
Yet, as perfect as he seems, Sydney finds herself being drawn to someone else-someone forbidden to her (Adrian).

Equally daunting is her new romance with Brayden, a cute, smart guy who seems to be her match in every way. But it’s her fear of being just that special (magical and powerful) that scares her more than anything. Her world becomes even more complicated when magical experiments show Sydney may hold the key to preventing her from becoming Strigoi the fiercest vampires-the ones who don’t die. Formerly in disgrace, Sydney is now praised for her loyalty and obedience and held up as the model of an exemplary Alchemist.īut the closer she grows to Jill, Eddie, and especially Adrian, the more she finds herself questioning her age-old Alchemist beliefs, her idea of family, and what it means to truly belong. I hope we get to see Rose and Dimitri's marriage someday, perhaps in the Bloodlines series or in another short story.Sydney would love to go to college, but instead, she’s been sent into hiding at a posh boarding school in Palm Springs, California–tasked with protecting Moroi princess Jill Dragomir from assassins who want to throw the Moroi court into civil war. I really like this change about them, and it has shown how much Rose had grown. When they are strategizing a plan, Dimitri no longer talks to Rose like she was his student, but now as his equal and partner.

Rose is lucky Dimitri is not settling down in Russia.Īfter all the things they went through, you can now see an obvious change in the interaction between Dimitri and Rose. Rose argued with every prediction Yeva made, and claim that Yeva had no real predicting powers and are just saying cryptic things that can be interpreted in millions of ways. Rose relationship with Dimitri's mother was okay, but Rose and his grandmother's, Yeva's relationship seemed a lot like those mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationships that argued a lot every day for the heck of it. Yeva did predict a marriage coming, but all I see till now is Sonya and Mikhail's. Rose insisted on not marrying until her age starts with a 2.

He was about 24, so it was not weird if he got married, but Rose could not get over that since her age is just 18. It was quite romantic, since Dimitri dropped hints about wanting to marry Rose quite a few times. I had wondered if Rose and Dimitri had gone back to Russia to his family at the end of the series, and now I know. What they did not expect was a mission to kill a Strigoi called the Blood King, that had been terrorizing the humans in the small town.

They expected a lot of commotion, a party bigger than the memorial of his death, and lots of hard questions about his time as a Strigoi. His family needed to see that he is no longer a Strigoi. After Lissa was crowned Queen and everything had settled, Rose and Dimitri took a week-long holiday to go back to his family in Siberia.
