Review: The Viper

The Viper by J.R. Ward
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I stumbled into this off-shoot of the BDB series, and I am happy I did! This was a complicated book with many characters from the first two books. It also had some BDB character's in it too.

In the last book, Kane was horribly burned, helping to save others, and Nadya was helping to heal him (not that it was really possible). We start this book with a prison break and Kane being taken to the wolf's encampment, where the Grey Wolf offers him a choice. He would heal if he became *other*.

The characters are solid, although there was a little too much introspection for my taste; the story was intriguing and violent. There are several relationships to iron out and several heavy sex scenes, (M/M and M/F).

I'm not sure if there will be another book dealing with the Prison Camp or the people who have escaped. This book seems like it will end here, but one can never be sure of what the author will do.

*ARC supplied to me by the publisher Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster, the author JR Ward, and ATTL/Edelweiss.

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OVERVIEW: "In this newest Prison Camp installment, #1 New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward pens a heart-wrenching tale of love and betrayal in the Black Dagger Brotherhood world…

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."