Blood Promise
core novel 2009 Vampire Academy / Bloodlines
Record
| First published | 2009 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.28 (77,320 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781595141989 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Synopsis
Blood Promise is the fourth Vampire Academy novel, opening after Dimitri Belikov, once Rose Hathaway's mentor and love, has been turned into a Strigoi and has fled the Academy for his childhood home in Russia. Rose and Dimitri had once promised each other that if either of them were turned, the other would end their life rather than let them exist as an undead predator, and Rose now sets out alone, without official backing, to find him and keep that promise. Her search takes her to Siberia and into unfamiliar territory, where she has only fragments of information to go on and must rely on local contacts to track him down. Torn between grief, love, and duty, Rose is forced to confront what she is actually prepared to do if she finds him, all while staying largely cut off from Lissa and her life at St. Vladimir's.
Where it sits
- Universe: Vampire Academy / Bloodlines
- Series: Vampire Academy core; position 4 of 6 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Richelle Mead
Notes
- From the series record (Vampire Academy): A YA series following Rose Hathaway, a half-vampire guardian, at a boarding school for vampires and their protectors.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Vampire Academy: position 4 of 6: previous Shadow Kiss (2008) · next Spirit Bound (2010)
- Internal chronology, within Vampire Academy / Bloodlines: position 7 of 12: previous The Indigo Spell (2013) · next The Fiery Heart (2014)
Sources
← Vampire Academy / Bloodlines dossier · All universes
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