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Lover Eternal (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #2)

J.R. Ward

Start date: February 1, 2013

Finish date: February 28, 2013

Discussion: Challenges: What's the Rush

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Challenges: What's the Rush

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Jul 23, 2010 Amanda rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fangs-and-fur, romance-contemporary, read-in-2010, romance-paranormal-urban-fantasy

This is my second BDB book, and I have to say they just keep getting better and better. The writing style and world building is excellent, and the characters are as good as you will ever get.
Mary is pretty cool, and Rhage is a sexy Man-beast...The tension and conflicts between them, as well as the tenderness, is very real and very well written. J.R. Ward has an amazing way with developing her characters, after a while you really get to know them. Also what I love is that each member of the BDB ...more

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Jun 19, 2010 Akaria Gale rated it really liked it

Shelves: best-loved-books, vampires

I heart this book so much I wish I could marry it. First of all it was my introduction to the BDB. After trying to read DL twice I gave up and hoped this would be better. Thank the Virgin it was not only better but has ended up being one of my favorite books in the entire series. This book is pure, perfect romance.

Rhage is such a beautiful male. Inside and out. Of course he's gorgeous. His openness is charming, endearing and a little scary. I understand why average woman Mary is wary of this hun I heart this book so much I wish I could marry it. First of all it was my introduction to the BDB. After trying to read DL twice I gave up and hoped this would be better. Thank the Virgin it was not only better but has ended up being one of my favorite books in the entire series. This book is pure, perfect romance.

Rhage is such a beautiful male. Inside and out. Of course he's gorgeous. His openness is charming, endearing and a little scary. I understand why average woman Mary is wary of this hunk of male persuing her so relentlessly but that's what I love about Rhage. He fell in love with her voice first and kept on falling for the whole woman.

The relationship between Rhage, V and Butch aka the troika was hilarious and sweet. They take such care with him after he comes back from unleashing the beast. You don't expect it from huge, leather wearing, cold hard killers. They also have fun busting his chops and he takes it all in stride.

The Good:
90% of this book. Really there's very little that's not good. Mary's struggle to accept Rhage's love is intense and believable and Rhage just hangs in there determined to be by her side. His "I'll love you enough for both of us" brought tears to my eyes. In fact, get the tissues. LE will make you bawl like a baby. Several times. From about the middle to the very end. Him holding the moon in his hand. Tearing up. Her running out of the house saying "I'm not ok"? Crying. In the hospital she's praying to stay just a little longer so she can be with Rhage? Bawling. The end? OMFG just weeping.

Other good things about LE? The first glimpses that Zsadist might not be the crazed psychopath he projects. Bella, Mary's neighbor and friend sees something in this dangerous male and damn if she's not going after it.

The Bad:
This seems to only have gotten worse as the series has gone on. Product placement and slang and these oh so bizarre names. On first read I couldn't believe it. Vishous? Rhage? Tohrment? WTF? It grows on you and after a while you won't be able to spell any word in the english lahnguage without a rahndom 'h' thrown in.

The Ugly:
The lessers suck. If you haven't read LE before suffer through their parts because Mr. O is one creepy MOFO and he's in the next book too. Other than that these are the worst villans ever. I wish she'd created a villan that I was really scared of. Unfortunately that doesn't happen until LEn. ...more

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Aug 08, 2010 Andrea (mrsaubergine) rated it it was amazing

I couldn't put this book down, and now that I've finished it I can't stop thinking about the characters. That's the mark of a good book. This story had the advantage of an open storyline so that, even though we saw very little of the pairing from Dark Lover, there is an ongoing crisis drawing the reader to book 3 in the series. I can't wait to get started on it next. ...more

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