** spoiler alert ** Honestly, I hoped for a comeback. I wished the disappointment Shadow Kiss gave me would disappear after reading this book. Unfortunately, that's not what happened.

This is really wrong of me to say--and it's so, so, so unfair that I ended up feeling this way--but in this book, I just despised Dimitri. It's because he's a Strigoi, presumably, but it's wrong. His image is now tainted, and not in a good way. I hate it. Perhaps it would have been better if Rose really just killed Dimitri.

And another unfair thing? Adrian. I really, really like Adrian now. And I know he'd actually do a better job in keeping Rose all right than Dimitri as a Strigoi. Considering Rose's feelings, it's hard to forget Dimitri. But he's changed, he's not the same, and he's not coming back. I wanted to smack and smack and smack Rose for hurting Adrian's feelings countless of times. And despite Adrian's kindness and patience, she still can't see it. It's so annoying.

Speaking of Dimitri coming back, I really don't wish for that to happen. It's wrong, it's twisted... It shouldn't be possible. And despite how much I liked Dimitri--the real, alive one--I'd rather have him dead now. He did too many horrible things.

Finally, I have to say that this book is too dragged out. There was nothing much--the events could have been summed up in about eight to ten chapters. Period. There's too many immoral--excuse my wordings here--scenes, and it's plain idiotic. I felt like Richelle Mead was making it up by putting on many sexy scenes instead of getting on with the story.

But even though I've complained a lot, I'm still going to read the next one, and somehow, I still kind of like the series. I just hope it gets better. Really better, because Richelle Mead has to make up for a lot of stupid and unfair happenings.