Lover Unbound, The Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 5

By: J. R. Ward

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 17 hrs and 20 mins

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

Awesome Series

In book five of this phenomenal series, THE BLACK DAGGER BROTHERHOOD, J.R. Ward tells the very emotional tale of Vishous, son of the Bloodletter, a very cunning stone-cold-hearted warrior devoted to killing the Lessers (undead beings who hunt and kill vampires). Not much can hurt a vampire warrior, but in one instance, Vishous had let down his guard and was shot from behind with a bullet that was pretty darn close to killing him. As Vishous was out on his own, no one from the brotherhood was nearby and Vishous was brought to a regular hospital where human surgeon, Dr. Jane Whitcomb was instrumental in keeping him alive. Rather a big mistake, it now meant that the brotherhood had to rescue him before the human world became aware of just what was lying in their hospital. But before they could effect a rescue, Vishous had unexpectedly fell in love with Jane and Vishous insisted Jane be brought to their stronghold to continue her doctorial ministrations, and discover for herself the feelings she had developed for her uniquely strange patient.

*** First of all I am having a blast reading and listening to this series. I fell out of sync with the books and had missed this one so I went back to fill it in and oh my, I am so glad I did. I think that so far, Vishous and Jane’s story is probably one of the most emotional and heart tugging books so far. First of all with Vishous discovering his long-lost mother; the long held emotional and physical scars of his childhood; and finally an absolutely heart-wrenching finale of maternal sacrifice.

Couple that with the ongoing day to day life of Vishous’s brother warriors and their Shellan’s and you have a complete and awesome family tale. Yes, a family whose love and devotion to one another is unsurpassed by most others.

What you will not find in LOVER UNBOUND are the many battles with Lessers that I found in the other volumes of this series. This book spent more time with the warriors focusing on their lives, their training, and for some like John - his coming of age. Each ‘brother’ warrior is fleshed out enough to give the reader an inkling of what is to come, and for me - I am anxiously awaiting John’s story, along with his friends Qhuinn and Blay.

Bottom Line: Ms. Wards unique band of brother warriors are fitted out in outrageously fabulous reads!

another great bookni hope you will love it

please down load this bunch of great book I can't put them down.


this is anotherawsome one have great fun.

Love persists in odd ways

Vishous is a very interesting character. Full of sensuality in its sadistic way, loving and protecting, and above all loyal to his brothers. A sad childhood, which mark this young man with interesting ways to love. Live evolves for Vishous, showing cruelty with an odd way to keep living and loving his mate. A great story.

wow

The first book in the series is not the best but it gets better and this one is one of the best. V and butch are the best characters. I wish the author would make them sound their age but the stories are so amazing.

This is was another Great Story.

I found myself holding my breath at times and waiting for the unexpected. This is another Great story!

mispronunciation

Absolutely love this series and enjoy getting lost in my listening. For the first time in this entire series, I have a negative comment. Dear narrator: I am not sure why you have all of a sudden begun pronouncing words incorrectly. Words such as amphitheater and sympath having their p's anunciated as f's and pinged sounded as hinged instead of as dinged. It is my hope that in the next books in the series that I do not find myself cringing as common words are mispoken. Thank you for an otherwise vastly enjoyable experience.

Loved every minute!

V is definitely one of my favorite BDBs. The revelations kept coming all throughout the book, and each one peeled back more and more of V's many layers; it was pretty emotional stuff. I loved every minute of his tale, but that's nothing new because this series ROCKS!

Another wow

Second favorite Brother. Love V. He is so messed up but he found the perfect woman for him.

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Chapters are not correct

Loving the black dagger brotherhood series!!!

I will say the chapters do not match the book, there's actually 54 chapters, so I'm not sure if it didn't download correctly or what happened. all the chapters are there though, the audible is not missing anything, it just doesn't matched up to the book. it says there are only 30 chapters, but as you listen all 54 chapters are there plus the epilogue. It's just my ocd getting to me.

I love this series

Not only do I think this is the best series I have read but also the best series I have on audible.