As a pretrans, Phury tried to please everyone, his mother, his father. The whole wide world. He wanted his "mahmen" to stop suffering over the loss of his twin and start notice him. He wanted to hear his father say three letters to him, at least for once. But he'd never been called 'son'. Never. Ever.
His only family member left, can never thank him for being recued by him. So what did he do, to kill his inner voice, the "wizard"? He started drugs. He wanted to kill and calm that inner bastard. The one who always did everything right so to suit everybody around him. But did he ever ever lived his life.
When Phury realizes that he needs to stand up and fight for what he wants, he almost dies on an OD.
And next to Phury you read about John, Blay and Quinn struggling, Rehv trying to suviving the meetings with his blackmailer, and an angel finds a lost piece of the Brotherhood. ( )

I have to agree with the dissenters - Phury is a total let-down.

Hated the wizard-inner-voice thing.
I was so bored of Phury’s story thruout this book. All of the side storylines were far more interesting.

Big fan of the John developments tho. I’ve loved seeing his character develop in each book. ( )

In the sixth Black Dagger Brotherhood book, Cormia has lived her entire life obeying the rules, never thinking for herself, and always putting the needs of others before her own. She doesn’t see herself as an individual, but part of a whole. As a Chosen and the First Mate, she’s honor-bound to mate with the Primale and bear his children. Though she’s attracted to Phury, she does her best to avoid him.
Phury has a lot of responsibilities. He’s in love with his brother’s shellan (wife), he’s a drug addict, and he’s lost his sense of right and wrong when he kills his enemies, the lessers. He’s also a virgin, but he doesn’t want Cormia or any of the women at his command.
The Scribe Virgin, the vampires’ deity, has declared a Brotherhood warrior must mate with her followers, a group of women known as the Chosen. Phury is that warrior. It’s his duty to impregnate his First Mate and to impregnate her sisters, as well, the other 39 members of the Chosen.
There was very little romance between Phury and Cormia, especially since he was so hung up on Bella. They barely spent any time together, and I couldn’t see how they fell in love. There’s only one sex scene between them, and it was fast and unromantic.
The side plots about John were, as usual, the best part of the book. His fascination with Xhex is growing, and he finally mans up enough to let her know. All their sexy interactions brought a smile to my face. In fact, I’m happy whenever John is on the page.
Qhuinn and Blaylock’s friendship has forever changed. I love these guys! Since his transition, Qhuinn has been an arrogant, sex-addicted kid but one split-second decision and a resulting family betrayal forced him to grow up.
We learn more about Rehv and what makes him tick. His story is set up in this one. Though we haven’t met his love interest, we met the Princess, the woman who’s blackmailing him and forcing him to sleep with her.
Tohr finally returns, but he’s not the same man as before.
Maybe I missed something, but the timeline from the first book to this one seems off. It’s either been 13 months or three years. I’m not sure which.
Ms. Ward’s writing style has changed. The stories are becoming wordy, which slows the pacing. In this book and the last one, many questions are ending with periods, not question marks.
I enjoyed the story for John, Qhuinn, Blay, Rehv, and even Lash (the vampire-turned-lesser villain), but I couldn’t get into Phury and Cormia.
3 Stars
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I gave it a five star, however that was mainly because I love bdb, not so much the story itself. I was looking forward to phury's story. And unfortunately it wasn't that great. The reason is, they dwelled on and on and on. It was like a broken record. I would have loved to see more action, more intensity, I think the back stories were more important than phury's story. And that's sad. The rest of the book was great though. And I'm so happy that a certain character is back. ( )

For a book about Phury and Cormia they weren't in it much. I felt their story was pushed to the side and simplified just to get all kinds of other story lines started. By all means those stories are interesting, but I wish there'd be more focus on the two characters the book was supposed to focus on.