Black Dagger Brotherhood Book Eleven: Tohr's Story
Published by NAL/Penguin
Publication Date: March 2012
Disclosure: Kindle Ed. Blogger Purchased
Publication Date: March 2012
Disclosure: Kindle Ed. Blogger Purchased
Ever since the death of his shellan, Tohrment is a heartbroken shadow of the vampire leader he once was. Brought back to the Brotherhood by a self-serving fallen angel, he fights again with ruthless vengeance- and is unprepared for a new tragedy. Seeing his beloved in dreams—trapped in a cold, desolate netherworld—he turns to the angel to save his former mate, only to despair at the path he himself must take to set her free. As war with the lessers rages, and a new clan of vampires vies for the Blind King’s throne, Tohr struggles between an unforgettable past, and a future that he doesn’t know he can live with… but can’t seem to turn away from.
J.R. Ward
Probably the most deeply felt and meaningful of the BDB so far, The highs and the lows of emotion, conflicts, lessons, tests, danger. If Ward has one skill in writing it's foreshadowing and multiple climax with denouements. She brings your hopes up and then dashes them down as if you're Sisyphus. She's also really, really good at setting up some of the storylines for the next book. This story gets back to the heart of the storylines: Love, sex and conflict.
It's also the longest of the books at 592 pages Hardcover and 948 KB/11Kplus locations in Kindle. On Amazon, both run just under $15. Mass-Market Paperbacks will be out in October at 576 pages from Signet at just under $8 (Amazon).
This book has a couple of storylines:
A continuity question occurred to me: If Butch cannot disapparate because he is only half-vampire, how is it that other half vampires like Beth, John Matthew, Rehv and Xhex can? It's stated in the first book that Wrath is the only full blooded vampire left so it makes sense then that the rest are less than full-blooded.
Here's what ticked me off.
This was a steep price on Kindle. Now when Kindle lowers their price with "special offers" it means there is someway of advertising on the device as compensation for the lower price. When you pay the full amount, no ads.
J.R.Ward has long been associated with product placement/name dropping whether compensated or uncompensated. So, while I expect to see Armani, Grey Goose, Escalade, etc... Recognizing the bulk of her readers are women in this tale we see women's cosmetics and fragrances (Clinique, Bobbi Brown, Chanel). But it's scaled back and not too intrusive.
What we do have, and that which I find cheesy, is a live hyperlink to a website within the text of the story. It's for 1stdibs.com (see below), and it is A LIVE LINK to a REAL, COMMERCIAL WEBSITE that has no bearing on the story. It doesn't bring an artistic variable in; it's just advertising. Period. For some reason this just ticks me off.
Maybe it's that I have to disclose when a publisher loans or grants me an e-galley, book or ARC.
Why would you place a live link in a story without compensation? Should a writer, whether compensated or not for product placement or hyperlinking, have to do the same? It constitutes a material or perceived relationship between the company and the writer/publisher/agent. What do you think? Do you find this an issue?
Other than that, it is the best of the entire series. It's full of heart and steamy! Highly Recommend to Must Read!
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It's also the longest of the books at 592 pages Hardcover and 948 KB/11Kplus locations in Kindle. On Amazon, both run just under $15. Mass-Market Paperbacks will be out in October at 576 pages from Signet at just under $8 (Amazon).
This book has a couple of storylines:
- Quadratic Equations—not content with love triangles, Ward brings in quadrangles as well as conflicts where the third variable in the equation is an idea.
- Tohr, Lassiter and No'One working out centuries of their individual and intertwined stories, as well as
- Quinn/Blay/Saxton/Layla and
- John Matthew/Xhex/The Warriors and the role of women.
- Vampire Governance and the new guys in town: The Brotherhood of Bastards can seem at once honorable and like, well, bastards. And they can't decide whether they're noble or pricks or noble pricks. And, it's clearer and clearer that the glymera is the downfall of the race.
A continuity question occurred to me: If Butch cannot disapparate because he is only half-vampire, how is it that other half vampires like Beth, John Matthew, Rehv and Xhex can? It's stated in the first book that Wrath is the only full blooded vampire left so it makes sense then that the rest are less than full-blooded.
Here's what ticked me off.
This was a steep price on Kindle. Now when Kindle lowers their price with "special offers" it means there is someway of advertising on the device as compensation for the lower price. When you pay the full amount, no ads.
J.R.Ward has long been associated with product placement/name dropping whether compensated or uncompensated. So, while I expect to see Armani, Grey Goose, Escalade, etc... Recognizing the bulk of her readers are women in this tale we see women's cosmetics and fragrances (Clinique, Bobbi Brown, Chanel). But it's scaled back and not too intrusive.
What we do have, and that which I find cheesy, is a live hyperlink to a website within the text of the story. It's for 1stdibs.com (see below), and it is A LIVE LINK to a REAL, COMMERCIAL WEBSITE that has no bearing on the story. It doesn't bring an artistic variable in; it's just advertising. Period. For some reason this just ticks me off.
Maybe it's that I have to disclose when a publisher loans or grants me an e-galley, book or ARC.
Why would you place a live link in a story without compensation? Should a writer, whether compensated or not for product placement or hyperlinking, have to do the same? It constitutes a material or perceived relationship between the company and the writer/publisher/agent. What do you think? Do you find this an issue?
Other than that, it is the best of the entire series. It's full of heart and steamy! Highly Recommend to Must Read!
I would be thrilled and grateful if you used my link to buy the book:
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