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The Beast (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #14)

J.R. Ward

Start date: May 1, 2016

Finish date: May 31, 2016

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Jan 17, 2017 namericanwordcat rated it really liked it

Shelves: 4-star-romance, plain-h-or-h, library-kindle, paranormal-romance-series, library-loan, favorite-couples, vampire, same-couple, married, cursed

Mary and Rhage are my favorite BDB couple so it is wonderful to spend time with them.

This book is charming and achey. The whole book thinks about the desire or not for childern in good and complicated ways.

It is a bit of a love story with the girl they wish to adopt and a healing journey.

This is a pleasure read for fans of the series as the cast is here and lots of secondary love stories and plots. I would not recommend it if you haven't read the series but if you have prepare to enjoy yoursel ...more

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Apr 27, 2016 Cc added it

Shelves: dnf

I've come to the end of The Black Dagger Brotherhood. I just couldn't get into this book and didn't care about the characters any longer.

I really enjoyed the first nine or ten but it's been down hill for me every book since then. ...more

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Apr 16, 2016 Felicia (Ferishia) rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: pr-vampire, pr-other, ebook, kindle-format-ebook, hard-back, audible-purchase, pr-angels, series, pr-psychic, fav-author

I just finished this and I'm a bit let down. Yes, it was WAYYYYYYY better than THAT book before it. Yes, it was mainly focused on Rhage and Mary, which was good. Yes, there were a few parts I found really interesting and occasionally funny. But I was a little bored with it kinda. I was expecting...something else. This was really not it. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't "omg" awesome like her previous books were.

And even though I hate it, because I'm not a fan of either Xcor or Layla, I'm going to r ...more

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