Review: I am addicted to this series!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 19, 2012
I am in a big reading drought. Books I should be totally into, I am finding dull.  Instead of three books a week, I have been lucky to get through one.  Basically, I haven't been my normal book devouring self.  Then this novella came along. I pre-ordered this for my kindle quite awhile ago and hadn't forgotten exactly when it was supposed to come out.  Then I turned on my kindle, and there it was...the bright and shiny cover beckoning me to read it.  I dug right in.  Praise the powers that be! I loved this novella so much!  When I stumbled upon the first novel in the Cady series, I was impressed.  The second one sealed the deal.  I love the characters very much, especially the amazing realistic Jupiter.  I am pleased to say that "Leashing the Tempest" is a full and exciting short story.  There is a beginning, a middle, and a end to the plot in this novella.  Lon decides to hire a boat to take Cady and Jup (as well as Cady's friend) out for the day.  Jupe wants to practice using his newly discovered talent and Lon is trying to decide if he should purchase his own boat.  But there is definitely something fishy going on with this boat and its captain.  Pretty soon things go from bad to worse and Cady is forced to use her powers to 'leash the tempest'.  Like the two full length novels, this story succeeds not just because of an exciting plotline but because these characters are just so likeable.  They are written with such depth that the reader feels like they are real people.  Cady is among my favorite urban fantasy/sci-fi heroines and I can seriously go on all day about how wonderful fourteen year old Jupiter is.  Jupiter provided several laugh out loud moments here and my husband gave me that 'wow, are you strange' look when I burst into giggles while reading this tale.  If you have managed to miss the first stories, go right now and buy them.  If you have read the first two, you probably already have "Leashing The Tempest" on your radar.  Read it!  Hopefully, this is the end of my reading drought!