creature of smoke, fire and pure energy.

But things aren’t so simple – David has hurt himself creating Joanne and he is bleeding power into her. And there’s a whole hierarchy of djinn, including a virtual god who is very not happy with this – and has an ultimatum. E...more Joanne is now a djinn. Saved from certain death by David in the last book. She now has to learn the realities of her n ew life, with the new senses, the new body, the new powers and the sheer new world that comes with being a djinn, a creature of smoke, fire and pure energy.

But things aren’t so simple – David has hurt himself creating Joanne and he is bleeding power into her. And there’s a whole hierarchy of djinn, including a virtual god who is very not happy with this – and has an ultimatum. Either Joanne learns how to sustain herself within a week, or he will destroy her to save David.

And to make matters worse, there’s a rift into the demon realm – a rift that is producing sparks that seem to be doing odd things to the world – and the djinn. It has to be sealed and Lewis seems to think he knows how – but he needs a djinn to do it.

Then there’s Yvette – a Warden out to bottle and capture some djinn. And a sadist who has her eyes on David

I liked the story – we had major issues coming together. The frustration and need to escape as a djinn, the coming of age of learning ton be a djinn, the love story of David and Joanne and the mystery of the coldfire- it was a mix of genres without a simple box to put it in. I did feel it seemed to leap between several storylines and not know exactly where it was going –but it coalesced in the end. We had the coldfire, Joanne learning to be a djinn, the capture of Joanne and her ongoing relationship with David, all of which seemed to run vaguely parallel to each other but be rather separate – and it was a little frustrating because I rather wanted to just get on with one of them – any of them would do because I actually enjoyed them all. But they did all come together towards the end of the book, establishing one dominant storyline that had roots in all of them which was really rather nicely done. I still think I would have preferred a story that, say, focussed on Joanne being a djinn, but I still liked it and am impressed by how it was done. Especially since elements of the story felt superfluous at first, a distraction, btu then came back to be dominant near the end.

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Jan 02, 2012 Erin rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: adult, magic, fantasy, urban-fantasy

Love love love this book! I thought the first one was good but this one is even better! I am definatly going to stick with this series! The whole book is filled with action, romance, suprises, suspense friendship, death, regret and the world about to end drama.

Heat Stroke is the second book in the Weather Wardens series. Joanne who was once a very powerful Weather Warden (who controlled air and water) has been turned into a Dijinn. In this book she has to struggle to deal with her new life. Davi...more Love love love this book! I thought the first one was good but this one is even better! I am definatly going to stick with this series! The whole book is filled with action, romance, suprises, suspense friendship, death, regret and the world about to end drama.

Heat Stroke is the second book in the Weather Wardens series. Joanne who was once a very powerful Weather Warden (who controlled air and water) has been turned into a Dijinn. In this book she has to struggle to deal with her new life. David turned her in the last book when she died and he had to give half of his life essence to make her, making them both vulnerable. So he is trying to teach her the ropes and the dos and don'ts of being a Dijinn. Joanne struggles to leave her human life behind while doing do. What David has not told her is that when he made her he caused a rift between the demon and human world. Which caused a whole bunch of problems throughout the book.

Joanne and David are sent to meet Jonathan - who is the most powerful and oldest Dijinn, and we learn that until David gave half of himself to Joanne that he was the second most powerful Dijinn. Jonathan tells Joanne that she has a week to learn the ropes - without the help of David and sends her packing to Patrick - the only other half-human half-dijinn in existance. Patrick throws a whole bunch of tests Joannes way to help her learn about the ins and outs and also to help control her power. When Lewis comes along as he has seen this rift in the aetheric he asks Joanne to be his Dijinn as he needs her help. While helping out Lewis, Patrick gives Joanne to a Yvette - Bad Bobs female equivalent - as a repayment for a favour. As Yvette wants David to fulfil her nasty fantasies. This is where it gets more interesting because David gets captured trying to save Jo - so she needs to save David, free herself from the horny Kevin who likes to put her in french maid costumes, help repair the rift that no one knows how to fix - and it seems she is the only one who is not affected by the blue sparkly glitter that is coming out of it and save the world from being destroyed by a giant storm that no one seems to be able to control.

I loved this book overall. And the End WOW just blows you away.

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Dec 15, 2011 gigi pryce rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, weather-warden, urban-fantasy-reads

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Aug 05, 2010 Kt from A Book Obsession.. rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Wow, I thought the first book was good, but this one blew it out of the water. It picks up right where the last one left off with Joanne trying to figure out her new Djinn powers. Even though David tries to hide it from her, Joanne quickly finds out there are consequences for him saving her. The leader of the djinns, Jonathan, gives her a week to learn how to support her own power or both David and her will lose their lives. Jonathan sends her to another djinn for training but a disturbance ethe...more

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Jan 10, 2010 Tammy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: witches-and-magic-users, urban-fantasy

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. As with the first book, this one kept surprising me. At the end of the first book Joanne had been turned into a djinn, saved from death by her lover, the djinn David. We open with her and David, having classes in Djinn 101 and also having sex. Lots and lots of sex. I admit it, I got scared. I thought I was in for the dread "paranormal-romance" aka softcore porn with magic. But... no.

Something's up with the way Joanne was made, power is draining off David on to her and neither of them can live th...more

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May 17, 2009 Greenly J rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

So in an excellerated frenzy i searched for a book that would tide me over the first week of Summer vacation. I chose the First Book of this series Ill Wind. Found it decent but not amazing had what I wanted in the time that I wanted it. Only problem was that it took me a Day to finish so I made myself read the sequel. This book is easy, with some interesting parts. The biggest problem is the delivery. So Caine has this awesome view where storms are actually living creatures set out to destroy u...more

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Oct 22, 2012 James rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Right, disclaimer time, I'm already so far into the future with this series that writing this will be brief and rather vague. This isn't as good as the first book, however, I urge you with all my heart to read it and it's successors - it's one hell of a ride. Four Stars

Plot : Four Stars

Jo is now a Djinn. Cool eh? Well, trust me, whatever you're thinking, this is way cooler. With the benefit of hindsight I can see that this book is almost a build up to the awe-inspiring book to come. It lays out,...more

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Sep 11, 2010 Katyana rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: ass-kicking-women, fantasy, series

I liked this one better than the first, mostly because I wasn't completely and utterly boggled by the ending.

I feel like this series has incredible potential, but just hasn't... dug down and grabbed it yet. Things feel oddly chaotic and unrooted. It just feels off.

In addition, there are a couple things that just continue to agitate me. Lewis, like the rest of the series as a whole, feels like he just can't get it together. It is weird and undermining for someone this badass to be... almost meek....more I liked this one better than the first, mostly because I wasn't completely and utterly boggled by the ending.

I feel like this series has incredible potential, but just hasn't... dug down and grabbed it yet. Things feel oddly chaotic and unrooted. It just feels off.

In addition, there are a couple things that just continue to agitate me. Lewis, like the rest of the series as a whole, feels like he just can't get it together. It is weird and undermining for someone this badass to be... almost meek. He has been rescued, by my count, 4 times in 2 books. What the heck? I like Lewis, I really do. But I feel like it is time to ... well, to be crass, shit or get off the pot. He needs to take control of his life, put himself in the driver's seat, and stop just being a passenger. He also needs to make some connections, real connections, because the lone ranger thing clearly isn't working out so well for him. Nor is he happy.

The Wardens all - ALL - piss me off. I hate the whole lot of them, and can only pray that, since the storm didn't finish them off this book, next book Mother Nature will try dropping tactical nukes. I'll be honest, I am having a really difficult time with the fact that they are all self-righteous, self-assured moronic douchecanoes. Every single decision they make is the wrong one, and it is becoming tedious. Having them pop up to constantly accuse Jo of being a villain and carrying this looming threat of lobotomy... frankly, they are becoming ridiculously caricatured inept villains.

And the Djinn are just the other side of the same coin. I have sympathy for them, because the enslavement is HORRIBLE. As this book clearly demonstrated, it is rape. But then at the same time, they behave like they are twins to the Wardens. Equally full of themselves, equally positive that the sun shines out of their collective asses and they aren't capable of a wrong decision.

I am tired of having every single character in this book be an enemy. Even ones who don't intend to be - Lewis, David - still cause harm by making decisions that have horrible repercussions for Jo (let me bind you to my bottle, it's safe, I promise; let me tear the universe asunder for you, I am sure that can't be as bad as it sounds, right?). It becomes depressing, and a little emo, to watch her continually beat down by everyone around her. She's surrounded by people who either leave her dealing with consequences not of her own making (Lewis, David, Jonathan), or think she's the Devil Incarnate and is single-handedly calling down the End of Times (all the Wardens, a good handful of djinn, and even herself on occasion with all the "it's my fault" whining... though really, who can blame her for feeling that way, given all that is going on around her).

That said, I love the universe. I love the powers. I love the sentient nature. I love the possibilities. I think this series could be AMAZING if it would just get it's shit together. So I will keep reading, and keep my fingers crossed.(less)

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Jan 07, 2012 Wesley rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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OK, for starters the 2nd half of this book was much better for me than the first. So I’ll talk about that because obviously it sets up for the next book. I won’t have any spoilers here so simmer down. I was getting very nervous until this picked up for me. I’m getting more impatient on giving a new series the benefit of the doubt. What were probably 3 strikes and your out before are without a doubt 1.5 and your out. The 2nd half of this book to me completely saved it. You almost need the sluggis...more

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Sep 21, 2011 Cathy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, great-cover, magic-users, paranormal, read-in-2011, urban, romance

More fun urban fantasy. I was worried when Joanne insisted on going to her own funeral even though everyone insisted that it was too dangerous, it looked for a while that she might be another Too Stupid To Live character. But despite being very headstrong, the author didn't let it get in the way too much, unlike too many I've read.

I'm very interested to see how the author deals with the fact that she got Joanne and David together right away in book one over the course of a long series, I think...more

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Dec 11, 2012 Nicole R rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: paranormal-supernatural, 2012

I'm finding the Weather Warden series so intriguing! We learn more about the Dijin, and that having a successful transition from human to dijin is very rare. So rare, that it's only happened once. Not only that, she doesn't realize what David has done in order to keep Joanne around in some way. I liked seeing her adjust to life as a Dijin, and her struggles with leaving her human life behind.

I really love the concept of the Weather Wardens, and we see more of what they can and cannot do. I also...more I'm finding the Weather Warden series so intriguing! We learn more about the Dijin, and that having a successful transition from human to dijin is very rare. So rare, that it's only happened once. Not only that, she doesn't realize what David has done in order to keep Joanne around in some way. I liked seeing her adjust to life as a Dijin, and her struggles with leaving her human life behind.

I really love the concept of the Weather Wardens, and we see more of what they can and cannot do. I also loved seeing the Dijin and the extent of their abilities...but mostly I loved learning about how they were created. There was one part of their creation story that I found really interesting, but I think it's because I've read Outcast Season, and I'm curious as to how that will play out in this series.

The characters have developed a little, but they're mostly the same characters we see in Ill Wind. I love that her characters are pretty consistent from book to book, while still growing at a natural pace. I love that Joanne's bad-ass but loves clothes! I like that combination. As for Lewis, I don't completely get why people seem to be so threatened by him. Yeah, he's super-powerful, but he's been rescued a few times between Ill Wind and Heat Stroke. But...maybe we'll see more of why he's seen as a threat.

I really love how Caine describes the weather, and I admire the research she must have done to make sure everything's right. You get a great sense of how powerful and awe-inpsiring weather is, and you really don't think of weather in the same way. One of my (very few) complaints is the length of each chapter. There were around 3 or 4, so each chapter was super long. I get not wanting to break things up, but shorter chapters...also good.

We also meet a lot of new characters, and we haven't seen the last of Kevin, Jonathan, and Ashan. I can't wait to see what Caine has in store for them, and all of the other characters.

Final thoughts: Heat Stroke was definitely fun to read, and while I really like this series so far, I'm not completely in love with it. I love the world that Caine has created, and there are some really interesting characters. It gets 4 stars! (less)

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Mar 14, 2009 Yvette rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

In the 1st book Joanne was a weather warden, helping to protect humanity from the wrath of Mother Nature. At the end of the first book she is killed, but David, a powerful djinn, manages to resurrect her as a djinn so now she must learn how to be a djinn.

For some reason she is still linked to David and draining his power so she must learn to harness power on her own. Meanwhile something strange is going on in the ethereal plane and it has David scared.

Joanne is then assigned to learn with Patr...more

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Jul 27, 2009 Laura rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Ok. Once again, I really liked the second book in this pretty long series. In fact, I really got pulled into the story and got stressed out when the MC was being pulled in multiple directions. Basically, I really connected with the characters more in this book than in the previous. Joanne's a bad-ass, and I really like that.

That being said. I really REALLY wish the author would stop adding so much "weather". I know it's a series about a Weather Warden, but seriously. I went through a lot of met...more

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Aug 06, 2009 Angela rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: borrowed-from-library

Spoiler Alert: Please do not read this review unless you have already read the first book in this series, Ill Wind. The events of this book are strongly based on the ending of the last and I would hate to give anything away. I do have a review of Ill Wind that I posted in July.

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Heat Stroke essentially picks up right where Ill Wind left off. Joanne Baldwin was transformed from a human Weather Warden to a Djinn in order to preserve her life. Now she must learn to use...more

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“Tell me something about yourself.” “I’d rather save the small talk.” “There’s no need to be rude, child, and believe me, I’m asking for a reason. Tell me something about yourself. Anything.”
“I’m twenty-eight . . .”
He rejected that one out of hand. “Something personal. Something . . . interior. Tell me something you love.”
I thought about it for a long few seconds, then said, “Ralph Lauren’s summer line this year. Not the spring collection, which was way too pastel, and the winter was really crappy, all bland browns and grays. But he’s got some good fabrics this summer, kind of a hot tangerine matched with dull red. Only he skirts, though. Hiscapri pants are for shit. Pockets? Who wants pockets on capri pants? What woman in her right mind puts extra fabric on her hips?”
There was a long and ringing silence. Patrick’s eyes were wide and rather frightened.
He finally cleared
his throat and said, “Anything else apart from fashion?”
“What do you want me to say? Puppies? Fluffy kittens? Babies?”
“Let’s try something simple. Your favorite food.”
I rolled my eyes. “Chocolate.” Duh .” — 11 people liked it

“Paul?” I said.
My voice shook a little. “It’s Jo.” Silence. I couldn’t tell what was happening on the other end.
Then, very quietly, “Jesus.”
“No, just Joanne, although I can see how you might make the mistake, coming back from the dead and all.” — 10 people liked it

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