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Yashima rated One fell sweep: 4 stars

No cover — Ilona Andrews: One fell sweep (2016)

One fell sweep by Ilona Andrews (Innkeeper Chronicles, #3)

Dina DeMille may run the nicest Bed and Breakfast in Red Deer, Texas, but she caters to a very particular …

Yashima rated Sweep in Peace: 4 stars

Ilona Andrews: Sweep in Peace (2015, Nancy Yost Literary Agency)

Sweep in Peace by Ilona Andrews (Innkeeper Chronicles, #2)

"Dina DeMille isn't your typical Bed and Breakfast owner. Her inn defies laws of physics, her dog is secretly a …

Yashima rated Emerald Blaze: 5 stars

Emerald Blaze by Ilona Andrews

Yashima rated Sapphire Flames: 5 stars

Sapphire Flames by Ilona Andrews

Yashima rated Rhythm of War: 5 stars

Brandon Sanderson: Rhythm of War (Hardcover, 2020, Tor Books)

Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson (The Stormlight Archive, #4)

After forming a coalition of human resistance against the enemy invasion, Dalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a …

Yashima rated The Noma Guide to Fermentation: 5 stars

René Redzepi: The Noma Guide to Fermentation (Hardcover, 2018)

The Noma Guide to Fermentation by René Redzepi

At Noma--four times named the world's best restaurant--every dish includes some form of fermentation, whether it's a bright hit of …

Yashima rated The Last Emperox: 5 stars

John Scalzi: The Last Emperox (Hardcover, 2020, Tor)

The Last Emperox by John Scalzi (The Interdependency, #3)

The Last Emperox is the thrilling conclusion to the award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling Interdependency series, an …

Yashima rated Record of a Spaceborn Few: 5 stars

Becky Chambers: Record of a Spaceborn Few (Hardcover, 2018, Hodder & Stoughton)

Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers, #3)

Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a place many are from but …

Yashima rated The Thief: 3 stars

J.R. Ward: The Thief (Hardcover, Piatkus Books)

The Thief by J.R. Ward (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #16)

Yashima rated The Chosen: 4 stars

J.R. Ward: The Chosen (2017, Ballantine Books)

The Chosen by J.R. Ward (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #15)

Yashima rated Shards and Shadows: 3 stars

Susan Wright, Dave Stern, Dayton Ward, Kevin Dilmore, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Peter David, James Swallow, David Alan Mack, Michael Jan Friedman, Jim Johnson, Rudy Josephs, Christopher L. Bennett, Margaret Wander Bonanno: Shards and Shadows (Paperback, 2009, Pocket Books)

Shards and Shadows by Susan Wright, Dave Stern, Dayton Ward, and 10 others (Star Trek: Mirror Universe, #3)

Fractured history. Broken lives. Splintered souls. Since the alternate universe was first glimpsed in the classic episode "Mirror, Mirror," something …

Yashima rated The beast: 3 stars

The beast by J.R. Ward (The Black Dagger Brotherhood series)

"Rhage and Mary return in a new novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, a series "so popular, I don't think …

Yashima rated Lover at Last: 5 stars

Lover at Last by J.R. Ward (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #11)

Yashima rated A Closed and Common Orbit: 4 stars

Becky Chambers: A Closed and Common Orbit (Hardcover, 2016, HODDER & STOUGHTON)

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers, #2)

Once, Lovelace had eyes and ears everywhere. She was a ship's artificial intelligence system - possessing a personality and very …

Yashima reviewed The Bourbon Kings (The Bourbon Kings, #1) by J.R. Ward

J.R. Ward: The Bourbon Kings (The Bourbon Kings, #1) (2015)

Review of 'The Bourbon Kings (The Bourbon Kings, #1)' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

This wasn't the best of the Black Dagger brotherhood. I didn't enjoy the back story of Wrath's parents much, it was just interrupting the things I wanted to read about. And usually I am rooting for a new couple to find each other but in this case all I got was continuations of story-lines from the previous book none of which was resolved (Trez, XCor, Assail ... just saying. And the title story between the King and his beloved was more drama than the usual love story. There were fun moments but mostly it was just the resolution of the politics from the previous book. The Lessers are not a very convincing bunch of bad boys anymore either. So with XCor falling for Layla he's mostly out of the picture, the conflict in the series is just about dying down. I can see Assail and his involvement with the Lessers …

This wasn't the best of the Black Dagger brotherhood. I didn't enjoy the back story of Wrath's parents much, it was just interrupting the things I wanted to read about. And usually I am rooting for a new couple to find each other but in this case all I got was continuations of story-lines from the previous book none of which was resolved (Trez, XCor, Assail ... just saying. And the title story between the King and his beloved was more drama than the usual love story. There were fun moments but mostly it was just the resolution of the politics from the previous book. The Lessers are not a very convincing bunch of bad boys anymore either. So with XCor falling for Layla he's mostly out of the picture, the conflict in the series is just about dying down. I can see Assail and his involvement with the Lessers cause some trouble but besides the next book being titled "The Shadows" there's not much going on ... and all the main characters are pretty much taken care of, except for the few loose ends mentioned above that will surely be resolved in the next book. So is it all going to go the way of the happily-ever-after? Don't think so. But maybe it is time for the series to come to a close.

Addendum: and despite all that this is still way better and more fun to read than the average dangerous-hero-romance ... so 3 -> 4