December Series Review: Last Sacrifice by Richelle Mead

Title: Last Sacrifice
Author: Richelle Mead | Richelle’s Twitter
Series: Vampire Academy
Genre: Young Adult Paranormal
Hardcover: 594 pages
Publisher: Razorbill (December 7, 2010)
ISBN-10: 1595143068
ISBN-13: 978-1595143068

Description (contains spoilers from Blood Promise):

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?

There is honestly not much I can say without totally spoiling the hell out of this book, and since it hasn’t even been out a month yet, I really want to avoid the spoilers. But I am going to attempt the review, and hope that you guys can forgive me if I accidentally do so.

In the past five books, we’ve discovered that there isn’t much that Rose Hathaway can’t do, and in this book, she’s under insurmountable odds. Spirit Bound found Rose accused of the murder of a queen she openly hated, a man that would do anything to protect her, including telling her he doesn’t love her, and a missing fugitive that once tried to kill Rose’s charge (and best friend) Lissa Dragomir.

Last Sacrifice picks up directly afterward, with Rose in jail, slowly going insane from claustrophobia, as I would in her place, and with no word other than what she can gleam from eavesdropping on her best friend’s mind.

I seriously loved this book. It was amazing. After the roller coaster rise that Richelle Mead likes to put her readers through for five books, I was dying to read the final book in the series. And I wasn’t disappointed.As always, Mead has plenty of action to counterbalance the romance, and throws in a couple of side plots to muck up the works as well. The result is one fantastically amazing book.

Read this if: You’re into crazy nature loving cave vamps, political intrigue and puzzles, knife fights, and gunshots, sappy romantics, and hawt Russian men. Because I totally was into all that. For 594 pages. OMG.