Spirit Bound

A Vampire Academy Novel

By: Richelle Mead

Narrated by: Emily Shaffer

Dimitri gave Rose the ultimate choice. But she chose wrong...

After a long and heartbreaking journey to Dimitri's birthplace in Siberia, Rose Hathaway has finally returned to St. Vladimir's-and to her best friend, Lissa. It is nearly graduation, and the girls can't wait for their real lives beyond the Academy's iron gates to begin. But Rose's heart still aches for Dimitri, and she knows he's out there, somewhere.

She failed to kill him when she had the chance. And now her worst fears are about to come true. Dimitri has tasted her blood, and now he is hunting her. And this time he won't rest until Rose joins him... forever.

Amazing Book. Please bring back Khristine Hvam!

This story is great. This series gets better with each book. After the first book, this really ceased to be a YA series to me. I would recommend this to any Urban Fantasy lover. It is one of the better series. Those who don’t like the teen (or chick lit) genre will perhaps trudge through the first 1-2 books (though I certainly loved them) but by Book 3 this book becomes great Urban Fantasy. Though I loath to compare this series to Twilight or Harry Potter, since they couldn’t be more different, I think is much the same in this one regard – it is more YA for the first 1-3 books, and broader appeal in later, when the characters become central combatants of more world shattering dangers.

I really really wish they would bring the old narrator back. She was Rose. It’s very disjointing to have this new voice, whose personality is cooler, and whose face and figure - everything - just looks totally different to me.

Emily Shaffer is talented; my grudge is only that I want them to bring back one of my favorite narrators of all time, Khristine Hvam, who totally nailed the flippant and fiery tone of the main character. Indeed, the humor isn’t really there anymore – its written, it just doesn’t really come across as all that funny.

Maybe Emily can read for the Storm Born series? I hate that narrator - she sounds like a 50 year-old chain smoker who wears coke bottle glasses and has frizzy hair, not a young, hot athletic bad-$$ with red hair and catlike violet eyes. That choice of narrators I just don't get. But I digress.

I have to say it could be worse. They could have changed to a bad narrator, like Cassandra Norris, who seems to inherit all successful YA urban fantasy audio book franchises, and make them totally unbearable.

Great series

In less than a month I have gone through the entire Vampire Academy Series and Bloodlines. I love the storyline and now that I am on the last book....I am not looking forward to it ending, I really hope more books are added to the series!

I also loved the narration and was unable to stop listening

great book good storyline

the narrater is yelling . and sommetider is annoring me so much that i didn't wanted to finish the book

Great books

I read the first few books and just had to listen to the rest of the series. So good.

I LOVE these series!!

They are so well written and have a little bit of everything; excitement, love, thrill, action!! I didn't like Emily Shaffer as the narrator at first, but she really is good and her voices and accents take the narration to the next level. I don't hate the music in the background, but it's also not my favorite. Feel like they are trying really hard, the book is good on its own and doesn't need all the effects.