Another One Bites the Dust

December 15, 2007
For Jaz Parks ("Once Bitten, Twice Shy"), belly dancer and CIA black-ops agent, an assignment to recover a stolen piece of biotech and to assassinate the thief is more than it seems. Behind the theft is Chien-Lung, an armor-clad, nearly invulnerable vampire, and that is just the tip of the iceberg. Jaz also faces soul-eating reavers and demonic nightmares, all ready to kill their victim. Parks is an interesting sleuth of the future, with a sharp tongue and sharper stilettos. Rardin's second urban noir fantasy thriller has an engaging protagonist, snappy dialog, and a storytelling style perfectly suited to its content. Most libraries with a demand for urban fantasy will want this title.

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December 1, 2007
Vampiric CIA covert assassin Jasmine Jaz Parks returns, hot on the heels of her first adventure, Once Bitten, Twice Shy (2007). She must stop ancient, evil vampire Chien-Lung, who retained his brilliance but lost his sanity while being boiled alive and has a dragon fixation so overmastering that he sees vampirism as a larval state from which he?ll emerge a dragon. Not your average villain. Jaz's other acquaintances aren?t average, either. Her boss is a singing 300-year-old Romanian vamp whose crew includes a seer-psychic Tarot reader and the neurotic inventor of dragon armor that bonds at the cellular level and that has been stolen by Chien-Lung. Funny and fast-paced.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2007, American Library Association.)