Please note: This is Book 4 in the Vampire Academy series. It's a great series, you should try it, but this review will reveal plot details you won't want to know if you haven't read books 1-3. Really. Read this review once you've read Shadow Kiss!

At the end of Shadow Kiss, Rose is heartbroken. Dimitri has been turned into a Strigoi against his will during a battle, considered dead. But Rose is unable to let him go and forget him, convinced he would rather be dead than Strigoi so she leaves St Vladimir's, leaves Lissa, to try to find - and kill -- Dimitri and set his soul free.

And this noble goal takes Rose to Siberia, Dimitri's home, where she runs into alchemists, another spirit user, another shadow kissed dhampir, and Abe, a strange, flamboyant, intimidating man who seems to be taking an unhealthy interest in her.

And that's about all I can tell you without spoilers. This book is full of questions: Will Rose find Dimitri? And if so, will she be able to kill him? Or will she be persuaded to become Strigoi and stay with Dimitri forever? And then, what of Lissa while Rose is away - will she spiral out of control? Will she forgive Rose for leaving? Will she replace her? And then there is always Adrian. Will he still visit her in her dreams? Can he persuade her to return?

There are so many twists and turns along the way - right to the end. Blood Promise is all about Rose and Dimitri and the choices she has to make. Secrets are revealed, promises made, plans started. It's just as readable, just as hard to put down.Oh, this is such a good series.

Reviewed by Angela M.

Blood Promise (Hardcover)

By Richelle Mead

$16.99

ISBN-13: 9781595141989
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Razorbill, 08/01/2009

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