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So I ended up buying a book on impulse at the store the other day called Undone by Rachel Caine, it's spin off of the WEather Warden series (which I hadn't read) but looked like it could be read stand alone and for the most part it could.

Undone is about a Djinn who is made human, well mostly human. She has Weather Warden abilities.

Weather Wardens are people who can control the Elements and keep saving the planet, at first I thought that everyone knew about them, but it seems they are sort of secret.

Has anyone read these?

I also picked up a book by Karen Chance called Touch the Dark and then I got the other two used. The are more along the Anite Blake line of supernatural person hangs out with/gets entangled in vampires and oh she has a tragic past. Not the best books out there, but a fast read and she has some interesting concepts. Anyone read these?

I've read the first, eh, 3 or 4 Weather Warden books, and quite like them. Engaging protagonist, interesting take on magic, interestingly messy lovelife. (I think I'm slightly fonder of her vampire books - they're only tiny skinny little books, and I think they should probably be in the YA section rather than the Fantasy/Horror section, really, but they're like a little fix of plotty, darkish Buffyishness.)

I think I picked up Touch the Dark too, but couldn't get past the first page.

I just picked up the latest of Carrie Vaughn's Kitty books yesterday - Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand. She's one of my favourite writers in this genre - likeable protagonist, nice plotty plots and the love life actually reads like a grown up person's love life.

I'll have to check out Carrie Vaughn.

I've finished the first weather warden book , Ill Wind I think, and the concept is different and refreshing after a so many vampire novels. You should check out Undone, you can read it as a stand alone.

In general I liked the weather Warden books I read, however, they seemed to be one of those greater and greater and greater power books . But I'd happily pick up another if I happened on it

Fay, Kitty Raises Hell just came out this week too (I started it last night). For some reason they released the most recent two books only a month apart.

The novels by Karen Chance I'm reading run into that problem. First the character is a clarivyoant who can also see ghosts. But she was raised by a vampire, and then she finds out that she's going to be Pythia, the ultimate seer and oh yeah she's tied to this really powerful vampire.

The vampires in this have a weird heirarchy and it seems like everyone famous is a vampire -- Christopher Marlowe -- vampire (and he was Shakespeare and he's a spy) Man in the Iron Mask -- Vampire (really hot one)! Jack the Ripper - Vampire (totally crazy vampire)! Cleopatra -- Vampire (she wears snakes!).

Except Elvis, Elvis is a zombie.

Oh and Jim Morrison -- he's a ghost.

But I'd rather read this than whatever Anita Blake has turned into.