Lover Enshrined (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #6) in Crazy Challenge Connection

Mar 16, 2019 Carrie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: vampire, paranormal-romance, mgr

Well that was a lovely welcome back to the series. It's been a few years, between book 5 and 6 for me...Why did I wait so long?

I liked Cormia a lot. I can't wait for more John. And dude shit's getting real now in this world. ...more

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Dec 11, 2010 D.G. rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: spicy, reviewed, paranormal-romance

What a disappointment. It seems as if Ward didn't know what to do with the book so she decided to give all the Brothers temporary lobotomies so they behaved like strangers instead of the men we’ve met in previous books.

For all their talk of ‘brotherhood’, none of the brothers gave Phury any support, advice or help (Z has tried but he obviously had bigger issues going on.) If somebody you care about has a substance abuse problem, is your first instinct to throw him to the curb? Wouldn't you try t ...more

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Feb 03, 2013 April rated it liked it

Shelves: romance, sexy-naughty-books, reviewed, audiobook, ebook, amazon-review-posted, paranormal, vampires, 2013

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Another angsty brother! This book had it's moments but mostly it dragged. It felt very repetitive at times.

Things are changing in the lessening society again, now the Omega has a son. There are some huge holy hell type revelations this go around. I am a bug fan of a certain fallen angel who joins their ranks!

I am not a fan of the whole upper crust vampire world. It kinda acts counter productive to Wrath as king. And the whole snobbery is a ...more

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Jun 17, 2010 Melissa Wehunt rated it it was amazing

Shelves: paranormal, vampires, romance, erotica, war, paranormal-romance, brothers-and-sisters, relationships, warriors, parent-child-relationships

Wow. This installment is jam-packed with heart wrenching stuff. Talk about a long and winding road to my HEA. ;) Just a few vague points that I'm happy about. Of course the ending for Phury and Cormia was great. Finding Thor was awesome! I always new he'd come back. Or at least, have a place in the series again. The angel was a cool addition. I look forward to seeing him again. JM, Blay, & Quinn were also a great storyline and I look forward to their future issues. I'm a bit bummed about Lash, b ...more

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May 06, 2021 Shan ~A~ rated it it was amazing

Shelves: crime, family, audio, borrowed-hoopla, romance, millionaire-billionaire, virgin, paranormal, in-series-or-trilogy, favorites

This story is at the top of my list for in this series. I loved the overall story and that is where the 5 stars come from. J.R Ward has built this world and characters that I continue to fall in love with. And the world continues to have more and more added layers along the way.

Phury and Cormia are the couple that gets most of the focus, but that paled in comparison to everything else that was going on between these pages.

The thing that gutted me the most was the scene between a brother that h ...more

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Jul 22, 2009 Charlotte (Buried in Books) rated it really liked it

Shelves: urban-fantasy, vampires

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I can't bring myself to call this a 'Paranormal Romance', of course there is a HEA, but it's not front and centre in this tale of the Brothers - there's too much going on, which isn't a bad thing. It's just then once you've dealt with JM and Xhex, JM and Torhment, Blay and Quinn, Lash, Rhev, Z and Bella, Phury and the Wizard, there isn't much left for Phury and Cormia.

For me this book was about Phury and his battle with the wizard, about him understanding that he can't fix everything. Change was ...more

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Oct 08, 2019 Marla rated it liked it

Shelves: with-reservations, romance, award-winner, challenged, sexy, series, vampires, paranormal, adult, lgbt

3.5 stars. Phury volunteered to be the Primale of the species to create more Brotherhood warriors by procreating with all the Scribe Virgin's Chosen. Another dark tale of lust and love, but with some important plot advances. Not sure what I can say without giving away spoilers, so I will just document in my Black Dagger Brotherhood summary below and forego my normal Likes & Dislikes lists.

I'm not a huge fan of this series, because it is so dark, I'm not a fan of the Lessers and the religious asp 3.5 stars. Phury volunteered to be the Primale of the species to create more Brotherhood warriors by procreating with all the Scribe Virgin's Chosen. Another dark tale of lust and love, but with some important plot advances. Not sure what I can say without giving away spoilers, so I will just document in my Black Dagger Brotherhood summary below and forego my normal Likes & Dislikes lists.

I'm not a huge fan of this series, because it is so dark, I'm not a fan of the Lessers and the religious aspects make me uncomfortable. I really enjoyed Rebecca Zanetti's Dark Protectors vampire warrior romance series more or Lara Adrian's Midnight Breed series, but I like this much better than Gena Showalter's Lord of the Underworld series which was so dark and twisted that I abandoned the series.

With-reservations:
sodomy, rape and accusations of rape, sexual situations, violence, murder, drug abuse, kidnapping, non-consensual sex, religious sex and proceation, matricide & patricide

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Lessers: (view spoiler)

Black Dagger Brotherhood & Allies & Enemies: *** SUPER SPOILERS *** (view spoiler)[
Vampire abilities - drink from vampire of usually other sex, teleportation, strength and speed
Bella - vampire friend of Mary, shellan of Zsadist "Z", kidnapped by Lessers (Book 2), Bella's brother Rhevenge is the Reverend, Bella kills Lesser O (Book 3)
Beth, Wrath's shellan - tough gorgeous reporter, half vampire who survives her transition with the help of the purebred king Wrath (Book 1)
Blay - John's classmate and friend (Book 4), Blay loves Quinn (Book 6)
Butch - Ex-cop, Brian "Butch" O'Neal, homocide detective who gets kicked off the force for police brutality, who is interested in Beth until he meets Marissa, moves in with Vishous "V" (Book 1), V sent Marissa to Butch in secret room, Butch descended from Wrath, so they put him through transition and he survives, then her marries Marissa, Butch can sense lessers and can suck the essence of lessers, so essence doesn't go back to the Omega, Omega placed part of his pinkie inside Butch (Book 4)
Darius - antique and fine thing lover, loved Beth's human mother, Beth's father, Fritz's master (Book 1)
Fritz - Darius, then Wrath's devoted doggen servant, shorter lived but can tolerate sunlight
Havers - Marissa's physician brother, heartbroken over his shellan's death (Book 1)
Jane - Dr. Jane Whitcomb, Chief of Trauma Division, Oujia board says young Jane will marry VISHOUS, shot by lessers but Scribe Virgin sacrifices her songbirds to bring Jane back to V as a manifestation (Book 5)
John Matthew - young deaf vampire before change, memories of brotherhood & violent dreams, moves in with Tohrent and Wellsie to train (Book 2), skilled with guns, goes through transition, prior sodomy attack prevents him from having sex (Book 5)
Layla - Chosen vampire that serves the Scribe Virgin, used to feed Brotherhood and bear their children (Book 2)
Mary Luce - plain suicide hotline human counselor, survives cancer & barren, sign language, falls for Rhage and tames his Beast (Book 2), teaches Zadist to read (Book 3)
Marissa - Wrath's shellan until she releases him, takes a fancy to Butch (Book 1), Marissa drinks from Reverend/Rehvenge who loves her, Havers tries to control her then kicks her out, founds Safe Place to help vampire mothers and children, marries Butch (Book 4)
Phury - multi-color hair, prosthetic right leg, calm celibate twin, found and saved his twin Zadist, Phury in love with his twin Z's shellan, Bella (Book 2), Phury is virgin & addict & doesn't want to sleep with any of the Chosen except for Cormia, abolishes the Chosen and Primale roles & introduces choice (Book 6)
Quinn - John's classmate and friend (Book 4), Quinn is a man-whore, Blay loves Quinn, King Wrath makes Quinn John's bodyguard to save Quinn after he attacks cousin Lash saving John, Quinn's family disowns Quinn and they are killed by Lessers (Book 6)
Rhage "Hollywood" - cocky attitude, stronger, fights bare handed, sex legend, Hollywood beautiful, loved to eat, cursed by Scribe Virgin for 200 years when he gets violently angry/horny, he literally turns into a dragon-like Beast, now has beast forever to save Mary (Book 2)
Rhevenge "The Reverend" ~ symphath, drug lord, owner of vampire club Zero Sum (Book 3)
Tohrment "Tohr" - devoted hellen to Wellsie, takes over brotherhood when Wrath became King, disappears after pregnant shellan Wellsie killed by Lesser O (Book 2)
Wellsie - Tohr's pregnant shellan, killed by Lesser O (Book 2)
Wrath - 300 year old blind, telekinetic vampire non-practicing pure blood king, leader of the brotherhood (Book 1), must be king after Tohr leaves (Book 4)
Vishous "V" - tattoo around his left eye, Red Sox cap, black driving glove on deadly left hand, future seeing, computer genius (Book 1), attracted to Butch (Book 3), V into S&M and bondage, V's secret S&M den, V loses his visions, cursed hand can heal Butch, V fed human Butch and can now track him, V watched Butch and Marissa's first intimate moment (Book 4), V is Scribe Virgin & Bloodletter's son, Young V read hidden books as an escape from camp life and abuse, V's favorite book was Darius's diary, V's first sex was claiming his victory in the camp by sodomizing loser, V destined to be pure-blood Primale for Brotherhood to procreate with Scribe Virgin's Chosen until Phury volunteers (Book 5)
Zsadist "Z" - chronically late, skull trimmed hair, scarred, pierced and marked with slave tattoo, stolen as a baby and tortured for 100 years, he's a little unstable, angry twin, abused blood slave, sex slave making him incapable of normal sex, gets physically ill at the thought of sex and physical contact, falls for Bella (Book 3), sings again after his daughter, Nalla is born (Book 6)
*** ENEMIES ***
Lash - Quinn's cousin, Omega's son, vampire Lesser, able to eat and have sex even as a Lesser, kills his parents, leads Lessers to kill glymera (Book 6)
Mr. X - promoted to Fore-lesser, leader of the lessening society
Omega - supernatural leader of Lessers
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Jun 22, 2014 ☘KathyD☘ rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: genre-romance, zz-2014, genre-romance-series, genre-paranormal, au-ward-j-r, book-kindle, audio-audible, character-vamps, genre-erotica, genre-funny-funny

Reread July 2018
If J.R. Ward wasn't so good at intertwining various stories into her books, I probably would have skipped this one as I reread the series. Phury is not my favorite brother. For me, he is very two dimensional and lacks any real character until the very, very end. For her part, Cormia feels like a throw away character...not interesting enough to weave into future or past stories, but necessary for this story. There is enough going on with other characters that this story holds my i ...more

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