Chill Factor (Weather Warden Book 3)

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Blade to the Keep. The Complete Season 1. The Dead Girls' Dance. Outcast Season, Book One. My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding. How to write a great review. The review must be at least 50 characters long. The title should be at least 4 characters long. Your display name should be at least 2 characters long. Together, they take the energy of we I love this series.

Together, they take the energy of weather systems and disperse it safely with minimal damage to humans. They are not always successful as evidenced by hurricane damage, but they do help out a lot. Chill Factor starts off immediately where Heat Stroke left off. I liked how the author had a short, one page prologue by the main character that recapped the previous book and brings the reader up to speed. It was nicely done, without feeling repetitive. Plan those bathroom breaks well. Jo and David are on a road trip heading to Las Vegas where they plan to catch up to Jonathan, the most powerful Djinn.

Jonathan is holed up in a Las Vegas hotel with Kevin a petulant, pimpled teenager with some issues of his own. At the same time, corruption runs rampant throughout the Weather Wardens organization. There is also a group that wants to free the Djinn. Why do I love this series? The weather is described in anthropomorphic terms. It has personality, malevolence, and a purpose.

The weather systems are strong and powerful and carry a grudge. The description of the aetheric. It is absolutely beautiful. This is where the Djinn reside in their real forms. Jo is snarky, but she also has a character that you can root for. She is tough, smart, and has strong morals. And David…so wonderful for Jo. I am gushing about these characters. The action and pacing. All I can say is that it was very hard to put this book down and take a break.

I really enjoyed this story. And I'm really enjoying this series! This particular story took off fast and never quit. It was really enjoyable, a fun ride. And the action just kept on keeping on right through to the end from there. It was quite a ride. Rahel view spoiler [made an appearance as an ifrit, but then in the end she was able to eat some of Jonathan and most of David and she was restored I really enjoyed this story. Rahel view spoiler [made an appearance as an ifrit, but then in the end she was able to eat some of Jonathan and most of David and she was restored to her Djinn self.

David is now almost an ifrit. But being in his bottle helps him manifest as himself for short bursts. So Lewis is recovering. Jonathan was stolen by Quinn and freed when Joanne smashed his bottle, then Quinn died.

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I totally don't know how that's going to work out for her, so I need to see if my library has book four. In the end, view spoiler [Jonathan was freed, Quinn died, and Joanne met with the Wardens back at the hotel. Paul wasn't too happy with her and made some threats. I had brand-new credit cards, provided courtesy of Rahel.

Wads of cash, from the same source. A fast car, waiting outside. I could go back to Vegas, catch a tan, heal up. I turned, slid on sunglasses, and gave him my best, brightest smile. Go save the world without me. But it was very good, really enjoyable. As I said somewhere above, it was a wild ride. Now, when can I get my hands on book four? Feb 22, Kogiopsis rated it liked it Shelves: You gotta have a junk food series to fall back on from time to time, and Weather Warden is one of mine.

I like the concept and the scientific angle Caine takes on her magic system especially as it's firmly grounded in our world , and I enjoy Joanne Baldwin as a character - she's smart-mouthed to the point of being unrealistic, sure, but she's determined and confident and stands up for herself, and that's always enjoyable. The series is getting decidely more serious w You gotta have a junk food series to fall back on from time to time, and Weather Warden is one of mine. The series is getting decidely more serious with each book - the second book touched a lot on abuse, and this one does have some lengthy descriptions of kidnapping and implied rape.

Topics like this aren't always handled carefully a lot of things to do with Djinn are described as a kind of rape, both in this book and its predecessors, in a way that's pretty uncomfortable , but they're not played for titillation or disempowerment the way they are in some series. In some circumstances, I would be bothered by the way Joan re-centers herself around the idea that she's pregnant and makes preserving her possible child's life her most important goal, but it fits her character well.

She is, as someone else comments, "Goddamn Saint Joan the martyr" - so utterly committed to saving others that she keeps winding up in these hellishly dangerous situations and taking risks no one else will dare. In that context, of course she puts herself on the line again and again to preserve the most fragile life around. This raises a moral question: Not that the Maat are necessarily weighing it; they've already decided.

It's presented here in a fantasy context, but it's a question relevant to a lot of aspects of the modern world - say, how we handle intensive farming that makes land vulnerable to drought, or our attitudes towards non-renewable resources like oil and coal. In the Wardens' world there's an added factor in that the Maat are all old, wealthy men - namely, not the people who are most vulnerable to natural disasters, and not necessarily the people best justified in making those calls.

As far as the plot goes, it's the same basic formula as the first two: Joanne starts out in some kind of trouble and does her best to dig her way even deeper into it until she runs into the biggest problem around. Not necessarily the smartest set of choices, but it sure makes her an interesting protagonist. In this case the plot feels a bit like a filler narrative, as it's building on things left hanging after Heat Stroke but not fully resolving all of the issues at hand.

Still, it's a fair entry in the series, and I'm not complaining. Except about one thing - the jokes in these books still verge strongly on slut-shaming and, in this one, transphobia. Given that Joanne tends to be justified in a lot of her smartass comments, it stings that these prejudices are part of her humor. Jan 01, Nathan Burgoine rated it really liked it. Once again, Joanne Baldwin is in trouble. See, she's died once already which sucked , got reincarnated in the form of a Djinn which was cool, but, ultimately, sucked and has since been returned to living flesh much cooler, though now she has to pee after long car drives, and she never noticed how much that sucked before being a Djinn.

Not that she's negative. Born a weather warden, Joanne can manipulate and control the air and water, and is a member of the Wardens, a group determined to do tw Once again, Joanne Baldwin is in trouble. Born a weather warden, Joanne can manipulate and control the air and water, and is a member of the Wardens, a group determined to do two things: The first isn't going so well, the second seems pretty dicey, too. So, when the most powerful fella about with powers over all the elements has his powers stolen from him by a punk boy with major psychological trauma, and said punk boy also steals the world's most powerful Djinn, things get pretty nasty, pretty fast.

And Joanne is pretty sure that people are trying to kill her again. What's a girl to do? Well, getting some kick-ass shoes, a fast car, and a dress that leaves just enough to imagination is a good start. The rest she'll come up with as she goes. A load of fun as always, the writing of Rachel Caine is right up there with Jim Butcher and the early non-overdosed Laurel K.

It rocks, but I'd suggest you start with "Ill Wind," which was the first book in the series. It was still fun, but there were too many major coincidences, that kind of storytelling really annoys me, it totally takes away from my enjoyment of the plot twists. It just isn't believable that it could all come together that way, so it's not fun.

It was fast-paced and had a lot of action, and there was some good heart too. Jo really does care about the Djinn and about the boy, Kevin, and people in general; she claims that she just wants to be left alone to shop and have fun but she can't help It was still fun, but there were too many major coincidences, that kind of storytelling really annoys me, it totally takes away from my enjoyment of the plot twists. Jo really does care about the Djinn and about the boy, Kevin, and people in general; she claims that she just wants to be left alone to shop and have fun but she can't help but try to be a hero when heroing is called for heroing, probably not a verb, but it should be.

The author did manage to keep Jo and David apart for much of yet another installment without annoying me, which is a good trick in a long series where the love interests got together so early on. But it's not the deepest of books by far. It's odd, it tries. There is some stuff about freedom and what it means when it comes to Djinns. And also about responsibility and meddling when it comes to the Wardens and their basic mandate. But somehow it's just not deep. But it's fun, nothing wrong with that.

Jan 20, Sarah A. I adored this book, I love this series and I am totally smitten. What a loaded book! Probably like a million things that happened and the surprises kept coming you don't get a chance to recover from the last one and then bam! The story pulled me hard it was agonizing not to keep reading. New elements showing and a promise of even more beautiful complications to come. Seriously I could talk forever about how good this book was or how brilliant the series is, but I'd r Hell yeah!

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Seriously I could talk forever about how good this book was or how brilliant the series is, but I'd rather spare my little time and start book no. Nov 13, Chrissy rated it liked it. I finished the ebook bundle of the first three books, and I'm leaving the rest of the series for later. I like it, but I don't feel compelled to pick up the next one right away.

I am definitely curious how it's going to develop after the big change in Jo's life at the end of this book though, so I will continue with the series eventually. I like the world building so far. It's slowly but surely getting more complex with the addition of another faction. And I think Chill I finished the ebook bundle of the first three books, and I'm leaving the rest of the series for later.

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While in Ill Wind they often felt a little out of left field and interrupted the flow of the story, here they were less frequent less is more , less random and much more relevant for the current storyline. There are secondary characters I'd definitely like to see more of , like Lewis and Marion, even if or maybe especially because I can't be sure of their allegiances. And I like Jo and David well enough. However, I still think the romance happened way too fast. Not neccessarily too fast as in "book 1 in a series is too fast", even if I personally tend to prefer slow-burns.

Here it was more like the book s told me see these two? Even three books in, I still don't feel like I've seen enough of Jo and David's relationship to really feel it, unfortunately. I love the idea of their romance, but I'm not sold on the execution. That's just my impression. Verdict for the series so far: Mar 26, Angela rated it really liked it Shelves: This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Rachel Caine is an evil, evil temptress, and she does not let up for one single minute in the third book of her Weather Wardens series--and proves she had surprises and then some waiting for me as I tore my way through this installment.

I have a huge morass of conflicting reactions to the tail end of this s Rachel Caine is an evil, evil temptress, and she does not let up for one single minute in the third book of her Weather Wardens series--and proves she had surprises and then some waiting for me as I tore my way through this installment. I have a huge morass of conflicting reactions to the tail end of this story. How could you give us David making sweet love to Joanne, murmuring words of fire into her ear, getting her pregnant , and then getting ripped to shreds by Rahel-turned-Ifrit?

You're taking notes on this, right? I don't even know where to begin, aside from sniffling over the aforementioned ripping apart of the aforementioned David sniffle! Okay, I will admit I'm just a trifle confused as to what exactly Lewis might have done that let David come back out of the bottle, even briefly, as himself rather than as Ifrit-David--but I'm sure I'll find out as soon as I rip into book four. And how about that secret-society-founding Lewis, huh?

Anybody besides me think "Ra's Al Ghul"? Lewis seems better than that. We do get reminded that along with being The Most Powerful Warden Ever, Lewis does get a hefty dose of compassion as part and parcel of the Earth Warden section of his powers. On the other hand, I did want to smack him around a bit for giving Jo shit about David. On the third hand, I also wanted to hug the poor man for that last question he gave Jo: I'd like that, and it'd be pretty neat if that's what's going on. Clever, clever Rachel, keeping that in there just to keep things really interesting.

The beginning sure floored me with a whole bunch of "what the hell? And I really, really liked that Jonathan was way more in charge of the situation than Kevin was--that Jonathan, as Most Powerful Djinn Ever, wasn't about to let a pipsqueak teenage boy seriously take advantage of him. I still take a bit of issue with the convenience of how somebody snatching the bottle of a bound Djinn makes them the new master of that Djinn. But thinking more about it, I wonder whether that was deliberately done by the Wardens if they set the whole thing up in the first place with enslaving the Djinn.

I could see it causing the Wardens a fuckload of problems if someone could command a Djinn no matter where the bottle might happen to be. If a Warden goes rogue, that leaves too much power in their hands if their Djinn can't be snatched out from under them. And how about that Quinn? I should have known that the new character who got the most lines and who seemed likeable to Jo would in fact be the actual bad guy. A trifle too convenient that he was also the person who tortured the secrets of the Djinn out of Jo herself six years ago--but a forgiveable convenience, as far as I'm concerned, because see previous commentary on these books being oh so tasty.

Oddly appropriate, given that in my experience thus far has been Year of the Baby--it's even leaking into the fiction I'm reading. And that last note with Jo telling off Paul and his backup and walking off the job-- nice. It will be very, very interesting to see if this situation gets repaired at all in the next book or two! Mar 18, Ahrcadia the Duck Tamer rated it really liked it. Joanne has defeated her nemesis from the second book, Yvette Prentiss--sort of--and now moves on to nemesis number 2: Kevin Prentiss, Yvette's stepson.

She would really love to negotiate with him or fight or draw pictures with sidewalk chalk, but Joanne, and every other living Warden, are blocked from entering Los Vegas. But is Kevin really the one Joanne needs to be watching out for, or is it the secret society that are trying to 'rescue her' from Kevin and Jon Joanne has defeated her nemesis from the second book, Yvette Prentiss--sort of--and now moves on to nemesis number 2: But is Kevin really the one Joanne needs to be watching out for, or is it the secret society that are trying to 'rescue her' from Kevin and Jonathan?

Or maybe the Wardens themselves? Throughout the course of the book, Joanne is constantly tugged between the three mostly opposing sides sometimes their goals are similar , without a clue who to trust.

Add in a few desperate iffrits and some really messed up flashbacks, and that's Chill Factor in a nutshell, though this is a book that cannot be summarized well without having read it yourself, so you should probably head out and pick up a copy right now, 'cause the Wardens are seriously hot stuff! Another action packed adventure in the world of Joanne Baldwin, the third Weather Warden installment doesn't fail to excite. In fact, I think the biggest problem I had with Chill Factor was that the fast-paced, never-ending action was, well While it was definitely an awesome book, the reader doesn't really get a break between disasters, which may be just what the more visually-oriented book-lovers amongst us are looking for.

As always, this sort of thing is very objective. I could've done with a few more quiet moments, but maybe someone else would've liked fewer. As previously mentioned, I could have used some down-time to breath through Joanne's many perilous situations, any there were many of them, but it was still a really good book. None of the action scenes seemed unnecessary, or anything, it just needed some added conversations or thinking or something, maybe another fifty or so pages; nothing too drastic.

While Joanne majorly developed as a character, with flashbacks from her past fleshing out some of her fears and her reasoning, surprisingly, her love-interest, David, didn't get much airtime in this book. He was a bigger force in the first book, not so big in the second, and this was kind of a middle ground. I love me some David, though, so that was moderately disappointing until I got too wrapped up in the story to be worried about him. Lewis and Jonathan were more prominent than previously, which I liked.

Overall, I think that Chill Factor is stronger than the second book, but Ill Wind will eternally hold my heart. You can't beat the first Weather Warden book, which is completely devoid of First Book Syndrome, and one of the most amazing books ever. Unfortunately, Joanne's pre-marital bliss is ended by a devastating earthquake in Florida. And she can't ask David and his kind for assistance. Because the cause of the quake is unlike anything Joanne has ever encountered - and a power even the Djinn cannot perceive. Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin and her new husband, the Djinn David, are running from a malevolent hurricane bent on destroying her.

Joined by an army of fellow Wardens and Djinn on board a hijacked luxury liner, Joanne has lured the storm into furious pursuit. But even their combined magic may not be enough to stop it-nor the power-mad ex-Weather Warden controlling it Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin; her husband, the djinn David; and the Earth herself have been poisoned by a substance that destroys the magic that keeps the world alive.

The poison is destabilizing the entire balance of power, bestowing magic upon those who have never had it, and removing it from those who need it. It's just a matter of time before the delicate balance of nature explodes into chaos - and doom.

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