Ill Wind (Weather Warden, #1) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Sep 08, 2010 Katyana rated it liked it

Shelves: ass-kicking-women, fantasy

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. ***A bitter, begrudging 3.5***

Well, okay. I was excited until the last... maybe 40 pages. Star was the big bad, Jo was racing to fight her off. Star had David, which was heartbreaking. Star also had Lewis, which was... well, I still don't understand how. Because Star's power was broken, right? How in hell was she able to hold Lewis? Marion was on Jo's tail to OKC...

... and let's pause here for a minute to say, seriously, fuck those guys. Marion and her cronies, Paul, the whole lot of Wardens. Th ***A bitter, begrudging 3.5***

Well, okay. I was excited until the last... maybe 40 pages. Star was the big bad, Jo was racing to fight her off. Star had David, which was heartbreaking. Star also had Lewis, which was... well, I still don't understand how. Because Star's power was broken, right? How in hell was she able to hold Lewis? Marion was on Jo's tail to OKC...

... and let's pause here for a minute to say, seriously, fuck those guys. Marion and her cronies, Paul, the whole lot of Wardens. They are giant idiots who are also giant douchebags. Bad shit is happening right in front of their faces, and they are oblivious, but they glom onto Jo like white on rice, and even keep accusing her of causing these incidents. Right. Because she totally brewed up a big storm to CHASE HER AND SHOOT HER OWN CAR UP WITH LIGHTNING BOLTS. Clearly, no one ELSE could POSSIBLY be causing these things, you brainless turds. Seriously, fuck those guys.

So the idiot brigade is chasing Jo to OKC for the big show-down. They don't even give her points for shutting down the uber storm that was about to kill everyone - they bitch at her about that too. Fucking tools. Then she shows up at Star's, and Star is evil and David is evil, and Lewis is evil (wtf mate? can someone explain how star was controlling him?). And they sort of throw down, but not really, it was all very anticlimactic. And then... Jo dies. And Star, I guess, dies... in a fire she had the power to start but apparently couldn't, you know, RUN THE FUCK AWAY FROM. And Lewis is just fine, and despite being The Most Powerful Human Being To Ever Grace This Planet, contributed less than nothing to the overall story and why the fuck was he even here, again? And the Demon Mark, eh, whatever.

And Jo died. And sure, she's a djinn now, but I feel ripped off. She was, it seemed, a particularly powerful human being, she had some strange yin/yang thing happening with Lewis that I wanted to know about, and now she's something completely different, not a weather witch anymore, because hey, djinn are basically all mini-Lewises - they seem to have all the elements in their control. But I don't want a Mary Sue. Where's my weather witch? Why was she so powerful? Was she really a counterpart to Lewis? Why was he able to pull power through her? What were they supposed to be?

And also, she's supposed to live, so she can tell those Warden fucks to all do the world a favor and go fucking die, because they are all clearly to fucking stupid to have uber-powers, seeing as they can't see OBVIOUS VILLAINS. Bad Bob? Really, with a name like that, you can't see that dude is a villain? And wtf with them not being able to see Demon Marks because they don't ask to? Are we seriously supposed to believe that the entirety of the Warden's Association is too fucking stupid to ask their djinn to allow them to see Demon Marks?

And can someone PLEASE explain Lewis? He... what? Could vibe from wherever the fuck he was that Star had a Mark and was eating djinn, but never clued the fuck in to Bad Bob? Really? And he was held prisoner for ... forever... by Star. And beat people up at her whim. And was then just fine, and cool as a cucumber, and hey, those Warden idiots he had been hiding from for years? No big. They all went out and had a beer or something. Maybe roasted marshmellows around Star and Jo's flaming corpses. What the fuck?

See all the ranting? I told you guys I curse like a sailor. I can't help it, I really liked this book, and was really disappointed by the ending. Disappointed and boggled. ...more

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Sep 02, 2009 Gaijinmama rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction

I breezed through this one (pun absolutely intended!).
It was fun, creepy, kinda hot in places, and thoroughly absorbing.
For me, well-written dialogue is one of the most important aspects of a book and Caine does not disappoint. There's a lot of snappy, sarcastic banter and it definitely works.
The characters, too, are compelling and believable. Joanna, our
protagonist, is smart, vulnerable, powerful (she can make a life-threatening hurricane go bye-bye, folks!) and funny as hell. The villains aren ...more

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Oct 25, 2009 ♥Tricia♥ rated it really liked it

Shelves: urban-fantasy

This book was a wonderful breath of fresh air! I have been so tired of the PR books where the characters just fall into bed with one another after a few seconds of meeting lol

I loved the Characters in this book as well as the story. It was very different then anything I have read thus far.

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Jun 02, 2010 Alisha rated it liked it

Shelves: needs-review

Rating: 3-3.5 I liked, just wan't crazy about it. It's promising, though...I'm interested in continuing in the series.

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Dec 14, 2009 Jamie ~ Bad Boy Inspector rated it really liked it

Shelves: genre-urban-fantasy, subject-pn-witches-warlocks-magic, subject-pn-demons, read-2011

I really like this series. It is different than the normal vampire & shifters paranormal.

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Sep 27, 2010 Thenia rated it liked it

Shelves: reviewed, paranormal, series, 2011

Pretty unique story about Weather Wardens and Djinn. There's a lot of explaining what they both are and do in the book so I won't get into it here.
I liked the book but for some reason it doesn't feel like a 4-stars to me...

We get to learn things about Joanna in bits and pieces here and there while following her in her escape from... well we have no idea what for a good part of the book.

There's a lot to sort through and it can get a little too much at times, but now that I got a first taste of th ...more

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