Lover Enshrined (Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 6)

When I started reading the Black Dagger Brotherhood series I was perplexed. If you are a true lover of romance and action novels, this is definitely the series to get in to. This book, Lover Enshrined, tells the amazing tale of Phury, son of Ahgony, and his path along a rocky slope as the race's primale. I highly recommend this book if you have read the other five, and If you are new to the series I suggest you start at book number one, Dark Lover.

First, let me start by saying I read all the negative reviews before I read the book and was even tempted not to read this latest installment in the Brotherhood series. I mean, we all fell in love with the first 3 books. I even loved Butch's book. So, when I read that the romance factor in Phury's book was lacking, I didn't know what to think. But then......I read the book....and I loved the book! I think that if you are a true Brotherhood fan, the switch to this new genre isn't that big of a deal. Though the romance isn't as prevalent, the story has truly blossomed as we are lead deeper into thier world. But, the romance and sexy factor is still pretty hot!! So, though I empathize with those that are really upset with the switch in genre, I also think that growth and depth is a good thing. I look forward to the future of the Brotherhood.

I don't understand why so many people were disappointed with this amazing story.

Some complained that there wasn't enough in it about Phury's 'romance', I say that's what made it really good. Some complain that the other Brothers were not mentioned enough, I say they were mentioned adequately. What else?

I enjoyed the fact that JR Ward gave us more on the next generation of Brothers because obviously her next novels will be about them. I'm also very happy that she managed to introduce a gay character after all, regardless of how negatively people reacted to Butch and V's 'close but no cigar' relationship.

Most of all, finally there will is a formidable enemy and I say it's about time the Brotherhood got a real challenge.

Please buy this book!

I have read all of JR Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood books. The first 4 started off as paranormal romance. Once book 5 & 6 came around the books were leaning more towards paranormal suspense or urban fanstasy. There is nothing wrong with those kinds of books as long as the reader knows ahead of time. Lover Enshrined should not have been promoted as a romance of any kind. It wasn't romantic.

Phury's story is great if you were looking for story lines about everyone else. The plot was scattered with lots attention spent on build up for her next book. Phury's minor appearences in the book were spent not on building his character but downing him. He was abandoned by his family and left blowing in the wind when he is the one character who has always been there for each of them. His romance came out of nowhere. He didn't even really have a lot of contact with his mate Cormia until mid way through the book and then they fell in love so quickly that it didn't even make sense. It was rushed and forced. None of the book was really dedicated to a build up to Phury's love story. He just didn't get one.

I thought the story lines throughout the book that dealt with all the other brothers was great. All the other characters got great development. We got better insight into these characters and there were some great advancements in what is usually excepted in romance novels. I appreciated that. But all in all I have to give this book a 2.5 rating b/c in the end it was supposed to be a romance novel about Phury and it wasn't I felt bamboozled when I finished the book just because I had set my sights so high because of the books before it and I was disappointed.

I just finished reading this book and I liked the all the stories that were taking place at the same time. The characters are great and I got the romance between Phury and Cormia. What is bothering me though is that J. R. Ward has turned two guys I thought were going to be two more great stories into a gay storyline between the two warriors. There aren't too many more male characters left to write about and I was looking forward to Quinn and Blay's story but now I'm just not. No offense but I am not interested in reading about guys into other guys no matter how nicely written. I want to read about hot hetero warriors because I am a woman who loves to read about sexy girl/boy couples not sexy boy/boy couples and if you are going to introduce more male characters with gay lifestyles you should be fair and give equal time to girl/girl couples. Now that would be different and maybe more interesting. ( You mean to tell me that out of the 9 warriors 3 have been kind of into guys or gay but out of 40 chosen females with no mates who according to J.R. are very ready to mate there isn't one girl /girl couple or maybe even more than one.)