ISBN: 9780451225856
Publisher: Penguin USA
Rating: A
I can honestly say that I wasn’t entirely sure where Lover Avenged was going to end up because the beginning felt like a big old mess. There was just too much gibberish and wavering back and forth that I wasn’t sure which story I was reading and which one I actually wanted to read. It took me about 200 pages to figure out that I was going to like this addition to the Black Dagger Brotherhood.
Rehvenge is a character I was interested in from the beginning, much like Zsadist he had to have a story and I knew it had to matter. Learning about Rehv’s past and how he came to be the Drug Lord of Caldwell New York is important not only to this story, but to all the preceding stories as well.
When I picked up this chunker and I wasn’t instantly mesmorized I was starting to have some doubts about this series and this author. I was afraid that she had gone too far too fast and there was no way that her later books could possibly live up to the earlier books like Dark Lover and Lover Eternal. Lover Avenged is a building novel as well as the story of Rehv and the sympaths. John Matthew and Tohr begin the circle again, and Wrath has a lesson taught to him in a beautifully yet poignant way. Fans of the series shouldn’t be disheartened in fact that should feel renewed as this latest chapter in the Brotherhood concludes.
