The Golden Lily (Bloodlines, #2) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Oct 09, 2016 Andrea (mrsaubergine) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Adrian! That ending! Holy cow!

It's been ages since I read the first Bloodlines book, so it took me a while to get back into the characters and remember what had happened, but once I had, I raced through this book and enjoyed it so much more than the first. Sydney is infuriating and stuffy, but she's thawing a lot, especially with the help of the dishy Adrian, who's long been one of my favourites in this world. I enjoyed the storyline with the vampire hunters, but it's the soap-operalike teen ro ...more

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Jan 05, 2012 Chelsea rated it really liked it

Shelves: vampires, uf-pnr, ya, magic

This review was originally posted at Vampire Book Club.

Richelle Mead lays some beautiful groundwork in The Golden Lily that left me dying to read the next novel in her Bloodlines series. Big changes are coming for Sydney and we start to see her change and evolve in The Golden Lily.

Sydney now is the head Alchemist in the Palm Springs area, which means she doesn’t have someone nearby watching her. Her superiors are impressed by the way she’s able to keep a professional relationship with the Moroi This review was originally posted at Vampire Book Club.

Richelle Mead lays some beautiful groundwork in The Golden Lily that left me dying to read the next novel in her Bloodlines series. Big changes are coming for Sydney and we start to see her change and evolve in The Golden Lily.

Sydney now is the head Alchemist in the Palm Springs area, which means she doesn’t have someone nearby watching her. Her superiors are impressed by the way she’s able to keep a professional relationship with the Moroi vampires she must work with. They impress upon her the importance of seeing them as unnatural, evil things nonetheless. It’s important to work with them to keep the evil Strigoi at bay, but she isn’t to be friends with them. And that’s the problem. She now cares about them.

Adrian, particularly. She still avoids touching the other vampires, but when it comes to Adrian, she sees him as a person. She’s starting to see the others as caring, innocent people — not blood drinkers. And this conflict — trying to remember not to question the teachings of the Alchemists — is what makes Sydney’s journey interesting. She beginning to question her beliefs and that can be agonizing.

Plus, everyone pushes her to date. There’s a very smart boy who is an on-paper good match for her. They have a nice time, but kissing him doesn’t evoke fireworks.

The mystery element in The Golden Lily isn’t as strong as in other Richelle Mead novels, but Sydney and Adrian’s character growth makes up for it. I love that Mead has made it so that I don’t care about Dmitri from the Vampire Academy series being on page as much as I want to see what Adrian is doing or feeling. She’s given him the depth we all knew was there, and someone to really inspire him.

While it wasn’t a single-sitting read, like many of her other novels are, I still really enjoyed The Golden Lily and based on the hints dropped in this book, I am eager to get my hands on book three The Indigo Spell.

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Aug 14, 2011 Stephanie (Reading is Better With Cupcakes) rated it liked it

Shelves: scifi-fantasy, paranormal, young-adult, fiction, romance, read-2013

Well. This book wasn't bad, but it wasn't as great as I had wanted it to be. I found it as little lacking compared to the other books in the VA world.

I did like getting to know all the characters better. Though I really hope Sydney's fear of sugar is much more down played in the next book. I got really sick of reading about how she thought she was fat at a size 4. Yes, I understand why it was there, but I think its use was beaten to death with a stick.

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May 19, 2012 Kristy Manning rated it really liked it

I love the bloodlines. I always loved Adrian. I just get impatient really easily and it took two books before any hint of a romance happened. Yet still i'm so excited for the third one, i just wish something will actually happen Adrian and Sydney! ...more

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May 26, 2012 Tiffany rated it it was amazing

OMG! what an awesome book!!! it was even better than Bloodlines, which I also loved! but that ending!!!!! wooooow! HUGE!!!!!! can not wait for TIS!!!!

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