Lover Reborn, JR Ward

In this 10th official installment in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series (not counting the novellas Father Mine or Story of Son) We find Tohrment a shell of the former brother he once was.  After the death of his Shellan, Wellesandra (Wellsie) and their as yet unborn son, Tohr is trying to exist, trying to live.....trying.  But as a bonded male, losing your mate is akin to losing your life, so, why continue?

Tohr is pulled back and returned to the Brotherhood by the Angel Lassiter, a guttermouth, hard partying Maury Povich watching Angel as it were.  But Tohr hasn't really moved on.  He's stuck and full of revenge over the death of his mate.

Enter No'One.  She is the biological mother of Xhexania.  No'One and Tohr had a past.  After She was raped and held captive by an unknown sympath,  Tohr and Darius nurse her to health and see her through her pregnancy.  To which she then commits suicide and leaves Tohr to bury her in the end and to find a home for the orphaned Xhex.  Reunited again by a miracle of the Scribe Virgin, these two damaged and severely fucked up people take a comfort of sorts with each other.  Over time growing fond of each other, but not really letting go of their pasts and letting the other one in all the way.  Which is the problem.  If they don't they will never be able to save themselves.

I wait all year for the next installment of this series.  On pins and needles, kneeling on glass.  This is one storyline I wish the characters were real.  However I am glad they are not due to some of the untold horrors the characters all suffer.  It is hard not to fall in love with the characters though.  They become a part of you, and you find yourself hoping for their happiness.

JR Ward doesn't know how many books in this series she will write.  She has been noted with saying something along the lines of she will just keep writing them until she doesn't.  All of the characters are colorful and very complex.  Each with his own environment.  And all of them and brilliantly interwoven into a bigger picture of war, peace, love, accomplishment etc.

It didn't take me long to read this book.  Though it has many chapters, they are short and the book is a pretty easy read.  This story flowed very well, unlike all the hard edged flashbacks and forwards that John Matthew's book had previously.  I loved Tohr, I hated him, I felt bad for him, I wanted to scream and yell at him and at one point I wanted to punch him.  And he would have taken it.  Because he is a male of worth.  Which is a rare find today, even in the human world.  Which is why I have probably fallen head over heels in love with the males in this series.  They are my new bar, my new standard....and nothing less will do.

There is a huge twist at the end.  I'm not giving it away.  I'm kind of surprised I didn't see it coming but all I can say is HOLY SHITE!  I was totally spun.

If you haven't read the books, buy them.  Like now.  Read them.  Immediately.  And I hope you enjoy them and fall in love with them like I have.

Until next spring my Brothers, when we finally get to read Qhuinn & Blay's  story. .......  I have a feeling I know a bit about how that one is going to go and I am already excited as all hell to read it!!!