Book Review: Dark Lover, a novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood by J.R. Ward

Dark Lover by J.R. Ward
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

When you haven’t book reviewed a book in so long, in like a YEAR, and then you reread the book to do a book review…

Hello everyone, and welcome back to Caldwell, NY, where Brittany has totally forgotten about reviewing the first ever book of the Black Dagger Brotherhood and hasn’t book reviewed it in a LONG ASS TIME because she simply forgot. Oops. So she’s here to rectify that because reading the book twice as I did brought back memories and the fact that this book is so damned good that I want to read the rest of the series (which I will...after I get done with my other ones that I want to get to…)

Let’s start off with Wrath, the leader of the Black Dagger Brotherhood and basically the so called Blind King...but he really didn’t want the title of king. In fact, he liked being the leader of the brotherhood, and he really loves to fight. He’s the last of the pureblood vampires, and he wants to find the slayers and kill them for what they did to his parents. But when one of his warriors, a man named Darius, asks him to being his only daughter into their world, Wrath downright refuses to do it. He didn’t want to bring a woman he didn’t even know into their world, even though she’s about to go through the change.

But then Darius died and Wrath HAD to do it-even though he swore up and down and sideways and upways that he didn’t want to take his daughter from the life she knew into his world-there was no way in hell he wanted to do it. But then he scooped her place out and took a good look at her...and he fell in love with her, something he swore he didn’t want to do. Yes, they had great sex and all, but then when it became time to tell her who he was and who her father was and what she was about to be...well, it shocked the hell out of her.

And the queen to Wrath’s king’s name, you ask, is Elizabeth ‘Beth’ Randall, Darius’s daughter, who was a half human, half vampire woman living a normal human life before she even met Wrath, whom at the same time was supposedly mated to Marissa, but Wrath never even touched her, only for blood only, but when Beth came into the picture, all of that stopped, and yeah, it made Marissa mad, but then she met the human cop Butch…

Who tried to arrest Wrath after thinking that he was going to go in Beth’s apartment and hurt her, thinking that Wrath was a criminal (yeah, right) and gave her drugs as soon as Beth started going through the change, then becoming friends (like...besties) with Vishous/V...and also falling in love with Marissa and wanted to do it as slowly as possible after finding out that she’s a virgin and not wanting to hurt her.

When the lesser came and snuck around the house after making a deal with Havers and kidnapping Beth...that was the wrong thing to do, because Wrath felt like he wanted to tear the whole world apart just to find her. Which he did and got hurt really bad for it (it was after their wedding too, man, what the fuck) and Havers, the man that wanted to kill Wrath for hurting Marissa by trying to get Z to do it, only to find out that Z didn’t betray the brotherhood or the king, so he got the lesser to do it. So he worked and saved Wrath, who turned to his brothers and told them that he’s going to ascend the throne and let Tohrment run the brotherhood and also rebuild the vampire population, hurray!!!

I truly enjoyed this book, and I’m so sorry that I haven’t reviewed it the first time I read it, because OMG it was such a good book. Ten out of Ten stars for me, if I could give it that!!

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