Bloodrose by Andrea Cremer
If I don't like the ending, then I don't like the entire book. And that's exactly what happened here. This is YA. There were very specific things that were supposed to happen that didn't. No. The book started strong. We have adventure and chaos getting the three remaining pieces of the cross. We have some side characters die, but not like in the last book. We get confirmation that Monroe is really and truly dead and not coming back to life which is horrible. I hate the relationship between Adnie and Connor. That is NOT ok. And Andre Cremer is no ok for condoning that. I do like that even though Connor teased Silas, after the kid died he stepped up and started taking notes in the scribe's memory. The jaguar attack was gruesome but we didn't have time to get attached to any of the characters that died. The volcano was an interesting choice. Calla gets kidnapped after the jaguar attack, she sacrifices herself to a wraith to protect Adnie and ends up in her childhood home with her parents, but she knows something is wrong. Finally she gets a whiff of her mom and remembers that her mom is dead because the scent is wrong. That breaks the enchantment and she wakes all the way up. They leave her with her dad for him to get information, but instead she tells him what's been going on and he agrees to help. Then she is traded back to the Searchers in exchange for Logan and Sabine. Now, time for the battle. Calla and her group are supposed to get Shea to the mansion and not worry about the rest of the fighting. But then a maze pops up. Adnie banishes it before the wraith can attack them and they get to the mansion. Once there, Sabine is done playing the docile pet and she turns on her abuser and finally gets her revenge. Then Calla's dad and Ren's "dad" fight. Ren doesn't listen and he gets involved in the which when Steven gets impaled on a table leg. Ren's "dad" kills him. That was NOT how Ren was supposed to die. He was supposed to sacrifice himself so that Shea could have time to finish closing the door or defeating the Harbinger, not go down in the fight before the fight to the man who he spent years thinking was his father. Calla's dad, Steven, gets the table leg removed and kills Ren's dad, making him the only elder alpha left. Then Logan, who has been crying over his father's dead body (the man Sabine killed) calls the Harbinger and does some kind of incantation that forces him to shed his human skin for his real one so Shea can finally banish him. Then Shea's parents show up. Everything is all good, right? Wrong. Enter the Searchers. Bad news. The door the Harbinger is behind is only closed, not locked. So Shea has to lock it and when he does that everything the Keepers did will be undone, meaning the Guardians will return to their natural state. As wolves. So Ansel, who had his wolf stripped from him will now be stuck as a human with no family. Sabine is like, you said you won't make a Guardian because it would mean killing a wolf, but what it one was freely offered? She had a horrible life as a wolf and doesn't want to go back so she gives her wolf to Ansel and lives as a human. Nobody knows what's going to happen to Shea since he was turned into a wolf. He puts the swords on the wall, creating a lock that only he can open and the wolves become wolves permanently. And so does he. Calla and Shea lead her small pack. Steven, her dad, leads the remains of the Bane and Nightshade packs. Sabine lives as a human with Ethan. The end. This ending was so stupid and I was so frustrated. I will not be reading anything else from this author.
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