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Dark Lover (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #1)

J.R. Ward

Start date: January 1, 2013

Finish date: January 31, 2013

Discussion: Challenges: What's the Rush

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Challenges: What's the Rush

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Aug 06, 2009 Shelleyrae at Book'd Out rated it liked it

The BDB series comes so highly recommended but I just handn't manage to get to it til now. It was pretty much what I was expecting, not that that is a bad thing, but I'm more a UF than PNR girl. I did get involved in the story though, I was three quarters through at 2am and had to force myself to put it down to get some sleep. It's hard to resist all those bad boys with hard bodies - but lets just say my dreams were sweet:)
What did bug me was the whole Mr X thing, I am sure I rolled my eyes ever ...more

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Aug 10, 2021 Gaijinmama rated it really liked it

Shelves: paranormal, romance-and-steamy-stuff, horror-scary-stuff

I guess one could call this a classic paranormal romance...back from the days of flipper cell phones and calling a cab rather than an Uber.
A fun read if you like this genre, which I do! So much so, in fact, that I put all my reading challenges challenge aside again and jumped into the next book in the series, Lover Eternal. I was not feeling well (side-effects of my second dose of COVID vaccine) and I needed comfort, which for some reason I always get from sexy vampires. If that's wrong, I don' ...more

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Apr 06, 2009 Adele rated it really liked it

This is Based on Wrath and Beth's Story.
OK so it tool me a while to figure out that wrath was blind.
and i kept getting annoyed with the whole Mr X bits.
Overall this book was really good. i skimmed through the who Mr X recruitment thing...I felt it wasn't all that relevant, until later in the book(i had an "AH! so that's why!" moment), but i still don't regret skimming through those bits.
vey hot in places. i loved the awkwardness of butch lol. ...more

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Mar 29, 2009 Netanella rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: vampires, author-j-r-ward

My first time reading this book I was blown away by the story and the characters and the realism. I quickly read through the rest of the entire series before coming up for air. After having been away from these books for many months, and re-reading the first book now, I can can still say that all those reviews that think this book is better than the second coming...they're right. ...more

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May 04, 2009 Charlotte (Buried in Books) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: paranormal-romance

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Dec 22, 2009 Samantha rated it liked it

Shelves: not-for-me, ebook-library, pnr, 2022

Upon re-read it's still the dialogue that gets me with this series. I don't expect it to be all doom and gloom, but the oddly adolescent jibes don't mesh or provide the comic relief that it seems the author is going for at times. Also there is one scene that uses paint rollers to describe the definition in the character's abs that was also so specific and unappealing that it was kind of funny to read. ...more

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