Review, Bloodrose by Andrea Cremer

[JessiAnne26]

The third and final installment of the Nightshade trilogy written by Andrea Cremer leaves no disappointment whatsoever. The third book has multiple scene settings the most memorable being Italy, and of course Vail. Calla Tor, our youthful protagonist, has discovered many secrets about her upbringing, her pack mates, the Keepers, and the searchers. In this final episode she is confronted with whom she will spend her life with as a mate, (Shay or Ren) and what she will do once the war is won, Pending everyone survives the war and each other of course. With her little brother at her side going through his own personal trauma, and only some of her pack mates left Calla really has to keep the peace throughout the novel, and our protagonist certainly delivers. I thoroughly enjoyed the conclusion to this trilogy and am looking forward to reading Snakeroot after a little break to fully digest this wonderful experience.

What I truly enjoyed about this story was that it was so easy to be consumed by. The choices Calla must make, the fear she feels at losing either Ren or Shay because she must pick one or the other, the protective instinct she feels towards her pack when they make less than savory choices are all an insatiable blend to easily get lost in. The scenes of war that come from this book are exciting and you always find yourself rooting for (who you hope) are the good guys but always have that sneaking suspicion that something could go wrong at the last minute which keeps the story suspenseful. I appreciated the well crafted suspense and dialogue throughout the book and it's evident that Cremer worked hard to make it look like she didn't work hard to keep the story as compelling as it is. The quips, the romance(s), the sibling bonds, all of it really are wonderful and i hope to be so talented as to produce something and enjoyable someday.

If i had to say anything about my dislikes of the book, i would say all the characters who did not make it deeply saddened me. As a reader who falls in love absolutely with great characters it seems like a personal loss when one of your favorites dies, but I am told dear other readers, that this situation may be remedied in a follow up novel to the nightshade series and so i will leave my dislikes at that.

My recommendation, as it was with Nightshade (sorry i haven't had a chance to review Wolfsbane) if you enjoy paranormal romance & youth adult fiction crack this series open, and you'll be done shortly!

[reads-a-lot]

I have never read anything by this author but you make the series sound very interesting. This is something
I may want to look into at a later date. Good work!

[senny_bebii]

I picked up this series right around when it came out. Bloodrose is my favourite book in the series. It just ties everything together and it made me tear up at the very end. I, myself, was not at all disappointed by Andrea Creamer's writing. I just loved everything about Bloodrose and the series as a whole.

[Books_are_Life]

Bloodrose was a huge disappointment to me. I loved the first two books but this one made me very angry. How the main female character had grown discussed me so much I rarely fell this strongly on the negative side on any book, but this one will make me stand up and scream at the top of my lungs.

In the love triangle she favor one over the other so unfairly because the one she favor turn out to be a jerk and the other was working on being a better person. The jerk said things to her that if my own boyfriend said anything like that we would be over just like that. The ending was so weird and heart breaking a wonderful character died and I ended up throwing the book (I have only done that before when Dobby...) and then everything just falls in to place. She made the ending be like everything is a-okay but when you have as much as she did going on everything is not fine and not final like how she wrote it.

I believe everyone should read the first two books then make up your own ending.