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Lover Unbound
Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood | J.R. Ward
The ruthless and brilliant brother Vishous possesses a destructive curse and a frightening ability to see the future. As a member of the Brotherhood, he has no interest in love or emotion, only the battle with the Lessening Society. But when a mortal injury puts him in the care of a human surgeon, Dr. Jane Whitcomb compels him to reveal his inner pain and taste true pleasure for the first time-until a destiny he didn't choose takes him into a future that does not include her...
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Laughterhp
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Finished this one about a week ago. This is the 5th book in the series and mostly follows V and a surgeon Jane. These books all have kind of weird endings for me. They‘re romance so they have a slight HEA, but a weird HEA.

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julesG
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Final book of the #20in4 #readathon @Andrew65

#BlackDaggerBrotherhood book 5

This got weird towards the end, did not see this coming. @GingerAntics

Hooded sweater for my son finished while I listened to the tagged book. #LitsyCrafters @Catsandbooks #audiosewing

Andrew65 A great readathon for you. 👏👏👏🙌🥳 2y
Catsandbooks Love the stars! 2y
Cathythoughts Nice work 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 2y
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GingerAntics With the birds? 2y
GingerAntics Love his new hoodie!!! I love that the inside of the hood has the stars. 2y
julesG @GingerAntics more the, I'll bring her back no matter what. Very desperate move. 2y
GingerAntics @julesG that whole over protective, bonded male thing? It does seem a bit much… a bit heteronormative. I wonder if Ward really needs the rampant homophobia from some of the characters. (edited) 2y
julesG @GingerAntics Yeah, would be interesting to see a m/m of f/f pairing. She kind of tried to make V bi, but there was all this 🙄🙄 I liked how V and Butch get to talk about their feelings and sex, even if it's in a grunty alpha-male way. 2y
GingerAntics @julesG oh there is a M/M pairing in the making. They get their own book and everything. 2y
julesG @GingerAntics just 6 more books to go, for me 😁 better hurry and put the next one on 😉 2y
GingerAntics @julesG 😂🤣😂 it‘s the third book after I finish the one I‘m on now. 2y
WJCintron 👏 👏 👏 😍 2y
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GingerAntics
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So much tragedy in this one. I was so excited for John to finally reach his transition (becoming an adult male), but there was still so much sadness in the milestone for him. He got his father‘s/his diary, so that he at least feels like he has a connection to someone. He‘s so adrift in this book. At least he‘s got Blay and Quinn now. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

GingerAntics I like the connection John is forming with Z though, too. Those two kind of need each other. I just hope the diary doesn‘t give him seizures. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 2y
GingerAntics It was great seeing Vishous finally face his past, share it with someone, then open himself up. It was unfortunate how he lost it all in the end, but sort of got it back. I really didn‘t remember the bombshell about his mother. I can‘t believe I ever managed to forgot that one. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 2y
GingerAntics We really spent much less time with V and Jane than we did with the other couples during their books previously, too. That was a little weird, but it worked for everything that happened in this book. #jrward #BlackDaggerBrotherhood #LoverUnbound 2y
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GingerAntics
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We‘ve had this discussion, too. “Free will” is a bit of a misnomer. You only have as much “free will” as your gender, sex, sexual identity, socioeconomic status, religion, location, etching grant you. Freedom for one is not freedom for another.
#jrward #BlackDaggerBrotherhood #LoverUnbound

TheBookHippie 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 2y
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie obviously, the most philosophical creatures on the planet are leather clad vampire warriors. Just ask @Branwen. 🤣😂🤣 2y
Branwen @TheBookHippie @GingerAntics It's true! 😂😂😂👏 2y
TheBookHippie @Branwen 🤣🤣🤣🤣 2y
GingerAntics @Branwen 🤣😂🤣 obviously this is why you love the series as you do. You come for the leathers, but you stay for the philosophy, obviously, as we all do. 😂🤣😂 2y
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GingerAntics
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This is me 100%!!! 😂🤣😂 If I‘m going to talk to you and tell you anything, I‘ve got to know you‘re not going to take what I say, craft it all into a dagger, and then plunge it into my back. I‘ve been burned WAY too many times, even by so called councillors/therapists. PAAAAAAAAASS.
#jrward #BlackDaggerBrotherhood #LoverUnbound #therapy #wordsareweapons

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GingerAntics
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This book is amazingly philosophical. I know we‘ve had the free will discussion, and we‘ve had the discussion on how “eternal life” devalues life itself. Now let‘s put them together. If you already “know” you‘re going to “die and go to heaven,” do you have free will anymore?
#ThisLife #MartinHagglund #Philosophy #AdventuresInPhilosophy #DeadPhilosophersSociety
@TheBookHippie @ravenlee @JaclynW @RavenLovelyReads @AlaSkaat @Chrissyreadit @kspenmoll

TheBookHippie Free will is a ploy. 2y
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie totally agree. I honestly couldn‘t agree me. There are only so many things you can exhaust your will upon. Most of life is a rollercoaster. You can hop off anytime you want (we‘ve swung back to suicide again), but you can‘t rebuild the track because you don‘t like it. You control yourself (sort of - chronic illness comes to mind), but that‘s it. 2y
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GingerAntics @TheBookHippie is it me, or is “free will” just one more way to blame the oppressed and down trodden for their lot in life? 2y
TheBookHippie @GingerAntics yup. People ASS U ME that everyone has the same choices and that those choices will get positive results … 2y
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie of course. “I can do this, so obviously you can to if you really want to. Oh you say you can‘t? Well, that‘s your choice.” 🙄🙄🙄 2y
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GingerAntics
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The world really needs more of this.
#jrward #BlackDaggerBrotherhood #LoverUnbound

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GingerAntics
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It feels fitting that Vishous‘s story is next. This is good Saturday, and it‘s time for some more Brotherhood action.
#jrward #BlackDaggerBrotherhood #LoverUnbound

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TamTracy
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I continue to be shocked that I haven‘t gotten bored with this series yet. Each story is so different while being so similar. Love it! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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The_Heeler_Booklife
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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
This is one of my least favorite books out of the series. I did not like the kidnapping part and then them falling for one another. Also, there was barely any action in this book and no really evil person in it. So, that bummed me out. I did like having the POVs of Phury and John.
#bookstagram #bibliophile #review #bookreview #litsy #littens

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Eggbeater
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Lots of unexpected twists and turns with this one. It was great. I ended up with more respect for Vishous because he fell for a more dominant woman. Question, how is it these big, bad, biker-like vampires meet someone and fall happily in love for life in an instant? That does seem unrealistic. Most vampires wait until at least the third bite in real life.

DaveGreen7777 “That does seem unrealistic. Most vampires wait until at least the third bite in real life.” That cracked me up! 😂🤣👏 4y
Trashcanman 🤗🤗🤗🤗 4y
MidnightBookGirl Lol, Lillie! Somewhere there is a hot vampire biker out there, just waiting to fall in love at first bite for everyone! 4y
HOTPock3tt I‘ve been meaning to try this series! 4y
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Tera66
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Ok! With this one we are back on track. I loooove this series, but the last book was not my favorite. This one tho....😁. The end was kind of a shocker. Not at all what I expected.

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Joreads
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I really love these books. The vampire world that Ward has created is amazing. These books follow the Black dagger brotherhood. Each book focuses on a brother and tells his story. If you love vampires, love romance and love a good fight check out this series

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madamereadsalot1
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wordzie 5y
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InkedBookworm13
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Day 18 #LiteraryLuck
I chose Lover Unbound for my #awkwardreads because it definitely had some interesting love scenes. I was blushing through this one.
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @vkois88

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I love these books!! But I‘m way behind!! 5y
InkedBookworm13 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I think I am only 1 or 2 behind. O wait til they are I. Paperback and then buy them. They are one of my favorite 😍 5y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @LokiDokey I can‘t remember where I left off... maybe Lover Awakened ?? 5y
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PenguinInFlight
Lover Unbound | J R Ward
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Sunday evening snuggles with my favorite reading companion. ❤️🐶 #Twinkle #dogsoflitsy

JoScho ❤️❤️❤️ 6y
BookNAround What a sweetie! 6y
PenguinInFlight @BookNAround she is! She loves cuddles. She has no concept of personal space whatsoever, LOL, but I don‘t mind. ☺️ 6y
DGRachel So cute! 6y
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PenguinInFlight
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Coming down with a cold 😷🤧 so I‘m crashing early tonight with my book. 📖Vishous was my favorite brother during my first read through of this series. We‘ll see if that holds true.

Ruri_kaichou Oh no! I hope it passes quickly! 6y
PenguinInFlight @Ruri_kaichou thank you! 🤗💗 I stopped at the drugstore on the way home for some Airborne and cold meds, so hopefully it won‘t hang around too long. ☺️ 6y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Hope you feel better soon 💗 6y
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PenguinInFlight @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks thank you!! ☺️💜 6y
DarcysMom Feel better! I hope Vishous helps. 🤗 6y
mabell I hope you feel better soon! 6y
PenguinInFlight @DarcysMom @mabell Thank you! 💜💜 I‘m doing okay. Sniffly and tired. I‘m laying low today...my husband went to his parent‘s house to watch Solo and then the Giants game. I opted to stay home on the couch and rest with V. ☺️ 6y
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madamereadsalot1
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Day 7 #sisforseptember subject is #steamy and I have plenty to pick from. But I went with my newest (started reading her last year) author obsession, J.R. Ward, and from the first book focused on my favorite Brother, Vishous. Who doesn't love a super smart, brooding dom!?! 😆
@CaliforniaCay

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ellie_mae
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I will always appreciate Phury and how gentle he is and everything he‘s gone through. He‘s such a male of worth! ❤️❤️ #blackdaggerbrotherhood #phurysonofahgony

KnightOwl Hey dude!! I‘m so glad you‘re on Litsy!! 😘😘 6y
ellie_mae @KnightOwl hey dude!! It seemed fun, lol! 😘😘 6y
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mariaku21
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1. The Black Dagger Brotherhood with the tagged being my fave!
2. Criminal Minds, Orphan Black, The Three Musketeers.
3. From time to time but I'm the only one in the famIly 😂
4. I have no idea but as long as I'm eating we're 👍
5. Haha noo, not at all and those are his words.

@jesshowbooks for #friyayintro

JoRead Love your first answer! He's one of my favorite brothers 😍 6y
MayginReads 💗💗 Orphan Black! 6y
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Woodchuc67
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I am so in love with this series 💕😻. I am still not sure 🤔 how I feel about what happens with Jane‘s character, but I will prevail...for “V”😉
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ of 5

BookwormAHN Welcome to Litsy 😸 6y
Texreader Welcome to Litsy!! 6y
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Another great installment of BBD. I think one of the reasons I've liked this one best is the lack of a perspective from the Lessers. I think they are a bore even though I know the BBD needs an enemy.

Woodchuc67 I know what you mean😊. I love the series so far (I am now on Lover Avenged) and don‘t like the Lessers😠. So far there are only two parts that I didn‘t see coming and was upset about was Wellsie and Jane☹️...but I have moved on now 😉. J.R. Ward has an amazing imagination 😻...thank you @CoverToCoverGirl for introducing me to this wonderful author and helping me to open my mind to other worlds 💕 6y
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Bostonmomx2
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I'm going to have a book hangover for quite some time after this one I think. Wow. Just wow. This one punched me in the gut....hard!!

JoRead I stopped at this one. I just thought the romance was getting wonkier with each book. I picked it up again with The Beast but only because it was my love, Rhage 😍😉 7y
JoRead My mistake, I stopped at 6. 😂😂 7y
Bostonmomx2 @JoRead that's what I'm afraid of. These have been SO good and I wonder how she can keep up with such greatness. I'm spacing them out tho so as not to get burned out. 7y
JoRead Perhaps that was my mistake. I read one after the other. I'm glad you're enjoying them 😊 7y
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Bostonmomx2
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Finally getting back to this series. Chapter one had me hooked right away. When you spend all day working on a computer and have the kindle app open, work tends to suffer .

CoverToCoverGirl Love the 📚's in this series! True. 7y
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StellaDz
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Ahh, I finally got the hardcover version of Lover Unbound and my #jrward #shelfie is now complete. My only annoyance is that my Lover Enshrined copy was apparently a different edition and is slightly smaller. Oh well, next gift card might fix that issue. For now, I'm happy with my shelf of #hardcover #bdb books. 🤓🤓

CoverToCoverGirl Hey that looks exactly like my BDB collection 😍 7y
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Johanna414
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Seriously?? Just as I'm getting comfy and ready to start book 5...

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Hate it when that happens! 7y
Bostonmomx2 I just finished this one a few mins ago. I'm kinda wrecked. 7y
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MrsV
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RealLifeReading I've got Rich and Pretty waiting for me at the library! 8y
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Sammidnightsun
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Vishous is my favourite brother this takes pride of place on my bookshelf