** spoiler alert ** 
 I would have given this book 5 stars, but there were some parts that were just SO BORING and it was rather frustrating. I am glad for a lot of the things the book offered though. I am SO happy that we got to meet dimitri's family, I'm actually happy about rose being a victim because I think some readers would have always been questioning Dimitri as a strigoi if it hadn't happened and it took her seeing the differences in him to prove that he WAS a different person, and even though the beggining of the book was kind of boring I think it wouldn't have been beliveable if she hadn't spent at least a couple of weeks in Russia before finding Dimitri...and seriously? We all know he's coming back to life by now because it's freaking DIMITRI and who could not want to save his soul? lol anyways this book was pretty awesome and I'm really happy Lissa and Rose are closer than ever because they need to be if they want to get over all of the traumatizing things that keep happening to them.