For today’s Bookmania, I’m reading Shadowlight by Lynn Viehl. She sweeps me away again and again with her Darkyn world. It’s a recommended read all the way, and I’ll be posting a review on my site this weekend.

Shadowlight by Lynn Viehl

With a single touch, Jessa Bellamy can see anyone’s darkest secrets. She’s tried to hide her psychic ability from everyone, but a biotech company called GenHance has discovered her talent, and intends to take her, kill her and harvest her priceless DNA to sell it to the highest bidder.

A mysterious photographer named Gaven Matthias is also interested in Jessa; he’s been trying to find her for months. When GenHance makes their move, Gaven has no choice but to kidnap Jessa himself so he can protect her and convince her to join him in helping protect others like her.

Jessa discovers that she can’t see any of Gaven’s secrets, so she doesn’t know if he’s telling the truth, but as a monstrous assassin created by GenHance’s experiments closes in on them, she must decide if the strong attraction they share is proof enough that Gaven is her greatest ally — or is a smokescreen hiding a terrible secret.

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Dawn Montgomery

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I love this book.  Seriously.  It’s sitting on the back of my couch (yes, I’m seriously running out of room for my books) no more than a foot away. I like to keep it close… *grin*

I know that there are a tonne of baby naming sites and that ones like Behind the Name are very comprehensive.  I go to these sites, sometimes, especially when I want something more in depth (usually with a name I’ve found in this book, lol ).

What this book does for me is saves my time and my sanity.  You know what the web does, it’s a black hole, adept at sucking you in.  One minute, you’re hunting for a last name for your hero and before you know it you’ve spent the past half hour laughing your arse off at Eddie Izzard on You Tube…and your hero still doesn’t have a last name.

So I flick and drop into pages with Norse names, or Russian, or stick a pin in the huge index of names at the back.  It’s become the starting point for finding out who my characters are.

I love this book.  But then I am a complete sucker for reference books.  This one tells you everything you need to know about being a BodyGuard or Close Protection Officer.  No, I’ve not been on a course to become one, though someone is following me on Twitter now who offers them, lol. I’m not one, and I’m never going to become one…but I know a few people who might quite like the job.

Like Cale in War Flesh, or a heroine in a planned wip who’s been moulded by the information I found in this book.  It’s a British title – hence the link to Waterstones as B&N doesn’t have it – and the information has a UK bias.  This is useful for the obligatory car ambush as it has picture break downs of performing a Bootlegger’s or Moonshiner’s turn *grin*

It points out how a bodyguard often starts out in the garden…and can end up back there if s/he’s not careful, how to guard people on a cruise liner and that you could carry a gun in a bag marked ‘this is a gun’ and it would be less conspicuous than putting it in a bumbag.  Very useful.  Well, to me, anyway

Oh and btw, try not to smell.  Principals hate it when you smell.  You could end up in garden…again. *grin*