Arrrrgh. JR’s editors need to wake up. There’s fewer question marks every book.

It was a LONG book! I enjoyed it though. It was an interesting plot, I’m a huge fan of the interweaving plot lines and the people involved. It kept me guessing who was going where and doing what. :)

I’m a huge JR Ward fan and will continue to engorge myself on her work. I especially loved the middle paragraph on page 401. :) For some reason that passage was a brilliant example of Ward’s crass dialogue at its best.

Anyway, it was interesting, yes- on the start. I liked Vin, that he was rich and all. It was typical but not the BDB-typical-but-it-is-still-addicting type. And for some reason Jim’s name does not suit him, IMO. It was too…not him.

I was kind of confused about the whole Fallen Angels business. The thing between the Demons and the Angels as well. So, what? Jim goes to the Angels side first because they held a coin toss and they won! What happens next? Does he go on and favor the Demons’ side next after the Angels’? Will the Demons’ side get introduced next after what happened? But Jim wouldn’t exactly favor the demons’ side, would he? After what Devina did and the fact that we lived thinking what we have to do was right? And how would exactly this series end- is unclear to me. I think for some reason we are going to get a tie and everybody will live on happily. And I’m predicting that at some point, Jim has to let the Demons win- which I think not all readers would like- Unless, the Demons are really really really hot or something.

You see, I enjoyed the part where Phury, Butch and (V?) showed…but it was wrong. I loved it, true- but it was wrong. This was a problem for me. I was bored. I kept waiting where the next Brother would show up- it was fun but it was distracting and unnecessary.

It didn’t have the same- strange and addicting- factor that BDB series had. The characters were too similar to each other. The fact that Vin wasn’t exactly normal annoyed me. We have vampires, Fallen Angles and now…psychic humans? I expected a NORMAL greedy guy that will be healed by a woman’s love ( which, I admit, am a sucker for) and helped by some guy named Jim, who irritatingly sounds close to his name.

It was weak, IMO. It’s nothing out of the ordinary. But…

I will still be waiting for any book that she writes.

I’ll give it a “C”.

Yesterday it was offered at Amazon for Kindle for almost $2.00 more than the paperback. Today, it’s not offered for Kindle at all. WTF??

I don't know what keeps me coming back, but there's something there I can't keep away from.

This seems to be a running theme. Maybe we all need a 12-Step Program.

I never really felt or believed what I was supposed to feel or believe in this novel, and in the middle, it just started to drag and I wondered if I should even continue. Completely didn’t believe the M-T character (she had so many other choices) or her “romance” with Vin – though I’m not that into love at first sight stories. And, I’m never going to like a pimp – no matter how dressed up or “understanding” he’s supposed to be.

All that said, I know I’ll buy the next book in this series and continue to read the BDB series in paperback. I don’t know what keeps me coming back, but there’s something there I can’t keep away from.

On a side note, I think it’s funny that I managed a bar, The Iron Mask, for a couple years. Funny, I never noticed any vampires or angels….

*snort*

As for the lack of question marks, I got nothing.

I’m soooo glad you posted this. As amazon.co.uk doesn’t have a forum I just wanted to ask someone (!): Why, oh why, does J.R. hate question marks so?? At first I was like, “Ok, she wants to show how macho these guys are that when they ask something they’re really stating something.” But THEN, she goes and takes out the question marks from Marie-Terese’s questions too! Why? And when someone says “What.” it just sounds weird in the readers mind.

On another note: Can anybody explain why Eddie pointed evil, evil demon out to Jim and basically urged him to have sex with her, all the while knowing she was said evil, evil demon? Is this explained? I skimmed a lot so, yea….

I saw this one in the store and I was tempted for a minute, but common sense and the two books under the bed changed my mind. I’m not planning to buy or read this one, which makes me a bit misty since I really did love the first three books (Rhage and Mary are my personal favorites).

Truthfully, when I picked it up in the store and whined my way into owning a copy (this is the norm for ANY book I wish to purchase as my husband is CHEAP), I had no idea what the book was about, didn’t read the back cover, had no expectations other than “another JR Ward book.” Was that bad of me? Am I total sucker? I’m not saying her books are great or anything, but they are enjoyable in a skipping record sort of way. And that’s not meant in a bad way. I’ve listened to many a skipping record in my time. Annoying, but still good listening or in this case reading–now I want to read this more than I already did, only in that can’t look away from the train wreck sort of way. Yes, I’m very obviously a glutton for punishment here. :p