Dark Lover

The Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 1

By: J. R. Ward

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins

Publisher's summary

The first novel of J. R. Ward's New York Times best-selling Black Dagger Brotherhood series features a unique take on vampire lore and heavy doses of sensuality.

The vampire Darius fears for the life of his half-breed daughter, who is unaware of her unusual destiny. To oversee her transformation, Darius seeks help from Wrath, a dangerous loner and the world's only purebred vampire.

©2005 J.R. Ward (P)2009 Recorded Books, LLC

Robotic narrator

storyline is great, just wish the narrator would express more emotion. I had to decipher which character was speaking.

Book is great the reader , not so much.

The story is great. Buy the whole book series. The guy reading it just makes it sound laughable.

Amazing

I loved the book, every word spoke left me wanting more! Absolutely stunning, well written.

I love the Black Dagger Brotherhood

Jim Frangeone is one of best Narrators I've heard so far
excellent book. loved the plot

Hot, steamy ear candy. I couldn't get enough of it

If you enjoy a story that has heated romance, vampires, good vs evil and tortured souls that don't believe they're good enough yet they find out they deserve the joy they're getting, then you will love this book. I simply could not put it down and I will be going back for more. ..

Dark Lover

This was my first audio book this year, and my second audio book ever. The Black Dagger Brotherhood is a huge series and I figured it was about time to get started on it. I wasn't disappointed. The story was exciting and really held my interest from start to finish. There's an interesting mix of traditional lore and the author's own little twist. I loved the concept of the Lesser society. It was a new look at vampire slayers and demons that added a nice layer to the world Ward has created.

The Brotherhood was a little over the top - and I know they are supposed to be - but they were just too "big" for me. The saving grace was that they each seem to have some serious flaw in their physical-self, personality, or haunted past to help balance out their amazing power and size. Their leader, Wrath, is quite a hard person that is very driven in his task of taking out Lessers, even more so after the one of the Brotherhood is killed. There's quite a bit of suspense and excitement in the story that revolves around this death and the rise of power in the Lessers that takes the Brotherhood by surprise.

But this is a romance, and quite a good one. Beth is a unique woman, She's not a vampire, but she's not a human, and Wrath can't seem to stay away from her. I loved her fire and her spunk. She wasn't one to let a big vampire walk all over her and tell her what to do. Her introduction to the vampire world was great. I'm a big fan of the freak-out moment. The moment where someone realizes all those scary stories are real and they just walked into one. Beth's realization was great and it only made me like her more.

The narrator of the audiobook took a little getting used to. Partly because it was a male, and the voice in my reading head has always been female. But he told the story well and drew me in quickly. He was quite a nice companion on my daily walks.

Wrath and Beth

Wow! This story really pulls you in. I usually limit my listen to my 90 minutes commute, not with this book. Once I started listing, it was like a roller coaster. You only exit at the end of the ride! I was totally hooked on the story and the reader.

LOVED THIS BOOK AND THIS AUTHOR

Have no ideal why I waited so long to listen to this author’s books. Loved it! Makes me think of Linda Howard in her style of writing.

Great

Good narration for a great book. It was like reading the book for the very first time.

I love the book.

I love the book and all characters and Jim read the book wonderfully. but I hated the long pause between changes of chapters and story line. only because I listen on my phone well I'm working and I think it's shutting off due to incoming tex or im
so I found myself checking my phone until I got used to how he read. but other than that I love every second can't wait til I get second book. which will be tomorrow since I stayed up til 2 am finishing this one.