The King A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood (Audible Audio Edition) J R Ward Jim Frangione Penguin Audio Books
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J.R. Ward's number-one New York Times best-selling Black Dagger Brotherhood continues as a royal bloodline is compromised by a grave threat to the throne.
Long live the king....
After turning his back on the throne for centuries, Wrath, son of Wrath, finally assumed his father's mantle - with the help of his beloved mate. But the crown sets heavily on his head. As the war with the Lessening Society rages on, and the threat from the Band of Bastards truly hits home, he is forced to make choices that put everything - and everyone - at risk.
Beth Randall thought she knew what she was getting into when she mated the last pure blooded vampire on the planet An easy ride was not it. But when she decides she wants a child, she's unprepared for Wrath's response - or the distance it creates between them.
The question is, will true love win out... or tortured legacy take over?
The King A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood (Audible Audio Edition) J R Ward Jim Frangione Penguin Audio Books
Why are we revisiting Beth and Wrath? That is all that I could thing about before even picking this book up much less while reading it. There is a reason for it and I honestly believe it could have been one of those Ward side stories in a future/different book. The King did not have a main focal couple. It did however have a story line that tried to stay focused on the king.Readers basically get four novellas created to flow as one book with the King. We get Wrath Sr and Anha, Wrath Jr and Beth, Trez and Selena, and my favorite of the book Sola and Assail. Sola's grandmother was the bump that brought this books rating to three stars. And I was left wanting more Assail and Sola, again.
I'm going to go back to my frustration on why the revisit of a past couple. It didn't really work for me but there were some things that happened within these pages that I think will make this world as a whole move in a new direction. I'm curious about the changes there and how it will affect Wrath's rule.
Sadly the side story of Wrath Sr and Anha felt like filler. It was there. It added pages. Their tale didn't add substance to the book.
Trez and Selena's pages really could have waited for their book. Due to all the reviews already out there I know what will happen with that couple's happily ever after. I still plan on reading their book. I just plan on doing a little genre jumping before then. I'm not looking forward to that book in the lease but I'm sure the secondary, tertiary, and however many other side stories Ward thows in will be interesting enough to keep the pages moving.
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The King A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood (Audible Audio Edition) J R Ward Jim Frangione Penguin Audio Books Reviews
We have come a long way since the beginning of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. The King is the 12th novel in this magnificent series of books that JR Ward has written, and it brings us back to where we started, with the characters having taken on the roles that were required of them. We get to take a closer look at Wrath, the King of the Vampire race, who assumed his responsibilities in the debut book of the series, Dark Lover. Wrath is the last pure blooded vampire on the planet, and even though he chafes at the duties of being the King to the race, it is a “prison” from which there is no respite for him.
Wrath’s frustration and dissatisfaction at being “hogtied” to the throne is one that runs deep. Just how deep, realizes Beth, his shellan i.e. mate for life, only after Wrath lets loose when his formidable temper gets the best of him. Known and revered as the Blind King, and for good reason, Wrath has been constantly battling to keep a throne he had never meant to ascend in the first place. But the same genetics that had demanded he be King, had also rendered him unfit to fight in the field alongside with his Brothers. Furthermore, there is no way that the Brothers would let their King back in the field, no matter how much he might want to.
Wrath’s personal life isn’t going exactly in the blissfully wedded direction either. With his mind solidly made up on not fathering any children, the clash with his shellan is not the kind that one can just brush under the carpet, especially with Beth’s needing seemingly on the way. To add to the pressure, The Band of Bastards from the Old Country is out to get Wrath one way or the other, even if they had lost in their initital attempts to assassinate him.
Everything comes to a head at junctures where one just has to plow through the worst to get to the other side. There is always so much going on in a JR Ward book that it is near impossible to just focus on one aspect of the book thinking it would give a holistic view of the book. The storylines concerning other characters that were prominent in Lover at Last continue even in The King, most of them coming to a turning point where things were looking rather gloomy for everyone concerned.
By the time the story was done, except for one aspect of a continuing storyline that has been running for a long time in the books, the one concerning John’s true identity, everything else seems to have worked out. Wrath managed to thwart yet another attempt at dethroning him, and used the opportunity to make that one move which shocked the vampire aristocrats to boot.
I loved how Wrath transformed in this novel, finally, and at last, embracing his role as the King of the race wholeheartedly. There is no running from fate and destiny, especially leaving a role such as that of a King, particularly at a time when the race was in near tatters, clearly at a point where leadership was needed the most.
I also loved how insightful the story of Wrath’s parents proved to be. Unlike what Wrath thought of his father’s reign to be like, the traitors were around him just the same, just as insidious in their bid to dethrone him and take over the reins in their hunger for power. Another character trait Wrath seems to have inherited from his father? That take-charge attitude of his, in bed and out of it.
There was one rather unusual character that piqued my interest in this story; s’Ex, the executioner of the s’Hisbe sect of the vampires. He is a character I want a story for. Pretty please, JR Ward?
Recommended for fans of the series and fans of Wrath!
Final Verdict With The King, JR Ward brings readers full circle with the characters we fell in love with at the very beginning. Wrath’s story the second time around was just as indomitable as the vampire himself.
Rating = 4/5
Reviewed by MBR
I've been with her series since the beginning, followed the BDB for what feels like forever now. What I've loved so much about the first several book has been rapidly declining since. The thing with JR's writing is you just never know if your going to get a bad book anymore. Phury's book was so so. While John M and Xhex was awesome. Rhev's was so so, but Payne's and Thor's book was such a disaster, that it really was a turning point for me and I found these two books a killer of a story I loved so much.
Payne was so poorly written and what should have been really her book, really ended up being a second Vishous book. And Thor? He spent 200 years with Wellsie, was elated to become a father and not even two years later everyone just expects him to "get over it and move on?" Why was everyone else's mate allowed to return and she wasn't? No...we just got to see that she was rotting away in the "in between". And he ends up with No'One with no chemistry, no bonding scent, no "mine". Quinn and Blay's book was OK as well, but nothing to really dwell in any emotion one way or another...it wasn't a sit on the edge of your seat book like Zadist's book was.
Now for The King. I've read others that stated they hated the cover, I am one of them. He is no Wrath...as for the story, again it was OK, certainly much better than what we've been getting and the reference to Miley Cyrus really made me roll my eyes. I get why JR is trying to introduce other characters into the story line, but I agree with most readers that it was just too many new characters and that's why were aren't getting any of the Lessers, the Omega, the Scribe or even the brothers or their Shellans. It was such so much that I was forced to re-read the last book because I just couldn't keep all the characters straight on who they were. I think at this point JR should wrap this story to a close on the next book. She should finish Trez and iAm's story, Assail and Sola's and Layla and Xcor and leave it be. Then follow up on one final book to include all the original brothers and their shellans as a future peek into their lives and call it a day. I did very much enjoy Wrath and Beth being back in the spotlight though.
I miss Hollywood's beast, I miss Butch and Vishous relationship, I miss John Matthew who we came to love since he was pre-trans. I miss Zadists bad ass attitude and I miss the fact that Nalla grows and we barely get a glimpse of her. And although the Scribe was embedded so much in the first several books, she's not even been given a thought in the last several. And frankly, I'm sick of reading about the drug dealing....I am with other readers that didn't give 5 stars...this no longer feels like a BDB series as they aren't no longer involved in the story line but as rarely seen backdrops. What is the BDB without the Brothers????
Why are we revisiting Beth and Wrath? That is all that I could thing about before even picking this book up much less while reading it. There is a reason for it and I honestly believe it could have been one of those Ward side stories in a future/different book. The King did not have a main focal couple. It did however have a story line that tried to stay focused on the king.
Readers basically get four novellas created to flow as one book with the King. We get Wrath Sr and Anha, Wrath Jr and Beth, Trez and Selena, and my favorite of the book Sola and Assail. Sola's grandmother was the bump that brought this books rating to three stars. And I was left wanting more Assail and Sola, again.
I'm going to go back to my frustration on why the revisit of a past couple. It didn't really work for me but there were some things that happened within these pages that I think will make this world as a whole move in a new direction. I'm curious about the changes there and how it will affect Wrath's rule.
Sadly the side story of Wrath Sr and Anha felt like filler. It was there. It added pages. Their tale didn't add substance to the book.
Trez and Selena's pages really could have waited for their book. Due to all the reviews already out there I know what will happen with that couple's happily ever after. I still plan on reading their book. I just plan on doing a little genre jumping before then. I'm not looking forward to that book in the lease but I'm sure the secondary, tertiary, and however many other side stories Ward thows in will be interesting enough to keep the pages moving.
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