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.

This is the first book of the “Lords of the Underworld” series. It follows the life of Maddox, an immortal warrior possessed with the demon of Violence and cursed with Death.

He lives in a castle in Budapest with 5 other immortal warriors, each possessed with a different demon. Maddox has a daily routine that consists of trying not to fight and kill everything in sight, and dying a horrible death every midnight. His soul is taken to hell where he burns and suffers until morning when he starts his routine again.

Life continues this way until Ashlyn Darrow stumbles across the castle. She has her own unique curse and is looking for saviour. There is no denying the chemistry between Maddox and Ashlyn and a strange bond forms.

This book has it all. Wars brew between the Titans and the Greek Gods, between Hunters and Warriors, love grows in places it shouldn’t, sickness and disease spread, and a mysterious story of Pandora’s box is told.

Guys will like the action, girls will love the romance. Win-Win!