Sydney Sage is an Alchemist, one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of humans and vampires. Alchemists protect vampire secrets - and human lives.
Sydney would love to go to college, but instead, she's been sent into hiding at a posh boarding school in Palm Springs, California - tasked with protecting Moroi princess Jill Dragomir from assassins who want to throw the Moroi court into civil war. Formorly in disgrace, Sydney is now praised for her loyalty and obedience, and held up as the model of an exemplary Alchemist.
But the closer she grows to Jill, Eddie, and especially Adrian, the more she finds herself questioning her age-old Alchemist beliefs, her idea of family, and her sense of what it means to truly belong. Her world becomes even more complicated when magical experiments show Sydney may hold the key to prevent becoming Strigoi - the fiercest vampires, the ones who don't die. But it's her fear of being just that - special, magical, powerful - that scares her more than anything. Equally daunting is her new romance with Braydon, a cute, brainy guy who seems to be her match in every way. Yet, as perfect as he seems, Sydney finds herself being drawn to someone else - someone forbidden to her.
When a shocking secret threatens to tear the vampire world apart, Sydney's loyalties are suddenly tested more than ever before. She wonders how she's supposed to strike a balance between the principles and dogmas she's been taught, and what her instincts are now telling her.
Should she trust the Alchemists - or her heart?
My Rating: 3.5/5
This is the second book in the Bloodlines series which is a spin-off from one of my all time favourite series Vampire Academy.
This book was better than the first because it had so much more plot development and it helped that Dimitri was present throughout.
I'm still struggling to warm up to Sydney. I find her rather uptight and she feels a lot older than what she is supposed to be.
There was a lot of emphasis on romance in this book which I have mixed feelings about. One the one hand I loved that these yielded a lot of humerous moments but I also found some of this especially between Sydney and Brayden rather boring.
I really enjoyed the development of Sydney and Adrian's relationship and it was good to see Adrian starting to act like himself again rather than moping after Rose. I also found Sydney less annoying when she was in presence of Adrian.
Overall, I really liked the direction this book took and I am looking forward to getting so many answers to my many questions in the rest of the series.
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