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Water To Burn (2011)

by Katharine Kerr(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0756406919 (ISBN13: 9780756406912)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

DAW

series

Nola O'Grady

review 1: Nola O'Grady is the new head of the San Francisco branch of an unnamed government agency that most of the government doesn't know exists. That's because her group deals with the paranormal. Nola is psychic and sometimes sees things that aren't there. She is paired up with an Israeli national who has his own unnamed agency back home, but who also works for Interpol.Her family has a wide range of paranormal talents and these appear through the whole series.I like the characters and their interactions, though there's a little too frequent emphasis on Nola's possible eating disorder and Ari's overly aggressive driving, as well as his guns.This is the second in the series, after License to Ensorcell.
review 2: I enjoyed this quirky contemporary fantasy from Katharin... moree Kerr, the sequel to License to Ensorcell. Psychic Agent Nola O’Grady works for a very special agency, one of those ones even the CIA doesn’t know exists. Born into a large Irish-American Catholic family of eccentrics, Nola came into her power in her mid-teens, and discovered that nothing would ever be the same again. Now she works for the preservation of Harmony – balance in the Universe. It’s not working for Good – it’s recognizing that things can go seriously wrong in the universe when there is not a balance.Nola has managed to keep her distance from her crazy, enthusiastic family for years, but now her agency has returned her to San Francisco, her hometown. They’ve been referring to her tiny outpost as the Apocalypse Squad, but the joke may have seeds of truth. Chaos sightings have increased on the Pacific coast, multiple doors into another world have been discovered, and someone is creating “rogue waves,” sudden, unexplained walls of water that have swept several to watery graves. Nola has only two minimally talented stringers as assistance, as well as Ari Nathan, an Interpol and Israeli secret agent who has been reassigned to be her bodyguard. Two searches obsess Nola – for Reb Ezekiel, the supposedly dead prophet from Ari’s youth, and for the enigmatic “Brother Belial,” leader of the Chaos Cult Nola and Ari have previously damaged. Psychic Nola and skeptic Ari are still learning to work together, to trust each other, and finally face things that even her agency is not sure exist. They’ve surrendered to the strong pull of Qi between them, and even decided to move in together. Nola is astonished that Ari has actually stayed around more than a month – she’s used to men being unable to accept her strange work and eccentricities. But Ari is hanging in there, and these two disparate souls are discovering that they make a good team – when they’re not arguing about the steps needed to solve their cases.Kerr has chosen two rampant individuals as her protagonists. Nola is a deep introvert, both entangled and feuding with her family, anorexic in her desire to control her relationship with food, while Ari is hyper focused on his calling, has serious control issues, and has managed to alienate the majority of his working associates with his blunt micro-managing. They weave their way through a San Francisco that is both familiar and strange even to folk who know the city. We’re talking definitely contemporary fantasy/noir here. The world Kerr has created continues to open up, with deepening relationships with Nola’s complicated relatives and the possibility of dealing with alternative worlds beckoning. Kerr makes me want to see what happens next in her world. If you like contemporary fantasy, look for it! less

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