Last Sacrifice (Vampire Academy Series #6)

by Richelle Mead

Overview

“We’re suckers for it.” — Entertainment Weekly

The astonishing conclusion to the #1 international bestselling Vampire Academy series...

Murder. Love. Jealousy. And the ultimate sacrifice.

The Queen is dead and the Moroi world will never be the same. Now, with Rose awaiting wrongful execution and Lissa in a deadly struggle for the royal throne, the girls find themselves forced to rely upon enemies and to question those they thought they could trust. . . .

But what if true freedom means sacrificing the most important thing of all?

Each other.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781595144409
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	11/15/2011
Series:	Vampire Academy Series
Pages:	608
Sales rank:	77,614
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.60(d)
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

About the Author

Richelle Mead (www.vampireacademybooks.com) lives in Seattle and is the author of the international bestselling Vampire Academy series. When not writing, she can be found watching bad movies, inventing recipes, and buying far too many dresses.

Read an Excerpt

ONE

I DON'T LIKE CAGES.
TWO

AS ALWAYS, IT WAS DISORIENTING. Faces and skulls, translucent and luminescent, all hovered around me. They were drawn to me, swarming in a cloud as though they all desperately needed to say something. And really, they probably did. The ghosts that lingered in this world were restless, souls who had reasons that kept them from moving on. When Lissa had brought me back from the dead, I'd kept a connection to their world. It had taken a lot of work and self-control to learn to block out the phantoms that followed me. The magical wards that protected the Moroi Court actually kept most ghosts away from me, but this time, I wanted them here. Giving them that access, drawing them in . . . well, it was a dangerous thing.
THREE

WELL, NOT GONE EXACTLY.
FOUR

AND WHEN I SAY THEY blew up, I mean they blew up.
FIVE

GETTING AWAY FROM DIMITRI WASN'T just about our rocky romantic past. I'd meant it when I said I didn't want him getting in trouble because of me. If the guardians found me, my fate wouldn't be that much different from what I'd already been facing. But Dimitri? He'd been making baby steps toward acceptance. Sure, that was pretty much destroyed now, but his chance for a life wasn't over. If he didn't want to live at Court or with humans, he could go back to Siberia and return to his family. Out there in the middle of nowhere, he'd be hard to find. And with how close that community was, they'd go to a lot of trouble to hide him if someone ever did try to hunt him down. Staying with me was definitely the wrong option. I just needed to convince him.

(Continues…)

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Editorial Reviews

In this final volume in the original Vampire Academy series, Rose Hathaway has been locked up for the murder of Queen Tatiana, but she swears she’s innocent. With a sentence of execution hanging over her, Rose struggles to find a way to prove her innocence and at the same time carry out the last mission she received from the queen. Emily Shaffer uses accents for various characters, some of which are not consistently carried through. But she keeps the characters down to earth, even when they’re a bit otherworldly. Their interactions are lively, and their sense of adventure and instinct for survival are keenly evident. The pace moves quickly, and Shaffer’s sense of engagement never lags. J.E.M. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

APRIL 2011 - AudioFile