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Lover Unbound (Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 5) |  | Author: J.R. Ward
Publisher: Signet
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Pages: 528
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Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.2 x 1.5
ISBN: 0451222350
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
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Publication Date: September 25, 2007
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The ruthless and brilliant brother Vishous possesses a destructive curse and a frightening ability to see the future. As a member of the Brotherhood, he has no interest in love or emotion, only the battle with the Lessening Society. But when a mortal injury puts him in the care of a human surgeon, Dr. Jane Whitcomb compels him to reveal his inner pain and taste true pleasure for the first time-until a destiny he didn't choose takes him into a future that does not include her...
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Don't quite get all the bad press for this book March 10, 2010
Nicole D. Hruska (Des Moines, IA)
I have found all the BDB books to be quite interesting, funny, erotic and most importantly original. They just keep getting better and better. After I am finished reading all in the series these will be keepers. I was a bit worried about some of the negative reviews for this particular book prior to reading it. While I think Vichous is a kick, I didn't think the logic that had followed the earlier book (Rhage getting beaten close to death over his love of Mary) needed to apply to this story just because V. was in love with a human and didn't get punished in the same way for it. Also people may have a problem with bi-attraction aspect V. has for Butch, but that was resolved (so far) wonderfully. The dialog and other stories that have yet to told in full did not detract from V. story. Perhaps because I am such a fan of Suzanne Brockmann's troubleshooter books I am able to enjoy the side stories as much as the main story.
 One word... VISHOUS! March 6, 2010
KToney
I stubbled upon the BDB series by trying to find something to fill my reading void after finishing the Twilight series. Yes, I will admit that. Reading the BDB made me an avid lover of the paranormal romance books. I bought the set and read each book in about a day. Lover Unbound is one of my three favorites in the series so far. I have fallen in love with Vishous since he first came on the page in the Dark Lover. His love story, although difficult for some to read due to a complication in the story, was truely a great one. V had a lot stacked against him, but what makes a great HEA but overcoming everything to find THE ONE. If you read this book and don't come out feeling giddy, checking out tall, buff, dark guys with goatees, and wanting someone to whisper the word "true" in your ear... than you must just not get V. Most likely you'll end up like me... VISHOUSLY ADDICTED!
Another great BDB book March 1, 2010
S. Winger (Tacoma, WA USA)
Lover Unbound is in keeping with the rest of the books in this series and if you like the others you will also like this. V's story is really interesting, and the surprise towards the end of the book was unexpected.
 The series jumps the shark February 26, 2010
Zosia (Australia)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I gave five stars to the first four books in the series. It was generous perhaps, but to use a favourite description of the series, JR Ward writes crack and once you're sucked in it's hard to stop.
However, Lover Unbound proved it was capable of ending the addiction.
This book signals a sad change in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series, and in all honesty I wish I had stopped at book four. I am sometimes leery of book series that go on too long, and have in the past sometimes avoided reading beyond the first few books. This series is a perfect example of why this is often a good thing to do.
JR Ward has lost interest in her story. She's trying to change her world into something else, but God I wish she'd finished off the six brothers' stories before ruining her original premise.
Where was the love in this book? Love of any sort? How come nobody in the huge household came to see Jane, knowing she'd been kidnapped and was terrified? Where were the other women? Where was the `brotherhood'?
Oh, that's right. Ward was so busy playing favourites with her secondary characters she forgot to write the main story.
I did not warm to any of the characters in this story. Jane, a fairly butch, pushy woman, was supposed to be from some fancy, upper class world, and yet she spoke like something from the gutter. And then as the story progressed she dissolved into a whiny, whimpering idiot. Vishous fascinated in other books. Here he was so bland I found it hard to care. I really wanted to love him. From the first book when he was so funny with Butch, and so caring of Beth, I expected to love him. Here, I didn't.
JR Ward likes to push the sexual envelope, and while it isn't always my thing, I don't have a particular problem with most of it (apart from Vishous' admission he committed rape!). However, a bit of touching in a sick bed and the weakest BDSM scene to ever appear in print do not a relationship equate. Who cares about a bit of kinky sex that's so cold? So clinical and technical and devoid of emotion?! How does that make us care what happens to these characters?
And Vishous was a sexual dominant for, what, five minutes? And all of a sudden he's having regular sex and then...Jane's the dom?! Huh?!
In past books a male vampire has been fiercely protective and caring of his mate. He would not eat until she had, would not allow her to be uncomfortable in any situation. And yet here Vishous abducts Jane, keeps her prisoner, does little to allay her fears, and then makes her SLEEP ON A CHAIR in his room. He leaves her unprotected in her house, and does very little to prevent her from being terribly hurt at the end. When I think about the way the heroes of previous books have cared for their women, this one was astoundingly lacking in emotion.
The rules of the Brotherhood world (if it even is the Brotherhood world anymore) are changing to suit the author's interests, and it's ruining the story. How is it Rhage was beaten and whipped within an inch of his life for loving a human, and yet Wrath just says `meh' to Jane and allows it? How is it anything that mattered in the past no longer matters?
Before this book there was always an air of secrecy about `the other side' of this world. The mystical, godlike characters who determined fates should have stayed mystical and godlike. Removing the mystery from that aspect of their society ruined the story. The more we see of the Scribe Virgin and her world, the more I am left thinking of something along the lines of Conan the Barbarian or a Monty Python skit. Keep the secrecy, I beg you!
And as for the end? I'm sorry, but when you create a world, there are rules to follow. You can't create a fantasy world and then after five books change it on a whim. This is world-building at its worst. Suddenly introducing Casper the Ghost at the end of the book was most certainly the moment this series jumped the shark.
I don't read this series for a `coming of age' story. I understand the author is disturbingly obsessed with the disturbingly dull and boring John Matthew, but if I wanted to read about vampire adolescence I would have picked up a very different series. It is very hard work to even get myself to read these parts of the story.
There is only thing I enjoyed about this story, but it's most certainly not enough to earn a star. I enjoyed the `rescue' of Vishous from the hospital. It was funny. But that the only good thing.
Ward excuses her weak effort with this book on the fact she can only write what her characters tell her to write. This is beyond stupid. Take charge of your series instead of blaming its failures on imaginary characters!
These books were always wildly entertaining. So much fun you'd read them in one sitting. The magic is gone, and the series seems beyond redemption. I'll be sticking to Lara Adrian from now on.
Intense, but still loved it February 16, 2010
teddy123 (Tiburon, CA)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is a little different than the preceding ones because it doesn't have the traditional happy ending as the others, although the ending is happy somewhat. Also, there's the S&M factor, not everyone's cup of tea--not mine to be sure, but hey, live and let live, and each brother comes with his own personality, history and set of quirks, and that's interesting. I also like that even though this story is a bit different, I still came away continuing to think that this is an author who can really write -- definitely holds the reader's interest to the end.
If I had any criticism, it's that the females in the books seem to fall in love a little too quickly, and I found this true of Jane especially. I did not believe the part about after being kidnapped and held, even though she's a surgeon, sitting across from her patient and having sexual fantasies about him. I know that Vishious was in her head, but she was a little more accepting of this than I found believable. Yeah, yeah, I know each brother is a tall, virile big ol hunk of burnin' love with "equine equipment," but I find the women a little too compliant in the books and would like to see the relationships take longer to build.
Can't wait to read Phury's story next. Still loving this series.
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