This is the first book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series, and yet another vampire story.

For the most part this book is about Wrath, a pure blood vampire and semi-leader of the brotherhood. A group of vampire warriors whose main purpose is to hunt and kill Lessers. Lessers were once human, but they sold their souls to become vampire hunters.

Wrath is supposed to be the king of the vampires but instead he chooses to fight. Until he meets Beth. Beth is a human, or half-breed if you will. Her father was a vampire, but in the black dagger brotherhood world, vampires aren’t changed through biting, they are bred the same way humans are. The ‘change’ to vampire happens in the mid-twenties and Beth is about to go through her change.

Wrath was asked by Darius (Beth’s father), to help her through the change. As a favour to his brother, Wrath agrees. He does not expect to fall in love with the half-breed. Dark Lover is the story of Wrath and Beth, how they deal with the ‘change’ and each other.

What I liked most about this story is that it’s not really human-oriented. These vampires don’t feed on humans and as a whole, they don’t really care for humans in general. Their soul purpose is to keep the vampires alive. These vampires feed only on other vampires.

What I didn’t really care for, is that the story is told from so many perspectives. Some minor characters share their views, I am assuming at some point in the series these characters won’t be so minor. I just couldn’t get into this “Mr. X” character. He’s the bad guy. I really didn’t care what he was up to, I didn’t want to know what he was plotting, or what his strategies were.

The novel as a whole, is written very well and I look forward to reading the next book. The Black Dagger Brotherhood is very intriguing.