Once Bitten Twice Shy is the first novel in the Jaz Parks urban fantasy series. Jaz is an FBI agent whose job involves assassinating people (often vampires) who threaten the nation and the world. Her boss is a vampire called Vayl. Together they travel around doing their job, saving the world. In this novel Vayl and Jaz are trying to bring down a terrorist organisation with supernatural links. I started reading this novel when I was finishing my dissertation because I needed something to read that wasn't related to social work and I didn't want to read a book that would really grip me because I didn't have time to read more than a chapter before bed each ...  Read the complete review

Following the unprecedented, and it could be said, largely undeserved, success of the Twilight books, there is a plethora of urban fantasy fiction on the market these days featuring vampires, werewolves, fae and other weird and wonderful creatures of the paranormal world. To my mind, much of this fiction is often poorly conceived and some of it very badly written, so finding a new writer of decent urban fantasy can sometimes be like looking for a needle in a haystack. I think with Jennifer Rardin, however, I just might have found a good one. About the author Jennifer Rardin was an American writer based in Illinois. She had her first urban ...  Read the complete review