Friday, April 14, 2017

Weekend Book Club--The Chosen by J.R. Ward

This past week, I read THE CHOSEN by J.R. Ward, the latest installment of her Black Dagger Brotherhood series.

This is an amazing series, but it hasn't been without controversy. Ward doesn't shy away from upsetting the balance of the world she's created. Some of the books in the series I love and have read again and again. Others I've read once and will never read again. But there is one thing I'll say about this series...it's addictive.

Once again, Ward has woven a complex story, bringing a seemingly impossible resolution to an ongoing storyline, while hinting at stories yet to come. I can't wait for the next one.

BLURB:

A scorching forbidden love threatens to tear a rift through the Black Dagger Brotherhood in J. R. Ward’s newest novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. 
Xcor, leader of the Band of Bastards, convicted of treason against the Blind King, is facing a brutal interrogation and torturous death at the hands of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. Yet after a life marked by cruelty and evil deeds, he accepts his soldier’s fate, his sole regret the loss of a sacred female who was never his: the Chosen Layla.
           
Layla alone knows the truth that will save Xcor’s life. But revealing his sacrifice and his hidden heritage will expose them both and destroy everything Layla holds dear—even her role of mother to her precious young. Torn between love and loyalty, she must summon the courage to stand up against the only family she has for the only man she will ever love. Yet even if Xcor is somehow granted a reprieve, he and Layla would have to confront a graver challenge: bridging the chasm that divides their worlds without paving the way for a future of even greater war, desolation, and death.
           
As a dangerous old enemy returns to Caldwell, and the identity of a new deity is revealed, nothing is certain or safe in the world of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, not even true love . . . or destinies that have long seemed set in stone.

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