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Book Review of The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide

The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide
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Totally worth getting if you are a Black Dagger Brotherhood fan. Some of this material is on Ward's website, but I wanted to have it all in book form so I decided *gasp* to buy the book brand new.

Father Mine is a wonderful short story that shows how much of his past Zsadist still has to overcome to become the father he truly can be. The healing in Lover Awakened was just the first part of his long recovery and Mary is there to help him.

The best parts for me were the hilarious interactions between the Brothers and Ward; the Brothers amongst themselves, the questionnaires they complete. Oh the questionnaires are something else. Each one completes the answers just the way you'd expect them to. At first I thought the whole idea of the author interacting with her characters as though they were real was odd, but that feeling passed away quickly. Ward makes it work so well.

I wish the author had explained more about doggen (servants of the vampires), how dematerializing works, how the Chosen are picked, why vampires are seemingly only located in New York, etc. It would have been wonderful to have those answers in a book like this.