The good outweighed the bad and the storytelling, worldbuilding, and emotional rollercoaster that Cremer takes the reader on is what a good book is all about. And I have questions about the way other things happened… Bloodrose was such a roller coaster of emotions for me.

There is just so much that happens that I didn’t see coming and that I’m not sure WHY it had to happen. My anger and heartbreak comes with the end of the book (typical, right?). I also love a a few of the other relationships that develop throughout the story – which I won’t talk about so I won’t spoil it. Ansel and Bryn are two of my favorite characters and seeing them trying to work through things after all the hurt in Wolfsbane is interesting. I actually love the other relationships in Bloodrose more than the Calla/Shay/Ren thing. She’s determined to protect her remaining pack over everything else – something that a true alpha should be doing, right? – and the love triangle isn’t the prominent issue within the story. I hate love triangles and I hated how Calla handled it in book two – but in Bloodrose we get the old Calla back. The main love triangle between Calla, Shay, and Ren is still going strong – which I hate. I loved the adventure and the suspense that Cremer creates during these parts. These parts were by far my favorite parts of the book. Cremer does an amazing job of describing and each location the group goes to and each location is more dangerous than the one before. I love the adventures the characters have to go on to retrieve the rest of the sword for Shay so he can defeat the Keepers. I LOVE where Cremer took the story with the Searchers and the Keepers. This book is full of so many twists and turns and so much drama and love and hurt. Like I said in my review of Wolfsbane, I love Cremer’s world-building and story-telling. I have such mixed feelings that I’m going to try to put it into words without sounding completely ridiculous.Ĭremer goes into Bloodrose guns blazing – there is not a dull moment and from the start it is impossible to put down.

There was so much that I loved about it and so much that left me heartbroken and angry. I’ve been trying to review this book for over a month.

A dynamic end to this breathtaking trilogy. In the final installment of the Nightshade trilogy, New York Times bestselling author Andrea Cremer creates a novel with twists and turns that will keep you on the edge of your seat until its final pages. And then there’s deciding what to do when the war ends. There’s proving herself as the pack’s alpha, facing unnamable horrors, and ridding the world of the Keepers’ magic once and for all. There’s keeping Ansel safe, even if he’s been branded a traitor. There’s saving Ren, even if it incurs Shay’s wrath. But now that the final battle is upon her, there’s more at stake than fighting.

Bloodrose andrea cremer