Black Dagger Brotherhood: Lover Avenged (Book 7)

I have to say, Rehvenge is not a character I paid much attention to.  He's a half-vampire/half-sympath who owns and operates the club, Zero Sum, where the Brothers like to hang out.  He's a pimp and a drug dealer.  He's also Bella's brother, and the one who the glymera tries to hire to assassinate Wrath.

Unlike the other books, where I read about the brothers, but skimmed over the lesser sections, I found myself doing the opposite in Lover Avenged.  The book is supposed to be Rehvenge's story, to let us get to know him and watch how he falls in love with Ehlena.  I found their story to be quite boring, for the most part.

I wanted to find out how Lash's story unfolds.  Once he becomes a half-vampire/half-lesser, he goes on a mission to destroy the vampire world.  He begins by murdering, and ordering the murders, of the glymera families.  As he begins his plans to go after the Brotherhood, Lash realizes how much easier his task would be if he could align himself with the sympath colony.  After visiting the sympaths, he decides to bring home a little souvenir.

The Brotherhood receives an email threatening to expose Rehv as a sympath, and if the Brother's don't turn him in, the fact that they knew about Rehv will also come to light. In order to keep his secret, he fakes his death and goes to the sympath colony.  When Xhex and Ehlena find out Rehv is still alive, they make a plan with the Brothers to rescue him.

The rescue mission is almost a success, and their failure sets up the storyline for the next book.  This was definitely better than the previous two books in the series.


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