Gale Force (Weather Warden, Book 7): A Weather Warden Novel

Enjoying the Djinn Universe, but the books are missing the mark otherwiseThe unique view Ms Caine gives to this world and the Djinn and elemental powers is great. I’m not liking the books as much as I did the first couple in the series.The last book seemed like a cliffhanger. Having them all join together in Seacasket and then end it with “Let’s Go Save The World” seemed like it was a precipice cliffhanger before the next stage of the fight. Where the next stage was being everyone working together.The start of this book suddenly has Jo and David back in Florida. No one seems to be working together anymore and then we have the concept of antimatter destroying the Djinn and the introduction of a whole new villainous group, the Sentinels.I can sort of understand how that maybe antimatter would be something that the Djinn didn’t see. Being such logical creatures, I don’t see how they would just ignore it. Too many of their allies are pointing it out, yet not one of the old or new Djinn thought about “The Unmaking” as being a possibility of what this substance was? The fact it gives off so much radiation, which they can see, or at least the effects from that radiation, should have been a big clue to them.There is also the production of all this antimatter/Unmaking material. There had to have been Demons released sometime in the past history of the earth before defeating them. Yet the Djinn didn’t know that the Demons were how this substance was made. Seems very unlikely.It’s been brought up that the wedding is important to David, not as much so for Jo. If any of the other Djinn are concerned about the binding vows, then help them to write the vows so it won’t be as binding, or binds both sides but also supports each group.Returning Bad Bob as a character was ridiculous. Somehow in the aftermath of Imara’s death and rebirth as the Earth Oracle, then Bad Bob’s Demon somehow was reborn to our world. Really? That’s just too coincidental.That Paul Giancarlo joins the Sentinels seems unlikely. Yes, he lost lots of friends under his watch to the Djinn. Yet he knows that there are such things as Demon Marked and Demons, and even knows that Bad Bob tried to subvert Jo with one and died as the result. So when Bad Bob turns up again he suddenly is willing to forget all the bad stuff this guy did, especially to Jo, whom he loves. He even knew he slept with a memory infused Jo-Demon in the last book. There is no way he is going to join the Sentinels and Bad Bob. Leave the Wardens, sure. Turn his back on the Djinn and maybe even Jo, possible. Join Bad Bob’s Sentinels, never. How does he even explain that Bob is alive, unless it’s by Demon power.I did like that the Wardens turned the tables on the Sentinels and outed themselves to the world. They were going to have to do that anyway. There was no way to put that genie back in the bottle (pun intended), too many news agencies knew enough to keep digging. Making it into the spectacle of the wedding was just cheap theatrics for the book. It didn’t progress the story and didn’t ring true to the characters involved.The Djinn books. The book that Star had which she needed Venna/Alice to open and use it, but the book that Ortega has, only a non-Djinn can access it. Weak plot point. There is also the fact that Ortega says he traded it to a Warden. Knowing that it is a Djinn controlling book, but allowed a Warden to get it. Who cares when he says that the Warden didn’t recognize that he was a Djinn. He just gave a way for a Warden to control the Djinn, or have access to powers they don’t typically know about. Ortega may have OCD but he’s not a moron.Lastly, Venna obviously knows more about what’s going on then she’s telling. She even points out to Jo that she already knows who the Sentinels are, and I think she was asserting its Bad Bob. So Venna is not helping Ashan or the New Djinn? Seems unlikely.It’s a fun universe and the concept could be used in a lot of different ways. The books though don’t do it justice beyond the first couple. Each book seems repetitive and formulaic, not to mention leaving large plot holes and then suddenly the hero or heroine saves the day without any buildup of how they got what was needed to do that.