J.R. Ward's stunning Black Dagger Brotherhood series
continues with a bang with LOVER REBORN! High-impact action
that begins on page one and continues through to the
bittersweet end! LOVER REBORN features something for every
reader, whether its violence, action, heartbreak, romance,
or just a good warm love story LOVER REBORN has it! J.R.
Ward manages to keep the stories fresh, the plots get
deeper, and she still maintains the same thrilling
characters that we have already fallen in love with. Fair
warning if this is the first of the Black Dagger
Brotherhood
books that you have read be prepared to go back to the store
and buy the other nine!
Initially I dreaded reading this book for two reasons. When
I first got LOVER REBORN I really pushed off reading it, I
was trying to pretend that it wasn't looking at me. So
naturally three days later I simply couldn't stand it any
longer. I had to know if this was it. You see I really
thought that LOVER REBORN was going to conclude this series.
Here we are ten books into the series and basically Tohrment
is the last of the brothers to have his story told. There
were some other minor characters that Ward introduced, but
the best of the best well their books had already come to
pass. Fortunately, I no longer think that this is the end of
the series. In fact, I was pleasantly surprised by my new
found interest in a few of the so-called minor characters
and a few of the new ones too! Ward did a remarkable job of
establishing a new line of brothers. She generated enough
interest in them these new/oldish characters that I will
definitely be trotting along beside Ms. Ward through books
number 11 through 50 in the years to come.
There was another concern that I will also address here
about my reading LOVER REBORN. I knew that this book was
going to be entirely different from all the others. I
completely did not like the fact that Tohrment did not get
his happily ever after with his Wellsie. The idea that
Tohrment could/would love another woman seemed totally
foreign and off mark for this series. I mean after all
through the entire series we have been told that there is
only one female for each male, one soul mate, and Tohrment
should have died when Wellsie did. I am completely grateful
that he did not die as I feel that he has played a crucial
role throughout the series. However, I could not fathom how
Ward was going to pull off giving Tohr his story and not
giving him Wellsie and still make me happy with this book. I
know life isn't fair, but I somehow wanted Ms. Ward to find
a way for Tohr to have his own fairytale ending with a dead
woman. Thankfully I didn't get my wish! However, I feel that
in many ways Ms. Ward pulled it off remarkably well and in
reality Tohr did get his happily ever after and at the end
of a book that is what really matters.
Tohrment is a lonely somewhat demented man. Of all the
brothers, he alone has survived the death of his mate. If
you call killing any Lesser in site surviving, if you call
having your mind torn apart and put back together with
sticky tape surviving, and if you call living as half a man
surviving -- well then Tohr is surviving. Not only did he
lose his soul mate, but he lost his children too. One died
before he ever knew it and the other drifted and grew on his
own while Tohr was overcome by loss, grief, and the never
ending pain that goes with it. Now he has been told that the
only way he can save his wife's soul is to find love again?
Really? As if he hasn't learned that lesson the first time....
No'One is somewhat confusing as a heroine. If you have not
read Lover Mine you are virtually in the dark about where
this woman comes from and her background for much of the
book. However, reading the series as I have I knew that she
was Xhex's mother who had been raped, brutalized, rescued by
Tohr and Darius, then made one of the Chosen 300 or so years
ago. This woman has been through hell and back literally.
Having the background information on her I really, really
wanted to see her smile and figure out what the true meaning
of love really was. I have to admit that I could not have
been happier to see her and Tohr struggle with their
feelings, their personal demons, and their ultimate choice
to learn to love together.
The only downfall that I found with LOVER REBORN pertains to
the utter lack of romance. The spark and sizzle is just not
here as it has been in prior books, which almost left me
wanting that something more. Ward seems to be moving farther
away from a romance book and into an urban fantasy. Please
Ms. Ward return the romance and all the steamy little extras
that we have come to love and know back to the brothers!
Ever since the death of his shellan, Tohrment has been
unrecognizable from the vampire leader he once was.
Physically emaciated and heartbroken beyond despair, he has
been brought back to the Brotherhood by a self-serving
fallen angel. Now, fighting once again with ruthless
vengeance, he is unprepared to face a new kind of tragedy.
When Tohr begins to see his beloved in his dreams—trapped in
a cold, isolated netherworld far from the peace and
tranquillity of the Fade—he turns to the angel in hopes of
saving the one he has lost. But because Lassiter tells him
he must learn to love another to free his former mate, Tohr
knows they are all doomed....
Except then a female with a shadowed history begins to get
through to him. Against the backdrop of the raging war with
the lessers, and with a new clan of vampires vying for the
Blind King’s throne, Tohr struggles between the buried past
and a very hot, passion-filled future…but can his heart let
go and set all of them free?
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