Firewalker

Written by Allyson James

Narrated by Hillary Huber

Mick must face the dragon council for breaking their laws, and while he doesn't seem too worried about his upcoming trial, Janet will do anything to keep him safe. She'll need a little help from her friends, old and new: Nash and Coyote; Cassandra, a powerful witch turned hotel manager; and Colby, a sort-of-trustworthy dragon. But now a new, dark power is stirring in Magellan that Janet must face, but even more frightening, one is stirring within herself.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Mar 18, 2013
• ISBN: 9781452681238

Reviews for Firewalker

[bgknighton · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Nice follow up. Janet’s Beneath powers are manifesting and the conflict between her two powers may tear her apart. The dragon council wants to kill Mick for his disobedience. And there is an undead walking around killing people while he tries to protect her. Her life couldn’t get much more complicated…….

[theyodamom · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

An action packed magical quest that had me on the edge of my seat. This second book in the series was much better paced with a natural flow to the stories. I like the fact that the author leaves you wanting to read the next book but crazy to read it because of a hard core cliffhanger.
Mick and Janet get into a life or death struggle more than once and death is winning. Coyote, he is one sneaky god. He is never easy, never understandable, never predictable, but yet very lovable as a character. Janet struggles to see her hotel open and run efficiently. Janet has to deal with mundane troubles, contractors not showing, emotional disruptions and outbursts and magical entities trying to kill her. She also has to deal with who she is and what her place in the world will be. Will her powers, destroy ? The dragons and other powerful gods think so, she must die. She discovers much about herself the dragons and finds she has friends.

[bookaholiccat · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

4 ½ Stars.
Firewalker is the second book of the series Stormwalker by Allyson James.
This books starts couple of months after the end of book one (Stormwalker) with Mick been trapped inside a mountain by the dragons for breaking the dragon law when he didn’t kill Janet. Janet rescue him with the (force by blackmail) help of Nash Jones.
Little after their return to her hotel a body is found, super pain in the ass Sheriff Jones starts his investigation and of course Mick and Janet are the primary suspects.
Janet is trying to find out who was the killer, while dealing with all the stress of the Dragon “court date” that will decide Mick’s fate. Also her Beneath magic that was latent in the previous book is awaken after her visit to mommy’s land (Beneath); this is a dark magic that is trying to control her, she needs to learn how to deal with it and with her Stormwalker magic inherited from her father.

In this book we see previous characters as Maya, Coyote, Nash, and of course the devilish mirror and new ones as Cassandra a witch with a past that Janet hired as the hotel manager, Pamela a shapeshifer and Cassandra’s love interest and other dragons.

Janet is stronger and is not waiting for anybody to rescue her. She is growing up magically and emotionally. Mick, oh my God Mick (Can I have him?), he’s a kick-ass dragon when he needs to be and the loveliest man when he’s with Janet... Oh my! The things he said to her, the way he talks to her...Wow!
The mirror had me cracking up, “it” is a great supporting character. I love its wittiness.

My favorite quotes:

* My magical cherry had been broken at age eleven (Janet)

* Nash stare at me. “That thing was your mother?”
“We are not responsible for our parents” I tried to joke. (Janet)

* “Shit, Mick. I don’t want this. I don’t want any of this. Why can’t we just have a normal relationship?” (Janet)

* “You really don’t know what he was?” (Janet)
“No, hot pants. Sorry” (Mirror)
“Well, if you remember anything else, let me know.”
“Sure thing. Tell you what, give me a little tongue, and I’ll see what I can think of.”
The thing never stopped “You’re a mirror.” I reminded it. “You don’t have body parts.”
“Hey, honey. I can dream.”

* “Because I love you. And because I want to feast on you whenever I see you.” (Mick)

* I put my hand over the glass. “What is it with your obsession with sex?” (Janet)
“I’m a mirror. I can only be a voyeur, so I have to go for it.”

In general I really like the book, it was a page turner for me and can’t wait to read book 3 of the series “Shadow Walker.”

I strongly recommend you read Stormwalker before getting into Firewalker. You won’t regret it.

[bonniemarjorie · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I hadn’t realized how much I missed Janet and Mick until I decided to pick up ‘Firewalker’, the 2nd in Allyson James’ Stormwalker Series.

Firewalker opens with Janet managing her hotel, without Mick; he’s been missing for a few weeks with no word. Shortly afterwards a shifter informs Janet that she discovered where Mick is and Janet leaves immediately to help him; taking Nash with her. Together they are able to break Mick free of the magic prison that the dragons placed on him; however, as they are leaving they are attacked by demons and the new dark power growing with Janet is released and they are saved… but Janet is having more and more difficulty controlling it.

A corpse is found near Janet’s hotel and she immediately becomes a suspect. The revelation of what happened, who did it, etc… gasp! Be prepared. Lol I can’t wait to be able to get my hands on the 3rd in this series.

[thewalkinggirl · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

The breakneck pace was both good and bad--made it a fast read, but sometimes character development took second place to plot, especially in terms of Mick's character, who, if I remember correctly, was more than "eyes black with lust and/or anger" in the last book. I do plan to read the next book and could see re-reading this one at some point.