Spirit Bound by Richelle Mead

I finished reading Spirit Bound a few days ago. Spirit Bound is part of a series by Richelle Mead called 'The Vampire Academy'. The series follows a guardian in training Rosemary Hathaway and her best friend a Moroi named Vassilissa Dragamir. Guadrians are expected to train and when they completle their training and schooling at age eighteen, they are expected to become a guardian. A guardian's purpose is to protect the Moroi from attackers, the strogoi. Strogoi are full fledged vampires who hunt and suck people try of their blood. They are very fast, lethal and have red rimmed eyes. Moroi are also a type of vampire, only they dont kill or drain for blood. Moroi get their blood from feeders and take very small amounts. To become a strogoi you must take mass quantities of blood. Guardians are made up of Damphir's. Damphir's have one Moroi parent, who is usualy male and who they don't normally have any knowledge of, and one Damphir parent, who is usually the female. Damphir's cannot concievce with another Damphir, they are serile when together. Richelle Mead put alot of technical thought behind this series, which can be hard to follow at first but was brilliant on her part. Rose is what they consider a trouble maker. Everything she does seems to be a black mark in her record lessing her chance at becomming Lissa's guardian. There are so many obstacles in these book that both Rose and Lissa have to overcome and defeat. Spirit Bound has the most, by far, that both girls and their friends have to overcome. Rose being the bad ass guardian in waiting that she is, got the highest scores on the guardian trials that all damphirs have to pass before graduating, but the black mark of her attitude and behavior keep her futire up in the air. Running off with Lissa and breaking into Taracov, a very high security Moroi/Damphir prision and breaking out a known criminal just for information on something they consider impossible would land Rose in prision for high treason if anyone found out also doesn't help her future. The whole operation is kept hush hush for fear that someone would find out what they did. Busting out a criminal seems to be the last of her worries when the Queen is murdered and Rose is set up. Arrested for high treason of the murder of the Queen, Rose's Moroi father shows up and acts as her lawyer in order to save her. The only problem is that is where the book ends. Spirit Bound is an excelent book that kept me wanting more of the story. Unfortunatly for me and other readers who were just as into it as I was, the next book in the series doesn't get released until December 7th 2010. You can bet this book-a-holic will be online purchasing her copy of the ebook as soon as the book is released.