Dimitri is restored as a Dhampir and taken into custody. She fights her way over to him and is about to kill him when Christian encircles him in a ring of fire, effectively cutting all movement while Lissa stakes him. While they are occupied, Lissa and Christian are kidnapped by Dimitri as bait for Rose.ĭeciding to kill him for good and eliminate a threat to Lissa, Rose leads a group of guardians to his hiding place. They manage to escape and upon their arrival at court Eddie and Rose are punished for endangering the Moroi and sent to do physical labor. Robert tells them that the Spirit user must infuse a stake with Spirit and kill the Strigoi on its own, but escapes when they are attacked by Dimitri and other Strigoi. While not very pleased with Rose's continued endeavors to help Dimitri, he stays with them. They travel to Las Vegas, where Adrian tracks Rose's credit cards and follows them. Victor agrees to lead them to his brother, Robert, a reclusive spirit user who is rumored to have once returned a Strigoi to their original state. They successfully do so by disguising themselves as guardians bringing new feeders and relying heavily on Lissa's compulsion abilities. The teachers test her by having her trapped on a swinging bridge with Strigoi approaching on both sides, which she passes by cutting the bridge, then 'killing' the opponents on her end.Īfter Abe's network relayed a message from Victor Dashkov that there was nothing he could be bribed with while he was behind bars, Rose plots with Lissa and Eddie to break him out of his high-security vampire prison.

The final exams are set to start in a short time and she resolves to stay focused and pass them to the best of her abilities and hope it will be enough for her to get assigned to Lissa. The book starts off with Rose reading the last in a series of love letters/death threats from Dimitri. She believes that there may be one way to change him back, but she may have to put everything at risk to find out.

However, Dimitri has survived against all odds and now seeks Rose's death.

Vladimir's and has been reentered student life. Īfter a long and taxing journey to Dimitri's birthplace in Siberia, Rose Hathaway has finally returned to St.

Its release also pushed the Vampire Academy series into the #1 slot on the New York Times list for children's series. In its opening week, Spirit Bound debuted at #1 on The Wall Street Journal's hardcover fiction list and #1 on the USA Today bestseller list, which covers all books of all genres together in one list. Spirit Bound is the fifth book in the Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead.

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