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Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #7)

J.R. Ward

Start date: July 1, 2013

Finish date: July 31, 2013

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Feb 14, 2010 Lauren⁷ 💜 rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, fantasy-sci-fi-romance-romantasy, romance, hot-hunky-hero, sexy-sexy-sexy, cover-i-love, library-has-a-copy

Almost all of the reviews I've read of this series rave about how talented the author J.R. Ward is, and after reading Lover Avenged I have to agree. For me this was a radical departure from the romance I usually read, for the most part when it comes to my romance reading, I read Harlequin Blazes and Historical romance, but I am so glad that I did depart, as this has turned me into a huge Vampire romance fan, and Paranormal romance fan! When an author can make you not only like but sympathize wit Almost all of the reviews I've read of this series rave about how talented the author J.R. Ward is, and after reading Lover Avenged I have to agree. For me this was a radical departure from the romance I usually read, for the most part when it comes to my romance reading, I read Harlequin Blazes and Historical romance, but I am so glad that I did depart, as this has turned me into a huge Vampire romance fan, and Paranormal romance fan! When an author can make you not only like but sympathize with a drug lord and pimp (albeit he doesn't beat or brutalize the girls who work for him, and he has bouncers to deal with the johns if they get rough with the girls), she is talented, but nevertheless in his business he is a nasty guy, I am of course talking about Rehvenge, the hero (or anti-hero such as the case may be) of Lover Avenged. Ah Rehvenge, in spite of his profession, I absolutely loved him, J.R. did an excellent job of balancing out the nastiness of his profession by making Rehvenge in his personal life with his family and friends a very nice, caring, sweet, and sexy (although he's drop-dead sexy no matter what) guy. He is a total alpha-male, very strong, very sexy, brooding, but he never turns cavemanish or stalkerish, and he is just so darn sexy, did I mention I Love Him? And there is also a lot of humor in this book, both between the Brotherhood (I laughed so hard at their bantering) and the other characters in the book, which also helps balance out the darker elements. And Ehlena the heroine who's a nurse also very nicely tempered Rehvenge. Ehlena was no shrinking violet, she was strong and feisty and not afraid to put her life in danger for the one she loves (hence the title), she could give just as good as he gave, he is a very strong alpha-male yes, but she was never a doormat and she never let him run roughshod over her. And I liked her a lot. With Rehvenge and Ehlena, it was a classic example of black and white, right and wrong, etc. And I felt they balanced each other out very nicely. There are also about 3 or 4 subplots going on in this book, and those where very enjoyable as well, albeit a little hard to keep up with. And this is by far one of the sexiest books I've ever read, I mean whew, the love scenes are H-O-T. And J.R. has taken blood-drinking, one of the archetypical Vampire traits and made it incredibly almost unbelievably sexy, she made it something you wouldn't mind having done to yourself if these guys where real, I'm not going to divulge how and spoil it, but trust me, it is sexy. And the cover also goes down as one of my most favorites ever, whoever chose the guy for the cover could not have chosen better, Rehvenge's description in the book and the guy on the cover match perfectly, if not better, right down to those intense and sexy amethyst eyes. YUM is all I can say about him. But J.R. did not sacrifice character development or a genuinely good story, for sexiness and the romance. There is excellent and very strong character development of all the characters from Ehlena and Rehvenge to the character's in the sub-plots, she really gets you into the character's minds, who they are, why they do what they do, their thoughts, their feelings, their motivations. Clocking in at close to 550 pages, is part of the reason why. And the story is also very good, interesting and for the BDB universe completely believable. This is an excellent introduction to the Vampire romance genre, but it's not for the feint of heart though, as I mentioned Rehvenge is a drug lord and pimp, the love scenes are very vivid, there is a fair amount of violence in this book, and some extremely graphic imagery, strong R rated language, and it's generally very gritty and raw. But to conclude my review, I LOVED IT! ...more

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Oct 04, 2011 Thenia rated it really liked it

Shelves: series, paranormal, reviewed, vampires, 2011

The story continues, this time from new and older points of view. We get to see through Rhev's eyes, as well as Xhex's, Elhena's and one of my favorites, John's, as well as Wrath's (which was kind of a surprise).

The Brotherhood keeps evolving and finding their way out of some problems and into others. Wrath is finally embracing his destiny, Rhev discovers his and John makes a decision that makes me want to jump into the next book right away!

A good series with lots of ups and downs and, yes, stil ...more

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Mar 15, 2012 lia rated it really liked it

Shelves: paranormal-romance

With this book, Ward begins to expand from merely writing about BDB to writing about every characters in the books. Well, i guess anything to prolong a successful series.

Anyway, this is the story of Rehvenge, Bella's brother and the owner of ZeroSum to cater the rich and the heavily armed.
Rehvenge has a secret, he is part symphath, a banished colony of vampire. However, Rehvenge starts falling for Ehlene, a nurse and a vampire untouched by corruption and violence that colored his world.

Rehven ...more

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