Frostbite by Richelle Mead

Product details;

Publisher: Razorbill.

Paperback, 336 pages.

Publication date: April 10th 2008.

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Ages: 13+

Source: Bought it myself.

Summary of the book:

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 hand-to-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...

My review:

So I really hesitant to start this series to begin with, and I know this is the second book before anyone starts saying anything, I read the first one in this series quite a few months ago and I don't really see the point in doing a huge review on it because I cannot remember it 100%. 

So back to the review, to start of with I was pretty excited to start this one after reading the first one, although like I said I didn't want to read the series much because I had watched the trailer for the film and it looked really lame, but my friend persisted and told me I should read it and I'm glad I did. 

So it starts pretty much a day or so after the incident from the last book, so Rose has to go and do the test that she missed while she was on the run with Lissa and when her and Dimitri get to the hut in the forsest something is off with the situation and when he leaves the car to go and investigate of course Rose goes and follows, and it comes to light that the moroi that lived there and the dhampirs are all dead and one of them is a well known guardian who is known as "unbeatable" (not anymore, ha, lame joke) this being the  guardian who was going to test Rose. 

So this leaves Rose pretty shaken up as well as the rest of the moroi because they now realise that the strigoi are getting more daring and are attacking them now. It comes to the schools knowledge that they will be going away for Christmas on a ski trip to a place that is going to keep them protected and safe from the strigoi. Before they leave Roses's mother turns up at the school, it also looks as though she is coming with her at the ski resort. Also Christians aunt has turned up, Tasha who is all kinds of beautiful except for a nasty scar that is on her face that was left by an attack of Christian's parents. Christmas Day comes around and her mother gives her a beautiful present and also a bit of gossip that Tasha had asked Dimitri to leave with her and become her guardian, it also comed to her attention that she wants a baby and that she has her sights on Dimitri to be the father. Which of course makes Rose extremely jealous and she makes a relationship with Mason. 

So they go to the ski resort, Rose meets a mysterious guy who can visit her in her dreams and is attracted to her, then Mia, Mason and Eddie sneak out in search of the strigoi after another attack happened. Once Rose finds out she goes in search of them with Christian and when finding them thmey get kidnapped and are held hostage for a week before they break free and are then attacked, during the attack Mason is killed RIP and Rose kills her first 2 strigoi. Once back at the academy she has her two tattoos to show that she killed them and her and Dimitri meet to do their training where he tells her that he turned Tasha down and they share an intimate kiss, then it ends.

There's a lot more backstory but that's the main gist, so let me just say this, I adored this book and I was so happy that Dimitri turned her down, but I was also heartbroken that Mason died, I really wanted him to live so they could be best friends, and just be the best of friends. Lissa wasn't as much a main character as she was in the last one which was okay with me because I found her character to be whiny and it annoyed me. Blood whore was mentioned in this one a lot from when they were kidnapped and they tempted Rose to be bit, and she sort of craved it. I'm so in love with this series at the moment, and I'm pretty excited to read the next. The story is gripping and a lot of the time is has you wanting to pick it up all the time. There are moments in when it's slow and you're waiting for something exciting to happen but it's worth the read, also can I just say that I am so excited that Adrian is going to be in the next one, especially since he is also a spirit user and I want to see his and Lissa's relationship develop in a none romantic way of course seeing as I ship her with Christian, but you catch my drift. I also can't wait for Rose and Dimitri to start developing more of a relationship, coz as she said at the end of the last one they still have six months, so I hope it grows more. So all in all I would recommend this series for definite. I feel like there was a lot that happened in this book in such a short amount of pages, which is always good so - but I don't want to give too much away, although I think I already have gave away the biggest spoilers, oh well - not a spoiler free blog everyone! So you will have to read the book for yourself.