Lover Reborn (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #10) by J.R. Ward

Lover Reborn (J.R. Ward)

SUMMARY

Ever since the death of his shellan, Tohrment has been unrecognizable from the vampire leader he once was. Physically emaciated and heartbroken beyond despair, he has been brought back to the Brotherhood by a self-serving fallen angel. Now, fighting once again with ruthless vengeance, he is unprepared to face a new kind of tragedy.

When Tohr begins to see his beloved in his dreams—trapped in a cold, isolated netherworld far from the peace and tranquillity of the Fade—he turns to the angel in hopes of saving the one he has lost. But because Lassiter tells him he must learn to love another to free his former mate, Tohr knows they are all doomed....

Except then a female with a shadowed history begins to get through to him. Against the backdrop of the raging war with the lessers, and with a new clan of vampires vying for the Blind King’s throne, Tohr struggles between the buried past and a very hot, passion-filled future…but can his heart let go and set all of them free? 

MY REVIEW

Tohrment (or Tohr) and No’One (or Rosalhynda – her initial name; or Autumn – the name that was given to her by Torh)

Life was short, no matter how many days you were granted. And people were precious, each and every one, no matter how many you were lucky enough to have in your life.
And love... love was worth dying for.
Worth living for, too.

Such a sad sad love story.

Torhment is heartbroken because his mate Wellsie and his unborn son were killed. Since he knows that if he kills himself, he won’t be able to reunite with his family after death; he tries his best to die far away from his fellow warriors. He starves (only drinks animals’ blood) and he stays outside in the cold praying that someone will kill him. Lassiter finds him and takes him back to the mansion, because there are things about his precious Wellsie and her afterlife that he doesn’t know.

No’One is miserable because of her distressing story of her youth when she was stolen and raped by a symphath. She was saved and taken care of by two warriors, but as she was born in Glymera she could not live with this burden. So as soon as she gave birth to her daughter, she killed herself. Now she lives only to take care of the Chosens, until Payne takes her back to the human world.

There she will meet Tohr.

Torh likes No’One, but he will not allow himself to feel happiness with her because he feels that he betrays his dead mate.
No’One likes Tohr, but she feels that she does not deserve to be happy because she abandoned her daughter.

Both live in their own personal hell.

Well, both they have to just let go of the past because No’One’s daughter has forgiven her and wants to be her friend and Torh’s mate needs to move on and Torh does not let her.

For the majority of the book Tohr behaves like a heartless bastard and No’One behaves like a lifeless victim.

The saddest thing is that when Torh and No’One actually manage to be happy together, the worst happens like they were not supposed to be together in the first place (I was surprised and I cried my eyes out there).

Lassiter is their best protector and his behavior is the only thing that made smile from this book.

I don’t normally like stories where there is always the memory of the other woman around and the female main character needs to settle in the second best place, but somehow it works here for me.

Overwhelming, well-remembered book.