Well, I told you this would happen.
No blog this week because my mind has been thoroughly blown by J.R. Ward’s latest installment in the Black Dagger Brotherhood, LOVER AWAKENED. How anxious was I to read this book? Too anxious to wait until Tuesday, September 5, its official release date, to get my hands on it. So anxious that I looked for it all last weekend and checked out three bookstores near my house, all to no avail. So anxious that when I called Borders and realized they had it, I had to go get it. Right then. Even though it was last Sunday night at eight-thirty. Even though the Borders that had it is twenty minutes from my house. That’s a whole lot of effort for a book, especially considering the fact that I already have a stack of to-be-read books that’s about four feet high. But I happily hopped in my car and sped off to get my copy.
Guess what? LOVER AWAKENED was well worth all the extra effort.
The story of Zsadist, the tortured, tormented vampire warrior, and Bella, the vampire aristocrat who, you’ll recall, was kidnapped at the end of LOVER ETERNAL, is so powerful—so emotional—that I had to gush about it. At length. In a nutshell, J.R. Ward is a brilliant storyteller and world builder, and I just hope that one day I can write a story that’s half as good as LOVER AWAKENED.
Have you read it? If so, what’d you think?
Check out the bottom of my home page if you’d like to read my review. Here’s a link:
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