Feature Friday Author #3 ~J.R. WARD

                                 
#1 USA Today and New York Times Bestselling Author ~J.R. Ward

Author of
The BlackDagger Brotherhood Series
Books 1-2-3-4-5-6-6.5-7-8-9-10-to be continued... and The Insiders Guide to the BBD series

THE BLACK DAGGER BROTHERHOOD SERIES ~
 Warrior Vampires. Lovers, Fighters, Brothers.
Lethal, not Evil, they're coming for you.



The Fallen Angels Series  Books 1-4~

Rapture #4 due 9/25/12

Stand Alone Short~

                                                             

J.R. Ward is a #1 New York Times and USAToday Best Selling author of erotic paranormal romance. She lives in the south with her incredibly supportive husband and her beloved golden retriever. After graduating from law school, she began working in healthcare in Boston and spent many years as Chief of Staff of one of the premier academic medical centers in the nation. Writing has always been her passion and her idea of heaven is a whole day of nothing but her computer, her dog and her coffee pot.

More Info can be found here: http://www.jrward.com/

J.R. Ward also pens books under her maiden name, Jessica Bird, she writes contemporary romance novels.  

My Review~

*Black Dagger Brotherhood, being this the only series of books that I read from Ward, I am not going to review all of her books/series. I am only on book #4 of the BDB. But I am really enjoying this series and found myself "falling" for Zhadist, my favorite Brother.
 I would like to say this series is a definite must read for all Paranormal Romance readers.

J.R. Ward writes her books and characters with passion and realism.

The Brothers of the BDB are strong, heroic, vampire warriors that will capture your heart and will have you rooting from one warrior to the next as you read each of their individual stories. BDB series is a story of good verses evil, the good would be the Brothers, the evil are the Lessening Society(more info below)aka the Lessers.

Each book has action, romance, and a continuing storyline. Books should be read in order to fully understand the ongoing saga as each story is intertwined into the next. Romance between the Brothers and their prospective mates are a definite rated R as well as the strong language used in this series.

• Black Dagger Brotherhood: Highly trained vampire warriors who protect their species against the Lessening Society. As a result of selective breeding within the race, Brothers possess immense physical and mental strength, as well as rapid healing capabilities. They are not siblings for the most part, and are inducted into the Brotherhood upon nomination by the Brothers. Aggressive, self-reliant, and secretive by nature, they exist apart from civilians, having little contact with members of other classes expect when they need to feed. They are subjects of legend and the object of reverence within the vampire world. They may be killed only by the most serious of wounds.
• Lessening Society: The Lessers, Group of undead trying to rid the world of Vampires                  
• More info can be found here:http://www.shelfari.com/series/Black-Dagger-Brotherhood

 There is no official video on the BDB Series, but I really love this one created by Callanthaa on You Tube, I felt this video captured the characters in the series and how they are visualized in the book. Enjoy!

Feature Friday Author ~Lara Adrian

LARA ADRIAN ~MIDNIGHT BREED SERIES

 

The New York Times and
#1 internationally bestselling series!

 
Prepare for seduction as Lara Adrian unleashes a dark new breed of vampire . . .
Part human, part otherworldly, the Breed has lived among humankind for thousands of years, maintaining a tentative peace built on secrecy, power, and the dark justice carried out by the formidable warriors of the Order.
But now, a blood war within the race is set to ignite. Vampires are going Rogue in startling numbers, feeding without discretion, killing humans in the streets. It is up to the Order to stop the spreading threat of Rogue domination--and in so doing, each of the warriors will be forced to confront private demons, darkest secrets, deepest fears. Some will know triumph, some will know loss, but each warrior can count on one thing: Love, when it finds him, will often come at the worst possible moment, with the least likely woman . . . and it will bring each of these powerful males to his knees.

                                  

                                 

                      More to come....

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

As a child, Lara Adrian used to sleep with the covers up around her neck, afraid she might become the midnight prey of deadly vampires. Later on, under the influence of Bram Stoker and Anne Rice, she had to wonder if her fear wasn't actually something else: a secret desire to walk in a darker world, to live a dangerous and sensual dream with a man of seductive, preternatural power. It is that twining of fear and desire that fuels Lara's own fantasies today, and the idea that she explores in her New York Times bestselling Midnight Breed series of vampire romance novels from Bantam Dell Books.

With an ancestry stretching back to the Mayflower and the court of King Henry VIII, Lara Adrian lives with her husband in New England, surrounded by centuries-old graveyards, hip urban comforts, and the endless inspiration of the broody Atlantic Ocean.

*My Review~

4 STAR SERIES

The Midnight Breed series, was one of my first introductions into the Paranormal Romance genre. I decided to read this series after reading many reviews about it being so good. I also wanted to read this series before I read another series, that was similar to this one, Black Dagger Brotherhood by JR Ward. I'm glad I read this one first, because they are similar, but each author has a unique style of writing and I found Adrian's writing style to be easier to read and commit myself to. The Breed are a group of warrior vamps, who maintain peace between humans, and other vamps. They are a sexy, strong group, who fight together for a good cause. The series of course has romance and it comes in the form of the Breed meeting their mates. Breedmates are human females gifted with unique blood and DNA properties, they have a birthmark in the form of a teardrop falling into the bowl of a crescent moon; the females posses special powers. Of course, no series can be complete without the bad guys. They come in the form of The Ancients, and those that decended from this unique race, now not all decendents are evil, but the ones that are are really throw a wrench in the Breeds existence. Each book is a continuation storyline and should be read in order, each book is also a different Breed members story, and the breedmate he may come to fall for. Not all books end in happy endings.
 I would recommend this series to all that read Paranormal Romance, its a lighter, easy to read series, that will have you investing your time to continue on to each story, but doesn't feel forced or overwhelming.   **I am currently on book #9 Deeper Than Midnight

More from the Authors site below:

http://www.laraadrian.com/home.php#quiet