Hurricane Watch

The second book in the Dar and Kerry series and just like the first one, chock full of plot. When you read a Melissa Good novel, you get a ton of plot for your money. Sure there are interesting descriptions and metaphors and such in there, but these books are all about what's happening and such not foofy pontificating.

To start off an old adversary of Dar's gets hired at the company. He wants to take Dar down and seems to want to do it by any means necessary. Then the adversary as well as all the other big VPs in the Miami office go on a 'team building' retreat not in the boonies, but wayy beyond the boonies and that's quite an eventful trip.

Another of the plots, and my favorite of them in this book was Dar and Kerry having to sort of show more import a network center that goes down (and down hard) in North Carolina. I only knew about half of the stuff that they were talking about, but Good wrote it so that the thrust of the action was easily understandable whether or not you know anything about router tables and Ethernet hubs.

And even when Dar and Kerry takes time off in North Carolina it's exciting.

Finally there's the last scene on an island off of Florida. It's an amazing scene and it's not just one of my favorite scenes in Hurricane Watch, but in the entire series.

I also love all the little super subtle Uber Xena allusions and easter eggs that Good has scattered throughout the narrative. The reader doesn't have to know anything about the Xena fics that Good wrote, and the whole novel more than stands on its own, but, if you do get the references it makes the book an even cooler one. show less

My favorite in the series.