Lover Revealed by J.R. WardMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This book is a good news/bad news kind of thing. The good news is that I have found another series to read, The Black Dagger Brotherhood. The bad news is Lover Revealed is the fourth book in the series, so I've read the wrong one first. Will that stop me from reading books one through three? No way. If the series is anything like this book (and all I have heard are raves about it), then the lack of suspense for how they end won't really be a detriment to me.
This is a book about a small group of powerful vampires that call themselves the Black Dagger Brotherhood. Each has their own unique strength; all are huge, muscular and gorgeous. Lover Revealed is the story of Butch O'Neal, former police officer and the only human ever allowed within the inner circle of the Brotherhood. One night, Butch is caught between a civilian vampire (a weaker class of vampire than the Brotherhood) and a group of lessers (vampire hunters) and is taken to a place where he is tortured and introduced to the most evil thing of this world or any other world, known simply as the Omega. Taken out to the woods and left for dead he is eventually found by one of the Brotherhood, Vishous. Things look pretty bleak for our hero, so Vishous calls in the only one he can think of that will give Butch the will to live.
A part of the vampire aristocracy, Marissa is nonetheless shunned from the governing body of vampires. She comes to Butch's side when Vishous calls her and stays with him until he does recover. Along the way, they discover the tricks used to keep them apart in an earlier novel and confess their undying love for each other. There's only one problem...Butch is human while Marissa is immortal. Is there any way that Butch can become a part of the Brotherhood? And if he can, how will he be as a vampire? Will he still feel the same way about Marissa, or will he turn away from her like he did before? And what's with Butch being able to "inhale" the lessers during a fight, turning them to dust? What exactly did the Omega do to him while he was in that place to cause this black goo to ooze out of him?
This was an excellent book and I could not read it fast enough. I am looking forward to reading all the other books in the series.
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