OK, so it's been a while, well maybe more than a while. I just couldn't find the time to hop back on here and write a review. It's not that I didn't read anything great, I did, but between vacations, my house getting flooded, work getting flooded and the holidays there really just is no time. So that being said, on to the review. So I read Bloodrose, the final book in the Nightshade trilogy, and it was....well it was ok. Now don't get me wrong I LOVED the first two they were great I read them right after each other and couldn't wait to get my hands on this one just to see who Calla would pick in the end, but that's my issue with the book, the ending.
The book is packed with action, it literally picks up right where Nightshade leaves off, with Calla and Adne going off the get Ren, who by the way just happens to be Adne's brother. So anyway, they get Ren and bring him back to the Academy. Sidenote: Andrea Cremer could honestly do a series about the Academy, sorta like Vampire Academy or Strange Angels. Back to the review, So they ome up with this plan to get the rest of the pieces of the Elemental Cross so Shay as the Scion can defeat Bosque, close the Rift and bring harmony back to the world. So the wolves and the Searchers spend the next 200 pages or so going to exotic locations encountering a wee bit of an obstacle, but ultimately retrieving what they went in for.
So on to the big showdown, it was really action packed, but there were a few problems I had with it. One was the fact that, SPOILER ALERT, Ren was killed off they spent the whole trilogy pitting Shay against Ren and even though the reader knows that Calla was going to pick Shay, it still felt like a copout that Ren was killed off. It was like "Oh, She needs to pick between 2 boys, but wait one dies soooooo she doesn't really need to pick". The other big issue I had was the whole closing of the Rift. Of course the good guys win and all that jazz, buuuut why do the wolves have to be turned into wolves at the end, shouldn't they like be rewarded for helping by allowing for them to continue to be "abominations", just because the don't "jive" with nature and all that crap, but news flash a lot of things shouldn't exist, but they do and besides this is a fantasy world, so what Adne just gets to keep "weaving" doors but Calla can't be a shifter totally not cool. This is why in my mind the books ends differently. In my mind Ren doesn't die, but instead stays on with Adne and the Searches since obviously Calla picks Shay, Ansel gets his wolf back so he can stop being a whiny little baby, and they rest of the pack get to stay as shifters and continue being cool wolf people and everyone lives happily ever after while searching for Logan, who somehow got away during the final fight. The End.
I don't care if that's not how it really ends that is how I want it to end, not as the main group of characters ending up as wolves, that't dumb, dislike. So anyway that is my rant about the end, loved the book and series up until that point, so go pick up a copy on Jan. 3 and if you are like me and think that the end was dumb, just recreate and a refuse to aknowledge that "other" ending.
Happy Reading
