The Golden Lily (Bloodlines, #2)

by Richelle Mead

[tellemonstar]

Full review here
The Golden Lily was pretty interesting as well. There was a lot more information about the history of the alchemists in this one, and on a whole I enjoyed it more than the first one, which was not a bad book anyway.

Sydney is starting to learn that not everything the Alchemists have taught her, or tell her during her enquiries is quite truthful. Or, perhaps not as complete as it should be.

We learn more about the Strigoi in this books as well, especially from Sonya, who allowed herself to be turned into one at one stage in her life, which she regretted deeply. The research into whether or not a so-called ‘saved’ Moroi can be changed back into a Strigoi was an interesting sub-plot to the novel as well.

I don’t especially like the Alchemists. As I said in my review of Bloodlines, they are more like a cult than anything else. But the Warriors that we meet in this book are about 100 times worse. Even the Alchemists don’t really like to admit that these guys came from their original group.

Some interesting things are revealed about some of our favourites in The Golden Lily. Adrian is learning to be mostly responsible, Jill is learning she has to grow up faster than her human friends will have to, Eddie is learning a little bit of tolerance towards Angeline and Sydney is learning that she doesn’t need to be so reserved and uptight to still do her job correctly.

I will be looking forward to reading The Indigo Spell.