(Dianne) Fox Writes

Ill Wind by Rachel Caine [Amazon | Barnes&Noble] has been on my To Be Read list for a really, really long time. I’m glad I finally read it. This was an excellent beginning to a series. As soon as I finished reading it, I immediately requested the next in the series from my local library.

Joanne Baldwin, the main character in the series, is in crisis-mode as the book begins. She’s running, and as the story unfolds, we begin to understand why, and what from. The clues are laid out neatly, but it’s not until the climax of the story that I truly began to see what the author had been doing all along.

The role the weather plays in the story is an interesting twist on the way many authors — and directors — use weather to foreshadow upcoming events. Instead of the bad weather simply being a sign of bad things to come, it is the bad thing, being wielded like a weapon by the people chasing Joanne.

I’m definitely looking forward to the next book in the series!