Name: Stormwalker
ISBN: 9781101404454

Allyson James

View our feature on Allyson James’s Stormwalker.National bestselling author of Mortal Seductions Janet Begay is a Stormwalker, capable of wielding the raw elemental power of nature, a power that threatens to overwhelm her. Only her lover, Mick, is able to calm the storm within her-even as their passion reaches unimaginable heights of ecstasy. But when an Arizona police chief's daughter is taken by a paranormal evil, they find themselves venturing where no human can survive-for only together can they overcome the greatest danger they've ever faced. Watch a Video

Stormwalker

When Stormwalker Janet Begay and her lover Mick investigate the disappearance of the daughter of the police chief of a desert town, Janet fears that her powerful mother might be involved and is not certain that she can trust Mick.

Sarah Escorsa

DNF at 40%.

So this is a book about a bunch of horny people who are trying to save the world from the usual clique of evil demons and freaks of the underworld. And when I say horny I mean HORNY. Janet the stormwalker is horny, Mick her big bad biker/dragon boyfriend (my boyfriend is a dragon! I've know him for 5 or 6 years but I never saw it coming! He has fire magic, dragon tattoos all over his body and there is that huge, strange, dark shadow about him sometimes but I would never have guessed! I keep mentioning dragons but I know they don't exist!) is horny, the Coyote God is horny, so are the electrician and the local sheriff... I don't mind horny but when you get to the point where even the freaking magic mirror is obsessed with sex you just feel like screaming "STOP" at the top of your lungs! This was just too much.

Apart from that Janet pretty much left me cold and so did Mick (actually no, Mick didn't leave me cold, I just didn't like him). They have the most screwed up, unhealthy relationship ever but it doesn't seem to be a problem for Janet. Mick disappears for days without telling her anything (oh right, he's a dragon and has to go off and do dragon things that he can't tell her about!) but when he comes home they just have mind-blowing magical tantric sex (whatever that is) and that's that. At some point she even feels guilty about asking him where he's been... Kick-butt heroine? I think not. This girl is hopeless.

The other problem with this book is the writing. When I started reading I actually double checked that this was really the first instalment in the series. The author throws the reader into the story and keeps mentioning past incidences as if they had happened in a previous instalment. It's fine to talk about events from the past but here the whole thing was badly done. It was really confusing and I kept feeling like I had missed something. 

I had decided to give Stormwalker a try after reading "Double Hexed" (a novella from this series) in the Hexed anthology. I enjoyed it quite a lot and thought the setting and premise for this series were engaging. Unfortunately, the poor execution, uninteresting plot and inane characters really spoilt it for me. One more series I can scratch off my list, yay!