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.

Except Elvis, Elvis is a zombie.

Probably 'cause he was already vamped in the Sookie books.

I like the Weather Warden books well enough, but they are kind of like store-bought cookies to me. The pacing is always flat-out, there's very little downtime, and wassname, the lead, always gets more powerful. I want something to get resolved already, and it's not happening.

Caine in one of her other books violated the rule of "IT DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY YOU NIMROD!!!" (For something that was pretty obvious. Not niche.)

Therefore, I have stopped reading her stuff.