Strange Weather Angela N Hunt 9780979067471 Books
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Sabine Parsons put herself out into the Cold thirteen years ago when her controller, Edward Quintaine, died in action. She's lived a quiet life over those years and done her best to forget her past. So it didn't seem like such a bad idea at the time to go on vacation to Europe with her best friend in the entire world, Ari Doran. Who just happens to be an agent for Israel's Mossad. The minute she gets on the plane, her ability to Dream the future returns in terrible force as full blown Night-mares foretelling the end of the World. The two friends find themselves dropped into the middle of a clandestine war between the intelligence agencies of the world and an organization that would destroy all civilization through the raising of the elder gods of destruction.
Strange Weather Angela N Hunt 9780979067471 Books
This is a tale of two women, three or four spook teams, Nazis, the end of the world, past lives, dreams, and a few zombies. No vampires. The date is sometime in the early 1990s or so. I figured that out together with a tentative plot line in about the third or fourth chapter.Sabine, a demobbed spook and Ari (short for Arila, she's a girl) a current Mossad employee who holds a US passport, take a European vacation together (they live in San Francisco). By the time they return to the States they have witnessed killings, been nearly assassinated several times, met some real creeps, gotten involved with MI6, and have joined a US (CIA or not?) spy team whose leader has been dead for 13 years (or not).
From this point on things start to get confusing. The would-be German kidnappers are Nazis who practice the occult and whose goal is world domination. The CIA-thingy, Mossad, MI6 and KGB successor would prefer that they fail in that goal.
The bad guys really want Sabine, who has her own bag of supernatural tricks to defend herself and the people she loves, not to mention her bag of prophetic Dreams that keep letting her know what's going on.
The yarn ends on an incomplete high note, requiring the reader to head for volume 2 to learn if the world has truly been saved.
While this was an extremely fast-moving tale with two enjoyable protagonists (Sabine and Ari), I was less impressed with the bustle and constantly changing scenarios. The typos and formatting errors did not help to reduce the confusion. While I almost liked this book, I'll leave the sequels to hardier souls.
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Strange Weather Angela N Hunt 9780979067471 Books Reviews
I'd actually call this 3 1/2 stars, but I'm rounding up to 4 because my reasons for dinging the book are more stylistic than anything, and there's plenty of people who would call it a 4 on those grounds!
This was a strong debut novel from an author whom I hope will continue to refine her style and voice and just get better and more powerful. The book had a lot of promise, most of which it fulfilled, and which left me eager to see what the author will do with future novels in the series - because it's most definitely a series opener.
...unfortunately, that's one of the things that I disliked about the book. After a few hundred pages of increasing tension, then a very very fast-paced climax and denouement, there's no sense of conclusion. It's a setup for the next book. Don't get me wrong, I'm really eager to find out what happens to Sabine, Ari, and the rest...but I would've liked a little more lingering tension and epic battle after all the tense situations leading up to the climax, rather than a quick fix and setup for the next book. I want more! The author is very good at setting up a horrific fight scene, or appalling villain's lair, or any number of other situations - I want to get to explore these situations a little more, instead of breezing to the next in order to get to the end...
The characters, particularly Sabine and Ari, certainly feel like fully realized people; they fight and get annoyed and tired and confused, and they laugh and piss each other off and take care of each other. It's a great example of friendship between women in fantasy, which is something we don't see enough of. Both women are powerful and confident, but also worried and confused and bumbling through life as best they can - you really identify with them, empathize with them, and root for them.
Sabine is a complex, fascinating character. I do wish we'd gotten to know her and her background a little better - the hints of her past are really engaging, and I'm hoping that the next book tells us more about Sabine as a person, rather than just how she reacts in a situation. Same with Ari - I really want to know more about this devout Israeli Mossad agent living in the US!
The plot itself is a breath of fresh air - it's a standard spy thriller about a shadowy group trying to take over the world...but it's done with a welcome, unexpected flair by focusing on magic (magick) and belief as a way to influence world events. The idea of an intelligence analyst relying on magical perception and prophetic dreams (or Dreams, as the novel styles it) is really intriguing, and something I'd love to see covered more in future books - I'd love to read about how Sabine got into intelligence work in the first place, and how magic has a place in something as seemingly mundane as codebreaking.
Really, I just want MORE in this world. That's the book's major shortcoming - not its plot, which is tight and swift and engaging; not its characters, which are human and intriguing and in some cases, really really freaking creepy; not its premise, which is delightful (love the magic-spy angle, have I mentioned that?) - no, the problem is I want MORE of all of these things. The magic system is never explained; we just know that Sabine can Reach to a Source in order to Cast, and that something gives her tingling feelings on her skin at times; we know that Ari has had some past lives and has the power of faith, but we don't know what her own magical background might be; we know that werewolves exist and that really nasty magic users are out there and apparently known to some players in the field, but we don't know how magic works or how much of this is normal - Ari accepts the magic even though she doesn't wield it, really, but how many others in this world accept and acknowledge magic? I'd love to know more, and I'm hoping that future books will give more of a background on the world and the characters.
Speaking of Reaching, Casting, and so on - that's my stylistic quibble with this book. I would've enjoyed it a lot more with fewer capitals...or if the concepts that were capped were explained a little better, in terms of the magical system. Dreams, Reaching, Casting, and the Source were one thing, but "coming in from the Cold" and "putting my Game Face" on didn't feel like they needed to be capitalized; it annoyed me a little, and pulled me out of the story. Same with some formatting errors (underlines instead of italics) and typos. I'm very, very picky about such things, though, and while it pulled me out of the story, it might not for you - the characters and plot are certainly strong enough to keep you engaged.
If you like spy thrillers, magic, and strong female characters - and you love a good, ripping post-Cold War thriller about saving the world - you owe it to yourself to give Strange Weather a try, and to stick around to see what the author does next. I have a feeling it'll be worth the ride.
I read the first paragraph and deleted it from my . I thought this was written by one of my favorite Christian authors, Angela Hunt. It was actually written by someone named Angela N. Hunt. She used the "F" word in the first paragraph, so I did not bother to go any further.
I was fully drawn into the characters and the story but this book is RIDDLED with typos it's so distracting. I found my self being pulled out of the story too frequently due to misspellings or extra words or missing words or unnecessary capitals.
I really can't say it any tighter that the above reviewer just did.
This is a GREAT book. And if you like Adventure, Thrills, Magick and Fantasy all rolled up into one blasting fast-paced world,
then you WANT to read Strange Weather! And get it's 2 follow up editions to boot!!
GO... READ NOW!
This is a tale of two women, three or four spook teams, Nazis, the end of the world, past lives, dreams, and a few zombies. No vampires. The date is sometime in the early 1990s or so. I figured that out together with a tentative plot line in about the third or fourth chapter.
Sabine, a demobbed spook and Ari (short for Arila, she's a girl) a current Mossad employee who holds a US passport, take a European vacation together (they live in San Francisco). By the time they return to the States they have witnessed killings, been nearly assassinated several times, met some real creeps, gotten involved with MI6, and have joined a US (CIA or not?) spy team whose leader has been dead for 13 years (or not).
From this point on things start to get confusing. The would-be German kidnappers are Nazis who practice the occult and whose goal is world domination. The CIA-thingy, Mossad, MI6 and KGB successor would prefer that they fail in that goal.
The bad guys really want Sabine, who has her own bag of supernatural tricks to defend herself and the people she loves, not to mention her bag of prophetic Dreams that keep letting her know what's going on.
The yarn ends on an incomplete high note, requiring the reader to head for volume 2 to learn if the world has truly been saved.
While this was an extremely fast-moving tale with two enjoyable protagonists (Sabine and Ari), I was less impressed with the bustle and constantly changing scenarios. The typos and formatting errors did not help to reduce the confusion. While I almost liked this book, I'll leave the sequels to hardier souls.
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