Review: Last Sacrifice by Richelle Mead

From Goodreads: Rose Hathaway has always played by her own rules.

She broke the law when she ran away from St. Vladimir’s Academy with her best friend and last surviving Dragomir Princess, Lissa. She broke the law when she fell in love with her gorgeous, off-limits instructor, Dimitri. And she dared to defy Queen Tatiana, leader of the Moroi world, risking her life and reputation to protect generations of dhampir guardian to come.

Now the law has finally caught up with Rose- for a crime she didn’t even commit. She’s in prison for the highest offense imaginable: the assassination of a monarch. She’ll need help from both Dimitri and Adrian to find the one living person who can stall her execution and force the Moroi elite to acknowledge a shocking new candidate for the royal throne: Vasilisa Dragomir.

But the clock on Rose’s life is running out. Rose knows in her heart the world of the dead wants her back… and this time she is truly out of second chances. The big question is, when your life is about saving others, who will save you?

Review: I first became a fan of this series two years ago. I read the first Vampire Academy and fell in love with Rose’s story and her quest to define herself, and of course, Dimitri. I love and hate the last book in a series. There’s so many ways that it can leave you hanging or unsatisfied. However, that is not the case with Last Sacrifice! And thank god. I feared and desired this book to the point of insanity. Throughout the series Rose has had one battle after the next, always putting others’ lives ahead of hers. In this book, we see her still willing to give everything for those she loves. There are no spoilers in this review, so I won’t go into specifics about how it ends, I’ll just state that Rose’s transformation from the first book is the definition of what a YA book should be. She is stronger, smarter, more self-aware, though Mead still gives us the Rose attitude we fell in love with. I <3 Rose! Rose and Dimitri, Dimitri and Rose, what can I say? Their love will forever be one of the dearest love stories to my heart. They have been through so much, and still their passion for one another burns hotter each time I flip the page, ahhh, I’m beyond sad to see it end. Mead wrapped the series up in a perfect way, action, love, friendship, betrayal, suspense, anything and everything you can imagine, this book has it!

**Kind of a Spoiler* But the good news? Mead is working on a new series, Bloodlines, that involves a love interest from the VA series….. I bet you can probably guess who it is =) which I’m so glad to hear, my heart bleeds for this character.*

The perfect end to the perfect epic series, I give Last Sacrifice five flames!

Hardcover, 594 pages

Published December 7th 2010 by Penguin Group (USA)