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Gabriela, I agreee with the LAL as you can see from my post hehe. She set up virtual signing for that book this last Monday at 6:30 am CST and she was sold out within 9 hours if that's anything to go by. She was totally shocked as she had even doubled the amount of VS books she usually does. I was fortunate enough to receive it as a late Christmas gift and absolutely cannot wait to get my copy. I was sooo upset when WARDen first said she was only going to give them a Novella then when she announced the full book I couldn't even sit still. I have been waiting for these two to have their HEA since she first put them together and have been following her snippets from the book that she puts up. I'm dying to read it and hope it redeems the series because LR really disappointed me.
That's true. I've seen it about the signing and I was very happy for her. Unfortunately, I live in Brazil and I'm still cautious about bying things online. Especially products from abroad. I read the series in English though, I usually do when the book's american or british. So in my case, I'll just have to wait even more to read about Q/B. But I know it would be worth it. Like you, I'm looking foward for them to be together since the first time they kissed - it was really sweet - and I was overjoyed when she announced there'd be a book. I guess J.R. wasn't expecting such a response about this couple, maybe because it's a m/m romance and we know that a lot of people still don't accept it. In fact, I've read some awful things online about it. She must have lost some readers risking this subject and I'm glad she did it.
Oh I'm sure that she did risk losing some readers because of it but I am very proud of her stand and listening to her readers. When she first said she was going to just make them a novella, everyone was outraged and upset. They wanted them to have a full story and WARDen listened to her fans. It was a bold move, one that cost her some of her audience but if the way that book sold is anything to go by, she should realize now that she just made her faithful readers even more faithful. Sherilyn Kenyon is another author that is stepping into the m/m territory too. She's another author I thoroughly enjoy and her book comes out next month. As a pansexual, it's gives me hope when authors start taking risks like this and giving their audience diversity because this is what the world is made of. It's not just black and white and too many authors are afraid to take that step over that boundary into unknown territory. I applaud WARDen for doing so and absolutely can't wait to see how she plays their relationship out.
I hadn't thought about the bonding-but since you mentioned it, I thought about it and at not time in the book does JR Ward mention "spices" when Thor and Autumn are together. I think Wellsie was the only woman he'll ever bond with in that sense but maybe Thor will love Autumn (and stop being an ahole and treat her better). Just a thought.
No, I agree. She didn't mention it. That's my point, though. I think the whole bonding thing is marvelous and, even if it may sound a little naive, I had the idea that when a vampire bonded with someone it was forever. It may be ridiculous to think that if a tragedy happened, as it did, he would be condemned to spent the rest of his life alone but it seemed like the thing for me. Once you bond, there's no way back. No way forward. Unless it's with her. I got the bond idea like this, Tohr aparently 'loving' someone else - and even more the way things went just seemed forced and unrealistic for me
I agree as well. I have this mentality of wanting everlasting true love in the novels I read. Whether they are perfect or they fight or whatever, in the end you know the couple was made for each other. I think I get a lot of that attitude because I read the Dark Series by Christine Feehan well before finding this series. In hers, when one mate dies, the other follows in death because they just can't live without their soul mates. To me that's a bittersweet beauty as far as romances go and I have that mentality that that's how it should be.
Yeah, that's sooo it for me. Once and for all. I don't think real life is like this, I mean obviously, and not that it should be. But I have this habit of being a pratical person in reality and completely a dreamer in fiction. In real life I totally get it that some things weren't meant to last forever, even if they can be good and special. I understand some things were meant to be wonderful and temporary, even though most times it hurts when it goes away. But in this particularly BDB case, the bonding goes as an everlasting feeling. I think Ward should have gone with it completely, or at least kill Tohr too. Harsh, I know, but like Brandi said, some bittersweet love stories are mostly worth it.
Totally agree. I thought either Tohr should have been allowed to pass unto the Fade like he was trying to do, as harsh as that is and as sad as it would have been, or I think she should have found another ingenious way of bringing Wellsie back. I mean hell, she brought Mary back from cancer and Doc Jane as a ghost, you mean to say she couldn't have found some way for Tohr and Wellsie to get their love back? I think that would have been a lot more believable and likeable by the readers. We were given the opportunity to get to know Wellsie. Unlike Darius who died in the first chapter of a book, we learned about Wellsie and Tohr and came to love them for the life they shared together and then she slams us with her and the baby's death, then Tohr mourning so hard he wants to go into the Fade to be with his family and then all of a sudden, he's with Autumn? WTF? Yea I could gripe about this all day lol. Point is, she messed up pretty big with LR and I hope she realizes that and doesn't make that kind of mistake again.
Brandi I so agree with you. You wrote everything that I felt and continue to feel about Wellsie and Tohr.
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Gabriela, I agreee with the LAL as you can see from my post hehe. She set up virtual signing for that book this last Monday at 6:30 am CST and she was sold out within 9 hours if that's anything to go by. She was totally shocked as she had even doubled the amount of VS books she usually does. I was fortunate enough to receive it as a late Christmas gift and absolutely cannot wait to get my copy. I was sooo upset when WARDen first said she was only going to give them a Novella then when she announced the full book I couldn't even sit still. I have been waiting for these two to have their HEA since she first put them together and have been following her snippets from the book that she puts up. I'm dying to read it and hope it redeems the series because LR really disappointed me.
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That's true. I've seen it about the signing and I was very happy for her. Unfortunately, I live in Brazil and I'm still cautious about bying things online. Especially products from abroad. I read the series in English though, I usually do when the book's american or british. So in my case, I'll just have to wait even more to read about Q/B. But I know it would be worth it. Like you, I'm looking foward for them to be together since the first time they kissed - it was really sweet - and I was overjoyed when she announced there'd be a book. I guess J.R. wasn't expecting such a response about this couple, maybe because it's a m/m romance and we know that a lot of people still don't accept it. In fact, I've read some awful things online about it. She must have lost some readers risking this subject and I'm glad she did it.
Oh I'm sure that she did risk losing some readers because of it but I am very proud of her stand and listening to her readers. When she first said she was going to just make them a novella, everyone was outraged and upset. They wanted them to have a full story and WARDen listened to her fans. It was a bold move, one that cost her some of her audience but if the way that book sold is anything to go by, she should realize now that she just made her faithful readers even more faithful. Sherilyn Kenyon is another author that is stepping into the m/m territory too. She's another author I thoroughly enjoy and her book comes out next month. As a pansexual, it's gives me hope when authors start taking risks like this and giving their audience diversity because this is what the world is made of. It's not just black and white and too many authors are afraid to take that step over that boundary into unknown territory. I applaud WARDen for doing so and absolutely can't wait to see how she plays their relationship out.
I hadn't thought about the bonding-but since you mentioned it, I thought about it and at not time in the book does JR Ward mention "spices" when Thor and Autumn are together. I think Wellsie was the only woman he'll ever bond with in that sense but maybe Thor will love Autumn (and stop being an ahole and treat her better). Just a thought.
No, I agree. She didn't mention it. That's my point, though. I think the whole bonding thing is marvelous and, even if it may sound a little naive, I had the idea that when a vampire bonded with someone it was forever. It may be ridiculous to think that if a tragedy happened, as it did, he would be condemned to spent the rest of his life alone but it seemed like the thing for me. Once you bond, there's no way back. No way forward. Unless it's with her. I got the bond idea like this, Tohr aparently 'loving' someone else - and even more the way things went just seemed forced and unrealistic for me
I agree as well. I have this mentality of wanting everlasting true love in the novels I read. Whether they are perfect or they fight or whatever, in the end you know the couple was made for each other. I think I get a lot of that attitude because I read the Dark Series by Christine Feehan well before finding this series. In hers, when one mate dies, the other follows in death because they just can't live without their soul mates. To me that's a bittersweet beauty as far as romances go and I have that mentality that that's how it should be.
Yeah, that's sooo it for me. Once and for all. I don't think real life is like this, I mean obviously, and not that it should be. But I have this habit of being a pratical person in reality and completely a dreamer in fiction. In real life I totally get it that some things weren't meant to last forever, even if they can be good and special. I understand some things were meant to be wonderful and temporary, even though most times it hurts when it goes away. But in this particularly BDB case, the bonding goes as an everlasting feeling. I think Ward should have gone with it completely, or at least kill Tohr too. Harsh, I know, but like Brandi said, some bittersweet love stories are mostly worth it.
Totally agree. I thought either Tohr should have been allowed to pass unto the Fade like he was trying to do, as harsh as that is and as sad as it would have been, or I think she should have found another ingenious way of bringing Wellsie back. I mean hell, she brought Mary back from cancer and Doc Jane as a ghost, you mean to say she couldn't have found some way for Tohr and Wellsie to get their love back? I think that would have been a lot more believable and likeable by the readers. We were given the opportunity to get to know Wellsie. Unlike Darius who died in the first chapter of a book, we learned about Wellsie and Tohr and came to love them for the life they shared together and then she slams us with her and the baby's death, then Tohr mourning so hard he wants to go into the Fade to be with his family and then all of a sudden, he's with Autumn? WTF? Yea I could gripe about this all day lol. Point is, she messed up pretty big with LR and I hope she realizes that and doesn't make that kind of mistake again.
Brandi I so agree with you. You wrote everything that I felt and continue to feel about Wellsie and Tohr.
