They eat normal food, feel love and bond to others but their bonding process is different and a very important part of this book. They change into vampires on their twentieth birthday. They are a long living race who were born humans with vampire DNA in their blood.

They do sleep during the day but are not like the vampires that we know. They were once humans, most likely criminals and were then transitioned by evil into these UNDEAD killers! The vampires in this book are slightly different. The Lessers are slinky, highly trained and focused with a sweet smell of baby powder to them which is almost ironical if we consider the fact that they are cruel and conscienceless killers. The portrayal of the events and situations create a kind of urgency and goosebumps inducing thrill in the readers. J.R Ward beautifully transitions the city which is hustling-bustling and lively during the day into the creepy, dark and dangerous war zone of the Lessers and the vampires during the night. The first thing that caught my interest is the setting of the book which is Caldwell in New York. The BDB heroes are alpha males who are possessive, proud of their more animal instincts and not afraid to show their emotions in the most basic form. The BDB books are intense, adult themed and slightly on erotic themes. Words of advise first, this is not your typical teen book. So when one day, one of my friends recommended this series and told me to give it a try, at first, I was a bit skeptical but got engaged in the book once I started reading it. After Twilight, I became a big fan of vampires and read a number of vampire stories after that but was never hooked like I was in Twilight! Slowly my interest waned and I stopped reading vampire based books. 🙂 I started reading the series again, so I could write a review this time. Needless to say, I was hooked and went reading up till the seventh book in the series.

I first got acquainted to the Black Dagger Brotherhood series in 2013 and read for the first time right at that time. But everything changes when she is thrown headlong into the dark and dangerous world of the vampires. Beth is blissfully unaware of her vampire ancestry as well as of her father and is busy in her normal human world. This is the story of Wrath who is left in a precarious situation when one of his warriors is killed and leaves the task of helping his half vampire daughter, who is unaware of the vampire world, transition into a full vampire to him. Wrath is the leader of a pack of six vampire warriors who are protectors of their race and alpha males. Title and Author: Series: Black Dagger Brotherhood #1 Print Length: 480 Pages Language: English Publication Date: February 2011 Genre: Paranormal Romance, Fantasy, Vampires Book Review: Unknown to humans, there is a war going on between the vampires and the “baby powder” smelling “Undead Lessers” who were once humans but now are vicious killers with only one aim.

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