Vampire Academy: Last Sacrifice - Richelle Mead

Rose Hathaway has always played by her own rules. She broke the law when she ran away from St. Vladimir's Academy with her best friend and last surviving Dragomir princess, Lissa. She broke the law when she fell in love with her gorgeous, off-limits instructor, Dimitri. And she dared to defy Queen Tatiana, leader of the Moroi world, risking her life and reputation to protect generations of dhampir guardians to come.

Now the law has finally caught up with Rose - for a crime she didn't even commit. She's in prison for the highest offense imaginable: the assassination of a monarch. She'll need help from both Dimitri and Adrian to find the one living person who can stall her execution and force the Moroi elite to acknowledge a shocking new candidate for the royal throne: Vasilisa Dragomir.

But the clock on Rose's life is running out. Rose knows in her heart the world of the dead wants her back...and this time she is truly out of second chances. The big question is, when your whole life is about saving others, who will save you?

Rose Hathaway is still a child

Don't get me wrong, Rose has experienced a lot of growth, but she's still such a child at times. I mean, cheating on your boyfriend? Really now? Of course, I was happy when Dimitri and Rose got back together, but Jesus Christ, break up with your boyfriend first.

Other than her whining and her being a little full of herself (which is completely fine), she is very smart, beautiful and has definitely got some sense in her head, instead of those cheesy heriones. 

She's so loyal to Lissa, and I love that so much. They have a perfect friendship, it sometimes seems like Lissa knows what Rose thinks, even though the bond only goes one-way.

Dimitri slowly becomes his old-self

Throughout the book, you could see Dimitri was slowly starting to accept himself and forgive himself. It took him a long while, but partly because of Rose, whom he could lean on, he started to feel more, even love. 

Dimitri is one of the most smartest guys I have ever read about. Maybe because he isn't a teenager, he was so down-to-earth and wanted to make the best decisions. When Rose told him she loved him he wanted what was best for Adrian, and told Rose to break up with him first, but Rose seduced him, and well, it was bound to happen anyways. I just love him, love how serious he is. It's so different from the douchy romance guys you have in other books. 

Murder of Tatiana

Wow, I know this happened at the ending of the fifth book, but it still is SO SMART. Richelle Mead is so amazing, it all fits together so perfectly. At a given moment wanting to know who the murderer was just so agonising I had to search up spoilers, causing the ending to be way less shocking for me.

Lissa becoming queen?

After the murder of Tatiana, elections for a new queen are held. Without her will, Rose and Christian make Lissa a part of it. However, not able to win because a family line has to at least have 2 members. 

Rose knows more about this, she breaks out of prison with the help of her friends and goes to find Lissa's possible sibling with Dimitri and Sydney. When I found out who the sibling was, I was just so amazed. It was such a good choice! The author is seriously amazing at twisting the plot.

Sydney

I don't think I've ever actually written about her, but Sydney is so great. Even though she's human (technically, she's an Alchemist), she still manages to bring so much to the book without any supernatural powers. I'm really happy she got a spin-off series (Bloodlines), I'd love to see more of her and Sydney x Adrian seems really interesting.

Sonya Karp is back?

After the first book, I was still so frustrated by Sonya. I wondered where she was, if she would be able to get back, and after her former-boyfriend talked about her again I knew she would. So when it finally happened in this book I LOVED IT SO MUCH. That reunion warmed in the end warmed my heart.

The ending

That ending was definitely something. I was happy with my Romitri, but I was a bit sad some other thing happened. What's gonna happen to Lissa now? Will it affect their friendship? Bloodlines is definitely on my list, I'm really curious as to what's going to happen to them after a supposedly 'happy ending'.

Overall, I'll give this book 4,5/5 stars. The ending wasn't that 'peaceful' (that feeling you get when you read the last book in a series) for me. I still love the books so much, they're probably my favorites.

Title: Last Sacrifice

Author: Richelle Mead

Series: Vampire Academy (book 6) 

Dominique

(I'm sorry I didn't post anything last week, school started for me and I didn't get any time to read, please bare with me :))

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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Vampire Academy: Vampire Academy - Richelle Mead

Rose Hathaway is a dhampir, half-vampire and half-human, who is training to be a guardian at St. Vladimir's Academy along with many others like her. There are good and bad vampires in their world: Moroi, who co-exist peacefully among the humans and only take blood from donors, and also possess the ability to control one of the four elements - water, earth, fire or air; and Strigoi, blood-sucking, evil vampires who drink to kill. Rose and other dhampir guardians are trained to protect Moroi and kill Strigoi throughout their education. Along with her best friend, Princess Vasilisa Dragomir, a Moroi and the last of her line, with whom she has a nigh unbreakable bond, Rose must run away from St. Vladimir's, in order to protect Lissa from those who wish to harm the princess and use her for their own means.

The cover is not that special, I don't think it suits the book perfectly. To be honest, I like the Dutch cover better. I do like the fence on the book, which you'll find in the book too, Rose, Lissa and the other Moroi and dhampirs can't leave the Academy. 

Okay, hold my purse so I can start fangirling. I WAS SO ADDICTED! I've always been a fan of vampires since Twilight (yeah, I know, still love the story). I read this book in 2/3 days, which is pretty fast for me. I had seen the movie before and I absolutely loved it, so I needed the books! I finally found them so I decided to read them :).

I really, really enjoyed the idea of Rose falling in love with her mentor, who is 7 years older than she is. Their relationship is pretty complicated, since they can't be together because of their work. 

I love Rose, this ass-kicking-sassy Guardian. They only one she really cares about is Lissa, who she has a special bond with since 'the accident'. She always does before she thinks, and has gotten in trouble for that many times.

I'd give this book 5/5 stars, it was amazing and I loved it so much (yeah, I love a lot)

Extra: This book has been adapted to a movie, click here to see the trailer.

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