Lover Revealed (Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 4)
by J.R. Ward
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Author: J.R. WardEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-03-06
ISBN: 0451412354
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Onyx
Book Reviews of Lover Revealed (Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 4)
Book Review: The Wacky World of Those Funky, Sexy, Vampire Brothers!
Summary: 4 Stars
JR Ward's strikingly original formula for romance:
A cop hero who recycles every Irish stereotype since STUDS LONIGAN.
Butch O'Neil is such a well known Irish type he might just as well have MYSTIC RIVER tattooed on his backside. He's violent, sexually repressed, haunted by guilt, hopelessly alcholic -- all JR Ward left out was the gift of song, the lilting laughter, and the twinkle in his eye! As a human, Butch was the "lovable" type of bad cop -- he beat suspects without mercy, but only because he wanted to stop crime, never because they came from the wrong neighborhood or belonged to a certain racial minority group. (JR Ward loves rap music, relishes the gritty street life, but never discusses race per se. Her "brothers" all have perfect Aryan features and live like English dukes.)
A blonde, aristocratic heroine so dainty and girly she makes Gwyneth Paltrow look like Rosie O'Donnell.
Marissa, the high born vampiress, is the type of heroine who went out of fashion in romance sometime after IVANHOE. The ultimate blonde damsel in distress, Marissa agonizes endlessly over why other vampires don't find her attractive. Jilted by Wrath, the vampire king, she feels unworthy of any other male -- even a booze-swilling human like Butch O'Neill!
Strangely enough, when these two get together the results are oddly appealing. Butch is a thug and bully around other men, but believably tender around Marissa. He seems to sense what an outsider she is, under her flawless blonde beauty and poised mannerisms. For her part, Marissa is drawn to Butch because as a human who hangs with vampire warriors he is obviously as homeless and adrift as she is. It doesn't take long for the two of them to get beyond mere polite neck nibbling and get to gloriously full-throated, fang-ripping, blood-guzzling sex -- the kind that will either leave you breathless or faintly nauseated.
The mix of a crazy mean cop learning tenderness, and a helpless dainty damsel learning to stand up for herself, is both moving and satisfying. What holds the book back, though, is that JR Ward doesn't give Marissa and Butch enough snuggle time. Every time Marissa sighs and flutters her long lashes and sinks her well-bred fangs into Butch's warm and pulsating Irish neck, we cut away to some silly subplot about -- about --
VISHOUS, THE VAMPIRE WITH THE MAGIC HAND! Okay, I know where this comes from. JR Ward must be a big fan of DR. STRANGELOVE. Instead of Butch and Marissa sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G, we get Vishous making like Peter Sellers, whipping out his gleaming metal hand and babbling away!
"My king, ze problem is -- ACK!! -- ze hand is -- ah, Ze SECRET WEAPON! Und ze Lessers, will be ah -- er -- FIGHTING it -- " (images of Vishous wrestling his hand into submission, pounding it, biting it, etc.)
JOHN, THE KARATE KID -- WITH FANGS!! As if seeking to prove she can write sensitive, Young Adult Fiction, JR Ward keeps cutting away from the pretty damsel and the brave cop to show us the heart-wrenching SAVED BY THE BELL type struggles of John, your typical mute vampire teen! The world is not waiting for the Karate Kid with fangs -- and personally, I think Lash the school bully needs a book of his own! Maybe one where the vampires all listen to Surf Music and pledge fraternities!
THE LESSER PATROL, IN ALPHABET SOUP!!! Book after book, these guys make the Keystone Cops look like Eliot Ness and the Untouchables. Not since Colonel Klink went up against Hogan's Heroes has a villain been so hopelessly outclassed as Mr. X. And why is it that the only guys the Lessers ever recruit are blue collar losers who used to beat puppies and steal crutches from little old ladies? Can't we have, oh, a Republican CEO or a Harvard intellectual sucked into the Omega Gang? (Wow! I just made up a way cooler name than the "Lessening Society.")
But the main problem with the Lessers is the alphabet name thing. Every meeting sounds like a cross between SESAME STREET and RESERVOIR DOGS!
"All right, youse mugs, to prevent the sexy, handsome Brothers from finding out who we all are, we're gonna use only letters on this caper. My forelesser here is Mr. X. His assistants are Mr. O, Mr. U, Mr. S -- "
"Hold it now, Mr. Omega. Why do I have to be Mr. S?"
"Because you're a gosh-darned sissy, that's why! Just be thankful you're not Mr. Q."
"Why can't I be Mr. Q? You know, like Quincy Jones. Or like the guy in James Bond!"
"You're not Mr. Q, you're Mr. S. Some other guy is Mr. Q. Now tonight we follow are usual plan, lurk around in dark alleys and jump vampires at random. Then when the Brothers come to the rescue, we kill them all!"
"But Omega, we do that brawl thing in every book, and they always win. Why can't we just wait till sunrise and kill them while they sleep?"
"They don't sleep in the daytime, Mr. S. They lift weights and listen to rap music and eat gourmet food cooked up by submissive male servants and buy fancy clothes without every having to work. Oh, and they also make love to beautiful women."
"Well gee, Mr. Omega, the Brothers sound like a bunch of really fun guys. Why can't we do those things?"
"Because you're all impotent, Mr. S. You can't eat, drink, or have sex. All you can do is torture vampires and double cross each other, and the first guy who quits gets tortured by me for a thousand years."
"Gosh, as villains, we really don't have much in the way of motivation, do we?"
ZAP!!!! "How's that for motivation, Mr. S? Gosh darned wise guy. Now look, Lessers, I don't mean to holler at yous. When this caper's over -- and I'm sure it'll be a successful one -- I'll go down to the RWA National in Dallas and laugh and roll around with all of youse. You'll find me a different character down there. But right now it's a matter of business! We're the only believable characters in these funky, sexy, books -- because we're the only guys that work for a living! So let's get out there and do the job right. All right, Lessers! Let's get Lessening!"
Summary of Lover Revealed (Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 4)
Butch O'Neal is a fighter by nature. A hard-living ex-homicide cop, he's the only human ever to be allowed in the inner circle of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. And he wants to go even deeper into the vampire world-to engage in the turf war with the lessers. His heart belongs to a female vampire, Marissa, an aristocratic beauty who's way out of his league. And if he can't have her, then at least he can fight side by side with the Brothers.But fate curses him with the very thing he wants. When Butch sacrifices himself to save a civilian vampire from the slayers, he falls prey to the darkest force in the war. Left for dead, he's found by a miracle, and the Brotherhood calls on Marissa to bring him back, though even her love may not be enough to save him.
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