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Last Sacrifice
by Richelle Mead
4.5 Stars
This was an excellent finale.
Positives:
-Mystery- Like most of VA books, there is a mystery going around about who killed the queen. It was very intriguing, and I only guessed who it was five pages before the reveal.
-The interesting interactions- different groups of people interact, and often interactions between people you wouldn't expect. I appreciated that we got to see the different ways different people talked.
-Lissa's journey- Lissa definitely takes a journey in this book of self-discovery. She is nervous about most things, but her dedication to her friend and boyfriend is relentless.
-Big reveal: I'm not spoiling it if you don't know, but there is a mystery surrounding a bloodline revealed at the end of Spirit Bound. It is finally revealed who it is, but it definitely felt real, and the scene was realistic and well put together.
Negatives
-These are all minor things, but Rose still irked me, only because she couldn't be chill for five minutes. And she was also cheating, and while that is an excusable action, as love triangles, tend to have that situation, and it wasn't the main focus of the story, however, she knew whom her heart truly belonged to. And me not being the biggest Dimitri and Rose shipper, I just wasn't invested in their relationship as much as other people. But I did enjoy their conversation about having to forgive yourself.
-Another somewhat big thing: I'm going to try not to spoil, but there was a reveal about strigoi in SpiritBound. And in this book, a whole bunch of Strigoi are getting killed by Dimitri. And what bugged me is that he felt they were all evil and immoral, even though Strigoi have lost moral sense, and some are unwilling strigoi, from what we learned in SpiritBound, it just seemed wrong to kill them all. And yet most of those Strigoi who are unwilling were probably innocent guardians or dhampirs who have lost their sense and killed people, and yet it doesn't apply or doesn't seem to, to another character (you know who I'm talking about if you've read the book). And I know, we are supposed to know this character, and obviously his/her situation is "different" to us, even though, compared to unwilling Strigoi, it isn't, and I just don't think those Strigoi deserved to die.
This was an excellent finale.
Positives:
-Mystery- Like most of VA books, there is a mystery going around about who killed the queen. It was very intriguing, and I only guessed who it was five pages before the reveal.
-The interesting interactions- different groups of people interact, and often interactions between people you wouldn't expect. I appreciated that we got to see the different ways different people talked.
-Lissa's journey- Lissa definitely takes a journey in this book of self-discovery. She is nervous about most things, but her dedication to her friend and boyfriend is relentless.
-Big reveal: I'm not spoiling it if you don't know, but there is a mystery surrounding a bloodline revealed at the end of Spirit Bound. It is finally revealed who it is, but it definitely felt real, and the scene was realistic and well put together.
Negatives
-These are all minor things, but Rose still irked me, only because she couldn't be chill for five minutes. And she was also cheating, and while that is an excusable action, as love triangles, tend to have that situation, and it wasn't the main focus of the story, however, she knew whom her heart truly belonged to. And me not being the biggest Dimitri and Rose shipper, I just wasn't invested in their relationship as much as other people. But I did enjoy their conversation about having to forgive yourself.
-Another somewhat big thing: I'm going to try not to spoil, but there was a reveal about strigoi in SpiritBound. And in this book, a whole bunch of Strigoi are getting killed by Dimitri. And what bugged me is that he felt they were all evil and immoral, even though Strigoi have lost moral sense, and some are unwilling strigoi, from what we learned in SpiritBound, it just seemed wrong to kill them all. And yet most of those Strigoi who are unwilling were probably innocent guardians or dhampirs who have lost their sense and killed people, and yet it doesn't apply or doesn't seem to, to another character (you know who I'm talking about if you've read the book). And I know, we are supposed to know this character, and obviously his/her situation is "different" to us, even though, compared to unwilling Strigoi, it isn't, and I just don't think those Strigoi deserved to die.