Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #266030 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 320 pages

Customer Reviews

Yet another fantastic Weather Warden book
The Weather Warden series by Rachel Caine has just been a delight to read! It's definitely worth reading them in order as otherwise they might get rather confusing but the standard of the writing is consistent throughout.

Book 5 starts where book 4 (Ill Wind) left off - the Djinn have been released from their bond with humanity and Mother Earth is waking up. David, Joanne's lover, has now become head honcho of the Djinn and his and Joanne's baby has been born - as a full grown adult, Imara.

Firestorm carries on the theme of the other books - there is a lot of long-distance driving, loving description of flashy cars, injuries, confusion, weather changing, fires, Djinn... everything that we loved about the previous books is here. Paul, Lewis, Marion and others appear again - as does Joanne's sister Sarah and her evil lover. In fact, Joanne seems to have no end of things on her plate in this book at the same time - not only is she trying to save the world, she's also trying to help her daughter feel worthwhile, to rescue her sister, to look after her friends... the list is endless.

I feared at the end of the last book that David wouldn't be part of the story now, or would be a baddie - fortunately that's not so. We have the ready-made baddie Ashan, of course, who gets a bigger part in this story, plus the three Oracles who are new characters and very significant.

When starting this book I wondered if it would tie up all the loose ends and finish the series, knowing that Rachel Caine has now started the Morganville Vampires series. But no, this book ends up with more loose ends, not less, at the end, and the sample chapter of the next book shows it's going to be fascinating.

What do I like so much about these books? I think it's the heroine - she's such fun! She has to make some pretty major decisions in this book and I like the fact that things don't go all right for her all the time. Still, it's amazing she's still alive with all the hardships she faces.

Read this book - it's a great way to spend an afternoon!

Hot!!
Could not put this book down as my husband will tell you when he woke at 3am to tell me to put the light out!
Really like the characters in this and the other 4 books, I really liked Imara as a new character, and I wish Sarah would get a kick up the bum!
I think that you could read this as a start but I recommend you read the rest of the series first due to it might be confusing.
I recommend this book wholeheartedly just don't read if you have to really do something as i ended up reading in the loo so i could finish it and not wake my other half up!!! Dedication or what!

Excellent-but for god's sake don't read it out of sequence
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. If you haven't read any of Rachel Caine's work before then you should start with "Ill Wind"(don't be put off by her corny covers, these are great books) If you haven't already read "Windfall (Weather Warden)" then you should stop reading this review now.
"Firestorm" picks up pretty much where "Wind Fall" left off and I was surprised to find how much I liked Imara. To say that I had reservations about a fully adult 'child' popping out of nowhere is an understatement. It was a little too reminiscent of Renessmée Carly Cullen (reference to "Breaking Dawn"-the Twilight abomination), I thought initially. But I warmed up to the idea.(perhaps thanks to the, lets face it, slightly made-uppish but all things considered believable and appropriate name, Imara.)
I was totally loving the David's not dying anymore scenario. I am still a little apprehensive about the Joanne-Lewis relationship and not for the first time. I think you'll see what I mean.
Joanne who is, by the way, a killer feminist heroine, annoyed me somewhat with her 'I must save the world and do the right thing' complex. Wasn't it just infuriating to watch her risk David's djinnhood to save some random warden in "WindFall"? There's more of that, though not that exactly that, to come in "Firestorm". She is however a very well developed character and I suppose the altruism is an integral part of who she is.
I'd like to see her indulge more in the your djinnlover/children first and the rest of the world second mentality. David ripped the fabric of the universe apart for her, it's time she did something similar. At the very least she should push Lewis off a cliff, especially after his betrayal in "Chill Factor". Whatever he feels or does not feel, he will always put the fate of the world before her. Just like when he 'couldn't' help Jo save her sister.
"Firestorm" places Jo in more impossible situations, forces her to make some very difficult decisions and puts her and her family in very real danger. I should warn you that she may not come out of this one unscathed. It is brilliant, though you maybe a little perturbed by the appearance of an oracle or two, a bit too matrix for my liking. Just think of them as entities, watchers or something a little less daft than oracles.
And if I may say so, What an ending! I am quite literally dying for "Thin Air" to arrive in the post. It's taking an unreasonable amount of time to get to me. Those of you who are also living vicariously through Joanne Baldwin will know what I mean.
Happy reading!