Jill suggested a SB spoiler thread so I created one. Now go at it! That way all other post can be spoiler free from ppl like me who have to wait to read it.

Yeah that was an amazing book. xD

Gosh so much stuff happens she wasted no time jumping into the issues.

I've finished it. Give me an hour and I'll write down my thoughts about it. Right now I'm still in some kind of shock...

well shit i just spent half an hour typing up my thoughts and someone else posted at the same time and it erased mine

So i woke up excited to read it and found out that there wasn't a kindle version wicjch pissed me off. My plan was to but on the kindle then this weekend get the hard copy. Well I ended up downloading the audio on Itunes for $26, the audio sucked the lady did such crappy accents for adrian and Dimitri it annoyed the hell out of me but I endured.

So well first off I get and understand and respect the way Dimitri was acting after he was saved but some part of me wanted Rose to fly his grandma out from siberia so she could smack him over the head and tell him to pull himself together. He started to come around in the end though. It sucked when he wanted to help defend Rose both in battle and the court room but couldn't because of his questionable situation.

So Tattiana's dead! well Im sort of glad I did want her to die but after that note I kind of felt a little remorse. To be honest at first when we heard she was dead Two thoughts went through my mind Victor or Ambrose. Ambrose because of the decree I figured he'd talk to her and realize she was just using him things would get heated and him being a dhampir had the ability to stake her. Also because he has that intimate and private access to her. But when he handed rose the note that theory went out the window. Victor has the motivation and the means. Tattiana was occupying his place on the throne she sent him to terasov prison, and he has every reason to want to frame rose since she was part of the reason he was throne in prison as well as his debt to her. Im sure he'd like to see her suffer in a cell fore a while before he either broke her out or got her off then his debt to her would be cleared.

Adrian was really cool he stepped up to the plate in being Rose's boyfriend we got to see a more serious side to him, he still had a bit of sarcastic nature but over all he came off pretty serious to me, that might also be due to the poor narrating on the audio though. Lissa really stepped up to. She freaken staked a strigoi and not just any strigoi Dimitri! The one man army.

With the new age decree in effect now that means Jill is in her last year at the academy and if people dont want to see these kids dieing then Rose and Dimitri should go back as instructors. That would give the students a fighting chance no pun intended. Seeing as rose and Dimitri are a force to reckon with it might have the opposite effect and the students might become great fighters only emphasizing the decree though.

yeah glad christian and lissa are back together, nice turn around with the cheating dad and illegitimate child angle. If it gets her on the throne! Then she can help defend Rose

I liked daniella in the beginning but by the end I hated her. I can't believe she made a guard or janitor whatever lie just to get her son off. I get the motherly angle and all but Adrian is an adult and he wanted to testify as Rose's alibi, she should have just let him. If the court wanted to charge him with conspiracy as well then Rose could have revealed her bite mark. ( it would suck for her rep yes) But it would prove that neither were in the right state to execute a royal assassination.


Some funny parts that made me lol and roll off my seat:
1 when rose told the little boy to go punch Dimitri!
2 When abe and Damen were fighting in the court room!
3 when the royal guards came in and rose started yelling at the to leave Dimitri alone then found out it was her and was like oh, then started fighting!
4 when sydney naturally suspected rose like reflex when the records went missing
5 (This is Richelle) Authors do things in their writing and don't realize it like the qoute of the book. Almost everytime rose met someone new she would describe them "They didn't look much older than me."

Those are just a few but they had me laughing.


I was really hoping to see more of Janine in this one and a bond or relationship form, I was surprised she didnt show up for rose's hearing. It was cool that Abe did though, it's nice to see a moroi father takeing an interest in his dhampir child. And if the trial goes sour i have no doubt that abe and dimitri and hide and protect rose.

cant wait for the next book Last sacrifice the title alone means something big is going to happen between rose and dimitri, poor adrian is bound to get his heart broken but hopefully thats the most of his injuries.

Since I had to retype my thoughts I just cut it in half for now and stressed the major points.

So, I’ve finished Spirit Bound. There’s not much more to write. Still I have to write.
In my head there are so many thoughts. One thing I just noticed is that it’s pretty hard to express yourself in another language. When I write in Swedish I know exactly how to write to get the magic-feeling in the words, you’ll have to forgive me if I fail doing this in English.

Yesterday I went to another town and to the only bookstore in whole Sweden who now have the book and brought a copy. (The other two have already sold all theirs). The site I’d ordered it from sent me an email saying that they hadn’t received it from U.S yet so it was the safest way to get the book.

As I wrote, I’ve finished SP, right now I feel empty. The book was amazing but it wasn’t what I’d expected. Some things were too predictable.. Here are some small thoughts;

When I read that Eric Dragomir had been, yeah you know, flirting with others I guessed the thing about Lissa being the last Dragomir. I don’t like Mead’s way of making things like that obvious. It was the same thing when she wrote about Rhonda’s predictions in SK. I’m pretty sure that we are familiar to the last Dragomir, one person on my mind is Mia, but I hope I’m wrong on that one.

I can’t describe the hate against Adrian I felt when he and Rose were to close. I should be Rose and Dimitri, not Rose and Adrian. I can’t help getting angry every time Adrian shows up. I just don’t like Rose way of creating a triangle drama and he is the reason (thank god they didn’t have sex…).
And then we have Dimitri. I didn’t expect him to turn in this book. I thought they would need at least two books to change him, not a half. I still glad that things went as they did. If things would have been heaven between them, well, that would be too much Twilight over it (and I don’t like Twilight). When he said the thing about “Love fades” tears weren’t far, but I was sitting on a train so it had looked strange if I’d started to cry. I was so proud of him when he stood up against all those guardians to protect Rose. It gave me hope for the future, I believe, one way or another, they’ll be together. And no Adrian between them: D

One part of the book when I just couldn’t stop laughing was when Lissa and Christian were planning to learn stake Strigois and Rose was inside Lissa’s head.

There so much to say about this book and I’m too bad in English to write about everything on my mind right now. I’m in some kind of shock. I don’t know, I can’t stop think about the book and how much I want to know the end of the story. It’s strange; this is the first vampire series I have these feelings about.

I read over all your reviews and I basically agree with you. This book was great but it is probably my least favorite. This book was definitly the most action packed! I even enjoyed seeing the sensual side of Adrian (oh is he capable of being sensual). In addition, EDDIE is back! Man, I missed him, to bad be disapeared that last half of the book

I too really wish that we would have seen more of Janine. Everytime Rose got in trouble , I was expecting Janine and come back and I guess kick her butt or something.

However, for me the book failed in the Rose and Dimitri department. I understand that Dimitri's regrets what he did to her and because of it he pushes her away. By the end of the book, he had even convinced me that he no longer loved her. Yeah he wanted to protect her but so does alot of her friends.

Ok I said my peace for now.

I just finished reading it. OMG. I am just in complete shock right now. I don't even know what to think. I'm extremely angry and pissed over Rose being accused of killing Tatiana. I can't even fully wrap my mind around it. It's just unbelieveable. Well, I guess not really that unbelieveable that ppl are accussing her. I mean the evidence is kind of hard core. I'm trying to think of who could killed her and framed Rose. There's only 1 person that comes to my mind and thats Ambrose. I know its kind of out there but its who I keep thinking about.

As for Dimitri. Well he broke my heart. I can understand why he was being like he was towards Rose. He's most upset over what he did to her and looking at her reminds him of being a Strigoi the most but damn I wanted to kick his ass for the way he was treating her! She has gone throught the most trouble to get the info they needed and yet he only worshipped Lissa-I said that with a sneer lol. I was sooooo proud of her for being brave enough to save him but this protective state she is over him and his worship of her makes me want to kill them both. I hate it. I know there isn't anything romantic involved but sheesh, if it wasn't for Rose he would have never been saved. They wouldn't have found out the info and Lissa wouldn't have been brave enough to do it. I'm glad Dimitri is somewhat coming back. The way he was protective over Rose when those gaurdians swarmed in on her was amazing. I think he may possess some of those sharper reflexes and instincts from when he was Strigoi. I can't see any guardian even Dimitri being able to have fended off that many guardians and keep Rose behind him all by himself. He was more than a guardian at that moment, he was a true warrior.

Onto happier things. Christian and Lissa are back together! YAY! lol Took them long enough to get past their jealousy and stop being stubburn.

and as much as I love Dimitri and wanted Rose and Dimitri together again, I'm super happy things are working out with Adrian. I was extremely disappointed in her letting him bite her though. I wanted the sex lol. Damn him! What kind of guy doesn't always carry a condum with him? Something tells me he wouldn't have minded getting Rose pregnant. He is soooooo in love with her and truely wants to be with her. I can honestly see him wanting to marry her and have a family with her.

It breaks my heart about Rose and Dimitri but honestly, I don't see a future between them two. Sure they still obviously love eachother dispite Dimitri's protests that he doesn't. But so much has happened and changed between them. Not only has Dimitri changed, but Rose has too. Trust me, I'd love to see a happy ending with them but I don't see it happening.

Now I'm just rambling. Blah, my thoughts are all over the place jumping from one topic to the next.

Lissa has a half brother or sister. That I didn't expect. I wonder if Rose will tell Lissa? She deserves to know. But idt she will handle that news very well. I tell you Rhonda's cards sure make more sence now.

Abe said Rose will not go to trial. What is he gonna do break her out of there? Unless he can come up with proof that was Rose was framed and didn't do it I don't see how she can avoid going to trial. And what about this journey she has to go on to find Lissa's half brother or sister? I'm just so confused about what is to come in Last Sacrifice. It all scares the hell out of me and we've got 6.5 months to go before finding out what happens. Thats pure torture!!!!

Firstly, my thoughts, then I’ll reply to people. (And I'm sorry It's a huge reply...I needed to get my thoughts out)

I’m in a state of shock right now. Mainly because we’ve been waiting so long for SB and now it’s come and gone leaving us with an even BIGGER story to come in the final book. Everything seemed to happen so fast. One minute we’re in the academy, then rushed off to Tarasov, Dimitri being saved, Tatiana’s death...its insane!

I love that Rose got a separate trial to the rest of the novices. It shows that they really wanted to put their recruits through the toughest challenges and to make sure they were testing them to the limits. It may not have been fair, because they were supposed to all be based on the same situations, but it definitely shows determined the academy guardians are to bring out the best in the novices.

The prison break and Victor situation was awesome. I’m so glad Eddie was involved, though it would have been nice if he’d been around more often towards the end of the novel too. So much thought went into the “rescue” I’m shocked at how well they put it all together, and in such sort a time. I’m also glad Mia had a hand in it. I’ve become very fond of her. Meeting Robert wasn’t at all like I expected it to be. I know we already knew they’d be going to Las Vegas, but I hadn’t expected them to meet in the middle of a casino/bar. And I can’t believe they ran off! I guess I can’t expect them to stick around with Rose and the Gang, not since they had the power to turn them in, but I still didn’t expect them to run off so quickly. I always liked Victor, he’s that good sort of Evil Villain, and I sort of feel bad for him considering he lost Natalie after knowing a way he was going to save her. That still doesn’t excuse what he did or made her do, but it’s all falling into place now. We see Natalie turning strigoi wasn’t really the last resort, it was just a back-up plan. I wonder what role he’ll play in Last Sacrifice.

Probably one of the main parts I hated about the book was Lissa learning to fight and in fact staking Dimitri. It was all too easy. She just happened to find guardians who were ok with the last Dragomir learning to defend her? I thought the whole point of her having her two guardians around her all the time was because she wasn’t expected to fight for herself, and if it ever came to the point where she was left alone to fend for herself then she probably wasn’t going to make it out of there by giving someone a slight punch to the face. I did, however, like the sexual tension that built up between Christian and Lissa. I sort of like it better than when they were always in love with each other, it made them more...human I guess isn’t the right word, but less perfect.
When Lissa simply pushed through the fire and “saved” Dimitri I was ready to murder her. Not only was she risking everything, it was once again Spirit-Saving-The-Day. I get it, the serious is pretty much centred on Spirit, but there’s only so much spirit I can handle. And then when Dimitri started “worshipped” her I was seriously afraid he’d fallen in love with her; and, for that matter, that Lissa was falling in love with him too. She just seemed way too obsessed with being with him and way too quick to tell Rose to bugger off. I kept wanting her to tell Dimitri he wasn’t there to make demands and that because Rose was her best friend she was going to listen to her instead.

Onto Dimitri. Wow, Dimitri.
Badass Dimitri; Affectionate Dimitri; Protective Dimitri; Strigoi Dimitri; Mysterious Dimitri; Controlled Dimitri; Depressed Dimitri...Way to suffer from serious mood swings!
My original theory that Strigoi souls don’t actually go anywhere totally came true. Although it’s sad that the good part of them is sort of conscious when they’re doing all the bad things to people and no longer being themselves.
I still have a soft spot for Strigoi Dimitri but I LOVE dhampir Dimitri. And even though the circumstances of his being restored were a bit rushed and insane, I LOVE that he’s back. I hated that he didn’t want to see Rose. I get that he hated what he did to her and that he didn’t think himself worthy of anything, but honestly! How could he not want to see Rose!? I was so glad when she went down there to see him, and I kept applauding her every time she got him angry. I know they didn’t want him to seem Strigoi-like if he was still being questioned, but at least she got some real emotion out of him. Depressed Dimitri was not one I liked.
His public questioning thing was awesome. I love how Hans came through with everything and I also loved when they asked if anyone else had questions and Rose was like “Well someone has to ask something” and stepped up to do some interrogating. I also loved Jonathan and that he got the crowd giggling with his “he doesn’t seem very strong to me. I don’t think he’s a Strigoi.”
The church scene had me smiling and crying. I smiled when Rose called him “Comrade” and when Dimitri was like “You were watching me the whole time” because, like Rose said, that meant he had to be watching her at some point too. But when he pulled to “love fades” line, my heart broke. I mean, we knew the line was coming, but I really hoped he wasn’t the one saying it.
In the cafe I was so happy. Firstly, he was talking to her and I was proud of Rose for not ignoring him completely. And then when he defended her, he wasn’t going to let anything happen to her. I was so moved. Although, it does complicate things all over again. Here he is claiming that he doesn’t love her, and really wants nothing to do with her anymore, and just as Rose finally accepts Adrian as the one she’ll love Dimitri plays the hero-card and she’ll being falling for him again.

Speaking of Adrian. I love him, he’s so sweet to give up smoking and drink (mostly) all because of Rose. And even though she was doing some pretty stupid things by Rose-standard he still wanted to be with her. I was a little annoyed that he bit her though, and that Rose was for it. I thought that would bring up old memories of being captive with Dimitri and we all know she eventually thought that was a terrible thing to have let herself get into. I realise that Adrian biting her ever now and then wouldn’t be as bad, because his endorphin release would be significantly less powerful than Strigoi Dimitri’s was and also he wouldn’t be doing it everyday; but it was still wrong. Other than that I think he was awesome in this book.

Lissa having a half sibling is amazing. We keep finding out scandalous things about her family. First Andre and Mia, the “uncle” Victor, now Eric. I wonder where that story will lead to, and why someone was trying to get the Alchemists’ information on Eric, which was obviously leading to this discovery.

And finally, the big stuff.
Guardian ages going down? I could not believe it. Where do these stupid moroi get their ideas from? What makes them so goddamn special that they have the right to waste the lives of dhampirs when there aren’t enough of them as it is. And who’s going to benefit from this drop of age? The ROYAL moroi, because they’re the only ones who get anything around here. I can’t believe that Tatiana didn’t ask for Rose’s opinion on Guardians being let out at a younger age. She wanted to present a just position on the matter, but withheld stuff too. I mean, in her letter to Rose at the end, she seemed to say that she only supported the movement because she didn’t like the alternative of forcing all dhampirs into early service, so why wouldn’t she try and sway those few people who wanted to lower the age? Why wouldn’t she ask Rose her opinion on the younger generation?
Tatiana’s death came as the biggest shock. I was sort of semi-liking her. Not in a way that would make her my favourite character or anything like that, but she seemed sort of tolerable. She was fairly nice to Rose and I understand why she would want to kick her out during the council meeting once she started the name calling and such. It’s obvious to us that Rose didn’t kill her. But I can’t help thinking it’s someone she knows that did it. They said she died with a shocked look on her face, and while I guess if you had a stake shoved through your chest your might be a little shocked, but it’s almost as though she was REALLY surprised someone attacked her. I immediately thought Victor or Ambrose. But Victor left me because how the hell would he get into the Court? I know he’s crafty and probably has friends still in Court, but I just don’t think he could get in there, manage to find Rose’s room AND her stake without being seen, and then kill the queen. I do however like, I think it was Abe’s, comment about how Rose would have managed to get through all of the Queen’s guards, although Dimitri is proof that they’re not the best guards in the world, especially since he was taking them on singlehandedly. And with Ambrose, once he gave the letter to Rose I sort of lost my opinion of him doing it. He seemed to think that she’d have a good reason for what she does, and I can’t see him killing anyone. The whole point of him being at the court was because he couldn’t go through with the defending/killing part of being a guardian. And his personality just doesn’t fit. Maybe I’m wrong, but it just doesn’t seem right.
I’m concerned about Rose’s stake being the weapon though. I can understand why she thought she’d left her stake in her room: she was supposed to be safe in the Court. I wonder who was close enough to her to get inside her room without someone noticing a strange person walking around the halls.





Jill: The didn't say ALL students would be let out of academies at 16, just the dhampirs. Jill would be safe because she's moroi.

Nessi: Yeah, Rose being inside Lissa's head during the "stake" lessons was pretty funny. I loved how Serena or Grant, can't remember who said it, was like "oh, it's not like you'd get a stake, we don't give them out to just anyone" and Rose thought "Oh, I so wish she'd look in Lissa's bag right now".

hungrycookiemonster: More Rose Dimitri stuff would have been nice. I figured once he was brought back, though he might regret what he'd done, that he'd get through it WITH Rose, not by avoiding her.

Wilda: I know! The Tatiana thing is a bit insane. I still don't know what to think of it. Everything in this books was such a rush and it doesn't help that that side of things wasn't completely wrapped up. We're left hanging in the middle of it all.

Around pg 200 I accidently read about the arrest so the ending is spoiled for me.
At least I have the middle to look forward to.

I reasd the last 2 pages while in the middle of the book and all it did was confuse me. I'm still dazed over SB. It's all I've been able to think about since starting it Tuesday night. I even dreamed of pieces of the book last night and well tuesday night too cause I had to stop in the middle of the book lol. It was a really good book with a lot going on but like Kim said it was a bit rushed. One thing happened right after the next. And all it's done was leave me dieing for more.

Oh god, I scrolled down to find your reply wilda and it too forever to get past my reply. Sorry Guys, I didn't realise it was that long, that's a hell of a lot to read through. Sorry.

EDIT: I dream pieces of novels too, or at least go to bed thinking about them heaps. How I would have done a certain scene differently...most of mine involved Rose throwing herself at dimitri a lot though, so I don't think that would have worked out well.

oh yeah and I'm glad Abe is defending rose because knowing him hes probably got or can get scandalous information on the jury and can therefor intimidate them and their verdicts. He is smey after all and people fear him and don't dare cross him, I think Rose made the right choice in picking him.

Rose definitely made the right choice by Choosing Abe. They are all in for a shocker when the truth comes out about him being her father. And yeah I suppose anyone could have killed the queen. The most likely are Ambrose and Victor but I wouldn't be surprised if it were another Dhampir. I just hate that they set Rose up. I can see Victor setting Rose up liek you said Jill to get Rose out of the picture but why would Ambrose set Rose up? Why would anyone else set Rose up? Maybe whoever did it wasn't actually trying to set her up but she gave them easy access to her stake by leaving it in the room. Even at the Royal court she should ahve kept it on her at all times. idk there's so many questions and none of them will be answered until LS is released