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Lover Avenged

A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

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Lover Avenged

By: J.R. Ward
Narrated by: Jim Frangione
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About this listen

 As the vampire warriors defend their race against their slayers, one male’s loyalty to the Black Dagger Brotherhood will be tested in this breathtaking novel in J. R. Ward’s #1 New York Times bestselling paranormal romance series.

Caldwell, New York, has long been the battleground for the vampires and their enemies. It’s also where Rehvenge has staked out his turf as a drug lord and owner of a notorious nightclub that caters to the rich and heavily armed. His dangerous reputation is exactly why he’s approached to kill the leader of the Black Dagger Brotherhood—Wrath, the Blind King.

Rehvenge is used to living in the shadows and keeping his distance from the Brotherhood. As a symphath, his identity is a deadly secret—the revelation of which will result in his banishment. But as Rehvenge is pulled into plots both within and outside of the Brotherhood, he turns to the only source of light in his darkening world. Ehlena is a vampire untouched by the corruption that has its hold on him—and the only thing standing between Rehvenge and eternal destruction...©2009 J. R. Ward; (P)2009 Penguin Fantasy Fiction Horror Paranormal Paranormal Romance Romance Science Fiction Scary

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It’s a mix bag of delicious skittles … everything happening all at the same time in Rhevenge’s story.

Multiple characters bringing this fantastic collage to life. “Lover Avenge” is my favourite story because Rhevenge is my favourite pimp/gangster/drug lord.

I mean the dude wears Armani suits 😍🥰 he’s a boss baby 🤣 scratch that… He’s A King. Let me do a quick a low curtsy 🤣🤣🤣. Command me at your will, Sire Mine.

The Black Dagger Brotherhood series is one of the best vampire series out here. The boys and their antics is hilariously funny & refreshingly dope. J. R. Ward gave birth to a world that has truly become addictive. And there’s nothing for it.

Btw … It says much of my mental health state (giggling) that I would, out of all the Brothers be totally attracted to the “Mob Boss…”
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Heaven Forbid! 😩 I’m so lost … in him … totally!!

I loved his story, simply because considering he’s the big bad wolf, his story was the sweetest, most romantic swoon-worthy out of all of the BDB. 🙌
It was that unexpected contrast…
I think I’m in love 😍

Awesome Story.

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This book is full of action and adventures. With more insight into the lesser society. It really does build on the existing storyline. I can’t wait for the next book.

Action packed

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I always enjoy Jim's reading His voice is easy to to and he doesn't try to make different voices The listener can imagine .

I think the idea that faith and trust is important in those you love

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Great story as always. Weaves you on trails through their lives and wanting more

Lover Averaged

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This series of books has been on my radar for years, but it has never been on Audible. I was surprised when I recently stumbled across it on here, but was confused why it only started at book 7. I looked it up on Goodreads to find out if I could start at that book, or whether I’d be lost without the preceding books, and I couldn’t really find an answer. So I thought I’d give it a go because you can always return it and get your credit back if you don’t like it.

Sad to say I’m returning this book. It was a rambling meandering jumble. There was the potential for good stuff in there, but it was buried in waffle. So many parallel story lines and points of view going on, which can be very clever when done well, but I just found myself incredibly bored. There’s lots of links to previous books so I would say you need to have read the earlier books in the series to really enjoy it, especially with the world building and character history.

Even if I take the fact that I didn’t read the previous books out of the equation with my rating, this book was still underwhelming. I literally fell asleep many times and had to rewind to where I left off, then would groan at the hours and hours left showing on my screen and it felt like torture to carry on. It seems like they need a good editor to pull it together as it could be a great series I’m sure.

The narrator was ok, but slightly annoying. Don’t know if it was the author’s tendency to shorten words to sound cool, like ‘sitch’ for situation and ‘gen pop’ for general population that was incredibly cringeworthy and unnecessary, or the narrator’s delivery of those phrases. Or both. Whatever it was, it didn’t work.

I’ll get my credit back for this book and I’m off to find my next listen. Let’s hope it’s better!

Meandering and dull

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