I'm skipping ahead and not reviewing the previous books. I just finished this book up tonight and have read this series back to back over the past week. 
 I really want to like Rose. I almost always like Lissa, I really like Christian, I love Adrian, I try to like Dimitri but just can't, and Rose, she annoys me. 
 She's surrounded with people that love her and would do anything for her and yet she doesn't trust any of them. After everything that she has been through with these people she doesn't trust them with information as frivilous as that she loves Dimitri. I mean, how can someone be your best friend when you can't even tell them who you love? It's not believable. Anyone that went through as much as she has with her circle of friends should be more giving with those people. Rose isn't. 
 She's frustrating. Annoying. Too brash. Too insensitive. I don't like her. 
 I do love the story, so it's not hard to look over my dislike for Rose, and I have seen Rose grow as a person (and Mead grow as a writer) throughout the story.