Dark Lover (Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 1)
Signet - Signet
Release date: 2005-09-06
Mass Market Paperback
Author: J.R. Ward
American Light Romantic Fiction, Fiction, Fiction - Romance, Romance: Modern, Fiction / Romance / Paranormal, Romance - General, Fantasy fiction, Love stories, Vampires
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Dark Lover (Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 1)
Date undefinedI grabbed this book while looking for a new vampire series and wow...it really grabbed me. I loved it from start to finish and ran out immediately to get all the other books!
Dark Lover (Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 1)
Date undefinedIf you like romance books at all, you have to read the entire "Black Dagger Brotherhood" Series by JR Ward. This series is the "BEST". It comes with strong characters and a never before written back drop. I just reccommend to start with the first in the series and progress from there.
Dark Lover (Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 1)
Date undefinedI'm not a romance reader, I'll admit that upfront, just not my gig, so I won't even bother reviewing that bit. A friend lent me some of the series, without saying they were romance novels, and I read a couple out of politeness.
J.R. Ward really falls flat on providing a remotely believable history for her world, the vampires are a different species than humans rather than undead, but what's a vampire novel with out undead? So we have undead vampire slayers instead, who dust when stabbed in the heart, like vampires in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," and are easily identified because they smell like baby powder, and loose all of their pigmentation. The vampires have ancient society with it's own customs and even their own language, but the names of the warriors and protectors of their kind read like a preteen goth girl picking names for her future children: Rhage, Tohrment, Phury, Zsadist, and Wrath.
And the technical writing is even worse, at times sounding like a Bulwer-Lytton contest entry, "His abs looked like he was trying to smuggle paint rollers under his skin," what? The conversations between characters are awkward and hard to read, especially between the vampires where every other sentence ends with "my brother." The characters are the horrible cliches and the only part of reading this I enjoyed, was making fun of it. I have to say, in complete honesty this is the worst book I've ever read.
