Telling It Like It Is

You know you have a really great book series when instead of writing about its greatness you spend your time rereading the book! Apparently that’s what’s been happening to me while I try writing about these Vampire Academy books. So let’s keep going and see what’s going on in book four: Blood Promise!

As Blood Promise starts out, Rose is at a nightclub in Russia. No she’s not trying to pick up guys; she’s trying to find someone who knows how to get to Dimitri’s home town. As Rose leaves the nightclub, she realizes she’s being followed. After a quick flashback of the past three weeks, Rose meets her stalker: Sydney.

As a Strigoi comes to attack Rose and Sydney, both girls realize they have a lot of talking to do. Sydney is an alchemist. Alchemy gets passed down though families and helps hide the secrets of moroi, dhampir, and Strigoi. Since Sydney has connections all over the place, Rose asks for Sydney’s help in finding Omsk: the place that will lead to Dimitri’s home town. When Sydney makes a call, she tells Rose that her superiors have instructed Sydney to take Rose to Omsk.
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Three weeks have gone by since the storyline in the Vampire Academy series book 2 Frostbite ended. In Richelle Mead’s VA book 3 in the series entitled  Shadow Kiss, people are still feeling the pain of Mason’s death, they’re still trying to get readjusted to their lives beforehand. How is Rose doing? Well… up until she started seeing Mason’s ghost, things were good, I guess.

When Rose and her guardian classmates get their assignments for their field exam, Rose is absolutely thrilled when she finds out she’ll be guarding Christian Ozera (instead of Lissa) for the remainder of the year. When the tests begin throughout the school, the only action Rose got was standing by Christian and Lissa while the other guardians-in-training “fought”.
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Welcome to the Vampire Academy book 2 in the VA series entitled Frostbite, by author Richelle Mead! Vampire Academy is a school where Dhampirs train to become guardians and moroi learn to wield magic. Right away things jump to a start with Rose Hathaway being taken off campus to take a test for her pre-field exam. This test will determine whether or not Rose will continue to train as a guardian or not.

Only problem, the legendary Arthur Schoenburg was supposed to administer test and now he and his moroi charges were massacred in their own home. Things only get worse when Dimitri issues a “replacement” test and it is discovered that humans are now helping Strigoi murder moroi royal families.
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Vampire Academy is an ongoing series of six vampire-based fantasy/romance novels by USA Today and New York Times best-selling author, Richelle Mead. The Vampire Academy series of books include titles such as Vampire Academy (Book 1-2007); Frostbite (Book 2-2008); Shadow Kiss (Book 3-2008); Blood Promise (Book 4-2009); Spirit Bound (Book 5-May, 2010) and Book 6 with a to-be-determined title scheduled for release in December 2010.

St. Vladimir’s Academy isn’t just any boarding school. It’s a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rosemarie “Rose” Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Vasilisa “Lissa” Dragomir, a Moroi Vampire Princess.
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