Cape Storm (Weather Warden, Book 8) [Mass Market Paperback]

Rachel Caine (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 7, 2012

Check the forecast for the series that's "an addictive force of nature that will suck you in ." (News and Sentinel)

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 onboard 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...

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'Another powerhouse urban fantasy.' SFRevu --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Rachel Caine is the author of more than twenty novels, including the "Weather Warden" series. She was born at White Sands Missile Range, which people who know her say explains a lot. She has been an accountant, a professional musician, and an insurance investigator, and still carries on a secret identity in the corporate world. She and her husband, fantasy artist R. Cat Conrad, live in Texas with their iguanas, Popeye and Darwin; a mali uromastyx named (appropriately) O’Malley; and a leopard tortoise named Shelley (for the poet, of course).

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Roc (February 7, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 045146284X
• ISBN-13: 978-0451462848
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #46,449 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #62 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Contemporary

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Rachel Caine is the #1 internationally bestselling author of more than thirty novels, including the bestselling Morganville Vampires series, the Weather Warden series, the Outcast Season series, and the new upcoming Revivalist series. She was born at White Sands Missile Range, which people who know her say explains a lot. She has been an accountant, a professional musician, and an insurance investigator, and until very recently continued to carry on a secret identity in the corporate world. She and her husband, fantasy artist R. Cat Conrad, live in Texas.

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Joanne Baldwin is back!, August 7, 2009

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Circejane (Michigan) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Cape Storm (Weather Warden, Book 8) (Mass Market Paperback)

This eighth book in the Weather Warden saga (not counting Undone, which uses the same universe but is not about Joanne and David), is much better than the last one, which almost turned me off the series. In this book Joanne and and her Djinn lover David are married, but have no time to honeymoon. The demonic Bad Bob has unleashed not only a killer storm off Miami, but a world-killer storm on the aetheric. All the regular characters return in this book, and they are at their best. The action is intense and never stops--I read this in one sitting, couldn't put it down. Joanne is back to being one of the better kick-butt heroines in supernatural fiction, after a few books where she kind of lost her mojo.

If you haven't read the other books in this series yet, do so before picking up this one, or you'll be lost and missing out on lots of great backstory. Without including spoilers in this review, it seems as if this might be the last book in the series, although that's not a given. If it isn't, things will be going in a new direction, and I'll buy the next book the day that it comes out.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Recycled plot lines, honestly should have been the last book, September 16, 2009

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Leslie Vanderford (Wheaton, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cape Storm (Weather Warden, Book 8) (Mass Market Paperback)

Originally I was going to rate this book 4 stars but I can't give it that. There are two simple reasons: the plot lines here are very similar to earlier books and it needed to be the last book. The book was a great quick read and I enjoyed myself but I'm not left feeling satisfied or wanting more books.

The major plot line with the whole demon mark/evil thing was already explored. There was enough difference here to be interesting but I still had moments of strong déjà vu. I wish there had been more focus on the new twists and less on the demon mark. The character development of Lewis and Bad Bob was great and probably made the best parts of the book. There were great ideas but they should have taken the spot light in place of the more repetitive plots.

This leads into why I think this should be the last book. When the side character development is my favorite part this is a clear indicator that I'm done with the main characters. I've learned all I want about them and want to see them have a happy ending. The fact that the end of the book teases with a glimpse of a great happy ending just made it worse. I thought that possible ending was a great way to wrap everything up. Add an epilogue and I would have thought this was an awesome series. Instead a cliff hanger is thrown in at the last minute that is absolutely not necessary or wanted.

What I want from the next book is a wrap up of the series. I wish it had been this one but I could still love the series if the next book is the last one. We can resolve that final cliff hanger but hopefully with the same ending that is hinted at in this book (trying not to give spoilers, hopefully it's clear what I mean). If the author wants to continue with this world and time then she could easily let Jo and David move to the background. Lewis, or possibly new characters introduced by the resolution of above mentioned cliff hanger, could then take over as the main focus. That would keep me interested and happy to buy more books. I'll just have to wait and see with fingers crossed.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I've read this before..., November 12, 2009

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Amanda (Dallas, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cape Storm (Weather Warden, Book 8) (Mass Market Paperback)

Let me start at the beginning...I first started Rachel Caine's phenomenal Weather Warden series a little over a month ago -pretty much on a whim. I instantly fell in love with Joanne Baldwin -the awesome, butt-kicking heroine -and her wild Warden life. I quickly devoured all of the subsequent novels up to Cape Storm, which is supposedly the second-to-last book in the series (Weather Warden book 9 is already scheduled for an August 2010 release on Amazon).

This may be why I had some trouble with Cape Storm. If you waited a year to read this novel after Gale Force, than all of the repetition between Cape Storm and the last few Weather Warden novels (particularly Gale Force and Thin Air) would probably not be so fresh in your mind. But since I literally put down the last book and picked up this one, they seemed to blur together into a story that I've already read before (multiple times) in this series.

While the story still has plenty of fast-paced fun and action that fans have come to expect from this series -Joanne's honeymoon to her Djinn lover David has to be postponed (again, the couple can't be happy), but she can't worry about it too much because the world is ending (again). Joanne wrestles with evil/good and in control/out of control conflict (this gives me flashes of Thin Air) and the story ends on yet another cliffhanger.

Frankly, this should have been the last book in this series. It really feels like the Weather Warden universe is to getting exhausted and there are simply no more stories to tell.