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.
....Possessed by a deadly beast, Rhage is the most dangerous
of the Black Dagger Brotherhood...
Prod dets
Black
Dagger Brotherhood series, book 2
Pub: 2006, Piatkus
Author: J. R. Ward
Cat: paranormal romance
Format: paperback (sm); 453 pp w/ 51
chapters
Whose: Rhage & Mary
Age Range: adult
Synopsis
Within
the brotherhood, Rhage is the best fighter, the quickest to act on his
impulses, and the most voracious lover – for inside him burns a ferocious
curse. Possessed by this dark side, Rhage fears the times when his inner dragon
is unleashed, making him a danger to everyone around him.
Mary
Luce, a survivor of many hardships, in unwittingly thrown into the vampire
world and is reliant on Rhage’s protection. With a life-threatening curse of
her own, Mary is not looking for love. But when Rhage’s intense animal
attraction turns into something more emotional, he knows that he must make Mary
his alone. And while their enemies close in, Mary fights desperately to gain
life eternal with the one she loves...
my Thoughts (review)
I
feel this deep seeded need to do some back tracking when it comes to explaining
this series, and I’m not sure if it’s because I didn’t the first time, or if I
feel I didn’t enough. So I’m going to take a few seconds to explain a few of
the things about the series, feel free to skip it if you already know.
The
first thing is that they are vampires, it’s a different breed of beings who
look like humans but they really aren’t. They feed off each other not humans,
though they can do it, it’s just not nourishing enough for them. They are meant
to be secret from the human population (for obvious reasons). now, they aren’t
immortal, though they don’t get sick as humans’ do, they do die of old age, it
happens, I think, a couple of thousand years into life (or is it a thousand? Really,
I thought only a thousand but then we meet Rhev and, well, yeah....he’s to come
so I’ll explain then).
Now,
whenever there are things that last forever there are always the an evil that
is there to eliminate them—only I’m not real sure if that’s the case, I guess
it all depends on where you sit. Anyway, these evil beings are called the
Lessening Society; they are an order of slayers, and they are created by an
evil god. They are also the crap people, you know, murderers, rapist, those
asses of society—though they are truly dead once inducted, and as they get
older they start to fade in colour (you know, hair, eyes, skin turns white)
The
goal of the fighting in the book is that the Black Dagger Brotherhood is a
society of vampires that are born of the strongest and purest blood. They are
trained and taken into the brotherhood to fight the lesser’s. Now, over the
years, and I think, mostly after Wrath ran away from the thrown, the
brotherhood slowly died out and only 6 are left. Mostly this is actually
because the brotherhood stoped breeding with the chosen (which is how they got
more chosen and brothers).
That’s
all I think, sorry to take up all this time and stuff but I really felt as if
it needed to be said. Yeah, sorry that I didn’t get to it before this, but at
least it’s done. Now onto the book:
******
Cursed
by the Scrub Virgin, Rhage, the most beautiful male of the race is one not to
fuck around with. After a change into his beast form Rhage is sick and needs
time to recover—even his sight. It’s in this mental and physical state that he
runs into Mary who had been visiting the brotherhood mansion with John (he’s
someone you should pay attention to). Mary’s voice soothed his pains and
settled his beast while the smell of her put his passion into high drive—which
isn’t a good thing when your Rhage.
Needing
to see Mary again, Rhage takes her on a date. And that’s when it all turns
wrong—well, demanding of your glass and how you really like to look at the
whole thing.
This
is a great book, the hitter of the series. Really, even after reading all
that’s to come I still believe this one is a favourite, even hitting my fav in
my whole adult collection.
The
sadness of Mary’s story and the way Rhage just can’t seem to understand though
he does. It’s frustrating, sad and will get you crying just on how she see her
relationship with Rhage and why she doesn’t want it to go on.
This
story is heartfelt from beginning to end. And one of those books that no matter
who many times you want pick it up your forced (‘cause of your own mind) to
read it from beginning to end. It just that amazing, and even if you’re not a
hug fan of this series you should pick this one up and have a read. It truly is
a piece of art!
Series
Dark Lover, [tb],
Lover Awakened, Lover Revealed, Lover Unbound, Lover Enshrined, Lover Avenged,
Lover Mine, Lover Unleashed, Lover Reborn,
☼☼☼
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