“See you in the cemetery.”

58. Blood Promise – Richelle Mead

Blood! Beasts! At least two parts of the Drive-In are well represented in this fourth book in the Vampire Academy series. There is some holding back on the breasts part of the Drive-In, this is a teenager book and not an 80s film…but there is much allusion. Anyway, let’s go to Siberia! It’s not as cold as you think apparently. Downer. Rose is hunting down Dmitri and finds much more than she bargained for in several ways. There are people who don’t take the “rules” of vampire society as seriously as she was led to believe. There are also parts she didn’t even know about, like the alchemists who clean up after all those filthy creatures of the night are slain by, according to Sydney the Alchemist, all those other filthy creatures of the night. I liked Sydney. I usually like difficult people, they have some standards.

In Blood Promise, Rose also has to face the worst of what can happen to her as a lady dhampir – the trashiest of potential futures according to her- and loses her pride quite a bit while wearing a sweater dress and also getting plied by shiny jewelry. Chicks, man. It can be so easy to distract them while they’re trapped in a penthouse suite instead of a penitentiary.

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At least we didn’t have to read about Rose and Dmitri watching movies like in that ridiculously unedited Derek the vampire series, that would have been SOOO boring- Horace provides an important perspective.