After I finished Lover Unbound, the first thing I did was read Lover Revealed again. And then decided to start with Dark Lover – followed by Lover Eternal, Lover Awakened and then yes… Lover Revealed *again*.
To end with a reread of Lover Unbound…
My planning blows because I was doing historical guest days at the time so my head was so not wrapped around what was going on here at the time. The whole time I was rereading, I was thinking of things to talk about. Themes, characters, actions that made sense or didn’t and just ‘stuff’. The book doesn’t release until September 25 and J.R. Ward will be on blog September 26.
So I figured what the hell… lets discuss the Black Dagger Brotherhood…
We will have a post for each book, then a post on the females, the brothers and finish with a wish list. We can even have prizes. Do keep in mind this is just one of my many random ideas and any books given away will most likely not be signed (for that you need to be around on her guest author day) and with J.R. Ward’s schedule and active message board I doubt she will show up in any of these posts or be on board before September 26.
For all I know it will be just gwen and me talking to ourselves – while wendy laughs at us.
THE RULES:
1. NO SPOILERS FOR LOVER UNBOUND
2. In order to win (whatever I post is the prize for that post) you must leave a valid email address. I will try to keep it open to all but will note if the prize is US only (dude we don’t charge for the stuff we do here or run ads). And will make a note what the prize is in the body of the post – if nothing else some will be ebooks – that I can hopefully give out all over. You can enter by commenting in any “Let’s Chat: Black Dagger Brotherhood” post until 2am CST September 25, 2007 (unless otherwise noted on the post).
3. You can post as many times as you like and will be entered for each post – as long as the comment fits the post (and/or comments in the post). Meaning ‘me too’ every other comment will not count as an entry. AND If there is more than one person who live with you/uses your computer please email me [redwyne @ redwyne . com] – otherwise I will toss the names out when it comes time to draw winners.
4. This is a long way from pollyannaville but be respectful of ALL opinions. We not only respect your right to disagree, we want you to voice your views.
5. We want to discuss the books. We want to discuss the characters. We want to think about their actions and where we see/want/wish them to go. Hell you can just sqqquuueee over your favorite brother if you want but personal discussion or questions of J.R. Ward are not the aim here. You can email her.
6. If you have never read the books, expect spoilers for all of the novels EXCEPT Lover Unbound, V will of course be in the discussions but only up to what we know from the books. We will have reviews going up of the books, as I have only done Dark Lover. We will do one or two on Lover Unbound but closer to the date of release.
We can and will add to the rules as we see fit.
To start… rank ’em (at the end we can see if you change your mind 😉 ). !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In order, starting with your fave ‘overall book’ and work your way through the four released novels. You can give your reasons if you want or wait until we post about the book. Then tell us your most reread book.
Order of the books from my most fave (rating’s aren’t here I will rambling on more in the book posts 🙂 ):
Sept 2006 
March 2007 
Sept 2005 
March 2006 
BUT my most read is:
I love, love, love me some butch/marissa. And Z is such a hard read for me. But man I love him, like a fat kid loveseses cake (tm karens)
So what about you?
**prize awarded for this post will be an unsigned copy of Lover Unbound, to be awarded when I get my copy or when after the 25th date will be announced for the close of contest sometime next week**
1. Lover Awakened (I love Z!)
2. Lover Revealed
3. Dark Lover
4. Lover Eternal
Z and Bella are my favorite hero and heroine. Just for the shit the go through and the way the are still mostly sane at the end.
Yep, I think you are the only hold out on Butch and Marissa – so much promise – so much pain 😉
CIndyS
I have to start with Lover Revealed as my favorite, then Dark Lover, Lover Awakened and Lover Eternal. But my most re-read is Lover Revealed. Butch and Marissa are my favorite couple.
Lover Awakened is my favorite, and then the other three are tied. Is that cheating? Must we select them in order of preference? May we not just acknowledge that we love them all? I feel so torn. “sigh”
This is an incredibly difficult task. It’s like asking a mother to pick a favorite child. Sheesh.
1. LOVER AWAKENED. I feel this book had the strongest plot, as well as the most significant development of character. I love that Z discovers his self worth and starts the process of healing. And that he continues to progress throughout the series is so gratifying.
2. DARK LOVER. This book just completely sucked me in to the BDB world. How can you not love the Blind King?! I love the way Wrath was humbled by Beth and the way Beth was so bold, smart and truly kickass!
3. LOVER REVEALED. Butch & Vishous. And Marissa… I know she annoyed a lot of readers, but I really like her. Her perspectives of the world were based on what she was taught by Havers and the glymera, not by what she experienced. Of course after 300 years, she’d be confused and lack confidence, but in the end, she broke free and found herself. 🙂 This book also has soooo many great scenes and character revelations, which I totally loved.
4. LOVER ETERNAL. Rhage was amazing in this book. He is so funny and down to earth. I love his devotion, reverence, and deep love for Mary is simply unbeatable. I have to admit that Rhage having to have had sex with another woman bothered me. Don’t get me wrong, though. I completely understand the reasons and actually believe it is a large part of what made this story so compelling, but it still disturbed me.
I have probably reread DARK LOVER in its entirety more than the others. But certain scenes of LOVER REVEALED even more! 😉
My fave is LE. Ironically, it’s the only book of the series I don’t own (I bought a copy and couldn’t find it–I think I left it in the store!). It’s the one that hooked me into the series. Next would be LR. I loved the threesome tensions between Rehv/Marissa/Butch, Butch/V/Marissa, Butch/Beth/Wrath, but I thought some of the romance was overdone. Then I guess it’s DL, although I had to read this one a few times to like it. Finally, LA. Z was my favourite character until he got his own book. There were bits that I absolutely loved (hello, needing!) but I didn’t think it lived up to the promise that was set up in LE between Z and Bella.
Sybil, since you’ve read LU, I’d love to know how you’d rank it (if that’s not spoilery).
My favourite is Lover Revealed because so much happened in it. We got to see V as never before, Rehv had some great scenes and chilled on Bella, the Brotherhood got a new member and Marissa started coming into her own.Then Lover Awakened because of Z and Phury’s relationship. Phury became more interesting in that book, probably because I didn’t really know him too well before then.After that is Dark Lover because Wrath and Beth had some amazing chemistry. I think most people choose the available Brothers, but Wrath needed to be hot to get readers interested in the book long enough to find out about the others as well. He needed to set the tone of the series.Finally Lover Eternal, not because I didn’t enjoy it but because one book has to rank fourth. It’s as simple as that.
In ranking order, Lover Revealed, Dark Lover, Lover Awakened and Lover Eternal.
Butch has been my favorite “Brother” before he ever was one.
I knew there was just something about him that made him stand WAAAAAAAAAAAAY out from the rest.
Wrath was my first and I still love him, but he’s the King and Butch (even though he’s technically Royalty now) is more human to me. Rhage is just plain cool, even with having the beast forever, I love how Mary can calm it and him.
Z broke my heart and I just was so glad to see him get an HEA, he was always so sure he didn’t deserve it that it has been extra satisfying to see it come to him and fight for him, no matter what he thought he wanted.
I haven’t read V yet, but I am looking forward to it. Phury, well, his is going to be the worst one, I think. J.R. indicated in a chat that he is not good and getting worse by the day, to the point of being demoted but that’s all we’ve been told.
Have a great one, Ladies, I know I’m too late to win, but I wanted to post anyway.
Lili