Girl Power You Can Stick Your Fangs Into
Brittany Booker
Staff Writer
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Who says a sexy girl can’t graduate the top of her class? Well, Rose Hathaway is living proof, well written proof. Rose’s schooling for guardians finished and she is top of her class. In battling subjects anyways, who cares about History and Math, right?
Richelle Mead continues Rose’s story in her fifth addition “Spirit Bound,” in her Vampire Academy novels.
Rose recently took a little visit to Russia to save the love of her life and trainer, from being undead as a Strigoi (bad vampire). But the visit did little good only finding out that being around Dimitri makes her hesitate, which lost her her chance in killing him and saving his soul.
We have some major emotional drama in Rose’s life. With Dimitri being long gone Rose falls for her friend, a Moroi (good vampire), Adrian who is arrogant but heart-stopping.
"Yeah, that's exactly what I want. To help my girlfriend get her old boyfriend back." He turned away again, and I heard him mutter, "I need two drinks."
All the while Rose receives letters from Dimitri saying he is watching and will kill her, because her refusal of becoming “awakened.”
Rose kicks some butt, like always, in "Spirit Bound." Not only does she do extremely well at her final test as a guardian, oh yeah, she breaks into a national prison to free the guy who tried to kill her and her best friend Lissa ... Yeah, she’s a beast.
Rose manipulates the people around her to try and go after a rumor of saving a Strigoi, which has supposedly only been performed once before. After breaking the fugitive out of prison she finds his brother and realized saving Dimitri would be harder than she thought.
Being completely drawn into this book I felt Rose’s pain battling with her love and the fear she had for Lissa who saves Dimitri with a stake covered in spirit, which Lisa specialized in.
I loved Rose’s enthusiasm when she thinks everything would go back to normal. Well, that’s a negative. Dimitri feels guilty for feeding off of Rose and hurting her doesn’t want anything to do with her.
Of course, Rose’s feeling are crushed and Mead does an excellent job of presenting Rose trying to hide her feelings but her angry aggressive attitude shows up and she takes control and that is what draws me to Rose’s character. Standing up and protecting herself never seems to be a problem. Which lets me take a breath from the guy saving every other girl in each novel or movie lately.
When Rose gets closer to Adrian she seems to want Dimitri more. Then, when all hope seems to come around and Dimitri talks to her, a swarm of guardians take on her and Dimitri. Even though I love Adrian and want her to end up with him and his cocky ways. I could see the love in Dimitri’s eyes when he fought for her at the end. Mead showed her soft side with Dimitri and Rose and the utter heartbreak some go through.
Although, a book couldn’t end like that could it? Just when she thinks the prison break was connected back to her, she realizes that’s not the trouble she is into.
Queen Tatiana, queen of the Vampire world momentarily, comes up brutally murdered in her room. With Rose’s stake as the murder weapon.
Prison doesn’t sound like a great place to be and an execution doesn’t sound great either.
Mead leaves us hanging with that as we await her next and final book “Last Sacrifice,” releasing in December of this year.
Mead’s writing refreshes your mind and keeps you wanting more. Her characteristics and often "potty mouth," awakens a reader to what it’s like to read a real book with real characteristics of the outside world around us.
This international best-seller deserves every praise she receives.
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