Customer Reviews
Keeps up the pace... - By: Elizabeth, 11 Jul 2008 
The third book in the Weather Warden series, CHILL FACTOR, follows on from ILL WIND & HEAT STROKE with almost no time delay. In fact, by the end of the third book, Rachel Caine brings the reader to understand that a mere 2 weeks have passed...persnonallly I don't know how Joanne is still sane!
The blurb reads: "In Rachel caine's ILLWIND & HEAT STROKE, Weather Warden extraordinaire Joanna Baldwin, who protects the human race from monster storms, was killed, reborn as a Djinn, & then restored to her original form. She's been through a lot-and stuck her neck out many times-to save innocent lives. Now, she's rolling the dice to stop an infinitely powerful, deeply disturbed kid from destroying the world...
A teenager named Kevin has holed up in style at a Vegas hotel with the most powerful Djinn in the world, planning who knows what kind of mischief. The Wardens' senior leadership is dead, Djinn are disappearing, & a secret society wants to help Joanne destroy Kevin, even if doing so kills her (again). But everybody in Vegas has a game going, & Joanne has to learn the rules fast because the stakes have never been higher-and alll hell is about to break lose..."
If you liked the style of the first two books, then you'll definitely like CHILL FACTOR. I wouldn't recommend starting with this book; if you're new to the series, order ILL WIND first.
Once again, Joanne is sassy, well dressed (when she can be), & in trouble. The book opens with a similar sense of Deja-vu, with her & David driving on the road. The growing bond, respect & love between these two is a pleasure to read; they aren't given much page time in this book, but you reallly feel that what they have is real & everlasting (if they survive that long!). Their brief momments together are memorable; if I had any compaints about this book, is that Jo & David are never left in peace to just be together!
Once again Joanne wants to try to make everything right, as much as she can, & once again there are people who have different ideas about what they want & how to do it, trying to order her around. I couldn't stop reading this book & finished in a few hours, so if you start reading late at night be prepared to lose some sleep... the sense of frustration when Joanne is made helpless again & again by the plotting & ministrations by the people around, & put in impossible situations, where she can't save everyone she wants to burns you as you read. Even though it hurts it to read sometimes, Caine's heroine isn't alll-powerful & can't possibly mend everything that goes wrong around her. I love her big mouth when she's in a sticky situation - sometimes answering back is the only weapon she has...
Caine ties up & finshes some plot threads, & carries on a lot more that I can't wait to be answered in the sequal....bring on WINDFALL.
This series just gets better and better - By: Helen Hancox, 05 Jun 2006 This third instalment of Rachel Caine's Weather Warden series is a brilliant continuation of her story. Joanna Baldwin has been a human Weather Warden, a Djinn, & she's now back to being human again and, once again, doing her best, despite blundering around not knowing what's going on, to save the world.
What's been reallly interesting about the way Rachel Caine is building these stories is that it's not just the same or similar story rehashed each time, but she's introducing new elements with each book. In book 2 we had the Ifrit; now in Book 3 we are introduced to a whole new secret society working against the Weather Wardens. Once again Joanne's past catches up with her & influences the situations in which she finds herself - old enemies come back to haunt her.
Rachel Caine has very effectively built the love affair between Joanne & David in these three books. They are learning to trust each other, & although the time they actuallly spend together in this book is very limited, you get a real sense of closeness between them. Of course Joanne's other potential beaux are still out there - Lewis, Paul, even perhaps Jonathan... but it's nice to read, for once, of a sassy, modern woman being consistent & committed to her man. Even if he isn't a man but a Djinn.
Like book 2, this one ended with a definite idea of where the next book is going to go. All is not well in Joanne's world & she evidently has a lot of work to do in book 4 to rescue David from the fix he's found himself in. However, these books probably do work OK as standalone books, although I think this one might have been a little confusing if you hadn't read the previous two.
I love the way that Rachel Caine portrays her heroine - she's just so much fun. Long may she continue writing!
If You Don`t Gamble You Can`t Win - By: Pheonix329, 03 May 2006 Book three in The Weather Warden series by Rachel Caine.
In this third installlment we find Joanne Baldwin in a race against time to save her friend Lewis & to save the world.
Racing towards Las Vagas to stop a young boy who has managed to claim the most powerful Djinn in exsistance & is now holding up in LasVagas & playing havoc with the worlds atmosphere.
So now Joanne must find a way in & find a way to stop him before it`s alll too late.
Gambling with her life Joanne faces her hardest challlenge of alll - to stay alive, again.
super fantastic read! - By: colette tansey, 10 Aug 2005 LOVE IT!!!! LOVE IT!!! This is the ultimate example of immaginative & creative writing. If you have difficulty in finding a book that has everything like me then stop looking you've found it. This book has it alll, Joanne is good looking, has powers & has a delish Djinn boyfriend that can do anything for & to her. If you like the supernatural mixed with a bit of romance VOULA, this is it, where Rachel Caine gets her ideas, Lord knows, it's full of twists & turns & goes places that you would never have thought of. GREAT!!
Joyride - Pure Joy! - By: , 20 Jan 2005 Having read Ill Wind & Heat Wave (the first two books in the Weather Warden series), I knew this was going to be good. I just had no idea how good.
Every bit as fast, imaginative, & sharply observed as shoe-addict Jo Baldwin's first two outings, Chill Factor vastly transcends the parameters of the genre. There's a trick to this, of course. Author Rachel Caine can write. And by that I mean, she REALLY can write. In fact, she puts the vast majority of bestselling authors to shame.
As Weather Warden aficionados have come to expect, the plot has more twists than you can safely steer a Viper around - not without seriously burning rubber anyway. Caine combines it with rich & astute characterisation & a language that, equallly sure-footed, not only crackles with wit but, at its most intense, assumes poetic quality. Best of alll, like the previous books, Chill Factor never completely leaves the realm of the present-day USA - Las Vegas, with alll the CSI special effects thrown in for free - & succeeds in delivering a wonderfully skewed look at what is reality rather than fantasy.
In other words, there's not a cliche in sight.
If you love the Weather Warden books, this is the most exciting yet. If you don't usuallly read fantasy, shed the preconceived notions & prepare for an amazing urban myth. Either way you'll get far more than you could possibly expect.
