One of the things I love about your series is that the books are long enough for intertwining threads, but in this book, I began to feel that the number of storylines was perhaps too much of a good thing. O, who wants to kill Zsadist for taking Bella from him, Butch and Marissa, whose love story began in Dark Lover and progresses a bit here, Vishous, who is experiencing new problems, and John Matthew, who was introduced in Lover Eternal and who now has a home with Tohr and Wellsie but struggles to fit in with other young vampires in his training class.

Woven with the Zsadist and Bella’s storyline are flashbacks to Zasdist’s captivity and threads about other characters, including Phury, Zasdist’s brother, who is in love with Bella himself, Rhevenge, Bella’s brother, who wants to lock her up for the rest of her life to keep her safe, Mr.

That still doesn’t make it easy to overcome Zsadist’s conviction that Bella would be better off with someone else. At first Bella believes that the thinks less of her because of her abduction, but she comes to realize just how low Zsadist’s self-esteem is relatively quickly. Zsadist hates himself and most things sexual, so he keeps pushing Bella away. She feels safe only when she sleeps in Zsadist’s room, but Zsadist has suffered even worse trauma when he was imprisoned for decades as a blood slave to another vampire and sexually abused by his mistress. O has carved his first name into her belly. O makes a key mistake that allows the Brotherhood to find Bella, and Zsadist rescues her.īella wakes up in the Brotherhood’s mansion to the realization that Mr. O, thinks of her as his wife and is obsessed with her. Although Zsadist rejected her, he was devastated and furious when one of the lessers abducted Bella.Īs Lover Awakened opens, it’s been six weeks since Bella’s abduction and she is still missing. But in your previous book, Lover Eternal, Zsadist began to make a tentative connection with Bella, a beautiful vampire who desired him. A vicious fighter in the vampire Brotherhood’s battle against the evil lessers, Zsadist is also scarred, antisocial, and rumored to kill women. Janine B- Reviews Amazon / Black-Dagger-Brotherhood / JR-Ward / Paranormal / Romance 20 CommentsĪs everyone who has read your books knows, Zsadist is the most feared member of the Black Dagger Brotherhood.

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