I read Ill Wind, by Rachel Caine

Unlike the last book I read, this one took me about twenty-four hours to read. Yeah, it’s fluff, at best. But it was fun fluff. Book’s about a woman who is part of a world­wide secret soci­ety of folks who con­trol the weather. Or rather, they try to con­trol it. She gets in some trou­ble, she has some dan­ger­ous adven­tures, and it resolves itself nicely.

Book was okay. It has the feel of a first book, mean­ing that the char­ac­ters are all pretty pat, the bad guys fairly sim­plis­tic, the plot not overly com­pli­cated. It’s like the author was try­ing so hard to just fin­ish the thing with­out screw­ing it up that she did just that, and man­aged to make it not ter­ri­bly mem­o­rable. I’m look­ing for­ward to the next book she’s writ­ing, because unlike some of the new genre authors out there, I think her writ­ing has promise.

Though I did get the sneaky feel­ing that she might be tee­ter­ing on the edge of roman­tic fantasy/sci-fi, which is a genre that makes me want to puke. Also, her sec­ond book seems to be com­ing out straight to paper­back, which can’t be good.