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Dark Lover (Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book #1)
by J.R. Ward

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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42899.Dark_Lover?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Dark Lover (Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book #1)" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169957160m/42899.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42899.Dark_Lover?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Dark Lover</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20248.J_R_Ward">J.R. Ward</a> 
 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7844476?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
 rating: 4 of 5 stars I'm a late comer to the sheer OMG hotness that is JR Ward. This is one SERIOUSLY sexy writer. <a href="/search/search?q=Dark+Lover&t=title">Dark Lover</a> is the first in the Black Dagger Brotherhood, which is a group of elite vampires who protect the rest of all the vampires from the Lessors. The Lessors are a group of soulless humans who eventually turn albino and smell like baby powder. (I mean, that is a cool characteristic! I've always thought baby powder had something subtly sinister to it ...) 
 
 Beth Randall, journalist and half-vampire, has lived until this moment blissfully unaware that she was half-vampire. Then her father dies and requests that Wrath, the king of the vampires and leader of the BDB, get Beth through her "change", which is a sort of vampire puberty, except that it's painful as hell and some people don't survive. Actually, it sounds a lot like puberty. 
 
 Big surprise - Wrath and Beth fall madly in lust/love with each other and get down to some serious sexx0ring. We're talking the kind of stuff that steams up the bedroom windows while you're reading it. The kind of scenes you pray to god that no one's reading over your shoulder while you're on your commute, but so good that you're not about to stop reading. 
 
 ... and the rest of the plot's pretty damn good too.
 
 Each subsequent book in the series deals with a different member of the BDB, so there's lots more to look forward to. 
 
 The only slightly nit-picky thing that took me out of the novel? The names of the BDB members: Wrath, Vishous, Tohrment, Zsadist, Rhage and Phury. PHURY?!? Maybe it's the English major in me, but the deliberate, wanna-be-goth punk misspellings really irked me. But to paraphrase Ward, "you can't really name a vampire Francis or Herman."
 
 Touche, JR. Touche.
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bookshelves: beachreads, romance
recommended for: paranormal, erotica, romance
status: Read in October, 2007 — I have a copy to sell/swap

I'm a late comer to the sheer OMG hotness that is JR Ward. This is one SERIOUSLY sexy writer. Dark Lover is the first in the Black Dagger Brotherhood, which is a group of elite vampires who protect the rest of all the vampires from the Lessors. The Lessors are a group of soulless humans who eventually turn albino and smell like baby powder. (I mean, that is a cool characteristic! I've always thought baby powder had something subtly sinister to it ...)

Beth Randall, journalist and half-vampire, has lived until this moment blissfully unaware that she was half-vampire. Then her father dies and requests that Wrath, the king of the vampires and leader of the BDB, get Beth through her "change", which is a sort of vampire puberty, except that it's painful as hell and some people don't survive. Actually, it sounds a lot like puberty.

Big surprise - Wrath and Beth fall madly in lust/love with each other and get dow...more

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