(2024): oof man what the hell is this. not only does it promote manipulative and abusive relationships. This is the one where Rose has to save Lissa and Christian from

being held hostage by strigoi Dimitri. Then she makes out a bunch with Adrian and lets him feed on her. Ending with the murder of the queen.

(2014): This was a really good book and made me fall in love with the characters all over again.  I didn't like the 4th book and disliked pretty much everything that happened but in this book so many happy things happened including the finding and saving of Dimitri followed by a painful absence of Romitri until they fell in love all over again and Dimitri became his usual badass self.  Lissa and Christian finally got back together after 450 something pages and the AdrianxRose relationship was fabulous.  I would like to state that my state going into the book was heartbroken but still shipping Romitri like FedEx but by the end of the book I ship AdrianxRose and think Dimitri needs to redeem himself(this will probably change yet again by the end of the next book). This book was exciting from start to finish with so much action that there was two climaxes which resulted in an amazing 5th installment to the Vampire Academy books.(i still really wish they had a better name and better covers).  Im super excited what crazy new adventures Rose and crew get into in the next and last book.  It will be a sad parting from the series (but thank gods for subseries')!