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  • Lover Unbound, The Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 5

  • By: J. R. Ward
  • Narrated by: Jim Frangione
  • Length: 17 hrs and 20 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (6,201 ratings)

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Lover Unbound, The Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 5

By: J. R. Ward
Narrated by: Jim Frangione
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Publisher's summary

New York Times best-selling author J. R. Ward has blown away fans with her layered, tantalizing tales of sexy vampires and supernatural intrigue. In Lover Unbound, an immortal killer falls into the care - and possibly the arms - of a mortal surgeon. Suffering a horrific childhood as the son of a Bloodletter in his father's war camp, Vishous pledges death to members of the vampire-hunting Lessening Society. Vishous knows no love. He feels no emotion. He lives only to oppose the slayers. But after suffering a mortal wound, a human surgeon named Dr. Jane Whitcomb tends to him. Her ministrations, however, extend beyond his physical injury - and before long her tender hand has awakened feelings of pleasure that Vishous never dreamed existed.
©2007 J.R. Ward (P)2008 Recorded Books,LLC

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Another good one!

Although I too wasn’t a huge fan of the ending for the couple I still enjoyed the book.. loved the back story of John and Phury & the fact that it wasn’t focused on the lessers as much.. like a lot of the other ppl I am not a big fan of the narrator he’s just so flat but besides that good book can’t wait to read the next!

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Enjoyed!!

Ward and Frangione! The perfect combo. The Audible app says this is my 20+ time reading all 22 in this series!

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Always surprising

Often when you read a series, one book may read like the others. But not so with J. R. Ward. The book may go in a certain direction, but never think you know what is going to happen. You will be surprised.

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Great end of this book

This book has a beautiful ending. I was very surprised of the sacrifice but LOVE is infinite…

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I’m hooked!

I love series and this one so far has not disappointed. I started with Darías, then went to the beginning. Loving the Brotherhood and the women in their life that are bringing about change for the good of their kind.

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I am hooked!

5 books in one month says it all!! What an amazing story, in love with all of the characters

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What happened to Jim?

I've been listening to this series in order and it's been great 'till now. What happened to Jim Frangione? It sounds like him I guess but the story is being read COMPLETELY different than the first 4 books. This is the first time you can't tell which male is talking and half the time their pitch is raised to female status. That never happened in the other books. Even common recurring words are now pronounced differently. Sympath has become symphath as one example. Was this the first book he recorded and the reading evolved from here or is this a narrator bait and switch. It's confusing. It's a great book all in all but I hope the narration in the next books returns to the norm that caught my attention to start with.

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Not very suspenseful

I enjoyed the other stories each prior story more than this one. It didn't have the excitement or suspense of the others before it.

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Good read

WOW! This series just keeps getting better and better! Impatient to start the next one!

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Lover Unbound

This is a great series to read. I highly recomend it to anyone who enjoy paranormal fiction.

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