Vampire Academy: Last Sacrifice by Richelle Mead

Blurb:

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 guardian 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 life is about saving others, who will save you?
Review:
When I first reached for this book, I was already sad, the end of a awesome series. It starts off with Rose in a jail cell, up for a murder she didn't commit to a woman she didn't like but she wouldn't kill. She's being put to death for it too. She's looking for answers on why and who would stitch her up in particular. Her best friend is trying to help but is struggling with her Spirit power, her boyfriend is drinking all the time to cope with his and she is broken hearted after Dimitri's rejection.
When she is busted out, she travels, finding different ways of life all the while, checking in on her best friend at court, who is trying to find a way for Rose to be proven innocent. And she happens to be on the run with the love of her life who has rejected her.
But this books has so many twists and turns, so many hidden clues, so many different suspects for the murderer but I adore the fact that you don't actually know who it is until the very last second. This book is filled with emotion and adernaline. A perfect read. I would give this a ten out of ten for everything except the fact that is the last book for Rose Hathaway who is my ultimate character. But I still have Bloodlines to look forward to and I have already pre-ordered it!

Wow! Looks awesome right?

Bloodlines by Richelle Mead

23/08/11

Vampire Academy: Spirit Bound by Richelle Mead

Blurb:

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 Dragomir. It's graduation, and the girls can’t wait for their real lives outside of the Academy’s cold iron gates to finally begin. But even with the intrigue and excitement of court life looming, Rose’s heart still aches for Dimitri. 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 she knows in her heart that he is hunting her. And if Rose won't join him, he won't rest until he's silenced her...forever.
But Rose can't forget what she learned on her journey—whispers of a magic too impossible and terrifying to comprehend. A magic inextricably tied to Lissa that could hold the answer to all of Rose's prayers, but not without devastating consequences. Now Rose will have to decide what—and who—matters most to her. In the end, is true love really worth the price?

Review:

I loved how heart-breakingly, action packed this book was. I have read the Vampire Academy books and loved them all up to now. Every single one is never boring, there is always something going on for Rose. The books starts out with a death threat from Dimitri, which wasquite scary, especially since you fall totally in love with Dimitri in the other books and you never hate the idea of him and Rose.

The book follows Rose through trying to get her dream job in Guarding Lissa, her relationship with Adrian Ivashkov and trying to find a saviour for the love of her life, promising that nothing is ever easy if you are trying to save the love of your life from being evil for the rest of eternity and pursuading your new boyfriend that he still comes first.

Rose is still breaking rules, hearts and beating the crap out of people. I love this book and this series. 

Angel By L.A. Weatherly

Blurb

In a world where angels are beyond redemption, Alex thinks he's found one that might deserve mercy. Alex is a ruthless assassin - of angels. Forget everything you've heard about them before. Angels are not benign celestial creatures, but fierce stalkers whose irresistible force allows them to feed off humans, draining them of their vitality until there is barely anything left. As far as Alex is concerned, the only good angel is a dead angel...until he meets Willow. She may look like a normal teenager but Willow is no ordinary girl. Half-angel, half-human, Willow may hold the key to defeating the evil angels. But as the hunter and the hunted embark on an epic and dangerous journey and Willow learns the dark and terrifying secrets of her past, Alex finds himself drawn to Willow...with devastating consequences.
Review:
This book takes the most amazing view on Angels! Amazing action with a sweet romance burried underneath. I loved the view that angels were evil and there were assassins after them when normally angels are seen as heavenly.
The book follows four different people which I found quite interesting. Willow the heroine; the kickass assassin Alex;the evil Raziel; and the devote angel follower Jonah, which gave a full view on what was going on while Willow and Alex were running for their lives which made a lot of stuff more filled in because normally you have no idea what is going on in enemy lines.
The emotion was amazing and you really feel it in the pit of your stomach. It was amazingly written and catches you from the first page. Loved it

Strange Angels 1 by Lili St. Crow

Blurb:

If Dru can't survive until sunrise the game's over...

Dru knows that The Real World - people with ghosts, suckers and zombies - is a frightening place. She's ready to kill first and ask questions later, so it's going to take her a while to work out just who she can trust.

Dru Anderson has been 'strange' for as long as she can remember, traveling from town to town with her father to hunt down things that go bump in the night. It's a weird life, but a good one - until in an icy, broken-down town, a hungry zombie bursts through her kitchen door. Dru is going to have to use every inch of her wit and training. Can she stay alive long enought to fall for one - or both - of the guys hungry for her affections?

Review:

It is a heart breaking start. Seriously, everything just comes down on her at once that shows that she is a strong heroine but not one of the those who have no creamy, girly center because, really, every girl cries. Then there's Graves, a pretty cool guy. He stays with her throughout the book which is pretty cool since she is the new girl in town and she constantly skips class and has monsters coming after her. I love how fast paced this book is, running from the rest of the world, not being able to trust anyone. I love that it was full of adrenaline and heart pumpingly good.

Dark Heart Forever by Lee Monroe

Blurb:

One Girl. Two Worlds. Two Soulmates.

Jane Jonas is nearing her sixteenth birthday and troubled by unsettling dreams. Who is the green-eyed boy who tells her they are each other's destiny? Her mother calls it sleepwalking, but for Jane her dream world and reality are about to collide...

When she develops a friendship with gorgeous new guy in town, Evan, she wants him more that she's ever wanted anybody - until her mystery dream boy gets in the way.

Now Jane is caught between two worlds: one familiar, but tinged with romance and excitement; the other dark and dangerous, where angels, werewolves and an irresistible stranger are trying to seduce her...

Review:

I loved this book. One, it was dark and dangerous. Two, two boys, one blonde and beach boyish and the other tall, dark and hansome. Three and the most important: It Is Set In England!!!!! (no offence to any other country! Love your countries!) This gives a small, English village, mystery and when you actually live in one, thats not actually true. Everyone knows everything about everyone. Then the fact that the character is a real kind of girl, going through real problems and when someone new comes to your little village, you instantly see them through rose tinted glasses. And I love the fact that the one you think is the most beautiful and the one that loves her the most is evil! This book will leave you going back to pick up the clues and piece it together.

House of Night: Betrayed by P.C. & Kristen Cast

Blurb:

All any of us could talk about was CHRIS'S DISAPPEARANCE and how BIZARRE it was that he had last been seen so close to the HOUSE OF NIGHT. I didn't want to believe it. But everything inside me siad that the kid would be found, but he's be found DEAD...
Things seem to be going pretty well for Zoey Redbird. She's settled in at the House of Night finishing school and is coming to terms with her incredible new powers. It all seems too good to be true. And guess what?
Someone has begun murdering human teenages, and all evidence point to the vampyres at Zoey's school. Which means her first assignment as the leader of the Dark Daughters is finding out which one of her classmates or - gulp - teachers is a killer.
Sigh. And she thought her boyfriends (yes: plural) were going to be her biggest problem this year..

Review:

I liked this book but all I am saying is that I Liked it. Personally, not one of my favourite series but it is a good one. This book is slow for the start but then everything happened in about five chapters when I really like it when is builds up. It was sad though. But that was for one minute and it didn't last as long as I would have wanted.

House of Night: Marked by P.C. & Kristen Cast

Blurb:

So the BAD NEWS was that I'd have to move into the HOUSE OF NIGHT, a private boarding school, known by all my friends as the VAMPYRE FINISHING SCHOOL, where I would spend the next four years going through BIZARRE and unnameable physical changes, as a total and permanent life SHAKE-UP. And that's only if the whole process didn't kill me.

But the GOOD NEWS was that I wouldn't have to take the GEOMETRY TEST tomorrow.

When sixteen-year-old Zoey is marked by the Tracker, she knows her old life is over. Now she has to leave her friends and family to join the House of Night school, where there's only one subject Zoey needs to study: Vampyre 101.

Of course, there's always a catch, and this one's nice and simple: if you fail, you die...

Review:

I like the book... once I got into it and that took me twice. I started it and then put it down because I got bored. But once she got to the House of Night, it got better. The characters are utterly believeable. It isn't like a lot of books like this where all different cultures are influenced and a lot of different ways of life are there. The one thing I can put down on this book is that it had a slow start. But thats it. I liked the fact that the humans knew about vampyres but that fact that she was powerful and one of the only vampyre fledglings with a full mark and I found that quite predictable, but that's what makes a story, right?

Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

Blurb:

One night in the rain, Ethan Wate opened his eyes and fell in love with Lena Duchannes. His life would never be the same.

Lena is a Caster and her family is locked in a supernaturalcivil war. On her sixteenth birthday Lena made a terrifying choice, which now haunts her day and night.

And as her seventeenth birthday approaches Lena and Ethan face even greater danger. A Caster and a Mortal can never truly be together.

Every kiss is a curse. Ethan's next heartbeat could be his last. It is their curse now...

Review:

A hauntingly beautiful love story. Heartbreaking, laughter invoking, rollercoaster of emotions. The story is told amazingly. I was hesitant at first, thinking it would be the horribly depressing second book that would have me eat a whole tub of Ben & Jerry's but this book was different and it only made me feel like crying like a baby. It was serious when it had to be and funny when it wanted. Perfect weekend read! 

The Immortals: Dark Flame by Alyson Noël

Blurb:

Roman. Damen. Jude. One is Ever's deadly enemy. One her great love. And the third might be the answer to all her problems. But Ever is trapped - bound by secrets, magyck and an uncontrollable passion beating in her veins.
She's being drawn towards someone - something - that risks everything she holds dear. And the one thing that can save her will also drive Damen away forever...

Review:

The plot was good but confusing but I didn't like a couple of the characters. Ever is always willing to shift the blame on to someone else, even the people she's closest to and she has become kind of a maniac. She has a lot of weak moments during this book and she can be quite whinny (not judging at all, I do whine). Haven is awful. She's too dramatic at times and she does threaten to kill Ever a lot even thought she is supposed to be Ever's best friend. But those two characters didn't fail the book all too much. I'd give it a solid 7 out of 10

Paranormalcy by Kiersten White

Blurb:
VAMPIRES 
WEREWOLVES
FAERIES
SHAPESHIFTERS
Evie's always thought of herself as normal. Sure, her best friend is a mermaid, her ex-boyfriend is a faerie, she's falling for a shapeshifter and she's the only person who can see through paranormals' glamours, but still. Normal
Only now paranormals are dying and Evie's dreams are filled with haunting voices and mysterious prophecies. She begins to suspect there is a link between her abilities and the sudden rash of deaths, and even worse, that she is at the centre of a dark prophecy promising destruction to all paranormal creatures.

Review:

Witty, funny, sexy and dangerous, amazing. I loved this book, from start to finish. Every character is so real. Evie is an amazing heroine and so funny, not scared of speaking her mind, not scared of getting in trouble. The plot is amazing too, nothing stops for a single second, no time to get bored, from start to finish, action, action, action.

Can't wait for Supernaturally so come out! 

Low Red Moon by Ivy Devlin

Blurb:

She knows what he is, but she can't be sure what he's done.
The only thing Avery Hood can recall about the night her parents died is that she saw silver - deadly silver, moving inhumanlu fast. As much as she wants to remember who killed her parents, she can't, and there's nothing left to do but try to piece her life back together.
Then Avery meets the new boy at school. Ben is mysterious and beautiful, and Avery feels a connection with him like nothing she's ever experienced. Ben is also a werewolf, but Avery trusts him - at first. Then she sees that sometimes his eyes flash an inhuman silver. And she learns that she's not the only one who can't remember the night her parents died...

Review:

Fast, dangereous and sexy. Avery is a heroine every girl can relate to, well except the fact that she used to live in the forest in a house that her dad built, but if you do, good on you. Ben is mysterious and amazing to think about. I loved this book and the amazing twist ending. Seriously, you won't see it coming.