#1 New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward’s Black Daggar Brotherhood series continues as the cold heart of a cunning predator is warmed against its will… Ruthless and brilliant, Vishous, son of the Bloodletter, possesses a destructive curse and a frightening ability to see the future. As a pretrans growing up in his father’s war camp, he was tormented and abused. As a member of the … abused. As a member of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, he has no interest in love or emotion, only the battle with the Lessening Society. But when a mortal injury puts him in the care of a human surgeon, Dr. Jane Whitcomb compels him to reveal his inner pain and taste true pleasure for the first time—until a destiny he didn’t choose takes him into a future that cannot include her….
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Love this series it’s original with great characters
These J R Ward books the whole series is outstanding the characters seem like you care for them it’s a modern vampire romance kill a bunch of stuff book all of them have issues and all of them come to terms
J.R. Wards Black Dagger Brotherhood series is awesome. Characters are built well and continue in the other books. It is a great series
I love the Black Dagger series, and Vishous’ and Jane’s story is one of my favorites!
My Vishous. Look, I hate Jane. The fact that Ward gave V a damn ghost for a mate is ridiculous. Of all the Brothers, next to Zsadist, he needed a mate that was alive and could give him vein. To love him unabashedly and support him. NOT a selfish human doctor that only wants to study the vampires. Who then gets shot and dies in Vishous’s arms. Allllll wrong.
Vishous should have been with Butch at least and at most a working threesome couple of Vidhous x Butch x Marissa if everyone is honest with themselves.
Perfect! Along with Z and Wrath, V is a huge favorite and I am so freaking glad that Jane was just perfect for him. This was an amazing read and I freaking adored it!!
Best series ever!
Loving this series and this one did not disappoint. Lots of twists and turns. I’m impatiently waiting to get to the next one on my e-reader. 🙂 In this one, I especially loved the growth of the scribe virgin and what Vishous did for her in the epilogue. <3
I’m finally typing up my review of Lover Unbound by J.R. Ward after 9 years. I know I’m really far behind. I was still in the Navy though and was reading like crazy. I did not take up reviewing books until I got out of the Navy in 2011. Now this is the second time I’ve read Lover Unbound, but it actually feels like I’m reading the book for the first time. I definitely missed Vishous’s story and how he met his shellan. I feel like most of the story I read too fast the first time, so I didn’t remember everything in details back in 2009. I also totally forgot about the biggest part in his story, but I will not tell since it will spoil it for readers who have not read the series before.
Vishous is what I would consider the hard core vampire of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. He’s cursed with a hand that is used as a deadly weapon to the lessers and also to other vampires/humans. It’s also used to help his buddy Butch, which in Lover Revealed shared Butch’s own curse that he acquired, when he was with the lesser kind. After reading Lover Unbound a second time, I realized how much I still love Vishous’s character and especially who he ends up with. He’s unforgettable and very unpredictable at times. He also has a mouth on him. He doesn’t hold anything back at all. He tends to break rules as well, so he’s definitely the major bad vampire of the group.
The female character Dr. Jane Whitcomb who happens to save Vishous one day is not a normal female that Vishous would end up with. In fact, she’s complete opposite, but I have to say she made Vishous actually have feelings or at least have a soft side. He didn’t really know what love was until he met Jane. He’s very protective of Jane in the story and she knows how to hold her own, even after being kidnapped and thrown into the BDB world. She’s an independent strong-willed woman who definitely as meant to be with Vishous.
Now, fair warning, this book is a tear jerker especially towards the end. I swear J.R. Ward makes my emotions go haywire in each of her BDB books. There’s also Phury’s side of things in the book and John Matthew’s. John Matthew is going to go through a change in this book and so his friends Quinn and Blay. I love reading the side character stories in these books because it leads up to their own books. I also love going back to the beginning of where these characters came into play in the BDB world.
Overall, this book definitely won me over a second time and I give it 5 stars. If you haven’t dived into the BDB world then I highly recommend you do, especially if you enjoy PNR and different takes of vampires.
Now, I’m moving onto Phury’s book next and can’t wait to read his book for a second time as well. It’s been so long.
Lover Unbound, the 5th book in the BDB series was great. I would have gave it 5 stars if not for Phury. Truly that Brother rubs me the wrong way every time he is on the page. And he had too many pages in this book. I know his book is next, but man I could’ve done with a lot less Phury. Anyways V and Jane’s story was sweet, kinky, and very angsty. In this book there was a lot of different povs as J.R. Ward tends to jump from story line to story line almost like a soap. You get half a chapter of this couple then it shoots to another or this other brother, or the lessers etc. And while that kind of layout doesn’t really bother me it was really pronounced in this book compared to the last 4 so it took some getting use too.
Poor Vishous had some real mommy issues in this book. Never knowing who his mother was boy was he shocked when the Scribe Virgin came to him and let him know that she was in fact his birth mother, and that she was going to make him her “Primale”. The Primale is the male that is mated to all the chosen, lives in the fade, and has to make babies with all his 40 or so mates. Like a stud bull or something. And she didn’t care one bit that he didn’t want to be her breed stud. So he was understandably mad at mommy dearest. Also as V’s past with this father the bloodletter is revealed and you find out the horrid torture he endure while his mother did nothing, yea she wasn’t smelling like roses at all. V had some major emotional issues from his past. I loved the way he let Jane in and showed her the real him. Even as close as he was with Butch she and him just clicked. Jane was this amazing human surgeon. She saved V when he landed in her er with a stab wound and a gun shot to the chest. Jane didn’t have the greatest of lives but she was smart as hell and made something of herself. What I really loved about Jane was that she didn’t look like most heroines. She had short hair, glasses, flatter body and was more on the plain or average side when it came to her looks. I also loved that even though she wasn’t a knockout she was totally comfortable and confident in her skin. She knew who she was, what she wanted, and her worth. I also really liked how open minded she was. She was calm under pressure, was wholly accepting, and supportive of her male.
Vishous is one kinky brother. I loved the fact that even though V and Jane had kinky sex they made love as well. Something V had never done with anyone else. Jane and V really just kinda click like missing puzzle pieces that go together. I know a lot of readers are fans of Butch and V and wished they would have gotten together but I always just seen them as brothers and best friends so I was glad that the Warden didn’t put them together. I was glad that Phury stepped up for V and became the primale. I was hoping that he would be able to redeem himself in the act but instead he just brought Cormia over here to a place where she doesn’t know anything. She doesn’t know how to use a phone, where to get food, how the simplest of things work. She was completely alone, scared, and overwhelmed and he just pretty much abandoned her so he could go back to doing his drugs and lusting after his brother’s wife Bella. I already didn’t care for Phury from the way he acted like his brother Z was ruined but in this book my feelings for him started leaning towards dislike and I am so not looking forward to his book. Now John Matthew…. I want his book bad! I loved all the bonding him and Z have been doing. I also loved how Z really stepped up with teaching the classes and with JM. I really enjoyed the fact that this book was lesser pov free. Overall this book was a good addition to the series, but not one of my favorites.
Probably my most favorite story of all time.
I’m not entirely pleased with the way things worked out for Vishous. I’m not totally bummed either, but lots of tears in this book. I had hoped for a better solution to the issues he faced. I like how the book laid the path for Phury’s story as well. And I love reading more about John Matthew and how he grows. I’m not saying this was a bad book, but I was left a little unsatisfied at the ending.
This is a 4 stars for me. The real reason behind the rating comes from just the main couple in this book itself, I was more interested in the other couple that took a main feature in this book more than the couple that took the main focus of the book. Now that not to say that I did not enjoy this book,but it had it flaws, overall still a great addition. RECOMMENDED FOR 17+ PEOPLE EXPLICATED CONTENT IN THIS BOOK.
Black Dagger Brotherhood is one of my favorite series.