OMG!! blood promise was by far the best!
i loved how we got to know some of Rose's best memories with Dimka!! It made me tear a little bit.
The strigoi Dimka is mean and very controlling. I was amazed by how Rose didn't kill him on the bridge but when she was thinking it over it was brilliant except she didn't stake Dimka thoroughly. I kind of want her to be with Dimka if she can get victor to tell where his brother is at and also the whole Abe-being-Rose's-dad thing i hope in the next book it is explained more. I love the book so much that i'm re-reading it again!!

i was very disapinted how rose was so weak but i mean i guess i would be weak too if i were in her situation

and again with the stake i went over those things (in my head) with the humans posibly helping him send the stake to rose but i don't think a badass like him could just stand there and have a human do all his workings for him and they'd have to be suspicious -yay i spelled it right- but like
with the cloth theory some one said why didn't they just do that insread of having humans stake the wards i mean yea so that is not credible
buti want to know what rm meant by they can't touch stakes is itjust like it hurts like no other if they do cause of the magic and silver or if it has like a force around it so it like repels them like magnets do to each other

I'm thinking D's strong enough to pull the stake out.

We've been told Abe is muslim. Just realised that would technically make Rose one too. Its cultural thing to be the same as your father.

PS: Are you going to her Australian after party? Apparenlty she's going to read an excerpt from Spirit Bound.

haha, that might explain why Rose doesn't like orthodox church all that much

Yeah, I'm an Aussie and I'm going to the after party. I've been told she's going to, yep

So I was thinking about the stake dilemma and if I remember correctly in Frostbite or Shadow Kiss it was mentioned that the magic in stakes fade after so many years and we don't really know how long the stake had been in that vault.

I just finished Blood Promise a few hours ago, and I liked it, but I didn't love it.

The story was well written and it was definitely an emotional roller coaster, but it was a little to slow for me at the beginning. Not much happened up until the last 200 pages or so. Dimitri was everything I was expecting. I was surprised that he kept her alive for so long though. it was actually refreshing to see Rose in a weak state. I mean the past three books Rose is seen as a bad ass guardian which is awesome. But it was good too see another side of her. It made her more real in my eyes.

I pretty much hated Avery and her whole clan from the second she was introduced and I was really upset that Lissa and Adrian had taken to her so easily, and I was really happy to find out that Avery wasn't a Rose replacement. I spent a good portion of the book being disappointed in Lissa as well. She did redeem herself by the end and i hope that Christian and her and up together again.

Adrian has had my heart from his introduction in Frostbite and I was glad to see some character development on his part. I really do hope that Rose and him get together, or atleast she gives in the fair chance he deserves.

The thing that bothered me to most about BP was that it didn't really go anywhere. In the end, Rose is pretty much in the same place she began in.

I was slightly disappointed that Dimitri wasn't dead. I mean I really like Dimitri as a character but it seems like it's too late for that happily ever after. I mean if Rose does succeed in bring Dimitri back, will it really be the same. Dimitri has always been seen as the character that would do whatever he could to help others, and if he returned back to normal with the memories of killing innocent people, would he be able to handle it? I mean there would have to be some sort of mental trauma associated with that. Also would he even want to be turned back? would he be grateful for it? If Rose does manage to bring him back, he won't be the same Dimitri from the first three books. That would be really unrealistic and if he did come back, with out a problem and him and Rose have the perfect ending, well that would be a bit of a cop-out in my opinion.

I really want Dimitri and Rose to have a life like she does when she goes into a trance because of Avery. If Dimitri goes back to normal I don't think he will be his old self. Even if his strigoi memories went he would know that he had killed. He would be too overwhemled by the guilt of killing.

i personally don't want a fairy tale ending it's just not life and especially rose's life it's tough but so is she and she needs to be with lissa she needs to be a guardian but i also think she needs a life long love posibly adrian????

ok..
at the end of the book i was really confused.
i dont like the fact that dimitri(forgive me if i spell things wrong) wrote a note and gave the stake to her.. im kinda wondering how he even did it.
but after rose staked him, i thought, "its probably gonna be over.." but not in the bad way. i want her to go to adrian.. i think they would be great together.. even though i love dimitri.. i want him to come back in the future after rose and adrian got together. Then roses feelings would collide.. ahh.. new book. she would have to choose.. but not over lissa or dimitri. over the two guys she loved most.. and there would be alot of drama.
I also dont like the fact that roses mom was all over lissa and stuff too.. it just seemed unatural.
but now with the positive, it was very compelling, i read it in two days.
i just was so dissapointed with rose and how she was acting when she became dimitri's, her time wasnt divided into day, it was divided into "Dimitri, and No-Dimitri"
i'm just glad she got out of that mess.
Im excited(and sad) about christian and lissa. i loved them together.. and i still want them together.. but this drama between them is exciting.
i also loved how lissa was jealous of jill, thinking christian liked her.. [and how she used jill again in the story.]

i would give this book a bravo, as long as the series is gonna be finished in a way it should be.

but a new book better come out soon.
itll kill me!

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