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Tracking The Tempest (2010)

by Nicole Peeler(Favorite Author)

4.03 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

031605657X (ISBN13: 9780316056571)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Orbit

series

Jane True

review 1: Working my way through this series, back-to-back. This one is... fluff, for lack of a better word. A bit one-dimensional, cartoonish villains, a ditzy main character. Nothing bad-ass here, but it's fun (at least so far). The world is interesting, I'll say that - I like seeing unconventional takes on the overused vampire and shapeshifter lore, and having some new/rarely-seen types in there, like satyrs, for instance, is cool. Nothing is explored from a serious-enough standpoint to have a lot of weight, though. Peeler really needs to get over the urge to cheese out her love scenes, though, it's really disconcerting, even off-putting at times. Some of it reads like a giggling, hormonal 14-year-old writing "naughty" stories about things she doesn't really understand for... more kicks. Bottom line: if you're looking for really spectacular, gritty, hardcore UF with a heroine who's a badass, stick to Ilona Andrews. And if you want good UF laced with smart humor, stick to Kate Chance or Charlaine Harris. But for someone who's already burned through most of the genre, it's not completely horrible.
review 2: I enjoyed the first Jane True book so much that I picked up the second pretty much immediately after finishing the first one. Second books are usually a bit of a gamble, but this one paid off and I enjoyed it nearly as much as I did the first one.Our heroine, Jane, has been taking magic lessons from the gnome in her home town of Rockabill while occasionally visiting her boyfriend Ryu in Boston. The book opens four months after the events of the first book, during one of Jane's magic lessons. She's not perfect, which is a nice change from your typical Mary Sue heroine, but she's not horrible and she's definitely learning over time. During her romantic Valentines weekend with Ryu, however, a half-ifrit is found to be on the loose and murdering people, including halflings like herself. Jane is inadvertently (and then purposely) caught up in the search/chase for the ifrit, and all of the things that happen because of it.The larger Alfar politics are still in play, especially with regards to Jarl and the events in the first book. A few new "bad" characters are introduced, leaving those we me in the first book still in the background. The truth about what happened between Jarl and Jane, hidden from Ryu by Jane and Anyan, with realistic consequences due to the history between all three of them. The half-ifrit is portrayed sympathetically, even as he is doing bad things and stalking Jane, and is an illustration of how badly some of the Others have been treating humans and halfings. And finally, Ryu's insistence on trying to run Jane's life ends up badly for him, but fits in well with Jane's character so far - and it is SO NICE to see a female character stand up to bad behavior and say "hell no" to that for once.This book is a lot of fun, and I adored the writing style with the funny quips as well as the romance and lust aspects as well. I'll likely read the others in the series, if only to find out what happens between Anyan, Jane, and Ryu in the future. It should be fun! less

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