So, I know that this series is not new, but it is new to me AND I LOVE IT!!! A friend of mine introduced me to this series a month ago and whenever I am in between books I go through withdrawals. So, here is another series that I will be blogging about while I go through the series so for those of you who have not read the series, I hope you enjoy it just as much as I have.
J R Ward has a series called the Black Dagger Brotherhood. The Black Dagger Brotherhood is about this group of warriors who fight these other guys known as the lessers. The lessers have a goal, which is getting rid of the Brotherhood. They pretty much sell their soul to the devil, they do not feel pain, they do not age, but their appearance changes. The Brotherhood protects other vampires as well as innocent lives. The Black Dagger Brotherhood consists of Wrath, Rhage, Zsadist, Phury, Tohrment, and Vishous.
Each book, like a lot of other series, is based on each character and their background. So the first one, Dark Lover, is about Wrath. He is the last pure bred in the Brotherhood. While reading this book, I pictured him with Dwayne Johnson's body (because he is freakin HUGE), Zak Bagans head (because he has strong features such as the character) with long black hair (just to give you a little visual0. When one of the brothers asked Wrath to take care of his daughter while she goes through the change (a change usually happens around the age of 25). Wrath was against it. He did not feel like being a babysitter. Well, after the brother has died in a car explosion, Wrath felt like he needed to do it in honor of his brother.
Little did he know, he fell in love with her.
Her name is Beth. She never knew her father. She never knew she had vampire blood in her. She is a reporter for the local paper, and is friends with the police department. There is also a detective (Butch) who has a HUGE thing for her, but she feels nothing for him. So that is where Wrath comes in to take her in and be there for her while she starts going through the change (which was any day). While he is taking care of her, she starts to get to know him a little more personally.
While she is getting to know him, she is getting to know her heritage as well since her father was a part of the Brotherhood as well. The more she gets to know, the less scared she is of what she is about to become.
When you are reading Dark Lover, you are also being introduced to the other brothers, which you get to know through each book. You are introduced to the brothers, characters involved with the lovers that are being brought in (such as Butch who is friends with Beth), Wellsie (who is Tohr's wife), the butler, other lessers, etc.
The thing that sets this series apart from the others that I have collected over the years, is that each chapter, there is different aspects. You have the point of view of the main character, then you have one of the character being brought in, and the point of view of the lessers. This ties everything together in what is happening in each book, and the books are continuous. This is with EVERYBODY in the series.
I hope you will pick up this book, which is the first one of the series and you fall in love with it as well. You have a lot of elements to these books: suspense, mystery, romance, sex, violence, comedy, horror, the list just goes on.
So, if you have just one genre you are into, you will still love these books, because it goes for everybody because of the mix of everything. Enjoy!!!
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