Bookfanatic reviewed on 9/16/2010

Helpful Score: 1

Loved it!! One of my favorite books of all time. This is one of the best love stories I've ever read. It's very unconventional and not predictable. Talk about your tortured alpha vampire males. Ward handles this story with such love and care. It's obvious how much she loves the character of Zsadist. She spends so much time crafting his past as well as his growth as a mate, warrior, and brother.

This is a far more interesting and complex book than the first two books in the series though those were entertaining in their own way. This book blows those two others out of the water.

Lover Awakened is Zsadist's story. You know that someone with such a dark outlook on life must have a compelling past. And he does. It isn't easy to read all that was done to him during his subjugation as a blood/sex slave to a wealthy cruel female vampire, but you understand why he has such a hair-trigger temper and dark outlook on life. You also understand his identical twin, Phury, better too.


Zsadist isn't the vicious monster everyone thinks he is. Even his own twin thinks that Zsadist is ruined, not broken. Broken can be fixed, but not someone ruined. So not true. Zsadist is an extremely vulnerable soul with a lot to offer to the right person, but gosh you have to go through iron clad layers to make him open up. He resists every step of the way. The last 30 pages of the book are so moving and absolutely amazing. I cried (and I hardly ever cry over a book) when I got to the end. It was a very satisfying end. Zsadist is my favorite character from the series.

There is an incredibly sad event that happens to a strong secondary character. It's something that will carry on in the books to come.

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