Lover Reborn by J.R Ward
From Publishers – Piatkus Fiction
Release Date – 1st April 2012
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In the darkest corners of the night in Caldwell, New York, a conflict like no other rages. The city is home to a band of brothers born to defend their race: the warrior vampires of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. Now back in the Brotherhood – and unrecognisable as the vampire leader he once was – Tohrment is physically emaciated and heartbroken beyond despair. When he begins to see his beloved in his dreams – trapped in a cold, isolating netherworld – Tohr turns to a self-serving fallen angel in hopes of saving the one he has lost. When he’s told he must learn to love another to free his former mate, Tohr knows they are all doomed . . . Except then a female with a shadowed history begins to get through to him. Against the backdrop of the raging war with the lessers, and with a new clan of vampires vying for the Blind King’s throne, Tohr struggles between the buried past, and a very hot, passion-filled future . . . but can his heart let go and set all of them free?

Review by By Esther Fong: Lover Reborn is the 10th book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. If you haven’t read the series the introduction at the start of the book is a must read or you will be scratching your head the whole book wondering what everything is. That said I am an avid fan of the BDB, all those sexy males just makes me want to swoon.

Lover Reborn tells the highly anticipated story of Tohr’s struggle after Wellesandra (his mate) is killed. We first met Tohr in Dark Lover and his story continued on through meeting and adopting John Michael to the murder of Welles. I’m so glad to have a book that is dedicated to Tohr’s struggle after he had lost Welles. Many of us BDB fans were heartbroken that Welles was killed just after she reveled that she was pregnant and we felt for Tohr when he found out and disappeared.

This book did justice to his story; this book is about forgiveness and moving on. That said, a lot of the time I was a bit irritated reading this story as there were so many other stories playing a part. Yes I thought they were necessary to the previous books in providing character development but we didn’t really need to read about them. Also the moving on really didn’t happen till the last quarter of the book. But what an ending it was. If the first half of the book didn’t grip me the end of the book certainly did. No’one was finally realizing that there was more to life then having to atone for her past sins and Tohr was realizing that just because he lived did not mean he was doing injustice to Welles memory.

Lassiter the angel would have to be my new favorite character. He was so funny. Who knew a grown man could love Ellen so much. This book is a must read as its not so much about the story of the BDB but more about how beautiful life is and that we should appreciate everything that we have, but we should never punish ourselves for something that we have no control over.

About the Author: Jessica Rowley Pell Bird is an American author. Under her real name, she writes contemporary romance novels. As J.R. Ward, she writes paranormal romance. She has received the Romance Writers of America RITA Award.

Jessica Bird is the daughter of W. Gillette Bird, Jr. and Maxine F. Bird. She began writing as a child, penning her thoughts in diaries as well as inventing short stories. The summer before she went to college she wrote her first book, a romance novel. After that, she wrote regularly, but for herself. Bird attended Smith College where she double majored in history and art history, concentrating on medieval period. She then received a law degree from Albany Law School and worked in healthcare administration for many years, including as the Chief of Staff at Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.

In 2001, Bird married John Neville Blakemore III. Her new husband encouraged her to try to get an agent and market her manuscripts. She found an agent, and in 2002 her first novel, a contemporary romance called Leaping Hearts, was published. Several years later, Bird invented a world populated by vampires and began writing single-title paranormal romance novels under the pen name J.R. Ward. These novels are a series, known as the Black Dagger Brotherhood.

Bird likes to write series novels which incorporate characters from her previous books. She likens the process of creating a series to “meeting friends through other friends”. Her heroes are most often alpha males, “the tougher, the cockier, the more arrogant, the better”, while the heroines are smart and strong.

The Romance Writers of America awarded her the RITA Award for Best Short Contemporary Romance in 2007 for her novel From the First. She has also been nominated six times for Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Awards, winning once for Lover Awakened.

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