Blood Promise Review

3/5 ☆☆☆

This book may not have been as exciting as the first three books,
but it was definitely important
because we get to see some serious
 character development on Rose's part.

Yes she is still the same old Rose
Sarcastic
stubborn
and
bad ass,
but we see a lot of maturity is some of the things she does.

Unlike when we first met her,
she no longer believe she can take on the world on her own. 

She knows that there are much stronger, bigger, and badder things out there then her.
she understands the importance of working with others and she
also learns a few more things about her world.

She takes things in and access the situation she is in before making her moves
and that is something she teaches a bunch of rogue Dhampir's she meets while in Russia
.
She is no longer by Lissa's side and although it is a strain on both of them this alone time
helps the girls to grow and deal with issues they so dearly need to handle.

For rose it's her resentment towards Lissa
 Not being able to be with who she wanted to be with,
 not being able to live her own life,
 and always having to put Lissa's needs and safety before her own.

All of these things make it hard for Rose to be around Lissa especially now that the love of her life is,

for all intents and purposes, dead.

Now we all know
- from reading the previous book -
 that the main reason for Rose leaving the academy is so that she can keep her promise

and not let Dimitri live his life as a strigoi.

And although she has learned a lot since coming back to the academy
and taking out a few strigoi of her own
 this promise might be one that she
 can not keep, and if she is not careful she might end up facing and fate worse than death.

xoxoxo
Natasha Blaxk

Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy #3) Review

5/5 ☆☆☆☆☆

This third book in the Vampire Academy series is much more darker than the first two.

  Our characters relive the horrible events of what happened with Victor Dashkov

 when they find out about his trial hearing, and the possibility of him being set free.

Rose and Eddie deal with the death of a friend
and struggle to come to terms with all that they have been through
when they were kidnapped and held by the strigoi.
Lissa is practicing magic again

trying to understand and strengthen her control over her gift

and we all know what happens when she use magic.

Rose might be losing her mind,
unless you count seeing ghosts as something completely normal,
but even among the moroi and dhampir seeing things that aren't there
is not a good sign.

Moroi are being beat up around the academy,

Secrets are being kept,

The queen is making plans for Vasilisa's future,

and the safety of the academy is tested.

There's a storm coming 

One that the guardians may not be ready for.
People will die and
Rose will have to chose between the two most import people
to her in the world.

*sigh*
So much stress and Rose still has to worry about graduating
talk about a totally bummer!

Romitri shippers will have a feel trip in this book.
Things are heating up between these two
but it may be only a matter of time before
the truth about their forbidden love comes out.

Xoxoxo

Natasha Blaxk

Frostbite (Vampire Academy #2) Review

4.5/5 ☆☆☆☆

Everyone knows that love is complicated. 

Love is never easy when you're trying to figure things out

even more so when you're a seventeen year old dhampir in love with your twenty-four year old mentor.

A mentor who may be moving on to an older woman who can give him everything you can not. 

But who cares about love triangle nowadays 

they're not nearly as complicated as 

a love ...square? ... rectangle?

or maybe it's a circle. 

ugh!

help me out here, please!

Rose is definitely in love Dimitri.

Dimitri might have the hots for Tasha Ozera
(she definitely has it for him)

Mason would die for Rose 

and there's this new royal moroi, Adrian Ivashkov
who's constantly flirting with her.

Yeaahh... Love's a mess 

and no matter which relationship you ship

you will still end up like

Josh Dallas in my next gif

And gawd I want to say more about that 

but David Tennant is telling me to

 

So let me just jump right into the real drama here.

In the last book we learned that Lissa has a very special,
very rare set of abilities that put her 

in danger of not only strigoi,
but her fellow moroi as well. 

A guardians job couldn't get anymore harder.

Except ... well, until they soon find out that

life as they all know it will never be the same. 

Strigoi are out right attacking moroi
and dhampir in large groups with outside help.

Now if you know anything about the strigoi in this book then
you know that between the blood thirst,
savage killings and complete lack of
morality that strigoi usually end up  attacking each other unless there's
a yummy "snack" near by.
The strigoi often work alone or in small groups of maybe
two or three, but now 

They're doing the impossible and are working together.

They're organized, 

and it seems no matter how many trained guardians or wards the moroi put up

no one is safe anymore. 

Not even during the day.
They're breaking all the rules of typical strigoi behavior
and unless the moroi and dhampir can keep up
there is going to be a lot less of them
and a whole lot of strigoi to fight off.

"'This changes everything doesn't it?' I asked
'Yeah,' he said.'It does'" - FrostBite, Rose and Dimitri

xoxoxo
Natasha Blaxk

Vampire Academy Review

4/5  ☆☆☆☆

If you have been unlucky enough to have seen the movie before reading the book

 -as I have- then I want you to forget everything you saw and felt about the movie. 

Forget about the actors, the acting, the storyline...everything. 

Just shake it all out of that pretty little head of yours.

 If you loved it, hated it, somewhat liked it, I don't care.

 forget it! 

Forget it all and read Vampire Academy and then decide how you feel about it.  

The movie is good, I liked it, but I might be a little bias because one of my lady crush stars as the bad ass Rose Hathaway. 

This book is the perfect example of "The book is better than the movie" line you hear from every die hard bibliophile.

Rosemary Hathaway is a kick ass Dhampir who has dedicated her life to protecting the Moroi -  Most importantly her best friend Vasilisa- against the strigoi.

Strigoi are undead vampires whose purpose in life is pretty much to drain blood and life 

out of every moroi, dhampire and human they come across.

Vasilisa Dragomir is a Moroi Princess.

The Dragomir's are one of the twelve royal families and  Lissa is the last of her bloodline.

Some time after the accident that killed her entire family, Lissa began noticing some weird things happening to and around her. The usually sweet and caring Lissa would experience violent mood swings, depression and sometimes got the feeling that someone was watching her.

After what happened to their teacher Ms. Karp and her warning about Lissa 

Rose does not hesitate in deciding to take Lissa away from St.Vladimir Academy 

to hide and live among humans to protect her. 

Two years on the run and the girls are caught and dragged back to the academy.

St. Vladimir is supposed to be a safe environment for both moroi and dhampirs

 but when Lissa starts getting threats in the form of dead animals in her dorm room 

and attacks against her from a jealous, stuck up, royal wannabe 

Rose goes on high alert and steps up her game as guardian 

and if you read this book you'll know that Rose is the type to punch first and find out who she actually hit later.

*incoming Rosemary Hathaway gifs*

If you haven't read Vampire Academy yet you should

and if all of the action isn't enough to get you to read this then please for the love of Romitiri (Rose+Dimitri)

pick up the book!

Richelle Mead is killing my heart with the adorableness of these two

and just look what it's doing to Amy Pond!

xoxoxo

Natasha Blaxk