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Frostbite (Vampire Academy, Book 2) (Bk. 2) | 
 enlarge | Author: Richelle Mead
Publisher: Razorbill
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  45 reviews
Sales Rank: 1002
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 1595141758
EAN: 9781595141750
ASIN: 1595141758
Publication Date: April 10, 2008
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Rose loves Dimitri, Dimitri might love Tasha, and Mason would die to be with Rose... It's winter break at St. Vladimir's, but Rose is feeling anything but festive. A massive Strigoi attack has put the school on high alert, and now the Academy's crawling with Guardians--including Rose's hard-hitting mother, Janine Hathaway. And if handto- hand combat with her mom wasn't bad enough, Rose's tutor Dimitri has his eye on someone else, her friend Mason's got a huge crush on her, and Rose keeps getting stuck in Lissa's head while she's making out with her boyfriend, Christian! The Strigoi are closing in, and the Academy's not taking any risks....This year, St. Vlad's annual holiday ski trip is mandatory. But the glittering winter landscape and the posh Idaho resort only create the illusion of safety. When three friends run away in an offensive move against the deadly Strigoi, Rose must join forces with Christian to rescue them. But heroism rarely comes without a price...
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fighting love January 3, 2009
fighting love in this book can be found in many situations. rose is ifghting her love for dimitri by hanging around mason. dimitri fights his love for "roza" by hanging with tasha. after fighting strigoi and losing a friend they relize there is no fightibg true love.
It Really Was Great!! January 2, 2009
I bought this book when it came out because I had read the first one in the series. I liked the first one but didnt really love it,so I said since I already did read the first,lets try Frost Bite. I was so sure it was going to be boring that I did not read it for months till part 3 came out. Well, let me say how I wasted month's, because the book was amazing and just full of surprise all the way through. Omg the end was so sad and touching it really made me cry( something I never do!)but their I was crying like a baby. By the time I finished this book I knew that I would be reading every book to come out in this series. The author is very talented and will not let us down. So for anyone in the position I was in, thinking should I continue with the series or not after the first....Yes do take the risk and you will not regret it. If I could give it more star's I really would.
 I'm Not a Big Fan of Vampire Books, But... December 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm not a huge vampire-book person (I've never had a taste for Rice, and I though the Twilight novels were horrid), but Mead really is something special. More important to her style than the vampire fantasy is the mystery-and-suspense aspect. The fantasy is just a tool, but I can't imagine that a lover of fantasy wouldn't love this, too.
The problem, though, is that Rose and Dimitri's relationship doesn't seem strong enough to survive a test, though it does. It takes away, I think, a lot from Mead's (otherwise masterful) character realism.
Mead is still witty and her series is still fun.
Amazing!!!! November 12, 2008
This book was seriously amazing. It had everything to make it a truly well rounded story. I have read many many vampire books, and this is one series that really stands out from the many.
Best Vampire Book Ever November 1, 2008
The Vampire Academy Series by Richelle Mead is the best vampire story ever written. It goes beyond our generic acceptence of straight-edged good and evil vampires and delivers a powerful story of romance, jealously and all the teenage angst we crave.
We meet Rosemarie Hathaway (Rose) and Vasilisa Dragomir (Lissa) in the first of this brilliant series in Vampire Academy. Rose is tough, strong-headed and so loyal to her best friend that she would die for her. Lissa is sweet, caring and content to follow her best friend to the end of the world. They are complete opposites yet they compliment each other in every aspect. Mead was able to create these dynamic characters and has sustained their original attributes through two exceptionally brilliant novels.
Rose and Lissa had run away from school because of Lissa's secrets, but they were found by the handsome, Russian, Guardian Dimitri Belikov. Taking them back to St Vladimirs turns out to be surprise after surprise for the two girls as they come to have new enemies they never had before and falling in love with boys they probably shouldn't have.
Love interest flairs up between Rose and Dimitri, Rose's new mentor (he is seven years older than Rose). As they battle with their emotions, Lissa is kidnapped by unlikely foe who puts them all in more danger than they realise.
Racing against time to find Lissa, using Rose's uncanny bond with Lissa, they manage to find the cabin that she is being stowed away in. But she isn't there. Rose realising this, runs into the forest after her with Christian, Lissa's unusual love interest.
Facing more battles than they realised, and forming bonds even stronger than that of Rose and Lissa's we are left craving more.
Which is where Frostbite comes in.
After a huge strigoi attack on the Badica family, it puts all Moroi and Dhamphir alike, in fear. Annoyed with Dimitri's way of treating her, Rose's long-absent mother turns up at the school, angering her even further.
Though and unlikely source of excitement runs through the school; an exspensive ski lodge has offered all Moroi families to come stay the christmas with them. Though even a challenge with Mason on the slopes can't take away the anger and resentment she feels toward Dimitri, his new love interest, Christian and most of all her mother.
The climax of the story begins when Mason, Mia (who's mother had been killed by the Strigoi attacks) and Eddie head out in search of the Strigoi that they so want to kill. Rose realising this, heads out in search for them, with Christian tagging along.
Finding them in the mall where the Strigoi have supposedly set up camp, Rose becomes the mother figure to them and starts to drag them home until they get lost. Though they don't have time to be afraid because they are attacked by Human's with guns. Even Rose's extensive training with Dimitri can't prepare her for what is in store for her and her friends for the next few days.
I found that the ending to Frostbite was one of my favourite endings I have ever read. Mead weaved intricately so many emotions into her final climax that you will be left pondering the ending for many days to come.
Richelle Mead is a brilliant writer and her work on the Vampire Academy series exceeds all other vampire novels. You'll left having to read them over and over again until she brings us the next installment to this thrilling saga.
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