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Dark Lover (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #1)

J.R. Ward

Start date: January 1, 2020

Finish date: January 31, 2020

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Jul 08, 2010 Yodamom rated it liked it

Interesting story and charaters. The story was predictable in many parts, but still very entertaining. I am not sure I am interesting in the characters enough to read the next book in the series

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Feb 12, 2009 Cindyg rated it it was amazing

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OMG...Beth is a regular girl doing regular girl stuff...not...regular anyways...when she sees someone outside her window she has no idea of the vampire king who has come to protect her. He has no idea that she is to be his queen. But he made a promise to a fallen warrior and he makes good on his word.
This was one hell of a read...although I hate the lessers...I tend to skim over them cause they don't deserve my time...anyways...J.R. has a way of bringing the pages to life, I could see the charac ...more

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Dec 03, 2009 Carrie rated it liked it

Shelves: romance, supernatural, vampire, 1st-in-a-series, part-of-a-series, urban-fantasy, paranormal-romance, j-r-ward, vaginal-urban-fantasy

Book One of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.
Pages 393

As I was reading I found that the basic storyline to be really interesting but the writing at times kind of got to me. The "funny" moments seemed forced. I wasn't a fan of the names but, I can over look that. Wrath at times reminded me of the Beast from Beauty and the Beast, and yes I mean the Disney cartoon. But over all good book, can't wait to read the second book in the series. I'm looking forward to know what happens to some of the ot ...more

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Jul 24, 2010 Lori {Romancing the Dark Side} rated it really liked it

Shelves: vampires, my-ebooks, paranormal-romance

I can't say I fell in love with Wrath right from the beginning, it took me a while to like him, he was just too dark and tormented. I have to say he changed my mind as I kept reading, he definitely grew on me. The more I saw his interaction with his brothers and Beth I realized there was more to him than meets the eye.

Ward does a great job of her character and world building. I enjoyed her take on vampires, very unique. The scenes where all the brothers were together were some of my favorites, t ...more

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Dec 26, 2009 Louise / BetweenTheCovers MonsterMaX3 / Lou is Cullenized rated it really liked it

REVIEWED for Between the Covers blog:

I’m going to pause for a moment and get something out of my system so that I may continue this review in a professional manner.

*insert BDB fan girl scream HERE*

Okay... All better.

The Black Dagger Brotherhood is a Paranormal Romance / Urban Fantasy series about vampires. But, not just any vampires. *shakes head* No, this series is about warrior vampires.

I stumbled upon this series years ago... only Dark Lover and Lover Eternal were out at the time... by rec ...more

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