These "Weather Warden" stories just keep better and better! This picks right up where the second book left off. David and Joanne are heading to Las Vegas to try to catch Kevin, the off balance young man who now holds the world's strongest (and not the nicest) Djinn in his possession. Unfortunately, the master/servant relationship quickly gets turned around and the mixture of Kev's out of control power and the Djinn's are creating havoc. Polar caps are melting, earthquakes are beginning...disaster looms. The Weather Wardens jump to remove Joanne from her going in after Kevin and Jonathan (who I can't seem to get a feel on...is he as bad as he seems?) Then a dying Lewis shows up and twists things all around. After "Chill Factor" I'm not sure if I trust him either. The story is non stop excitement. There is just the right amount of humor in Joanne's adventures to keep the book from being too intense. I thought the first story was a little slow, but that certainly hasn't been a problem in the second and third books. I encourage anyone to try this series. Its different than anything else out there and Rachel Caine stands above and beyond most other writers. See her "Morganville Vampires" young adult series for another great tale. ( )

Human again, weather warden Joanne is after the teenager wielding the most powerful djinn of all. But when her attempts to reach him in Las Vegas fail, it seems her coworkers have other ideas...
This was a good instalment (once again the story is continued in the next volume) of the series. One of the things I'm liking is that I'm often surprised by things that happen (just as Joanne is) - definitely not predictable. I've also been reading the short stories which fit in between the novels, which give a little breathing room between the drama of the events of the books.

Still throughly enjoying this book. It appears that the whole continueing to be growing on our wonderful group of characters that all appear in Caine's stories. I am awaiting the next book, so I can see what lies in the future for all of the characters. Will it ever get easier on David, and will they be able to keep their relationship. ( )

Bottled elementals are fashionable.

I haven't read the first couple of these, but the heroine of the piece is someone with elemental superpowers, part of a larger organisation - some control fire, earth, but she is considerably airier. In several aspects, as she often goes on about the right incredibly expensive shoes to have, etc.

Just a 3.5 this one. Sort of your bit over 3. 25 mark.

Here, her and her djinn boyfriend and an alliance of others have a superpowered problem to deal with in Las Vegas - a rogue and his Djinn servant have set up there looking to suck up a whole lot of power.

An organisation in opposition decides that bumping said rogue off is a good plan, and our Weather Warden is getting beaten up in the middle, trying to work out what to do.

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Chill Factor
Author: Rachel Caine
Publisher/Date: Roc (2005)
Summary: Rolling the dice to stop a considerably powerful, deeply anxious kid from destroying the world, a teenager named Kevin has holed up in style in a Vegas hotel with the most powerful Djinn in the world, planning who knows what kind of misbehavior. The Wardens' senior leadership is dead, Djinn are disappearing, and a secret society wants to help Joanne demolish Kevin, even if doing so kills her (again). But everybody in Vegas has a game going, and Joanne has to learn the rules fast, because the stakes have never been higher and all hell is about to break loose.
Personal Reaction: This book was very interesting to me. I enjoyed reading it but it took me a while to really get into it, and then when I did it went fast and I could not put it down.
Extension: I would set the classroom up as Las Vegas of some what. I would probably read this book in an upper class as well, so the students would really know what was going on. I would have a poker table, and all that fun stuff that you would do or experience if you went to Vegas. You have to have to draw the students in to the book or the story so they will be interested and not bored. I think that it would be fun for the whole class and they would then really enjoy the book.