Before I even begin, I know you are thinking “Chloe, weren’t you reading the Gone series?” Why yes, I was, but I got bored and read a different book instead.
First of all, I absolutely despise this title. This is the stupidest title the author could have chosen. Seriously, it’s so awful and clingy it pains me to say it out loud. It sounds like a children’s book about vampires and it is NOT appropriate for children. The title could have been anything, ANYTHING, else and I would have preferred it.
Anyways, in great contrast to the title, I love this book. It’s so good. There is so much passion here, and so much love. I feel as if it displays such beautiful friendship. The main character, rose, is one of the few main characters I have adored entirely. She is this hardcore, determined teenage who will do anything to protect her friend Lisa. I also really enjoyed the authors views on vampires.
In this book there are living vampires, Moroi, who have control over the elements, and the dead vampires, Strigoi, who are cursed by the earth itself. Moroi are born, strigoi are made. Stigoi want to kill Moroi and so they need protectors. These protectors are called dhampires. Half human-half Moroi. They make great warriors, but can not reproduce together, kinda like mules. The only wya they can have children is if they have children with Moroi vampires. This means that if they don’t live, the dhampires die out too.
This is what causes them to want to protect the Moroi. If they die, so do they, so the protection of them is crucial. Strigoi want to kill Moroi, and they lurk in the shadows, waiting for their time to strike.
There is honestly so much going on in this book. So much is happening, so much foreshadowing and so many questions the reader begs to know the answer to. There is love and hate and war and violence and sweetness and super powers. It’s so cool and I enjoyed this book so much.
The way it ended made me. So. Mad. There is a love story in this book that is like forbidden because he isn’t older for her and they are both dhampires and guardians so that can’t be together. But you know , they really could. Come on. Guys, you know you won’t to.
That’s besides the point, but there was so many crazy up and down moments in this book and there are so many questions that have yet to be answered , and I cannot wait to read the next book. I’ve read reviews that it is even better than the first one. I know I promised I’d let you guys know what happened in the next book, and then I didn’t, but this time I think I May have some things to report on the next book: Frostbite
