Frostbite

Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2) by Richelle Mead

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This is totally my guilty pleasure series. Vampires in a school? Good vampires who rarely drink blood and don't quite sparkle? Sounds really lame on the surface, but after reading the first Vampire Academy book, I actually got pretty hooked, and it's all thanks to Rose. She's a trash-talking, confident, sexy and fun heroine, very unlike the sullen, useless and perpetual victim that is Bella Swan (I mention her because this book series seems to be taking that mantle of Twilight's successor). Rose is totally the kind of story main character I'd want my daughter, if I had one, to strive to be like. She's not perfect, she curses, she lusts for boys. She's not perfect, and she kicks ass, and that's what makes her so awesome. She's not looking for that Prince Charming on a white horse. She'll save her own damn self, and that's what makes her romance with Dimitri so much more interesting. She may want him to screw her into next week, but she's not swooning before him. She won him by having that strong backbone of hers.

The secondary characters in this series are also pretty interesting. Lissa's pretty generic, but she plays well of Rose's recklessness. This second book also brought in some really interesting scenes with Rose and her mother, and we finally got to see some evil vampires, and Rose dispatched them with typical badassery, like decapitating them both with a rusty sword.



Honestly, I can't wait to read the third book.



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