REVIEW (dark lover)

In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there’s a deadly war raging between vampires and their slayers. And there exists a secret band of brothers like no other – six vampire warriors, defenders of their race.

....Among them, none relished killing their enemies more than Wrath, the leader of the brotherhood.

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Black Dagger Brotherhood series, book 1

Pub: 2005, Piatkus

Author: J. R. Ward

Cat: paranormal romance

Format: paperback (sm); 458 pp w/ 56 chapters

Whose: Wrath & Beth

Age Range: adult

            Synopsis

The only pure-bred vampire left on the planet, Wrath has a score to settle with the slayers who murdered his parents’ centuries ago. But when one of his most trusted fighters is killed – orphaning a half-breed daughter unaware of her heritage of her fate – Warth must usher the beautiful female into the world of the undead...

    

Racked by a restlessness in her body that wasn’t there before, Beth Randell is helpless against the dangerous sexy man who comes to her at night with shadows in his eyes. His touch ignites a dawning hunger that threatens to consume them both....

     my Thoughts (review)

Scarred mentally by the murder of his parents by the Lessening society, Wrath has spent his life with hatred in her heart and the blood of his enemies on his hands. Not spending time with people around him. Actually he makes it a point not to get to know them more any the basics of knowing—even his brothers.

It wasn’t until one of his brothers died and gifted him with seeing to the transition of his half breed daughter. Once Wrath takes his first breath of her, he is instantly hooked and her transition is something he has to do, even if he doesn’t really understand the full extent of his need.

 

This book is about Wrath, there are parts in it that show Beth, but altermently it’s about Wrath and why he is what he’s become and more importantly what one woman can do to change the whole outcome of his future.

I mention this mostly because I have read a few reviews on the book and the one complaint about it is that there isn’t enough about Beth, but her story is insignificant in the whole show, and even more so it isn’t all that tragic or interesting. What is interesting is what she brings out in Wrath.

It’s all about Wrath!

Really, the series may be romances, but at the end of the day it is about the Black Dagger Brotherhood. They are the ones that are important not so much the people they fall in love with.

I found that it was very easy to get into the world, the ins and outs of the vampires and there enemies were simple and easily explained as mostly they were, though it did help that there was a glossary in front, so when they said a word you could just flip back and see

The only complaint I have on this series is the way the female talk, like really, they talk just like the men—and I get it when they have been living with the men for a while, but right off the bat...yeah, everyone just doesn’t talk like that. Do they?

I loved this book though, it was amazing. One of those ones that just makes you run out and get the next one and know that you’re going to love it just as much, if not more....

Series

[tb], Lover Eternal, Lover Awakened, Lover Revealed, Lover Unbound, Lover Enshrined, Lover Avenged, Lover Mine, Lover Unleashed, Lover Reborn,

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