Blood Promise (Vampire Academy, Book 4) (edition 2009)

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Now it started to get really boring, and Rose in Russia frequently reminded me what I hate about Americans, but I'm a damn gentle reader and I finished it.

Sidney and Abe are far the best characters! ( )

This book was great as we got to move around a little with Rose, and I love having a girl heroine who is strong, can fight, and doesn't really need anyone else's help. Of course, she still needs other people, but she can totally function and fight on her own. She doesn't need a man to validate her. ( )

I seem to have a pattern with Vampire academy series books. One gets a 4 star rating next one 3 star rating and so on...
[b:Shadow Kiss|2802316|Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, #3)|Richelle Mead|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1298986451s/2802316.jpg|6651006] was a book I liked very much. I expected a lot of tension from the sequel. After all Rose is gone to hunt and kill the Strigoi Dimitri. But first half of the book was... well very boring. Most of it are Rose's memories of time spent with Dimitri... some we already knew, some new... Maybe this would not bore me so much if Rose did not attempt to be a narrator of the book and from time to time remind us what happened before... Yeah, I read the other books I do not need digression of past events repeated over and over again. Second half of the book was better, finally some action. But it was not so much good to make up for the boring first part. ( )

What a whirlwind of a book! Just like the previous Vampire Academy titles by Richelle Mead, I couldn't put this down! The story centers around Rose as she heads to Dimitri's home town in the hopes of keeping a promise they made to each-other before their world was ripped apart. Rose's future as Lissa's Guardian are put in danger as her journey takes her into more dangerous places than she ever expected and she has to decide once and for all, does she have the power to destroy her first love?

I gave myself a week to finish this book and proceeded to finish it within the first two days. The writing style is just as addictive as the other fantastic books in the series, with a few weak points. It seemed to me that she was in Russia with Dimitri's family too long. We got so used to Rose as being a very proactive person that watching her be indecisive for so long was tiring and made the middle of the book feel long. My other problem was that she was separated from the secondary characters we've come to know and love for too long. Some may say that was the point of the novel, to keep them separated, but, in all honesty, they could have found each-other a little bit quicker.

Even with the problems, I still found this engaging and can't wait for the next book in the series. Mead has a great series on her hands!

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