Oh wow... 
 I'm a bit at loss for words here. 
 This book kept me completely enthralled from the very first page. Ms Ward writes in such a way it makes you feel as if you're right there in the book, with the characters. 
 The book is ugly, and gory and bloody - but it's also beautiful, heart warming, and reading it feels like having come home. 
 Dark Lover is brick of a book, and so much happens. All the time. Yet, it's never hard to keep the players straight, or their various story-lines, or the over all plot. Ms Ward doesn't play around with fancy words (other than series specific vamp words, but you quickly learn what they mean), and she doesn't try to talk over the readers' heads. 
 I almost want to dive right into the next book in the series, but at the same time I want to wait for a bit to let Dark Lover absorb completely first. 
 If you like vamps and love stories and blood and scary (sexy) dudes - this book is so for you. Me, I'm just sad I'm so late to the game. Feels like the whole worlds has read these books already.