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 4.5 stars 
 **If you haven't read Nightshade and/or Wolfsbane, this review will be very spoilery for you!** 
 Bloodrose picks up right where Wolfsbane left off. Calla and Adne are going to find Ren and attempt to bring him to fight on their side with the Searchers. 
 The Searchers are ready to gain the last 3 pieces needed for the Elemental Cross, and then with the help of the Scion, win the war against the Keepers. This book is devoted to these things, as well as Calla's ultimate decision between Ren and Shay. 
 Everything comes to an explosive end in this final installment in the Nightshade series. Calla finally finds out whether or not all of the sacrifices made in the past & the ones yet to come will have all been worth it. 
 "I didn't know where love would lead me, but my pack would always be at my side. More than anything else, that was what mattered." 
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 I suppose the first thing I should say is that I did NOT rate this book on whether or not Calla chose the boy I preferred most. I was always a Ren-lover. I never liked Shay, and I prayed all through reading this that he would die so Calla could be with Ren. I won't give anything away (although all of the reviews I have seen pretty much already have), but you pretty much can assume from the beginning that one or the other is going to kick the bucket. Calla was torn straight down the middle as far as I could tell. I really didn't know how on Earth she would choose unless one of them went bye-bye. So - my rating is based on the book as a whole, and on how good I think it was as a finale - not on who Calla ended up with. 
 The only thing I hated (hence the .5 star I took away) is that the prologue wasn't from Calla's POV. That made me mad, but other than that - I was happy. 
 This book is packed full of everything I've loved from this series so far - passion, longing, wittiness, banter, intensity, action (LOTS of action), sacrifice, plot twists, surprises galore.. just everything. 
 One of the things that I most enjoyed was that Andrea took us all over the world, and to the craziest places - from the belly of a volcano, to diving beneath the ocean. I think the imagery was described to perfection. I was mesmerized by every word of this book. I felt the emotions Calla was feeling through their travels and adventures. 
 The love triangle was intense, but it didn't take up the entire novel. For me, Bloodrose had just the right mixture of romance and story. This book was an emotional roller coaster. People were hurt, died, saved - I went through a half a box of tissues during the second half of the book. Nooooo lie. I was in tears so many times. 
 There are surprises, and not all of them are good. There are things that you would never have expected to happen - and you are either going to LOVE this book, or you are going to HATE it. I just do not feel like there is a middle ground. Andrea took some insane risks with it, but I am definitely grouped in with the people who love this book. I was floored by it, and I think it was the almost perfect ending to the series. 
 "Love wasn't forged by circumstance or changed by sorrow. It simply was. Fierce and free as the wolf within me." 
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 Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)