great - Rated 
This book has become one of my favorites and certaintly lives up to my expectations.
Joanne is on the run because of a murder that wasnt her fault and is carrying a demon inside her that wasnt hers to begin with. Ill Wind tells of her panicked and desperate race across the country to find someone to hsave her from the creature gnawing inside her chest. But when something powerful and deadly starts attacking her, Joanne starts to get the feeling that someone evil is stalking her as well.
The added element of the Djinns makes the book brilliant. I fully recomend it to anyone.
Great start to a fab series - Rated
I love this series - and her other urban fantasy series, the Morganville Vampires. Great characters - who you care about - good dialogue, plenty of action, interesting ideas, well paced. The books don't last me long, but I have a huge amount of fun reading them, and that is exactly what I am looking for with sort of book. Thank you Rachel Caine!
incredibly stupid - Rated 
I bought the first three books of this series because it got so many stars, bad idea! The heroine, Jo, is painted as sassy, kick-ass and honorable, which is mostly true. However she acts so so incredibly stupid!! She lets go of hero, David who is a Djinn, so that he can be enslaved by the bad guys, Star, knowing full well that this was going to happen. Unbelievable! And then afterwards Jo races across America in fast cars to rescue David. Hello! Looks to me like Jo deliberately let bad things happen so that the good guys could play hero. This theme goes on and on and on with the second and third books. Safe to say I'm not reading anything from this author ever again. However, for those urban fantasy lovers who are more forgiving than me of this fault, might actually enjoy this series.
Highly Recommended Urban Fantasy - Rated
Ill Wind follows Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin as she races against time and across country in an effort to find a cure for the infection that is consuming her. Pursued by the Warden police and a rogue weather system, Joanne needs to stay one step ahead if she's going to find the most powerful Weather Warden - Lewis Levander Orwell - and his Djinn, and hopefully save her life.
I wrote this review after re-reading Ill wind and I have to say I love this book. I'd forgotten how much. It was completely different to any urban fantasy I'd read before. It starts with a bang, Joanne is on the run, and the story maintains that pace throughout. You truly get the feeling of being pursued and that if Joanne stops for a moment she'll be caught. Chapters are long though. The book is 337 pages but only five chapters. So I tend to stop at scene breaks rather than wait for chapter ends. LOL just a heads up if you haven't read this one yet.
The joy (for me) in this book is Joanne's voice - the way she tells her story. Rachel Caine writes brilliant dialogue and the book is packed full of great lines.
'I tried a hint. "Any preference? Trashy decor? Adult channels?"
He turned a page. "Indoor plumbing's a plus."
Bigger hint. "Two rooms or one?"
..."Kind of takes the mystery out of it if you ask," he said.'
Joanne and David are perhaps one of my favourite urban fantasy couples. I love the way they spar with one another, and the fact that they are as stubborn as each other.
Joanne calls her forced infection a rape, a rape which a Djinn takes part in - though I add here it wasn't a sexual act but rather being made to take part in something against her will. Although the Djinn had no choice in the act and although he ultimately saves her, there is still a terrible sense of betrayal. And I think that is the hardest thing for me to get my head round in this book. It illustrates how powerful and powerless the Djinn are. The fact that if they are ordered to do terrible things by their masters they have to even if it goes against what they personally believe in.
At the end I'm reading faster and faster as everything goes to hell. And at the conclusion I realize this could easily have been a standalone. But luckily instead I've got the next book to look forward to re-reading. :)
Never look at the weather in the same way - Rated 
I found this book a bit hard to get into to start, the chapters are long and drawn out but as the plot unfolded the harder I found it to put down and the more I wanted to know.
Rachel Caine manages to give you a lot of information about joanne,her life, the other wardens and the world in which she lives, while she is driving across America on the run after killing another warden. Nothing is quite as it seems.
I have never read a book like this before , and it gave a whole new meaning to the weather, but I am so glad that I kept reading it.
I have now read Book two and I have ordered the rest of the series. They just seem to get better the more I read.
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