The Brotherhood story of Rhage was good. Can't decide if I like this or book 1 better but I am looking forward to book 3! ( )

Anyway, This book is a the classic tale of beauty and the beast, with a bit of a twist, the beast is a vampire cursed by lexicon's deity, and the beauty is a relapsed cancer survivor. Perfect right? Nope.

I love this book...it is one of my all time favorites, Ward writes with such conviction for each of these characters, they seem without a doubt real. Rhage and Mary are absolutely perfect together, nothing like the ladies man being brought down by the women who is no where near his type. There is also a very heavy plot line here that continues from the first book "Dark Lover", and it is excellent. We see a new character introduced here, who is one of my favorites as the series progresses, and also say good by to a strong secondary character. You will mourn with the brothers for her loss, trust me, I cried. Don't miss this one, its excellent. I liked this one a lot, but it is not my favorite of the series, if you can believe it.

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Brother Rhage's story of how a human woman with leukemia tamed the beast within him. Being known as a "ladies man" Rhage sees Mary and is instantly enthralled by just hearing her voice. No other woman has ever made his body react in such a way, just by talking. Rhage decides he must have her, and no one else. Mary on the other hand, is still fighting her leukemia, and it seems that it has returned with only a couple months to live. Rhage and Mary's time begins to run out, but their love will live on eternally. ( )

So after falling in love with the first book, I can now say I loved the second book as well. I was very surprised at how much I enjoy reading this series so far. I was even tear jerked by this book, which cought me completley off gard. The book was amazing, Loved it, Great Read, simple as that!!!! ( )

It was lots of fun revisiting the characters from Dark Lover. This was Rhage's story, the stunningly beautiful vampire. What's not to like about a gorgeous hunk hero falling flat on his ass in love the instant he 'sees' the heroine? Mary Luce is a cancer survivor with a lot of inner strength that I admired. However, I thought she held back from Rhage a bit too long with the "oh, I'm not beautiful enough for him, what's he see in little ol' me" routine. Rhage is under a nasty curse put on him when he pisses off the Scribe Virgin (aka Scribe Bitch (SB), since I thought she was overly cruel to Rhage). He turns into a horrible beast when he gets stressed out. Lots of fighting or lots of sex keeps the beast at bay.

There were several other storylines interwined that were equally as fascinating with a glimpse of Zsadist and his story that will be coming up in the next book. Overall, this was a compelling read with a few nitpicks that others have mentions such as those silly names for the brothers. And those phrases like "you feel me?" or "my brother". For the ending, I wasn't too crazy about how the Scribe 'Bitch' was going to make Rhage miserable for eternity (because she loves him ... yeah right!) but eventually takes pity on him. (Grade: B+) ( )