Tome Thursday: Prisoner of Night

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Now that we've mostly gotten over our OHSH*T moments during the Game of Thrones premiere, it's time to do a little bit of a book review yet again. After all, that's what Thursday's are for!

And I'm back with yet another vampire book.

Because, vampires.

I have this binge I occasionally go on where I will read through every book I can reach within a certain genre or maybe even just series, and right now I'm working through J. R. Ward's books yet again, but I found time to catch up on the short story she published right before The Savior hit the shelves.

If it's vampire, it has Black Dagger Brotherhood over the cover, and it features some new characters of this world? Count me in!

Besides, there's never enough of the Warden to go around.

So Prisoner of Night, please be seated, and let's start your interview, shall we?

Tome Thursday: The Savior

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I'm back with a non-Star Wars book review, can you believe it?

I hardly can myself.

It's been a bit of a ride for me, traipsing through the galaxy far, far away, and I know I'll return over there eventually again, but maybe not quite so soon. I have a few other books on the list that have been BOUNCING around, trying to get my attention.

Although the item of tonight's blog post didn't need to do anything.

It sort of only had to get published.

Readers of this blog might know and recall my almost-undying love for the Black Dagger Brotherhood series by J. R. Ward, and the fact that I've pretty much reviewed ... about half ot the books so far? Did I get to half? More?

Anyway.

When it was announced that Murhder was getting his own book, I was HELLA intrigued. Because he's the only insane Brother, and has been name-dropped all over the place. So with The Savior, we finally get to hear his story.

Tome Thursday: The Thief

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With my book reading situation now resolved, even though it really wasn't that bad, I can now return to catching up on all the new releases which came out in the meantime.

See, the good thing about e-readers is that the light from their screens isn't the same as from a computer or phone or television, it's less damaging to the eyes and therefore you can read more and quicker (unless you read for 24 hours straight, but that's beside the point haha).

So of course once I got my Kobo up and running again I had to load all my favourites and the new releases, which turned out to be a bit of a pile in the end.

And then it was just the task of chewing through what I'd set myself up to read.

Among those waiting on my TBR list was the newest book by J. R. Ward.

So of course, tonight's blog post will be all about The Thief.

Tome Thursday: The Chosen

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So, two weeks ago (almost at this point) another book by author J. R. Ward dropped, aka, it was released to the general public, and in case you don't know by now, I have a lot of respect and appreciation for the Warden, as she's called online.

Basically, her series of vampire warriors have gotten my attention from the moment a very good friend of mine recommended them and I met with HRH Wrath, son of Wrath.

Since then, there have been fifteen books in the main series and two now in the accompanying series, Black Dagger Legacy, which is a spin-off for the training center and the trainees that are becoming warriors under the main characters' tutelage.

Honestly, if you look at me and my love affair with the Black Dagger Brotherhood even on this blog, you'll notice that I've pretty much read and reviewed a whole lot of the books - read more than reviewed, actually, since I have yet to put the final dot on the lot of them. But I do believe it is safe to say that I have passed the halfway mark, especially with this blog I should thing.

So without further ado, allow me to introduce the newest Warden book, titled The Chosen.

Tome Thursday: Lover Reborn

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Time for yet another book blog and, as this spring seems to be in the sign of them, I have been re-reading the Black Dagger Brotherhood novels from the beginning (although yes, I have started them prior to spring; even I can't read that fast!). Right about now I'm at a pause around numbers ten and eleven, which for any book series is a whole lot, actually.

Thinking about it, I need to dig really hard to try and remember any other which would have been so successful with an original series to come to these high numbers and still continue to write.

But that aside, I mostly stick ith these books because they're a very good, entertaining and relaxing read. Do they have drama? Of course. They also have a whole lot of romance and subplots that mean you have to keep your wits about you and keep track of what's happening through the whole four or five hundred pages, but that's the magic of book reading anyway.

I've done quite a number of J. R. Ward reviews at this point and I just keep coming back, which does mean that eventually I'll have them all bagged up nicely, with tags to go along.

I'm definitely looking forward to that day!

In the meantime, let's jump right in to Lover Reborn.

Tome Thursday: Lover Unbound

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Happy World Book Day! I would have wished you a happy first March if I'd been doing this post yesterday, but as it so happens this is even better.

But hey, at least it IS March!

If nothing else, that's something to be very happy about. In my case, it also means tossing out the heavy, furry winter blanket for a thinner one, and pulling the netting down over the window because the bugs are out in force already. How do I know this?

Unfortunately, I found one of their representatives dead on the inside of my window.

SO, the netting got pulled down after winter hibernation, and I shook myself out of my wintry mood as best as I could to sit down and write this review. And I'm still in a Ward mood here so I'm just going to go ahead and type out another one of the Brothers, because what can I say, lord knows that I'm addicted to the lot of them.

It's V's time this round, with Lover Unbound.

Tome Thursday: Lover Revealed

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What can I say ... I'm on a vampire reading binge, yet again.

I would apologise but in all honesty these books are SO good that I don't feel like any apology is even necessary. And if you haven't yet started reading the series, what ARE you waiting for?

Seriously, you're not getting any younger here.

But I digress; I have a few more books in my little sheep ledger to go through, only they've kind of taken a backburner while I move through the first few in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series yet again. Every once in a while, I get literally bit by this urge to go back to where it all started, with the original Brothers, and compare them to where they are now.

It's truly something to see, considering book number ... fifteen, is it? Yeah, book number fifteen in the main series is about to come a-knocking, and I'm still just as much in love with all these vampires as I was when their numbers were fewer.

And so, of course, feeling that irresistible itch, I picked up my trusted electronic copies, and settled on talking about another favourite of mine: Butch O'Neal.

Tome Thursday: The King

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Back yet again with another book review, and what do you know (or, let's phrase it in the way it should be for this review, whaddyaknow) I'm back on a vampire binge. Only, really, I've never honestly gotten off it, especially not since reading the latest in Ward's series of books.

Mostly, it has to do with the fact that while I was reading the fourteenth one, I was struggling on occasion to figure out just what it was she was talking about. 

It had been a while, after all, since the last time I've read these, even though I never, ever delete them from my e-reader.

Nope.

Best to have them on hand in case I ever feel like nibbling one of them open again. I'm honestly thinking of just buying the whole thing in a physical shape as well, because ... well, why not?

So lt's get with the program, as the vampires say, and sink our teeth into book number twelve: The King.

Tome Thursday: Blood Kiss

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So I'm back to reading about vampires, which, really, shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Every once in a while, I'll stumble over some book or book series that will give me my needed bloodsucker dose, although admittedly not everyone does it with as much fanfare as JR Ward, I think.

If anyone has been keeping track of my blog (which I hope you have, but oh well, fingers crossed!), I've been a Ward fan since a very good friend of mine introduced me to the series.

Or, well, the story goes like this: she kept on talking about it, and I sort of kept it in the back of my mind, that I have to read these books, but at the time I didn't have my ereader yet, so it was a bit of a problem until I figured out I could convert the files to PDF, which could then be read on my poor phone (the thing might have died a thousand deaths over one book ... I am still chagrined over that) to my heart's content.

And I was hooked.

Not only are these vampires badass, six-foot-sixers, the lot of them, with black belts in martial arts and zero clue in social behaviour, but they're also sexy as hell.

No surprise to anyone, then, that when the spin-off series was announced, I squealed.