It drives me absolutely nuts and I find it unreadable if done for an entire novel.  Short stories or interludes, fine.

We now have a spoiler tag; use it whenever you're posting something with a small amount of spoiler content on a non-spoiler board, or if you're posting an "off-topic spoiler" for a particular spoiler board (for example, if you talk book spoilers on the TV show spoiler board, the book stuff should be inside a spoiler tag).

You, sir, are a god.  Thank you!

(de-lurks)

I'd heard of the books, mostly because I was in Buffy fandom at the time and people mentioned that James Marsters was doing the voice-overs (ironically this put me off because I was terribly terribly sick of Spike).

Didn't really think anything else of it until I was in the States a few weeks ago and channel surfing, and the lovely Mr Blackthorne appeared on my screen.  After I'd picked my jaw up off the floor and mopped up the drool, I watched the rest of the episode (it was Hair of the Dog).  Went straight to the bookstore and bought Dead Beat and Proven Guilty as the others were out of stock.  Read em, and now I'm addicted, and busily trying to get friends into the show/books.  Currently I've read everything up to about a quarter of the way through Blood Rites, which is leaving me in something of a panic as it's the last unread book I have!