Pages: 608 pages

Publication Date: December 7th 2010 by Razorbill

ISBN: 1595143068 (ISBN13: 9781595143068)

They come first.

My vision was growing dimmer, the blackness and ghosts closing in. I swore it was like I could hear Robert whispering in my ear: The world of the dead won't give you up a second time. Just before the light completely vanished, I saw Dimitri's face join Lissa's. I wanted to smile. I decided then that if the two people I loved most were safe, I could leave this world.

The dead could finally have me.

Rose Hathaway has always played by her own rules. She broke the law when she ran away from St. Vladimir's Academy with her best friend and last surviving Dragomir princess, Lissa. She broke the law when she fell in love with her gorgeous, off-limits instructor, Dimitri. And she dared to defy Queen Tatiana, leader of the Moroi world, risking her life and reputation to protect generations of dhampir guardians to come.

Now the law has finally caught up with Rose - for a crime she didn't even commit. She's in prison for the highest offense imaginable: the assassination of a monarch. She'll need help from both Dimitri and Adrian to find the one living person who can stall her execution and force the Moroi elite to acknowledge a shocking new candidate for the royal throne: Vasilisa Dragomir.

But the clock on Rose's life is running out. Rose knows in her heart the world of the dead wants her back...and this time she is truly out of second chances. The big question is, when your whole life is about saving others, who will save you?

Join Rose, Dimitri, Adrian, and Lissa in Last Sacrifice, the epic, unforgettable finale to Richelle Mead's international #1 bestselling Vampire Academy series.

Now, What I Thought: 

This has been a great ride!!! What a crazy ending to this amazing world of Vampire Academy. I couldn't tell you how much I was actually dreading reading this book, I didn't want the whole series to end! I needed more Rose and Dimitri, and also... sexy Adrian!! The conclusion to this wonderful series did not disappoint, and I was quite glad at how they left things. Of course some things were left unanswered but luckily for us Richelle Mead is an angel and has written a spin off series, but more on that later!!!

As a theme with the series, Rose's p.o.v was hilarious, witty, sarcastic and just humorous in general. We can now say we know where she gets it from considering her father, Abe Mazur is one hell of a funny guy. I loved Lissa's journey to the crown, and through the tests she found the last one, most challenging,

""What must a queen possess in order to truly rule her people?"... And just like that, Lissa suddenly knew the answer. "Nothing," she said softly, "A queen must possess nothing to rule because she has to give everything she has to her people. Even her life.""

DAMN, idk about you guys but when I read that, I got chills all over. It's crazy to see how grown and mature Lissa is, she truly would make a great queen. I liked how Mead incorporated a murder mystery in here, like that was pretty clever! I love that little aspect of the book, and when we got to find out who did it, dun dun dun very unexpected. We see a lot of characters in this book, too many to keep up with almost. We are reunited with the trio of sorts, Victor, Robert, and Sonya. Also Sydney! Cant forget about our favourite alchemist. Of course, Dimitri and Rose are now side by side, yet not really as they were before. Since, Dimitri is pretty ashamed with himself about how he treated Rose when he was a Strigoi, he needed space from her, and instead, turned to Lissa and her friendship. Lets just say, Rose wasn't too happy with that, and neither was I!! A real downer was Rose and Adrian, I mean poor Adrian didn't deserve half the stuff done to him and he basically got shit on when Dimitri turned back into a Dhampir. 

This book was fast-paced, the ending was great and we even got a little twist at the end at court with Rose and a certain evil someone. Now, usually I would fill this section up about how much I'm going to miss this series and world and blah blah blah. BUUTTTTTTTT like I said earlier, there is a spinoff series thank the lord. It's called Bloodlines, and it follows the young alchemist Sydney, that we happen to already know from Blood Promises. It was so interesting reading another p.o.v of this world! And yes, you do get re-connected with everyone and I mean EVERYONE!! YAY!! like multiple appearances each book :) SO that made me pretty happy haha.

Anyways, this was a great conclusion to The Vampire Academy Series and I cant wait to re-enter the world in Bloodlines.