2017: 
 I stand by my 6 year old review. I hate how the heroine was treated. I managed to finish the book, but I despised how a female main character was killed and made into a ghost. A fucking ghost of all things! I really do not like this author. I've wanted to keep on reading these books for a while now, but once again this book throws me off, and puts me off of this series. This is the most horrible treatment of a main character I've ever read. And I've been unfortunate enough to read quite a lot of bad books looking for the good ones. I tried to start reading the first chapter in the next book, but I can't. I don't like how Phury's been treated so far in the books, and at this point I don't trust the author to do Phury justice, just like she didn't do Vishous justice. That's right. I. Do. Not. Trust. JR Ward. So yet again, I'm ending my journey into the Black Dagger Brotherhood series at book five. 
 2011: 
 It's simply impossible for me to finish this book. I hate what Ms Ward did with the character I was looking the most forward to read. She has been flirting with his sexuality, only to decide that he needs a woman after all. The man is clearly in love with Butch, so I don't understand why she couldn't have played off on that! Adding major gay characters is only politically correct these days. 
 I hate that the strong, female lead in this book is turned to a whimpering moron in 0.2 seconds. And then she's simply killed off. Seriously?? 
 This book has no real happy ending. I'm not happy with how much I ended up hating V. And most of all, I'm not at all happy with how much I've come to hate Ms Ward as an author. With the slow but certain decline in plots and characteristics in the heroes and heroines, I don't see myself being able to finish this series without wanting to do bodily harm to the author. I hate when an author takes strong women and turns them into idiots. Makes me wonder if the author is jealous of her own lead female characters, and wants the boys all to herself. 
 If you loved V in previous books - DO NOT READ THIS BOOK OR YOU'LL END UP HATING HIM.