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These Two Books:
SYNOPSES:
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LOVER ETERNAL Black Dagger Brotherhood 2
Mass Market Paperback 464 pages Kindle 327 KB
Mass Market Paperback 464 pages Kindle 327 KB
LOVER AWAKENED Black Dagger Brotherhood 3
Mass Market Paperback 464 pages Kindle 353 KB
Mass Market Paperback 464 pages Kindle 353 KB
What's The Deal?:
Genre fiction at its finest, and its worst, its toughest and its sappiest. Yes, the books are sappy as all get out, the characters make dumb mistakes with each other, the linguistic conventions annoy me, the product placement and typos are annoying, and yet I can't put the damn things down. At midnight, with my husband soundly asleep beside me, I have my i-Pad propped up as the twenty-first century flashlight-under-the-covers for adults with a BDB novel. Since I have the i-Pad I can finish one and download another in moments. I like series with and sometimes without an erotica component. But without the erotica good writing is key along with some other catch.
With BDB it seems to be the characters, in particular the guys. Yet I can't figure out why. I have a hard time imagining what they look like via their descriptions and I'm not into pro-wrestlers or muscly men. It's either the driving plot lines and character arcs, interspersed with pathos and tough guys discovering their inner teddy bears that has caught me.
The stories are filled with the hope that people who love or loved hope had each week that Greg House would stop being a total asshat and leave the dark side. Ward is very good at backstory and at weaving one volume in the series into the next such that if one grabs you at all the purchase of the next entry in the series is a given.
The stories are filled with the hope that people who love or loved hope had each week that Greg House would stop being a total asshat and leave the dark side. Ward is very good at backstory and at weaving one volume in the series into the next such that if one grabs you at all the purchase of the next entry in the series is a given.
These Two Books:
In LOVER ETERNAL, the impossibly handsome Rhage (aka Hollywood) is figuring out that his fucking and fighting lifestyle, adopted to quell the beast within—who I like to think of as Barney, has made his life an empty parody of life. Still Rhage/Barney is handy in a fight. He meets a woman who just does it for him. It's the Plain-Jane meets Mr. Gorgeous model. In this case though Plain Jane, Mary has recurring Leukemia after a bone marrow transplant. That's never good and the future for everyone involved is on the line. Rhage/Barney/Hollywood discovers his inner humility.
In LOVER AWAKENED you have a real Greg House of a vampire, determined to get in his own way and hanging on to past hurts. And, then you find a woman of his "own kind." Throw in a twin with a celibacy vow and only one full leg and you have a love triangle that makes Edward, Bella and Jacob look like children (at least one of them is a child so I guess that's okay). Because of her determination to have him and his not to be had you get the kind of danger only people who are really pigheaded, and vampires, can find themselves falling into.
These two stories are so interwoven they are really parts one and two of the same story. They are also both connected to the first book in a couple of interesting twists. There's tremendous heartbbreak as well.
The World:
Vampires are strong in this world but susceptible to death and injury in quite a few ways, they also age, although slowly. They do eat and drink and human blood doesn't much sustain them. They must feed from other vampires of the opposite sex. The women are only fertile every few years and the gestation period is 18 months.
The species culture is old-worldish with classes of aristocrats, nobles, warriors and civilians. A class of humans, the doggen, serve the vampires.
The Black Dagger Brotherhood are from a warrior class of Vampire males of size and a certain facility with weapons who protect the species. The world's last pure bred Vampire, Wrath, is a BDB member who was born to the royal family but only recently taken the throne. He is nearly blind.
When someone dies, they "go into the fade," and are on another plane of existence.
The enemy is a troop of former humans called the Lessening Society who have had their hearts and souls removed by what is called the Omega. The individuals are called lessers and are all male. The strikes me as a pedophile or m/m sado-rapist who has a thing for whoever in his little gang of the undead gets in trouble. They neither eat nor drink, nor can they have erections. They are chosen for their psychopathic/sociopathic tendencies.
The antipathy between the naturally occurring Vampire Species is the result of a battle between the Omega and the Vampires' creator, the Scribe Virgin. She and the Omega live on a non-temporal plain reached through a ritual or as punishment. She creates and, jealous of her creative ability, he destroys her creation.
In each of the first three novels so far the story centers around a warrior finding his true love. We also have a human cop who is a sidekick. There is something strange about him physiologically. I think it will get even weirder.
Linguistic Convention:
The Vampires use English and the Warrior class is named after traumatic or angry emotional states. Other words, from their old language, are just modified English. I find this an annoying contrivance of no real purpose. I imagine the names come from the Scribe Virgin. By the way, as semi-deities go the Scribe-Virgin is, in my opinion, a bit of a meanie.
In LOVER AWAKENED you have a real Greg House of a vampire, determined to get in his own way and hanging on to past hurts. And, then you find a woman of his "own kind." Throw in a twin with a celibacy vow and only one full leg and you have a love triangle that makes Edward, Bella and Jacob look like children (at least one of them is a child so I guess that's okay). Because of her determination to have him and his not to be had you get the kind of danger only people who are really pigheaded, and vampires, can find themselves falling into.
These two stories are so interwoven they are really parts one and two of the same story. They are also both connected to the first book in a couple of interesting twists. There's tremendous heartbbreak as well.
The World:
Vampires are strong in this world but susceptible to death and injury in quite a few ways, they also age, although slowly. They do eat and drink and human blood doesn't much sustain them. They must feed from other vampires of the opposite sex. The women are only fertile every few years and the gestation period is 18 months.
The species culture is old-worldish with classes of aristocrats, nobles, warriors and civilians. A class of humans, the doggen, serve the vampires.
The Black Dagger Brotherhood are from a warrior class of Vampire males of size and a certain facility with weapons who protect the species. The world's last pure bred Vampire, Wrath, is a BDB member who was born to the royal family but only recently taken the throne. He is nearly blind.
When someone dies, they "go into the fade," and are on another plane of existence.
The enemy is a troop of former humans called the Lessening Society who have had their hearts and souls removed by what is called the Omega. The individuals are called lessers and are all male. The strikes me as a pedophile or m/m sado-rapist who has a thing for whoever in his little gang of the undead gets in trouble. They neither eat nor drink, nor can they have erections. They are chosen for their psychopathic/sociopathic tendencies.
The antipathy between the naturally occurring Vampire Species is the result of a battle between the Omega and the Vampires' creator, the Scribe Virgin. She and the Omega live on a non-temporal plain reached through a ritual or as punishment. She creates and, jealous of her creative ability, he destroys her creation.
In each of the first three novels so far the story centers around a warrior finding his true love. We also have a human cop who is a sidekick. There is something strange about him physiologically. I think it will get even weirder.
Linguistic Convention:
The Vampires use English and the Warrior class is named after traumatic or angry emotional states. Other words, from their old language, are just modified English. I find this an annoying contrivance of no real purpose. I imagine the names come from the Scribe Virgin. By the way, as semi-deities go the Scribe-Virgin is, in my opinion, a bit of a meanie.
SYNOPSES:
LOVER ETERNAL
by J.R. Ward
Published by Signet Eclipse/Penguin
ISBN# 0451218043
Publication Date: March, 2006
Book Two: Rage's Story
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...
Within the brotherhood, Rhage is the vampire with the strongest appetites. He’s the best fighter, the quickest to act on his impulses, and the most voracious lover—for inside him burns a ferocious curse cast by the Scribe Virgin. 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, is unwittingly thrown into the vampire world and reliant on Rhage’s protection. With a life-threatening curse of her own, Mary is not looking for love. Her faith in miracles was lost years ago. 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…
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LOVER AWAKENED
by J. R. Ward
Published by Signet Eclipse/Penguin
September 5, 2006
Book Three: Zsadist's Story
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. Of these, Zsadist is the most terrifying member of the Black Dagger Brotherhood.
A former blood slave, the vampire Zsadist still bears the scars from a past filled with suffering and humiliation. Renowned for his unquenchable fury and sinister deeds, he is a savage feared by humans and vampires alike. Anger is his only companion, and terror is his only passion—until he rescues a beautiful aristocrat from the evil Lessening Society.
Bella is instantly entranced by the seething power Zsadist possesses. But even as their desire for one another begins to overtake them both, Zsadist’s thirst for vengeance against Bella’s tormentors drives him to the brink of madness. Now, Bella must help her lover overcome the wounds of his tortured past, and find a future with her…
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