Review: Not as good as the first one, Stuart was aggravating
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 15, 2012
This is the second novella of what (I think) is the start of the Vampire Assassin Series because it is titled, "The Beginning".The premise of this one starts out with Dr. Stuart Findlay and in walks vampire assassin, Sasha.  She hates men in general but plans to kill this particular one because (and I don't quite follow), he ordered the hit that took out her target (but his assassin got to the guy before her) so it appears she is mad about that.  Then of course, she realizes they are mates and steals away with him in the night and they head to her next assignment where Stuart gets himself into some trouble whereby Sasha attempts to rescue him.I didn't like this one as much as the first one I read.  In this one, the vampire is the heroine, Sasha, and the human/mate is hero, Stuart.  Stuart is annoying!  He talks too much and at the beginning (and throughout), he has terrible self-esteem (not something I like in my heroes).  He also thinks the entire time that he is dreaming or having a psychotic break.  He is very argumentative, but this is funny at time.  I am not even sure at what point he decides this is all real.  I didn't feel much of a connection between those two.Also there were two references to the assassin who killed Hussein.  Hussein is a mark in book and the hero of this book is the assassin who killed Huseein.  Sasha makes two comments about torturing this guy and also talks about killing him.  So does that mean that, Thoran, from book one, is dead and/or tortured or is the author referring to someone else?  I don't quite get it, but I liked Thoran better than Sasha or Stuart.