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This is the first book that Richelle Mead has written that takes place I guess three years after Lissa takes the throne and we realized that Jill is her sister. Anyways this book is after something that happens to Jill at the Moroi Court and she has to be taken into hiding which is where Sydney comes in along with an evil Alchemist by the name of Kevin and some other people. Sydney if we remember was homeschooled and isn't really known for being very social friendly which is why she takes to living at a boarding school in California very different than her own home life.
Sydney takes her job as an alchemist pretty carefully but also she is trying to live a normal life at the school with her 'siblings' while also trying not to seem to friendly with Jill and Eddie in case Kevin tells their superior's and she is shipped away while her younger sister is put in instead. This book is a really good book since I mean yeah it isn't in Rose's prespictive which is all we had in the last series but this one is in Sydney's view. Which in the last series I always wondered, after we were introduced to Sydney, with what made that girl tick and with why she is like she is. I, at least, got some of those answers just in the first book.
I mean this book is a start to a really great series of six books much like the Vampire Academy series. Though I am curious with why Sydney's blood is soo different than that of a normal Alchemist blood? Guess I shall find out in the next book once I get done with some other books first!
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Reading updates
- Started reading
- 6 February, 2015: Finished reading
- 6 February, 2015: Reviewed