I just discovered the excellent Black Dagger Brotherhood series by J. R. Ward. The Brotherhood are vampire warriors charged with defending all vampires from the a group of nasty slayers known as the Lessening Society.Admittedly I was a bit put off when I opened the initial book in the series, Dark Lover, and the first thing I found was a glossary. And then there are the names of the vampires: Wrath, Rhage, Thorment, Zsadist, Phury, etc. As I wrote in my Amazon review, they're clearly straight out of a romance novel. But I pressed on.And am I glad I did! The characters are well written, the dialogue realistic (though the "my brother" references seem like they're trying a bit too hard to be hip). The second book, Lover Eternal, is better than the first, and toward the end sets up the major arc for the third novel. Even when the action is a bit cliched and predictable, I didn't mind because the writing was so good. (And yeah, so are the sex scenes.)So vampires, slayers, violence, sex, and eternal love. Works for me. (Crossposted to super_books)
Post je objavljen 29.07.2009. u 23:35 sati.