Book Review - It's Vampire Time Again

So, I do like reading certain kinds of vampire romances from time to time. Here is my review of JR Ward's 'Lover Awakened', the third book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series for those of my readers who enjoy the occasional completely over the top alpha warrior amongst their gentler reads. If you're not sure this would be quite your thing, there are excerpts available. Just google the book title and author's name.

This is the third book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. I'm starting to realise I really, really like reading books in series. When they're done well, there's an added richness to being able to revisit characters who've appeared in previous books, or will appear as the main characters in upcoming books.

Lover Awakened features Zhadist and Bella. The realtionship between Zhadist and his twin bothered me at times. It made me sad, I think, because there seemed to be so much pain. Both Zhadist and Bella had suffered horribly in their pasts and it felt particularly great to see this hero find someone to love. He'd been so lonely for so long.

I've already decided I'll be re-reading these books at some point in the future. They could do with savoring a second time around.

As an aside, I don't think writers ever get sick of studying what makes for appealing characterisation in books. I don't think I ever will, anyway.

Jennie