Vampire Academy: Spirit Bound - Richelle Mead

Dimitri gave Rose the ultimate choice. But she chose wrong...

After a long and heartbreaking journey to Dimitri's birthplace in Siberia, Rose Hathaway has finally returned to St. Vladimir's-and to her best friend, Lissa. It is nearly graduation, and the girls can't wait for their real lives beyond the Academy's iron gates to begin. But Rose's heart still aches for Dimitri, and she knows he's out there, somewhere.

She failed to kill him when she had the chance. And now her worst fears are about to come true. Dimitri has tasted her blood, and now he is hunting her. And this time he won't rest until Rose joins him... forever.

Cover

Like I've said before, these covers aren't really that special. I had the English cover, but the Dutch cover attracts me way more. They kind of made it seem like an erotica.

Rose Hathaway

OH my God,  how do I love Rose. She speaks for herself, and is probably one of the sassiest characters I've had. She'll do everything in order to protect Lissa, but is also able to live her own life and to fall in love. She's so badass, the best young guardian there is, and proves that women can also become guardians, instead of living as bloodwhores (Dhamphirs who have sex with Moroi and then let them feed of them). She is always underestimated, and it's so funny to see how they get surprised by her combat skills.

Lissa's growth

In the first few books, I saw Lissa as a weak character who couldn't stand up for herself and needed her best friend Rose. In this book, I could definitely see that she'd grown into a young woman who's stronger than people think. Her type of magic is so powerful and relatively new she didn't know how to work with it at first. After finding other Spirit users, she learned more about herself and started to use her magic for bigger things. In this book, she and her former boyfriend Christian even learned how to fight and stake Strigoi.

Dimitri Belikov

DIMITRI'S BACK BITCHES. Oh my god, how happy I am. I almost can't say anything without spoiling, so Warning: I'm kind of going to spoil the 3rd book for you. After he'd turned Strigoi, I was literally just like ?¿¿¿???!! But now there's some hope again. My emotions get crushed at any part in this book, why can't there just happen something between him and Rose that would make me happy?

Adrian Ivashkov

During the entire book, I felt so sorry for Adrian. He never stopped loving Rose, while she kept thinking about Dimitri. In the end, he did get what he wanted, but Rose still got drawn back to Dimitri after that. I've heard some spoilers from my friend about him dating someone else in the future, and I really hope she makes him happy. Adrian seems like someone who would do everything for the one he romantically loves, but he has to figure out his own problems first. His Spirit abilities are slowly making him go insane, and only cigarettes and alcohol can stop that, which means he once was alcoholic and is still a smoker (although he is smoking less for Rose). I hope they find something that could stop the insanity in the future, except for a shadow-kissed (one who was brought back from the death by a Spirit user) sucking it up.

SOUL CRASHING MOMENTS

Holy shit (or damn, as Rose likes to say it), MY EMOTIONS. This book was basically an emotional rollercoaster. I felt like the writer was some evil creature wanting to make me feel frustrated (which she's not, but like). She made me so happy, but nope, not for long. Why do these cliffhangers have to be so amazing? Why can't they just not hit me so fucking hard? AARGH

Intimate scenes

This is basically me praising the writer, cause wow, this book had like the 5th intimate scene in the series? And while it wasn't the most passionate, I still got this feeling I was completely in it. My heart was even racing, if you can say it like that. It was awkward but was so easy to read through. To be honest, a hopeless romantic like me (lmao pls love me) really loves scenes where they get this feeling there's no one except them and that's all that matters. MY FEELINGS

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Beginning hard to get into

I have to be honest with you, even though I've done only but praise this series and it's one of the best I've read, the beginning of the book was sometimes hard to get into. Around page 100/500, the action really started getting in. An old "friend" returned and changed everything. After this discoverage, they return to Court, and there's where I was hooked.

I will say it again. Fan of vampires? Read these books. Fan of Fantasy? Read these books. Fan of books? READ THESE BOOKS. I think they're my 2nd favorite series, The Iron Fey being first, but it's slowly turning into my first. 4,5/5 stars.

Title: Spirit Bound

Author: Richelle Mead

Series: Vampire Academy (book 5)

Publisher: Razorbill

Price (Paperback): $6,98

Pages (Hardcover):496

Dominique 
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