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.

I started read­ing this book just after Christ­mas, and did not man­age to fin­ish it until last week. My mother gave it to me, say­ing she’d thought of me through­out, or at least at the begin­ning, when Pi talks about the Pondicherry Zoo quite a bit. You see, one of my for­mer lives was going to be work­ing in a zoo.

In any case, Tiffany had already read the book (in fact, we already had a copy) and had been try­ing to get me to read it for a while, because she wanted to dis­cuss the end­ing with someone.

And now I know why.

What comes next is a dis­cus­sion of the end of the book. If you have not read the book, don’t con­tinue, and go buy it. I think it is worth the effort. If you are cur­rently read­ingthe book, you might as well fin­ish it first. If you have read the book, well, we would be inter­ested in your opinion.

Read on if you know the end­ing. Con­tinue read­ing →