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rachelcaine's Weather Warden series is still humming like a well-oiled machine. As is her well-established practice, the pace never lets up for an instant in this novel; our heroine Jo zooms from one plot development to the next with barely a breath in between.
This time around, we also have the amusing angle of our heroine being amnesiac due to events at the tail end of the last book. This turned out to be a bit of a relief after the unrelenting turmoil of Firestorm--because this time around, even though things were still unrelenting, having Jo without her memories gave just a bit of distance to everything for both herself and the reader. And after the five books' worth of crap she's already been through, a bit of distance was kind of welcome.
Anyway, we get interesting plot developments involving Jo's sister, twists involving the Djinn, and fascinating glimpses into the most unlikely of heads. We also get an ending that is itself a new beginning, and which I think could have worked well for a series-ender if Caine had had to end the series here as I'd previously heard she would. (She isn't--there's a preview for Book Seven, which is full of yay!) Three and a half stars, with half a star off for there being a bit less of Lewis than I would have liked. ;)
P.S. Oh, and also? It amuses me to no end that the cover art on this book makes Jo remind me of Kate on Lost.
rachelcaine's Weather Warden series is still humming like a well-oiled machine. As is her well-established practice, the pace never lets up for an instant in this novel; our heroine Jo zooms from one plot development to the next with barely a breath in between. This time around, we also have the amusing angle of our heroine being amnesiac due to events at the tail end of the last book. This turned out to be a bit of a relief after the unrelenting turmoil of Firestorm--because this time around, even though things were still unrelenting, having Jo without her memories gave just a bit of distance to everything for both herself and the reader. And after the five books' worth of crap she's already been through, a bit of distance was kind of welcome.
Anyway, we get interesting plot developments involving Jo's sister, twists involving the Djinn, and fascinating glimpses into the most unlikely of heads. We also get an ending that is itself a new beginning, and which I think could have worked well for a series-ender if Caine had had to end the series here as I'd previously heard she would. (She isn't--there's a preview for Book Seven, which is full of yay!) Three and a half stars, with half a star off for there being a bit less of Lewis than I would have liked. ;)
P.S. Oh, and also? It amuses me to no end that the cover art on this book makes Jo remind me of Kate on Lost.