Storm Watcher

Today's post is on Storm Watcher by Lilith Saintcrow. It is the second in her Watchers series. It is 183 pages and is published by ImaJinn. The cover has the main male character on it without a shirt and a dagger in his belt. The intended reader is someone who likes urban fantasy romances. There is mild foul language, mild sexuality, and some violence this book. The story is told from the third person of the two main characters moving as the story goes. There Be Spoilers Ahead.

From the back of the book- The Witch: All Mariamne Niege wants is to finish her thesis and get a job. Unfortunately, she's a Guardian now, and her visions of the future have grown so intense she's blind to the world while in their grip. Her Watcher, Hanson, is sleeping on her couch and scaring her roommates when he's not shepherding her through the visions and calming her worsening nightmares. Then the earthquakes start, warning of an even bigger disaster-a cataclysm that could level her beloved city and claim countless innocent lives. A disaster her visions say are triggered by Hanson, even though he's sworn to protect her . . .
The Watcher: Hanson joined the Watchers to atone for a life of lies, but the only way he can stay close enough to Mari to protect her is to use some of his less-than-honest talents. She is the only witch who can ease the agony of being a Watcher, and the only woman in the world he wants. Then Mari's house is broken into and her roommates slaughtered, and in order to save his witch, Hanson is going to have to become more vicious than the Dark-even though it might mean losing her forever.

Review- This second novel follows on the heels of the first novel with Mari and Hanson just trying to deal with her visions and difficult people. We do not get really anything new in this novel it is more of the same, the Lightbringers need to protect the city and their Watchers need to protect them. The two characters we follow in this are not terrible but I did not like Mari as much as Theo, at times is she Too Stupid To Live. She has visions and instead of talking to Hanson or her fellow Lightbringers, she runs off on her own and causes lots of problems. That said I did enjoy the book, it was a fun fast read that does not take much to engage with. If you want a quick paranormal romance read then you should like this novel and this series.

I give this novel a Four out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I borrowed this book from my local library.