Book Review: Dark Lover

Dark Lover by J.R. Ward

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Dark Lover is the first book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. The Black Dagger Brotherhood is a group of vampire warriors whose job is defending the vampire race against the lessers. The lessers are evil, undead creatures – kind of like zombies without the brain eating.

Each book in the series focuses on one of the brothers and their love interest. There is a continuous overall story that runs throughout the books but you could probably pick up a book in the middle of the series and not have too hard of a time figuring out what was going on.

This first book is the story of Wrath, the leader of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. When his fellow warrior Darius asks him to look out for his half-human daughter should anything happen to him, Wrath is hesitant. He’s a tough warrior who doesn’t form attachments to anyone, especially humans and/or females. When Wrath actually meets Darius’s daughter Beth, the attraction is so strong that Wrath must fight to maintain control.

This book has all the elements of great, smutty vampire romance. The only part I didn’t really like were the scenes with the head of the lessers. He was too sadistic for my taste and I would rather have been reading steamy sex scenes than fight scenes.

I read the print version and listened to the audio book version of this book. The audio version was not quite as good as reading the book. For some reason the narrator gave Marissa (and only Marissa) a really weird Slavic accent. The book says that all the vampires have slight accents so if he did an accent for her he should have done it for all them. I’m glad he didn’t though because it was really bad.

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