Windfall
Rachel Caine
This is book 4 of the Weather Warden series, and I’m a little surprised by how much I am enjoying a series called “Weather Warden.” They are slippery-quick fantasy action things, with a heroine who’s all tough and hot, and action! adventure! shit blowing up! Wry wisecracks! More explosions! The wry asides get really old, sometimes, but you go flying through the book because Caine is good at putting together an adventure plot, with some pretty wicked slick writing.
What is also pretty awesome about this series of books is that there is no preserving of the status quo – situations shift, frequently in a radical way, and there is no counting on anything.
What is seriously not awesome about this particular book in the series is the way the author wrote herself into a corner, so that the entire novel was the heroine needing to solve a problem, but not being allowed to solve it until the end, so as to create the dramatic climax, but which resulted in an entire book of her dicking around and me going “why the fuck aren’t you doing anything? Why are you sitting around acting all dumb and weak! Jesus Christ!”
So there was a lot of action in this book, and stuff happening, but Joanne, our Hot Tough Heroine, was mostly being acted upon, instead of acting, and that was just plain irritating.
However, the ending sets up something pretty cool for the next book, and of course sent me to the Official Website to see when it comes out, which isn’t soon enough.
This is book 4 of the Weather Warden series, and I’m a little surprised by how much I am enjoying a series called “Weather Warden.” They are slippery-quick fantasy action things, with a heroine who’s all tough and hot, and action! adventure! shit blowing up! Wry wisecracks! More explosions! The wry asides get really old, sometimes, but you go flying through the book because Caine is good at putting together an adventure plot, with some pretty wicked slick writing.
What is also pretty awesome about this series of books is that there is no preserving of the status quo – situations shift, frequently in a radical way, and there is no counting on anything.
What is seriously not awesome about this particular book in the series is the way the author wrote herself into a corner, so that the entire novel was the heroine needing to solve a problem, but not being allowed to solve it until the end, so as to create the dramatic climax, but which resulted in an entire book of her dicking around and me going “why the fuck aren’t you doing anything? Why are you sitting around acting all dumb and weak! Jesus Christ!”
So there was a lot of action in this book, and stuff happening, but Joanne, our Hot Tough Heroine, was mostly being acted upon, instead of acting, and that was just plain irritating.
However, the ending sets up something pretty cool for the next book, and of course sent me to the Official Website to see when it comes out, which isn’t soon enough.
1 Comments:
"What is seriously not awesome about this particular book in the series is the way the author wrote herself into a corner, so that the entire novel was the heroine needing to solve a problem, but not being allowed to solve it until the end, so as to create the dramatic climax, but which resulted in an entire book of her dicking around and me going 'why the fuck aren’t you doing anything? Why are you sitting around acting all dumb and weak! Jesus Christ!'"
Hi, Windfall? I'd like you to meet noted dead French author Stendahl -- no need to worry about full names, just Stendahl. Perhaps the two of you could spend some time talking about what you did wrong.
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