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Due to the popularity of our Black Dagger Brotherhood posts, we’ve put together a round-up of all the cheat sheets, chat recaps, reviews and other posts related to J. R. Ward’s BDB series. We’ll update this page as new reviews are posted and when the cheat sheets are updated.

Note that the cheat sheets have not been updated to include information from Lover At Last to avoid accidentally spoiling readers who have not yet had a chance to read the book.

If you’re looking for the old links to the cheat sheets, scroll down to the bottom of the page.

The King | Lover At Last | Cheat sheets | Reviews | Chat recaps | Other

The King (book 12)

You can find all pre-release spoilers and teasers for book 12 here: Teasers & Spoilers

Cheat sheets

Decadence, our resident BDB guru, has put together some cheat sheets to use as a refresher on what we know so far about the Brothers and their world. Note that these cheat sheets contain spoilers for the BDB books.

Wrath – last updated 31/3/2013

• Wrath
• Wrath (Wrath’s father)

Rhage – last updated 23/3/2012

• Rhage
• Tohrture (Rhage’s father)

Zsadist — last updated 23/3/2011

• Zsadist
• Ahgony (Z’s father)

Butch — last updated 31/3/2013

Vishous — last updated

• Vishous
• The Bloodletter (V’s father)

Phury — last updated 31/3/2013

Rehvenge — last updated 31/3/2013

John Matthew — last updated 31/3/2013

• John Matthew
• Xhex (JM’s mate)

Payne — last updated 31/3/2013

• Payne
• Manny Manello (Payne’s mate)

Tohrment — last updated 31/3/2013

• Tohrment
• No’One (Tohr’s shellan)
• Hharm (Tohr’s father)
• Lassiter

Qhuinn and Blaylock — last updated 1/4/2013

• Qhuinn
• Blaylock
• Saxton

Supporting characters — last updated 1/4/2013

• Layla
• Selena
• Trez and iAm
• Assail
• Murhder
• Story of Son

The Brotherhood — last updated 1/4/2013

• Overview of the BDB
• Pretrans training program

Antagonists — last updated 1/4/2013

• The Omega, The Lessening Society and Lash
• The Band of Bastards

World building — last updated 1/4/2013

• Vampire physiology
• Class structure
• Points of interest
• Symphath culture
• The Other Side (including The Scribe Virgin)

Reviews

Book 4 — Lover Revealed (Butch) – Kat’s review

Book 5 — Lover Unbound (Vishous) – Kat’s liveblog and thoughts

Book 7 — Lover Avenged (Rehvenge) – Decadence’s review | Kat’s review | Wandergurl’s thoughts

Book 8 — Lover Mine (John Matthew) — Kat’s review

Book 9 — Lover Unleashed (Payne) — Decadence’s review
Pre-release spoilers

Book 10 — Lover Reborn (Tohr) — Kat’s review
Pre-release spoilers – Part 4 | Part 3 | Part 2 | Part 1

Book 11 — Lover At Last (Qhuinn) – Kat’s review
Pre-release spoilers – Part 7 | Part 6 | Part 5 | Part 3 | Part 2| Part 1

Book 12 — The King — Coming in 2014
Pre-release spoilers — Part 1

Chat recaps

Crave and Black Dagger Brotherhood chat recap – 16/10/2010

Other related posts

Covet by J. R. Ward (review by Decadence)
Further musings on V (posted by Kat)

Old cheat sheet links

Looking for the previous version of the cheat sheets? Here are the links and a summary of what is included in each part. Please note that these posts will no longer be updated. For the last version of the cheat sheets, check out the links at the top of this page.

Black Dagger Brotherhood Cheat Sheet (Part 1)

• The Scribe Virgin and her single act of creation
• What is the Black Dagger Brotherhood?
• Black Dagger Brotherhood: Wrath, son of Wrath
• Class Structure and Civil Unrest
• Wrath the Fair

Black Dagger Brotherhood Cheat Sheet (Part 2)

• Black Dagger Brotherhood: Rhage, son of Tohrture
• Reproduction and the Needing
• Tohrture

Black Dagger Brotherhood Cheat Sheet (Part 3)

• Black Dagger Brotherhood: Zsadist, son of Ahgony
• Pretrans Training Program

Black Dagger Brotherhood Cheat Sheet (Part 4)

• Black Dagger Brotherhood: Butch O’Neal aka Dhestroyer, descended of Wrath, son of Wrath, aka Brian O’Neal
• The Omega, Lessening Society and Lash
• The Safe Place

Black Dagger Brotherhood Cheat Sheet (Part 5)

• Black Dagger Brotherhood: Vishous, son of the Bloodletter
• Payne
• Dr Manuel Manello
• Medical quirks
• The Bloodletter

Black Dagger Brotherhood Cheat Sheet (Part 6)

• Black Dagger Brotherhood: Phury, son of Ahgony
• The Primale and the Chosen
• Layla
• Selena

Black Dagger Brotherhood Cheat Sheet (Part 7)

• Rehvenge, son of Rempoon, aka The Reverend
• Xhex
• Symphath culture
• Trez and iAm

Black Dagger Brotherhood Cheat Sheet (Part 8)

• Darius, son of Marklon, reincarnated as John Matthew aka Tehrror, son of Darius of Marklon
• Qhuinn Warrior, formerly Qhuinn, son of Lohstrong, and Blaylock, son of Rocke
• Saxton, son of Tyhm
• Transition

Black Dagger Brotherhood Cheat Sheet (Part 9)

• Black Dagger Brotherhood: Tohrment, son of Hharm
• Hharm
• Lassiter
• Muhrder, son of Murhder aka Eliahu Rathboone
• The Coffins
• No’One
• Story of Son