The Viper (Black Dagger Brotherhood: Prison Camp #3) by JR Ward

The Viper (Black Dagger Brotherhood: Prison Camp #3) by JR Ward-review

 

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date September 20, 2022.

Framed for the grisly murder of his shellan, Kane is condemned to the notorious prison camp—unaware of the dark truth behind his arranged mating. Centuries later, when he is horribly burned while attempting to save others, he prays he’ll finally be reunited in the Fade with his mate…not knowing what revelations await him.

Nadya is a self-taught nurse who does what she can to ease the suffering of the prisoners. When Kane comes under her care, she cannot help but empathize with his condition for very personal reasons—and as the guards take him away one last time, she fears he is facing a terrible death.

After a daring rescue, Kane is offered a treatment that will change his very nature. Choosing life, for the time being, he goes back for the female who took such good care of him—but his duty to Nadya sets him on a collision course with his own past. When long-buried secrets are exposed, his self-destruction is inevitable…unless true love can save his soul.

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REVIEW: THE VIPER is the third instalment in JR Ward’s contemporary adult BLACK DAGGER BROTHERHOOD: PRISON CAMP paranormal romance series-a spin off/interconnected series from the author’s Black Dagger Brotherhood. This is vampires Kanemille aka Kane, and Nadya’s story line. THE VIPER can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.

Told from third person perspectives, following several intersecting paths, using present day and memories from the past, THE VIPER continues to focus on the relocation of, and the Brothers search for the illegal supernatural prison colony used by the former Glymera to control the so-called deviants of paranormal society. No longer under the control of the once powerful Glymera, the colony has become the epi-center of drugs for Caldwell, New York.

Approximately two hundred years earlier, vampire Kanemille was sentenced to the original prison colony for a crime he did not commit. Along with hundreds of vampires and wolvens, Kane suffered abuse and torture at the hands of those in charge but a fire was about to force Kane to choose between the ‘Shade’ or something else. With the only light in his life, a severely scarred female named Nadya, Kane chooses something else, in an effort to go back and rescue the female with whom he will fall in love but all does not go according to plan when the vampires and wolvens set a plan into motion to rescue and release the prisoners inside, a plan that begins to crumble at the hands of their former jailers.

Meanwhile, the wolven Callum is falling for the vampire Apex, a vampire who once thought he was in love with Kane, but as the world begins to implode, Callum is captured, and the fall-out threatens his sanity and the man with whom he was falling in love.

There is a large ensemble cast of secondary and supporting characters including several members of the BDB; the requisite cameo from the Scribe Virgin, as well as the return of Lucan and Rio (The Wolf), and The Jackal.

THE VIPER is a story of power and control, betrayal and vengeance, ethereal magic and mystery, acceptance and love. The premise is heart breaking yet engaging-both Nadya and Kane’s back stories are dark and raw; the romance is emotional but struggles in the face of past betrayals: the characters are broken but battling to move forward.

Reading Order and Previous Reviews
The Jackal
The Wolf

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Reviewed by Sandy

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J.R. Ward is the author of more than thirty novels, including those in her #1 New York Times bestselling Black Dagger Brotherhood series. There are more than fifteen million copies of her novels in print worldwide, and they have been published in twenty-six different countries around the world. She lives in the South with her family.

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The Wolf ( BDB: Prison Camp 2) by JR Ward-Review tour

The Wolf ( BDB: Prison Camp 2) by JR Ward-Review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date November 16, 2021

In the next installment of bestselling author J.R. Ward’s Prison Camp series, things get steamy when Lucan, a wolven forced into bartering drug deals for the infamous Prison Colony, meets Rio, the second in command for the shadowy Caldwell supplier, Mozart. After a deal goes awry, a wolf with piercing golden eyes swoops in to save her from certain death. As shocking truths unfurl, Rio is uncertain of who to trust and what to believe—but with her life on the line, true love rears its head and growls in the face of danger.

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REVIEW:THE WOLF is the second instalment in JR Ward’s contemporary, adult BLACK DAGGER BROTHERHOOD: PRISON CAMP paranormal romance series-a spin and interconnected series from the author’s Black Dagger Brotherhood. This is wolven/vampire hybrid Lucan, and Caldwell undercover police detective Rio Hernandez-Guerrero’s story line. THE WOLF can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story line is revealed where necessary but I recommend reading the series in order for back story and cohesion.

WARNING: Due to the nature of the story line premise including graphic violence, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from third person perspectives THE WOLF follows several interconnected and diverging pathways focusing on the search for the infamous supernatural Prison Colony that is now connected to a resurgence of drugs in Caldwell New York.Detective Rio Hernandez-Guerrero has been undercover in the hopes of uncovering the who, how and where of the uptick in drug trafficking but Rio finds herself a target of some very powerful people, none of whom are working together but all wanting something from our story line heroine. Wolven/vampire hybrid Lucan is the right hand man to Caldwell’s most powerful supplier but Lucan remains a captive of the people in charge. When a drug deal goes wrong, Lucan finds himself ‘nursing ‘ our heroine back to life, the woman that calls to our hero’s inner wolf.

Meanwhile, Detective Jose De La Cruz finds himself investigating a series of grizzly murders, all with connection to the latest influx of heroine, cocaine and fentanyl. With two of the precincts undercover detectives missing and presumed dead, Jose discovers that all is not well within Caldwell’s police force, and Jose is about to come face to face with a ghost from his past.

Connected to both of the above premise, the Black Dagger Brotherhood, believing they had shut down the infamous Glymera Prison Colony continue to struggle with the latest information that a new set up is prospering outside of New York, a set up of which no one is able to locate or uncover. Knowing our story line heroine is working undercover to ferret out the people involved in the local drug trade, the Brothers are hoping Rio Hernandez-Guerrero will lead them to the prison, so they can shut down the operation, once and for all.

THE WOLF is a complex, detailed and multi-leveled story wherein all of the pathways are interconnected and feed off of one another. Detective Jose De La Cruz plays a pivotal role in the current timeline as Butch’s former partner is struggling with his impending retirement, the missing undercover police officers, the possibility of a dirty cop at the helm of the department, and the ongoing battle to clean up the streets of Caldwell, New York. The Brothers will cross paths with Jose De La Cruz, breaking our hearts as Jose is unable to grasp the loss of his former partner and friend, a friend he knows but is unable to remember.

JR Ward pulls the reader into a dramatic, intense and emotional story that continues to focus on the turmoil and upheaval of a drug epidemic that continues to destroy the lives of everyone involved.

Click HERE for Sandy’s review of book one THE JACKAL

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Reviewed by Sandy

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J.R. Ward is the author of more than thirty novels, including those in her #1 New York Times bestselling Black Dagger Brotherhood series. There are more than fifteen million copies of her novels in print worldwide, and they have been published in twenty-six different countries around the world. She lives in the South with her family.

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