Heat Stroke (Weather Warden, #2) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Sep 09, 2010 Katyana rated it really liked it

Shelves: ass-kicking-women, fantasy

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. 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. ...more

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Feb 18, 2010 Arlene rated it it was ok

Shelves: elemental-magic-powers

I have mixed emotions after reading this. I was frankly irritated at jo. She claims to have deep feeling for David but is also inlove with Lewis. I can't understand why she did not obeyed Kevin when he said to kill his mother. It was an outright command and the compulsion should have taken effect right away but Jo had to convince Kevin if that's what he really wants. I don't get it. David was suffering and she doesn't want to kill Yvette.
And she became a Djinn but in the end return as human aga ...more

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