Blood promise * Richelle Mead
***SPOILERS***
1 spoiler/phrase...!
La 4ème...
How far will Rose go to keep a promise?
The recent Strigoi attack at St Vladimir's Academy was the deadliest ever in the school's history, claiming the lives of many. Even worse, the Strigoi took some of their victims with them - including Dimitri. He'd rather die than be one of them, and now Rose must abandon her best friend, Lissa - the one she has sworn to protect no matter what - and keep the promise Dimitri begged her to make long ago. But with everything at stake, how can she possibly destroy the person she loves most?
Ma lecture...
J'aurais presque envie de mettre seulement des extraits dans ce billet pour vous signifier mon amour...Car une fois de plus, j'ai adoré ce tome!
Il se distingue nettement des trois premiers, avec un nouvel univers, de nombreux nouveaux personnages et de grands changements. Je l'ai trouvé très riche.
Rose a muri mais elle reste toujours celle qu'on aime, déterminée, courageuse, intrépide...Quant à Dimka, huhu....Quelles retrouvailles! (même avec ses yeux rouges, je l'aime toujours...Et Rose qui devient une blood whore avec un Strigoi...E-nor-me!!)
Adrian, lui, se révèle dans ce tome et je l'ai trouvé très touchant...(même si je devine déjà qu'il va en souffrir....)
J'ai trouvé intéressant le fait que Read utilise le lien qui unit Rose et Lissa pour nous faire suivre les aventures de Lissa à l'Acacemy. Cela permet de garder une continuité entre les deux personnages.
J'ai aimé le passage où Rose s'échappe du manoir de Galina, même si j'ai souvent du mal avec la VO dans les moments d'action et de combats....*mais finalement, peu importe de savoir de quelle main elle plante le pieu....tant qu'on comprend qu'elle le plante!*
"That's what I was supposed to say..." he gasped out.
Arrrgggghhh!!
J'ai aussi aimé les retrouvailles avec Lissa, et avec sa mère. Et j'ai beaucoup apprécié le personnage d'Abe au final (au début, je m'en méfiais....jusqu'à ce que je comprenne...^^). Il n'est pas tendre mais c'est sa manière de s'occuper de sa fille...
J'ai bien aimé le personnage de Sidney avec l'histoire sur les Alchimistes...(bonne nouvelle puisqu'il semblerait qu'elle représente un des personnages principaux du spin off...! cf le blog de VA)
Bref, vous l'aurez compris, je cherche encore ce qui me déplait dans cette série....^^
Et le petit mot de Dimka de la fin m'a tuée....J'appréhende les retrouvailles!
Extraits...
But I couldn't. I just needed a few more seconds to drink him before I killed him. And that's when he spoke.
"Roza." His voice had that same wonderful lowness, the same accent...it was all just colder. "You forgot my first lesson: Don't hesitate."
I just barely saw his fist striking out toward my head...and then I saw nothing at all.
See, here's the thing. In that moment before I let go, I really had been contemplating my death. I'd come to terms with it and accepted it. I also, however, had known Dimitri might do something exactly like this. He was just that fast and that good. That was why I was holding my stake in the hand that was dangling free.
I looked him in the eye. "I will always love you."
Then I plunged the stake into his chest.
Un joli souvenir...
"Unless you want to drag me back to the car, you're going to have to make an angel too."
Dimitri studied me for several heavy moments, and I thought he might actually haul me away. His face was still light and open, though, and his expression was filled with a fondness that made my heart race. Then, without warning, he flopped into the snow beside me, lying there quietly.
"Okay," I said when he did nothing more. "Now you have to move your arms and legs."
"I know how to make a snow angel."
"Then do it! Otherwise, you're more like a chalk outline at a police crime scene."
He laughed again, and the sound was rich and warm in the still air. Finally, after a little more coaxing on my part, he moved his arms and legs too, making an angel on his own. (...)
"Life's like that," he said. "As we grow and change, sometimes things we've experienced before take on new meaning. It'll happen for the rest of your life."
Vampire Academy, tome 4: Blood Promise de Richelle Mead 
Editions Penguin Books Ltd 2010
512 pages
8,63€