Last Sacrifice (Vampire Academy #6)

Stars: 5 out of 5
Author: Richelle Mead
Back of the book
After a long and taxing journey to Dimitri's birthplace in Siberia, Rose Hathaway has finally returned to St. Vlad's and has been reenetered student life. It is nearly graduation and the girls can't wait for their real lives beyond the Academy's iron gates to begin. Rose still aches for Dimitri. However, Dimitri has survived against all odds and now seeks Rose's death. She failed to kill him when she had the chance. Now her worst fears are about to come true. Dimitri has tasted her blood and now he is hunting her. And this time he won't rest until Rose joins him . . . forever.

My Review
Soo sad that its over! But this has to be one of the best endings ever! I'm also a sucker for those fairy tale endings never the less we finally get what we all wanted to see . . . Rose and Dimitri back together this time for good.
I truly have become addicted to this series and I'm sad to say goodbye to all the characters. Lots of twists and adventure on this one with unpredictable scenarios. I just never knew what was going to happen when I turned the page.
I can't wait for the spin off.
Overall Rose has to be my all time fav character not only was she tough, never a damsel in distress, smart, witty and just straight up a bad ass!

Some of my fav lines from the book:

"Huh," Adrian said, letting himself in, "So that's how you're going to fix the family problem. Little Dragomirs. Good idea."

Dimitri "It's you. You're beautiful. So beautiful, it hurts me."

"His fingers never ceased to amaze me. They could break a man's neck, bandage a would and slide sensually across bare skin."

Sonya tells Rose "I see that synchronicity in auras. I can see the love too. And I see all of that in his aura and in yours."

Dimitri tells Rose at the end of the book "We waste our lives with guilt and self-loathing. When you looked at me there at the end . . . I saw it. You did love me."


The soul that complemented mine. My match. My equal.

Blood Promise (Vampire Academy Book #4)

Author: Richelle Mead
Stars: 4.5 out of 5

Back of the Book
Rose Hathaway's life will never be the same.

The recent attack on St. Vladimir's Academy devastated the entire Moroi world.Many are dead. And, for the few victims carried off by the strigoi, their fates are even worse. A rare tattoo now adorns Rose's neck, a mark that says she's killed far too many Strigoi to count. But only one victim matters ... Dimitri Belikov. Rose must now choose one of two very different paths: honoring her life's vow to protect Lissa - her best friend and the last surviving Dragomir princess - or, dropping out of the Academy to strike out in her own and hunt down the man she loves. She'll have to go to the ends of the earth to find Dimitri and keep the promise he begged her to make. But the question is, when the time comes, will he want to be saved?

Now, will everything at stake - and worlds away from St. Vladamirs and her unguarded, vulnerable and newly rebellious best friend - can Rose find the strength to destroy Dimitri? Or, will sacrifice herself for a chance at eternal love?


Review
Rose's quest to track down Dimitri means leaving everything behind at St. Vladimar's academy including Lissa and travelling around the world to Russia. Hunting down Dimitri didn't start off easy it lead her to finding Dimitri's family telling them the horrible truth about him and finding another bonded shadow-kissed spirit user as well during this time Rose also meets a man named Abe who is like the Russian mob there and has the power to do anything at the snap of his fingers we later learn that this man is Rose's father. During this time Rose still checks on Lissa but finds there's something wrong with her that she can't put a finger on it.
 Heading back into the city her finally tracks down Dimitri only to be knocked out by him. When Rose wakes up she finds she's in a house not just any house a Strigoi's layer. But with Dimitri their Rose tries to find the man she first fell in love with and sooon becomes trapped there by lust and ecstasy from the strigoi's bite. As days fall into weeks Rose no longer has any desire for anything other than Dimitri and a bite to fill her needs. One day Rose hears a whisper in her mind and soon tries to fight her craving and eventually her reason and sense start to return. Rose knows that if she doesn't escape soon she will either die or be turned strigoi by Dimitri.
Rose eventually escapes and has a deadly showdown with Dimitri. Rose finally gets the upper hand on him on a bridge adn before she stakes him she asks "why do you want me to stay with you?" Dimitri answers "because I want you." and with that answer Rose finally realizes that he is not the same man she falls in love with, he doesn't love her, he just wants to own her like a possession and with that she stakes him watching him fall into the river.
Rose returns to St. Vladmir she learns that their are many people who love her and want her in their lives, she has the possibility of returning back to classes and graduating. the twist happened in the last 10 pages when Rose was heading up to the dorms for that night she receives a package inside was the stake she used on Dimitri on the bridge and a note that read "i see you haven't remembered the lesson i have though you, remember never turn your back on your enemy until you know their dead." and with that he will be reuniting with her very soon. This realization makes Rose think back to that night that maybe she didn't kill him like she though she did.
And so this awesome series continues.

Loved this book not my fav but definitely awesome. I couldn't stand to see Rose so weak and powerless and Dimitri I loved him the way he was all cold and evil its a different side from his usual warm, sexy demur that we've all grown to love. stayed up for 3 hours reading the ending last night, even though i was tired i couldn't put it down.

Eat, Brains, Love by Jeff Hart

Stars: 4.5 out of 5

Back of the book

A laugh-out-loud funny, surprisingly romantic, zombie road trip novel filled with heart—and brains. Eat, Brains, Love is perfect for fans of Isaac Marion's Warm Bodies.

The good news: Jake's dream girl, Amanda Blake, finally knows his name.

The bad news: it's because they both contracted a mysterious zombie virus and devoured the brains of half their senior class. Now Jake and Amanda are on the run from Cass, a teen psychic sent by the government's top-secret Necrotic Control Division to track them down. As Jake and Amanda deal with the existential guilt of eating their best friends and set off in search of a cure for the zombie virus, Cass struggles with a growing psychic dilemma of her own—one that will lead all three of them on an epic journey across the country and make them question what it means to truly be alive. Or undead.

My Review
Jake was a regular high school boy. He loved video games and getting high with his friends until one day when he ate half of his friends in the school cafeteria. Now he is on the run, he is a zombie fugative and his getaway partner is the hottest girl in school Amanda Blake who ate the other half of his class. Some how they have contacted a zombie virus with a hope of a cure they head to Iowa, but their way there is be a difficult one.

Meet Cass the youngest member of the NCD squad, She is a telepath and is on a mission to track and kill zombies. Those zombies in particular Jake and Amanda. There is humourous banter between Jake and Amanda and even funnier thoughts from Jake.
The story is told from the points of view from both Cass and Jake. So we get both the outlaw and the tracker views and the choices and thoughts they make. The cliff hanger at the end of the book has me amped for the next and to figure out what really is in Iowa and how Cass teaming up with the zombies will change the dynamics.

Project 17 by Laurie Faria Stolarz

Author: Laurie Faria Stolarz
Stars: 5 out of 5

My Review
I didn't know what to expect when I first picked up the book and started to read, but by the second chapter I couldn't put the book down. It was soo intriguing and it made you wonder what was going to happen next.

The plot of the book is: High atop Hathorne Hill, near Boston, sits Danvers State Hospital. Built in 1878 and closed in 1992, this abandoned mental institution is rumored to be the birthplace of the lobotomy. Locals have long believed the place to be haunted. They tell stories about the unmarked graves in the back, of the cold spots felt throughout the underground tunnels, and of the treasures found inside: patients' personal items like journals, hair combs, and bars of soap, or even their old medical records, left behind by the state for trespassers to view.
On the eve of the hospital's demolition, six teens break in to spend the night and film a movie about their adventures. For Derik, it's an opportunity to win a film making contest and save himself from a future of flipping burgers at his parents' diner. For the others, it's a chance to be on TV, or a night with no parents. But what starts as a playful dare quickly escalates into a frenzy of nightmarish action. Behind the crumbling walls, down every dark passageway, and in each deserted room, they will unravel the mysteries of those who once lived there and the spirits who still might.

It's the best to read late at night during a thunder storm where every sense is heighten and every nerve is on edge. There were a lot of unexpected happenings in the book and the way she wrote the book makes you feel like your in the scenario with the other teens in the abandoned hospital wondering what every dark shadow has lurking behind it. Each teen has there own reason for going to the hospital that night each with a different motive overall the end of the books tells you how each person turns out whether they make it out ALIVE!

Overall a very good book that i would recommend for a quick summer read. =)