Spirit Bound

Omg, i loved it. It was amazing :') Can't wait to read the next one in the series!

I did not see a lot of that coming, but am super curious to see how everyone bands together to help Rose like she has done for so many of them in the past.

CAWPILE Breakdown:
Characters: 9
Atmosphere: 6
Writing: 8
Plot: 8
Intrigue: 9
Logic: 6
Enjoyment: 10

book: ends with rose being accused of murder and going to court, with the next book most likely having courtroom scenes with a prosecutor and a defense attorney and a judge and just everything

me, whose hyperfixation has been ace attorney for the past three months: :)

and with that, stan the queen herself franziska von karma ✨

I was so cracked up by this reborn thing and the not talking... the end is still a really big plot twist 😞

BUKU JAHAT. TANTE RICHELLE JAHAT.
Spoiler alert :
1. What Dimitri said to rose after all Rose had gone through (say, like, organizing a maximum security prison break & releasing the most dangerous fugitive on earth).
“Love fades. Mine has.”
ouch. That hurts like hell.
2. How immature Rose is, like a spoiled child that everything has to be they way she wants.
3. How Rose use her current boyfriend (Adrian) to save her previous boyfriend (Dimitri). Damn girl, there are lines that you do not cross, & using Adrian's money & everything in attempt to save Dimitri is one of them.
This book really, really frustate me.

On to the next one...this one was a little drawn out and had some pacing issues, but overall a good installment in this series.

These books are basically crack but I cannot stop reading them.

Rose was starting to get on my nerves a bit this book. She was slightly crazy and quite selfish & more irrational than usual. There was less vulnerability there than the last books. But there was a lot going on this time and it ended on quite the cliffhanger!

An absolute cracker! Spirit Bound is the best of the VA novels to date.
Loved the tension on every page, loved the cracking pace throughout, loved the character development throughout.

Can't wait for the next instalment!

I had forgotten what good writing was until I picked this book up last week. I'd gotten so used to reading fantastic stories hidden behind mediocre writing (read: Twilight or House of Night), that I'd convinced myself that mediocre writing was the norm.

Then I read Spirit Bound, the fifth installment of Richelle Mead's Vampire Academy series, and the memories of great writing came flooding back to me.

Though the series is written for teens, I don't feel as if the writing or imagery has been dumbed down in any way. The narrative and the dialogue both are more realistic and less elementary than other series written for teens.

This installment picks up not too long after the ending of Blood Promise, when Rose returns to school after attempting (and failing) to kill the love of her life who has been turned into a Strigoi. Rose quickly catches up with her training to become a Guardian and graduates – with the highest scores in the Academy's history. Unfortunately, due to her rather unruly and rebellious past, those scores don't seem to be enough to keep her from being assigned to desk duty instead of protecting her best friend Lissa.

But Rose refuses to let anyone or anything stop her from getting what she wants – and what she wants more than anything is to turn Dimitry from a Strigoi back into a Dhampir. No one believes it can be done, but Rose is determined to save him and will do anything, including breaking her worst enemy out of maximum security prison, to accomplish her goals.

All in all, the book moved very quickly and the cliffhanger ending left me wanting more. I can't wait until the next volume is released, hopefully early next year.

As always, after reading one of these incredible books, I find myself on a sort of contradicting, never-ending merry-go-round.

Part of me wishes I could jump in a time machine and speed off to December 7, when the final installment of this series is released. Surely, caressing the cover of Last Sacrifice and reverently reading each page will soothe my all-consuming need for the existence of this series, right?

Wrong. Because the other part of me is screaming that in this scenario, the series would be over, and I'd have nothing left to live for. Okay, that might be a tad overdramatic. But as the title suggests, the release of the final book will feel–at least a little bit–like a last sacrifice.

I'm sure I could go on a tirade about this book and how amazing it was, but I don't think that's necessary. Whatever I have to say won't do it justice. Just know, if you haven't read this series, you should give it a chance. You'll be hooked from the start, and it only gets better. And if you've already tried it and didn't like it, then I hope a Strigoi gets a hold of you–no offense.