As I have mentioned before, I hang out occasionally at Suzanne Brockmann's website. One of the things I have learned over the year or so I have read the posts there, is that Suzanne and her readers are not shy about mentioning other authors and books. One that got extensive hype was J.R. Ward's 4th installment of The Black Dagger Brotherhood, Lover Revealed. I ignored them and didn't think anything of it. Then an April trip to Walmart in Las Vegas brought me face to face with the book. I looked at it and took the leap...and what a leap it was. Vampires, Scribe Virgins, Lessers and The Omega all turn up in the book. A new world totally made up by author J.R. Ward (Jessica Bird). I was coming in on the 4th book, which wasn't the place to pick up the story, but I persevered and enjoyed the book. Now most people would immediately go out and get the other three, but NOOOOO...I didn't for some unknown reason. Several months have passed and the next book is due to come out on the 25th of this month and the hype begins again. Well this time I said to myself, I had better get myself in gear and read those first three books, cause you KNOW I am going to read this new one, when it appears in bookstores. So I picked up the first one and just finished it. The series makes much more sense to me now and I am extremely glad I bought the books. J.R. Ward is an exciting author who writes a spellbinding tale with plenty of erotic moments to keep this romance reader quite entertained. I recommend them highly. You do need to suspend belief a bit, as you would do reading a Harry Potter book, but it is so worth the trip.
In order:
Dark Lover - Wrath's Story
Lover Eternal - Rhage's Story
Lover Awakened - Zsadist's Story
Lover Revealed - Butch's Story
Lover Unbound - Vishous' Story
Hi.. reminds me of Tanith Lee, dark fantasy writer. I used to run to the library to get all her books available and read and read, the 70s, 1978 and such. Flat Earth series, can highly recommend those books. After Lord of the Rings, those were the worlds that kept coming back in the mind, even years after i stopped reading Tanith Lee because no time to read a book. Something that will change this holiday, reading a book instead of computerscreens :-)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.phil.unt.edu/~hargrove/tales.html
ReplyDeletefound a review of her books online :-)
Gina: I think you make a very valid comparison.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much. :-)