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Dark Lover (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #1)
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Think of every bad vampire clichee you've ever heard of and now apply that to a book - you've just thought of Dark Lover by JR Ward. I will never understand Goodreads ratings, because this book is just ridiculously eye-roll inducing.
I should have quit while I was ahead - the fact that our female lead protagonist nearly gets raped in a back alley in the first chapter of the book should have been warning enough of what was to come. Then came the most ridiculous scene with our lead male protagnonist, the badass, sunglass-wearing, "hardcore rap" listening vampire Wrath. Yes, my first instinct when a burly looking male stranger breaks into my apartment is not to call the cops, but to have instant unprotected sex with him. That's just what I would do. And of course, it would be the best sex of my life.
Then came the names of the vampires in the Brotherhood. Rhage, Zsadist, Vishous, Phury, Rehvenge, Tohrment. Because nothing says "don't mess with me" like phonetically spelled names. I'm not making this up, those are really their names. *eyeroll number two*
The "plot", if you can call it that, is so stupid that it ends up reading like a caricature of good vs. evil. The Bad Guys are so evil and twisted, and the vampires are all-powerful. There's a big build-up to a show down, which lasts all of about 2 minutes in an anti-climactic let-down. Let's face it, this book is a sorry excuse of raunchy sex scenes strung together by a poor semblance of a plot. The characters are poorly developed - read, not at all - and are essentially 2 dimensional entities that react solely on lust and anger, it seems. Oh and don't get me started on the wedding! If I just found out I'm a vampire who will live for ALL ETERNITY, I probably wouldn't jump into a marriage for all that eternity with I guy I had just met a week ago!!
Was I in for a surprise when I read in the Epilogue that JR Ward finished law school. How can such a well-educated woman write a book where all the female characters are essentially brain-dead washcloths, apparently only put on this planet to have sex with? It pissed me off. Oh well, some people should just stick to being lawyers, and not writers.
This book SUCKED!!! I cannot believe it's been so highly recommended to me. Lowest common denominator reading if you ask me. If you're looking for paranormal or urban fantasy of any kind of substance, stay away from this series.
I should have quit while I was ahead - the fact that our female lead protagonist nearly gets raped in a back alley in the first chapter of the book should have been warning enough of what was to come. Then came the most ridiculous scene with our lead male protagnonist, the badass, sunglass-wearing, "hardcore rap" listening vampire Wrath. Yes, my first instinct when a burly looking male stranger breaks into my apartment is not to call the cops, but to have instant unprotected sex with him. That's just what I would do. And of course, it would be the best sex of my life.
Then came the names of the vampires in the Brotherhood. Rhage, Zsadist, Vishous, Phury, Rehvenge, Tohrment. Because nothing says "don't mess with me" like phonetically spelled names. I'm not making this up, those are really their names. *eyeroll number two*
The "plot", if you can call it that, is so stupid that it ends up reading like a caricature of good vs. evil. The Bad Guys are so evil and twisted, and the vampires are all-powerful. There's a big build-up to a show down, which lasts all of about 2 minutes in an anti-climactic let-down. Let's face it, this book is a sorry excuse of raunchy sex scenes strung together by a poor semblance of a plot. The characters are poorly developed - read, not at all - and are essentially 2 dimensional entities that react solely on lust and anger, it seems. Oh and don't get me started on the wedding! If I just found out I'm a vampire who will live for ALL ETERNITY, I probably wouldn't jump into a marriage for all that eternity with I guy I had just met a week ago!!
Was I in for a surprise when I read in the Epilogue that JR Ward finished law school. How can such a well-educated woman write a book where all the female characters are essentially brain-dead washcloths, apparently only put on this planet to have sex with? It pissed me off. Oh well, some people should just stick to being lawyers, and not writers.
This book SUCKED!!! I cannot believe it's been so highly recommended to me. Lowest common denominator reading if you ask me. If you're looking for paranormal or urban fantasy of any kind of substance, stay away from this series.
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Reading Progress
April 18, 2012
– Shelved
Started Reading
April 23, 2012
– Shelved as:
garbage
April 23, 2012
– Shelved as:
fantasy
April 23, 2012
– Shelved as:
paranormal
April 23, 2012
– Shelved as:
vampires
April 23, 2012
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my review: http://galelovescolors.blogspot.com/2...
Wow i thought the book had very well developed characters later on :/ i admit the first book is mad annoying, i didnt like it too much, but the series got a lot better. The charcaters were interesting, their stories were interesting. Dont take the first book too seriously, i feel like it was a first draft or something for Ward, she def did a better job later on.
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Thank you, unfavorable review writers, for saving me from more cliche crap!
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