Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #7) in Crazy Challenge Connection

Apr 19, 2017 Mamacita aka MawMaw rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, paranormal, already-have

5 "Absolutely. Positive." Stars

Wow! Holy shit! Shocked As Hell!
This is so far the absolute best of the series! I was stunned @ how much I loved this book. Was never a huge Rhev Fan, but just Wow! It left me Speechless!

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Apr 20, 2018 Jamie (TheRebelliousReader) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: from-my-shelf, romance, angst, adult, 2018, fantastic-hero, great-side-characters, paranormal, erotica, all-of-the-feels

4 stars. I've given every book from book 3 on down a 5 stars, even the two most controversial ones in the series I loved. I went in thinking that if I can get through and still love books 5 and 6 I will love this one with no problem. Yeah, not the case unfortunately.

I was very excited about this book because I actually really love Rehvenge. I think he's a very interesting character and I was so excited to get to know him more and see where his story would go. I was severely let down. I didn't li ...more

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Nov 21, 2013 Pheonix Fanfiction rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: a23-black-dagger-brotherhood-jrward, 0-favorites, 0-books-read-in-2013, 0-books-read-in-2018

Some of my fav. Quotes and some of my thoughts while reading this book (This is going to be long, I just couldn't stop highlighting!);

9.0% “Let’s see what your temperature is,” she said, bringing an electronic thermometer over from the desk.
“It’s higher than usual.”
Her amber stare flipped up to his. “Your arm.”
“No, your eyes.”
She blinked, then seemed to shake herself. “I seriously doubt that.”
“Then you underestimate your appeal.” 'm enjoying Rehv's flirting :)"

9.0% “Clearly his next tat need Some of my fav. Quotes and some of my thoughts while reading this book (This is going to be long, I just couldn't stop highlighting!);

9.0% “Let’s see what your temperature is,” she said, bringing an electronic thermometer over from the desk.
“It’s higher than usual.”
Her amber stare flipped up to his. “Your arm.”
“No, your eyes.”
She blinked, then seemed to shake herself. “I seriously doubt that.”
“Then you underestimate your appeal.” 'm enjoying Rehv's flirting :)"

9.0% “Clearly his next tat needed to be more along the lines of a donkey.
’Cuz he was acting like an ass.”

13.0% “Jesus Ch—” A grunt cut off the swearing.
Wrath poked his head out of the window and whispered, “You’re supposed to be a good Catholic. Isn’t that blasphemy?”
Butch’s tone was like someone had pissed out a fire on his bed. “You just threw half a car at me with nothing but a quote from Mrs. fucking Doubtfire.”
“Put on your big-girl pants and deal. love these two! Yay for more Wrath! :D"

18.0% “The sound of her voice in his ear did something the hot shower, the mink throw, and the eighty-degree ambient air temperature couldn’t. Warmth spread out from his chest, beating back the numbness and the cold, suffusing him with…life. Wow this book is long!"

19.0% “Later, much later, she would reflect that those four words were the precipice. Are you there, Ehlena?
Truly it was the beginning of everything that followed, the starting line of a harrowing journey disguised in the form of a simple question.
She was glad she didn’t know where it would take her. Because sometimes the only thing that got you through hell was that you were in too deep to pull out.”

24.0% “Christ, don’t you ever knock?”
“It’s Lassiter. L-A-S-S-I-T-E-R. How is it possible you’re still getting me confused with someone else? Do I need a nametag?

31.0% "Oh Rehv trying to get the phone <3 <3 <3"

32.0% “You’re out alone?” he growled.
“Yes, and you can cut the he-man crap. I’ve got a gun under the seat and I know how to use it.”
A subtle laugh came through the phone. “Okay, that’s a turn-on. I’m sorry, but it is.”

38.0% “Here at this empty table, though, in this empty penthouse, he felt the ache in his chest and knew it for what it was: Regret.
It would have been extraordinary to deserve Ehlena.
But that was just one more thing he wasn’t ever going to feel.” I'm starting to fall for Rehv! And what the hells going to happen with that letter?!?!

41.0% “It’s simple. I don’t think you should date anyone.” Rehv moved in even closer, until he could see the flecks of gold in her eyes. “But I’m not just anyone.”

42.0% “It had been so long…forever…since she’d been held by anyone. Since she’d been something other than a caregiver. Since she’d felt like her breasts and her hips and her thighs were anything other than parts to be covered up before she went out in public. And here this beautiful, not-just-anyone male wanted to be with her for the sole purpose of pleasing her.”

42.0% “Ehlena did just that, wrapping her arms around him and melding them hip-to-hip.
And…shit, he felt something. From out of nowhere, a flare of sensation broke through his numbness, the radiating wave dim, but very definitely warmth he could sense. For a split second he pulled back, fear spearing into him…but his vision stayed in three dimensions, and the only red he saw was from the glow of the digital clock

43.0% “Yeah, I’m catching the scent as well,” he said roughly.
Except he couldn’t have bonded with her, could he? Did it really happen that fast?
“For some males it does,” he said. “Evidently.” I CANT STOP HIGHLIGHTING!!!!!!"

44.0% “she was glad he was the one watching her boy.
Watching John Matthew, she meant.
Because he wasn’t her boy. In the slightest.” I can't wait for John and Xhex's story!!!"

45.0% “He’d totally bonded with Ehlena.
And that meant—at least in this moment, when he was so desperate to have sex with her—his vampire side was winning out over the symphath part of him.
His need for her triumphed over the darkness in him.
It had to be the bonding hormones, he thought. Bonding hormones that had shifted his internal chemistry.”

45.0% “You ask me why I would come back?” she said softly. “And the only answer I have is…how could I not.” Her eyes flipped to his. “It doesn’t make sense to me on some level, but then, feelings don’t make sense, do they? And they don’t have to. Tonight…you gave me things I not only haven’t had for a long time, but I don’t think I’ve ever felt.” She shook her head”

45.0% “You keep showing up here? Being who you are?” There was a pause. “I’m going to fall in love with you.”
I need to stop highlighting!!!!!!!!"

53.0% “Beth’s arm tightened around his waist and she put her face on his chest. The acrid, smoky scent of fear rose up from her, clouding her natural rose fragrance. And yet even so, she nodded and said, “Your queen doesn’t run, either, you know.

54.0% “This was why people got mated, Rehv suddenly thought. Fuck the sex and the social position. If they were smart, they did it to make a house that had no walls and an invisible roof and a floor that no one could walk on—and yet the structure was a shelter no storm could blow down, no match could torch up, no passage of years could degrade.”

57.0% “The knowledge that he had what she needed and wanted, that she was living off of what beat through his veins, was erotic as fuck.”

58.0% “As he laughed softly with satisfaction, she both heard the sound and felt it as his chest rumbled. And then he cuddled her closer. “You know, with you against me like this, I’m not cold I have highlighted so many quotes (20) and I'm only just halfway through!!!!"

59.0% “As he undid the laces on her cheapo Keds sneaker, he whispered, “No matter what you wear…to me, you will always have diamonds on the soles of your shoes.”

59.0% “He seemed so fragile as he gave himself up to her, and she realized that if anyone tried to hurt him, even though he could more than take care of himself, she would commit murder. To protect him, she would kill.”

61.0% “You’re looking at that chick like you want to roll her up in a taco and put your hot sauce all over her.” I love Qhuinn but I need to stop highlighting or my review is going to be sooo long!!!"

65.0% “There was a patter of hi-how’re-yas, but the tight knot of linebacker-and-then-some warriors was solely focused on the doorway he’d come through.
Yup, you fucked with their boy Wrath and you were going to get fed your future—right up your own ass.”

68.0% “As he and Beth hit the stairs, he called out to his brothers, “Thanks for having my back once again.”
The group stopped and turned to face him. After a beat of silence, they formed a half circle around the foot of the grand staircase, each making a thick fist with his weapon hand. With a great whoomp! of a war cry, they went down on their right knee and slammed their heavy knuckles into the mosaic floor. I LOVE THE BROTHERS!

69.0% “John Matthew was her well of soul, as the symphaths called it, or her pyrocant, to the vampires. Her essential weakness.
And she was very weak when it came to him.”

87% “Girl, you don’t know shit.”
“Fuck. You. He fed from me. My blood is in him. So I know he’s still breathing.”
Long pause and then a short chuckle. “I’m getting a picture of why he liked you as much as he did.”

88% “Rehvenge hadn’t been all good. Not by a long shot. But she had looked into his eyes and smelled his bonding scent and felt his kind hands on her body. And at ZeroSum, she had seen the pain in him and heard the strain and desperation in his voice. Whereas before she had assumed all that was either for show or out of disappointment that his cover was blown, now she had a different picture of it.
She knew him, goddamn it. Even after all the shit he had left out, even after the lies of omission, she knew him”

89% “With all due respect,” she echoed Xhex’s words, “I’m going.”
“Even if it means I pull my men out?”
“Yes.” There was a long inhale, as if the king were thinking of how to shut her down nicely. “You don’t understand, my lord. That’s my…”
“Your what?”
On impulse, to give her position some added weight, she said, “That is my hellren.”

91% “You’re his female,” Bella murmured. “Aren’t you.”
“Yes.”
“You were on his mind the last time I saw him. It was clear how he felt about you.” Bella’s voice grew even stronger. “She has to go. Even if you can find him, he’ll live only for her.”

91% “You know,” he said, “this is why I love you so much.”
Her tone was heartbreakingly warm. “What do you mean?”
“You don’t ask me to go inside because it’s cold. You just want to make it easier for me to be where I want to stand.”

92% “I stay with you because, whether you have sight or not, I see the future in your eyes.
...
“Payne nailing him in the face woke him up.
George brought him back his independence.
But Beth handed him his crown.”
....
“There is no place I would rather be.” She put her head on his chest. “You’re my man.”

95% “Although given the way she held his eyes, she wasn’t leaving without him.
“Ehlena…” he whispered hoarsely. “No.”
She nodded and mouthed, We’re getting you free.”
...
“Go! he mouthed. When she shook her head, he glared at her. Why not?
She put her hand over her heart and mouthed back, Because.”

96% “As he found her palm, he mumbled, “Why…?”
She had to smile. “You ask that a lot, you know.”
“Why did you come?”
After a moment, she said quietly, “I followed my heart.”
...
“She was going to save him.
Not her blood, but her heart was going to save him.”

97% “I didn’t want you to know about any of this. I wanted to…be normal for you. I wanted you to feel safe around me…and I wanted to be with you. That’s the why of the lying. I didn’t mean to fall in love with you. I didn’t want that for you—”
“What did you say?”
“I…I’m in love with you. I’m sorry, but that’s the way I feel.”
...
“Except then she dropped her mouth to his and whispered, “Don’t hide from me ever again. I love you the way you are.”

97% “When her touch drifted down to his barb and she felt the extension, he froze, praying she wasn’t disgusted by the way he was built.
“I want to feel this inside me,” she groaned against his lips.
As her words sank in, Rehvenge’s body exploded in orgasm again.”

97% “What are you doing for the rest of your life?”
Ehlena’s breath caught. “I thought…you said you couldn’t stay in Caldwell.”
His massive shoulders, which were still bandaged, shrugged. “Thing is, I can’t leave you. Just isn’t going to happen. Every hour next to you just makes that reality all the more clear. I literally…can’t go unless you make me.”
“Which is isn’t going to happen

98% “Here was the thing: Xhex was his female, whether she wanted to be or not. And he was not the kind of male who was going to sit on his ass when his mate was out there in a world of hurt.
He was going to do exactly what had been done for Rehvenge.
He was going to avenge her.
He was going to bring her home safe…and make sure that the one who had taken her ended up in Hell.”

99% “Life is such a glorious trauma, is it not,” Wrath murmured.
“Yeah.” Rehv kissed the top of Ehlena’s head, thinking that before he had met her, he would have cut the glorious out of that statement. “That’s exactly what it is.”

100.0% "Wow, it is one int he morning, I only wanted to read for 10 mins before I went to bed, 3 and a half hours ago!! I loved it, I loved seeing Wrath and Beth again - excited for book 12 now! I have lots more quotes but I'll just put them in the review tomorrow :) This was probably even with Zsadists story! Im in love with Rehv! Just wish Id had more reading time this week! Sooo excited to start John and Xhex's story tomorrow after that cliffhanger!!!! Night all!" ...more

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Oct 29, 2018 ☼♎ Carmen the Bootyshaker Temptress ☼♎ rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy-paranormal, z-2018-book-wars, erotic, romance, paranormal, romance-paranormal-romance, paranormal-demons, paranormal-romance, z-2018-bw-oct

There was so much emotions in the book that it made it really intense. There was sadness, anger and secrets that may split a family apart if it isn't told but may also bring them close together. Rehvenge has been struggling to keep his distance from the Brothers because of his secrets. Everyone had so much going on with themselves in this book. It was just so crazy that you needed to make sure you paid attention to who story was being told. As always its an great Brothers read. ...more

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Oct 21, 2016 Sunshine✰✰✰ rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: paranormal-vampires, fantasy-urban-fantasy, fantasy-paranormal, romance-paranormal-romance

As usually, excellent book. Quite long but you get a bit of everyone's story. I knew Rehvenge was something more than the tough guy and Xhex is growing on me. I'm excited about the Wrath twist. :-) ...more

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Feb 13, 2014 Rachel C. rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2014-goodreads-reading-challenge

This series is evolving into something I love. I like that the series is still sticking to paranormal romance, but that it is revolving more around the plot. At first, following characters from the lessening society was grating on my nerves, but now having the extra perspective is intriguing and definitely anchors me in the story. Something that also first got on my nerves over the last few books was following so many characters, but it's starting to grow on me. I like that most everything inter ...more

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