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gbooks29 's review for:
Blood Promise
by Richelle Mead
2.5 Stars
I think this was a decent follow up. The actual focus of the story isn't one of my favorite ships, but the love felt real. But I think for a portion of this book, about fifty pages, it seemed very out of the world she set up. We see Strigoi, and with Dmitri and Rose, they just weren't acting very strigoi like aside from snide comments and the mention of red eyes. I think the detours Rose took were much longer than they needed to be. I also wanted a smidge more insight into what Lissa was doing. I just thought more would have painted a better picture. But I liked the mysterious aspect of what was happening with Lissa. But some of it felt all over the place. There is this sub plot of Queen Tatiana, that sort of just pops up, and doesn't really end or go anywhere in this book, I assume we'll see it in the next one, maybe, and it seems the main plot now is going to be carried over to the next book somewhat. I loved Rose's determination in this book, though her choice and overall recklessness and somewhat rudeness made me uneasy. It was hard to see Lissa go through what she did, but it made it interesting. The new characters and extra worldbuilding was great, including the new setting, Russia. Overall, I think this was an imperfect fourth book, with a somewhat slow and crazy plot, but some fun action and interesting twists that made it a good story.
I think this was a decent follow up. The actual focus of the story isn't one of my favorite ships, but the love felt real. But I think for a portion of this book, about fifty pages, it seemed very out of the world she set up. We see Strigoi, and with Dmitri and Rose, they just weren't acting very strigoi like aside from snide comments and the mention of red eyes. I think the detours Rose took were much longer than they needed to be. I also wanted a smidge more insight into what Lissa was doing. I just thought more would have painted a better picture. But I liked the mysterious aspect of what was happening with Lissa. But some of it felt all over the place. There is this sub plot of Queen Tatiana, that sort of just pops up, and doesn't really end or go anywhere in this book, I assume we'll see it in the next one, maybe, and it seems the main plot now is going to be carried over to the next book somewhat. I loved Rose's determination in this book, though her choice and overall recklessness and somewhat rudeness made me uneasy. It was hard to see Lissa go through what she did, but it made it interesting. The new characters and extra worldbuilding was great, including the new setting, Russia. Overall, I think this was an imperfect fourth book, with a somewhat slow and crazy plot, but some fun action and interesting twists that made it a good story.