Dark Lover

Recommended to me by a coworker as “Epic Reading”. I have no complaints! This one is full of action, romance, blood and new experiences. Definitely a series I’ll continue reading.

I love this author and her books! This is one of my favorite ones!

This narrator has the personality of a teaspoon. No thanks

The book itself and the audio quality is good but this narrator sucks all the emotion and life out of the story. There is nothing sexy or entertaining about his voice. He sounds like a fossil of a man.

The story was good but I thought the narrator was very monotone. I got better once the story picked up and I got used to it.

Great series! I read them years ago and now I have been listening to the audio books.

J.R Ward is a true Sigma Female. No wonder the guys are flawless. These vampire homies are the perfect role modles for young dudes. Very Jersey Shore vibes love it soo much

it was good enjoy listening to it, it was really good and interesting to listen to

Excellent intro novel sets up so many stories to follow. I've read all the books in series thus far And to kill the wait time for newest release I began from 1 again inky this time I listen to rather than read myself. I love it!

Omg i enjoyed listening to this way more than i remember enjoying it when I attempted to read it years ago. It was almost a 5-star review but the self defense against pit bulls when they are already stigmatized - I couldn't accept it. I don't condone animal abuse of any type and I get that it was in self defense and this book was written in 2005 but pit bulls are the sweetest and I just can't overlook it.

This narrator bites it. Hurts my ears. Not good. Great book tho.

The recording has a bunch of important parts missing from it. The story was good as far as I can tell but I feel like I missed a lot.

So. There is no possible way for anyone to read the Romance Genre and NOT come across the Black Dagger Brotherhood. Even if you aren’t into paranormal vampires, at some point you will stumble upon them or be recommended this series. It’s. That. Good. The series started with this book back in 2005 and is still going strong with its biggest following ever. I’ve personally met J. R. Ward and let me tell you, she is full of passion still for this world that has been created. She likes to say she’s just telling the story to us, that she hasn’t ‘created’ any of this, she’s just relaying the images and information that’s given to her. I love everything about this awesome lady and I am so grateful for this series and how entertaining it has been over the years.

I honestly can’t remember how this was first recommended to me which is kinda sad. I did start the series from book 1, which you have to for this one. These books are not stand alones. It almost makes the series even more amazing because every book is not just the main female/male perspectives; you have multiple character perspectives throughout each book. There is so much going on in this world that it can’t be told from just 2 characters. I own used copies of the first 8 books, that’s all my teenage budget could afford at the time! This time around, I listened to the audiobooks. I feel I could remember most of what I had read years ago, and will advise it might be hard to follow everything with just audio, you might have to read a print copy haha!

So let’s start at the beginning here. We have a King vampire who is working hard physically to protect the race against their enemy (the Lessers), but not really into the rest of the actual king duties and stuff. He has a team of brothers that he fights with, but the numbers that were once great have dwindled over the years. We open with one brother asking his king to help his daughter through the transition of becoming a vampire. Almost as if he knows something is going to happen to him. As reluctant as Wrath is about this request, once tragedy strikes, he has no choice but to find this female and fulfil his promise to his brother. It was supposed to be a simple get in, help her, get out task… but he finds himself getting continuously tangled in with her and it’s hard to stay away.

Beth is just a simple reporter, but this current story has her being pulled into a world she never expected to be in, but was always meant to find. She knows something has always felt a little off with her life, and once she catches a mysterious stranger outside her apartment everything she thought she knew and believed in gets turned upside down. As she is introduced into this vampire world we learn more as well of how things work and how they exist.

Beth and Wrath are a whirlwind from the start. With the help of brothers and friends, they are going to learn to navigate this changing world. The extra characters really help paint the other scenarios happening around these main two, and they get you excited knowing their story is going to come and be developed further. There is a LOT going on in just this book, but it sets you up to dive into a whole world that will suck you in and never let you go.

I guess maybe some people are un phased by the narrator, but he honestly made this book completely unsexy. It’s a shame. I wanted to give this series another try since I haven’t read it in over 10 years and I never got to finish it. But I’m not sure I can listen to 13 whole hours of this.

Well, it is a great and amazing writer work it is more of unifying way of community. This writer is more in depth about the races need the leader of the one has to become and take the thrown. Since the loss of a friend made him look more into the surveil of their races and making ways to fight to prevent the estinition of the races.
I give this five start and have enjoy every bit of the book and love to read it again.

I first read this book in 2017 but really enjoyed rereading as an audible. JR has created a brotherhood of vampires complete with a King and Queen. I loved all the characters and their names are awesome.....like Wrath, Rhage, Vichous, Zsadist.....a warrior vampire deserves a warrior name.

So smartly written and thoroughly enjoyed.

I just can't rave enough about this book. From the characters to the plot. There are incredible sex scenes in the book, but the author doesn't allow the sex to overtake the actual storyline. J.R. Ward weaves her story in such a way that the imagination just brings the book to life. I'm so excited just thinking about starting the next book!!!! I also want to mention that the Narrator, Jim Frangione, did a very good job at reading this book. I just didn't like how the audio was produced. There were too many seconds between the end of one chapter and the start of the next..... and still, that doesn't take away from the absolute awesomeness of this book.

The narrator sounded like Zapp Brannigan from Futurama, but it fit the way the author writes about women in the book. It’s a little backwards and largely unnecessary for plot development, in my opinion.

Just some quick thoughts because I’m writing this on my phone. I really enjoyed this! The last 25% almost made me give this book five stars because I loved them so much.

This book took me a long time to finish. This was mostly because my library loan ended and then I had to get back on the waitlist but also because when I was reading it at first I don’t think I was really in the mood for this book. I just didn’t feel any motivation to pick it up. This time, I absolutely flew through it.

One of the things I loved about this book is the great mix of protectiveness from Wrath that still doesn’t remove all agency from Beth. I like a little protectiveness in my romances but I don’t like when the love interest is completely steamrolled by that protectiveness. I thought this book found a great balance of that and it made me love the romance.

I think this book does a great job making you care about all the characters. I definitely want to read more about them in later books. All the brothers were very interesting and you can tell that they all have interesting stories.

I will absolutely be continuing this series though I don’t know when I’ll pick up book two because I have so many books I own left to read but I’m very interested in seeing where this series will go.

Really good book. I'm actually a little annoyed at the title, because it makes it sound like it's a romance novel. I guess it is, sort of, but I was reading it more for the vampire angle than the romance part. Ah, well. Still a good read, and I'm looking forward to reading more in this series.

This book has been in my to-read list for forever and now that I finally got to read it I wasn't disappointed. I only regret that I didn't read it sooner. Also those warriors are hot as hell. The only minus parts were Mr. X's POV which I hated. He is just so disgusting somehow but I lived when I read more about Beth and Wrath and now I can't wait to read the other books.

I wasn't sure I was going to like it, it is a very violent book. But I became fond of a few of the very flawed and interesting characters.