INDIGO SPELL by Richelle Mead

“I'll just love you whether you want me to or not.” 

In the aftermath of a forbidden moment that rocked Sydney to her core, she finds herself struggling to draw the line between her Alchemist teachings and what her heart is urging her to do. Then she meets alluring, rebellious Marcus Finch--a former Alchemist who escaped against all odds, and is now on the run. Marcus wants to teach Sydney the secrets he claims the Alchemists are hiding from her. But as he pushes her to rebel against the people who raised her, Sydney finds that breaking free is harder than she thought. There is an old and mysterious magic rooted deeply within her. And as she searches for an evil magic user targeting powerful young witches, she realizes that her only hope is to embrace her magical blood--or else she might be next.


Populated with new faces as well as familiar ones, the Bloodlines series explores all the friendship, romance, battles, and betrayals that made the #1 New York Times bestselling Vampire Academy series so addictive—this time in a part-vampire, part-human setting where the stakes are even higher and everyone’s out for blood.


Oh. That went well but not better than I was expecting.

Before I relay my thoughts about this installation of Bloodlines, It would be nice to say that Mead really did a great job in creating the structure of the book. The writing style was neat. I like that the pespective of the book was set in the first person point of view. The sequencing of events was also good. In fact, her writing style was very creative that it was easy to read her book.

The reason I didn't rate this book a perfect 5 star because the plot was not that thrilling and exciting for me, mostly anyway.

The thing that bothered me the most was the conflicts. It was too many namely: struggle of the forbidden love, the unraveling of the secret of the alchemist, the involvement of the warriors of the light to the alchemist, and the witches that yields magical powers. The thing is the fact that the conflicts are overwhelming that it made it hard which one is the priority or rather which weighs the moSt in Sydney's conquest to fight for what is right. There are also that other conflicts of Sydney's struggle for her own insecurities and her family life. It's just so many that all of them just don't give that much impact. It was as if that if one problem is solve it won't really matter because there is never atleast a second of peace in her life. Like there is no justification if she ever manage to get pass the problem because the book don't dwell much upon on the success it is always followed with another problem.

And another things is the book lacks the intensity of emotions it should harbor. It was too passive most of the time like when another intense scene was written it would not have any follow up that would intensify it. It would just flew by like nothing important just happen. That's what is missing the intensity! Mead is so good in writing but the emotions of the characters were not enough.

Anyway, the book is interesting enough but it didn't really stand out.