Holy crap, I love this series. Vampire Academy series only keeps getting better with each installment. There is a whole lot of angst and pain in this book. Though there's some degree of predictability with the storylines. It's pretty obvious what's happening to Lissa (though Lissa, Rose, Adrian, and Christian are thick-headed ignorant), and there's nothing more infuriating than having a painfully obvious answer that the protagonists are willingly oblivious to. But, for some reason, Richelle Mead's writing is so addictive, so expertly paced, that the predictability factor is insignificant. 
 And guess what? I'm firmly Team Adrian now! He's playboy and hopeless flirt yet kindhearted, he cares so much about Liss and Rose and I love him for that. And I'm deperately hoping Rose let Dimitri go so she with be with Adrian? Ha, so much for wishful thinking. 
 Nonetheless, I am so, so excited the read the next book in the series.