Black Dagger Brotherhood Book 22.5: A Bloom in Winter by JR Ward

 

Black Dagger Brotherhood Book 22.5

Another sexy, high-stakes holiday spinoff installment of the New York Times bestselling Black Dagger Brotherhood series. 

Nothing warms a cold heart like true love, and in this newest Black Dagger Brotherhood winter book, a fighter who has never been a savior finds himself falling in love—and trying to rescue—a male who’s lost all hope. With the BDB training center reopening, and the Brothers looking to add more soldiers in the war against the Lessening Society, fan favorite Callum decides to find his purpose in fighting. Apex knows what suffering the male has survived, and he joins the program just to make sure Callum doesn’t get himself killed. As the two hit the streets, and the danger gets real, Callum must decide whether he can open himself up to love or if he will give in to his inner darkness and spiral down into an abyss of hatred and death...forever.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207299225-a-bloom-in-winter

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My Review: 5/5 Stars

So I want to start off by saying that the blurb about this book isn’t really what I read. Yes, the story is about Callum and Apex who we met in the Prison Camp series. I was super glad to get their story! But the thing about the training center and all that isn’t really accurate. I did get an ARC of this book, so part of me wondered if there was more to come when printed but at the same time, the story read as a full book and didn’t seem to be missing anything. So maybe that blurb will change? Who knows. Basically I wanted to warn everyone not to expect much with the training center.

So as I said this is a story about Apex and Callum coming back to one another. It lines up with the jumped ahead timeline and we see that these two have been apart for a while. After everything that has happened with them, healing and just getting themselves in spaces is just complicated. But their paths cross once more when Apex and Mayhem are hired to set up a security system for the person Callum is currently working for in keeping the estate in check. But of course it is more complicated than that. We get a side story with Mayhem and a female vampire who runs to that estate to get away from a forced mating that her father wants her to go through with. In addition to some Tohr pov when there is a murder that needs to be solved and a possible threat against the king. And of course, everything connects in some way. As usual, loved the BDB world. Love getting a new story especially with this wolven and vampire. Been waiting for them for a while. And of course, love getting to see how this world is developing and the new threats on the horizon. Looks like we got a lot of things coming! You definitely don’t want to miss this latest addition to the series.

I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.