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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 guardians 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 whole life is about saving others, who will save you?
Join Rose, Dimitri, Adrian, and Lissa in LAST SACRIFICE, the epic, unforgettable finale to Richelle Mead's international #1 bestselling VAMPIRE ACADEMY series.
From Goodreads.
- Publisher: Razorbill
- Release Date: December 7th, 2010
- My Copy: Kindle Edition/Bought.
- Pages: 594
- Series: Vampire Academy Series
- Genre: Paranormal YA
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 | Last Sacrifice (Vampire Academy, Book 6) |
*Contain spoilers if you haven’t read the previous books in the series
To say that I had a lot of expectations going into Last Sacrifice is putting it mildly, but like my blogger pal Danielle from ALPHA reader said in her review of the book, we had yet to read a series finale by Richelle Mead and we had no clue what to expect. Happy-Ending? Rushed Ending? Prologue? So I went into Last Sacrifice blind as can be and came out very satisfied in a lot of ways and intrigued in many other.
This last installment in Richelle’s awesomely popular Y.A. series starts off right when Spirit Bound ended, with Rose locked up fearing for her future and a note from the recently murdered Queen Tatiana that just made everything more complicated.
Last Sacrifice is a race against time and we find best friends Rose and Lissa each, going through their own journey trying to make the impossible happen, all for each other. Rose is going after the long lost half-sibling Lissa might have and Lissa is running against the clock trying to prove Rose is innocent.
I loved every single minute of each journey and amongst such traitorous roads it was amazing to see how much Rose has evolved and has become an incredible woman. She makes the toughest decisions yet in this novel and not the least one of them is choosing between Dimitri and Adrian, which I’m glad is really her choice and not taken from her by fate.
Lissa was pretty amazing throughout Last Sacrifice and even though she has annoyed me a number of times, including the end of Spirit Bound, for most of this last book she was pretty awesome. However, she peeved me to no end by the way she acted towards the end of the novel and I am intrigued to see how things turn out in the spin-off series, which I am sure she will be a part of.
The biggest inconsistency for me however, was Adrian’s behavior. Yes, he is a very unfortunate situation, he loves a girl that he can see still has feelings for her ex-boyfriend and all throughout Spirit Bound he acted perfectly regarding this situation, letting Rose make her own decisions and being very mature about it all, even though it certainly went against his nature. However in Spirit Bound, Adrian’s behavior annoyed me soooo much! I don’t wanna say much anymore to avoid spoilers, so I’ll leave it at that.
All in all Last Sacrifice was a very fulfilling finale when it comes to Rose’s story, I was extremely happy with how things turned out, though it certainly wasn’t the best book in the series. There were a lot of things left up in the air and it was clear to me about whom the spin-off will be… I am excited about that, specially about seeing Rose again, even in the background.
Previously in The Vampire Academy Series:
Check Out My Review of Spirit Bound by Richelle Mead
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