Blood Kiss (Black Dagger Legacy #1) by J.R. Ward
This is an new adult paranormal romance novel (Rated NC-17)
♥♥♥♥1/2
(Four and a half Blood Hearts)
Book Summary
Paradise, blooded daughter of the king’s First Advisor, is ready to break free from the restrictive life of an aristocratic female. Her strategy? Join the Black Dagger Brotherhood’s training center program and learn to fight for herself, think for herself…be herself. It’s a good plan, until everything goes wrong. The schooling is unfathomably difficult, the other recruits feel more like enemies than allies, and it’s very clear that the Brother in charge, Butch O’Neal, a.k.a. the Dhestroyer, is having serious problems in his own life.
And that’s before she falls in love with a fellow classmate. Craeg, a common civilian, is nothing her father would ever want for her, but everything she could ask for in a male. As an act of violence threatens to tear apart the entire program, and the erotic pull between them grows irresistible, Paradise is tested in ways she never anticipated—and left wondering whether she’s strong enough to claim her own power…on the field, and off.
My Review
So this book starts off a little slow, which is reasonable
in a new series. There is world building that needs to be done. But oh, wait.
This is the same BDB world. So for me, it was slow. I’ll also admit that I
didn’t like the flow between changing of POV in this book.
I think personally I missed the lessors or some side story
that keeps the plot moving. That’s not exactly what we got here and it took me
a while to get on board.
However, once I did, I loved it. I love all the characters
especially V who is forever mine (step off). There were times where I thought
his presence would have been interesting (say a specific club Butch goes to).
But in the end, the story flowed well after a slow start.
I think I love Craig like a lot. He is that combination of
male that turns all my buttons to red alert. Yum.
I have to hand it to this author. She made the predictable
unpredictable. I was so wrapped up in the story I didn’t see the who done it.
After the reveal, I was like that was so obvious. But JRW did a wonderful job
of not making me see it. Which is a feat.
And oh Lassiter. I love him too. (Not as much as V).
You will have some laugh out loud
moments and maybe some sad ones. But definitely super hot ones.
I should mention I'm not sure where the title fits into this story. I almost feel like this book and Kresley Cole's new one Sweet Ruin mixed up their titles. I think if they switched, the titles would make more sense for each of their books.
Overall, I loved it. If you are a fan of the BDB series, you
should like this one. I wouldn’t suggest anyone to start here though. There is
too much you would miss out in backstory. However, I don’t think you would be
lost. I just think you would get more out of if you started with BDB first.
Audio Review
Jim Frangione is a wonderful narrator. However, he
mysteriously changed the name Zex (John Matthew’s shellian) to pronouncing it
as Hex. I’d forgotten he did that in the last book and found myself wonder who
Hex’s was until John Matthew’s name was mentioned. Maybe she was always Hex in
the written book. But as someone who has only listened, this was hard change.
Plus, this book, Jim seemed not to differentiate the characters as much as he
usually does with the inflections in his voice. There were a few parts, I
couldn’t tell you who was speaking as there weren’t dialogue tags and no
context clues to go off of. Oh well. Other than that, I still enjoyed the
narration.
My book boyfriend Craig.
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