Finished Lover Awakened by J.R. Ward. This is the third book in her Black Dagger Brotherhood series. This book focuses on Zsadist, the vampire with a bad attitude and plenty of bite. But Zsadist has plenty of reason to be angry — he was kidnapped as a child and kept as a blood slave for a hundred years. He was →

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Finished Black Ice by Anne Stuart. This is the first book in her Ice series, about the operatives of The Committee, a group of spies who’ll do anything it takes to keep the world safe. In this one, Chloe Underwood is a young American woman living in Paris and working as a children’s book translator. Eager to make some extra →

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Finished Hit Man by Lawrence Block. This is the first book in Block’s series about John Keller, a professional hit man. To Keller, killing people is just like any other job, and it doesn’t bother him too much. He just happens to leave New York eight or ten times a year to go help people quit breathing. Along the way, →

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Finished A Fate Worse Than Dragons by John Moore. This is a fairy tale spoof about Terry, a knight who jumps through hoop after hoop so he can be with his true love, Princess Gloria. The book opens with Terry killing a dragon, a feat that will win him Gloria’s hand … except the border was recently redrawn. That means →

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I’ve been slacking off about reviewing the books I’ve read. So, expect to get a lot of quick reviews this week, like this one. Finished Rain Fall by Barry Eisler. It’s about John Rain, a half-American, half-Japanese assassin living in Tokyo. Rain specializes in “death by natural causes.” The book opens with Rain killing a businessman by messing with his pacemaker →

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