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Author Mead's Book Reviews

Blood Promise
The book tells the story of Rose Hathaway, searching for her newly-turned-into-Strigoi lover in order to kill him, thus setting him free. Rose travels to Russia in order to find Dimitri. She guesses he will be near his hometown, and so turns to Siberia. On her way there she meets a girl named Sydney, who joins her. They manage to arrive to Dimitri's hometown safely and meet his family. His family is doing Dimitri's obsequies, knowing that once he is a St...
Frostbite
The second book in the Vampire Academy series tells the story of dhampir Rose Hathaway and Moroi Lissa Dragomir as they continue studying in the academy. Every dhampir needs to pass a Qualifier Exam, and so does Rose. In order to have the exam, she and Dimitri travel to a legendary guardian's family's house, only to find out he has been murdered by Strigoi - the evil, dead vampires. In order to protect the students in the Vampire Academy, they are all t...
Last Sacrifice
Dhampir Rose Hathaway, her former teacher, dhampir Dimitri and their allies must find out who killed the Queen, who was murdered in the previous book, and find her best friend Moroi Lissa's sister before Rose's trial. Following the death of the Moroi Queen and after Rose is being accused of killing her, Rose is in prison. However, soon enough Dimitri, Adrian, a Moroi prince who fell in love with her, and other friends are breaking her out. Dimitri drives...
Shadow Kiss
The book tells the story of Rose Hathaway and Lissa Dragomir as they go through the final year in the vampire academy. The time of the Qualifying Exams has began. The dhampir students are each given one Moroi student to protect, and to Rose's shock, she is not assigned to Lissa, but to Christian. During the first attack she freezes after seeing Mason's ghost. As the exams continue, Rose finds out she is angrier and angrier with every day that goes by, ev...

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Spirit Bound
After returning to the academy, Rose needs to pass her final exam, and together with Lissa, find a way to restore Dimitri. As the book begins, Rose faces her final trial in the vampire academy. She passes it successfully, and once she finishes studying there, she and Lissa set out to the court, to find Victor Dashkov. Seeing there is nothing that he wants other than freedom, they break him out of jail. In return, he leads them to his brother. They trave...
Vampire Academy
The book tells the story of Rose Hathaway, a Dhampir (half Vampire-half human), trying to protect her best friend, vampire Lissa Dragomir, in the vampire equivalent of high school. Rose Hathaway is an ordinary dhampir - half human and half vampire, who are born in order to protect the vampires - or so it would seem to be. Her best friend, Lissa, is one of the princesses of the Moroi (the good vampires) society, and after a horrible accident, the only Dra...