Name: Bloodlines the Indigo Spell Bloodlines
Rating: 4.399581589958159 (239 reviews)

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                Bloodlines

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. They protect vampire secrets - and human lives.

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.

Bloodlines #3

The Indigo Spell

Briar's Reviews

The Indigo Spell by Richelle Mead in a great addition in the Vampire Academy universe.

Typically, when an author breaks off from the original series and creates a prequel/sequel series it's not very good - Richelle Mead is one of the few authors that has created a hit. She stands alongside JK Rowling with Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts, Cassandra Clare with TMI and TID and many other greats. 

Bloodlines became my guilty pleasure when it came out. After striking gold with Vampire Academy and having me hooked there, of course Richelle had to create a story centered around everybody's boyfriend - Adrian Ivashkov. With Adrian and Sydney leading this series, we have two strong, able leads who always keep things interesting.

Our leads grow a lot within this book - this appears to be the book mainly for character development. There is still an epic plot, with fast paced action and over the top drama, but the main part of this book that kept me interested was how the characters were changing and growing. Richelle always seems to have one book in her series that has a strong sense of character development, and it always ends up being one of the better books in the series.

This book does lack a lot of the friendly side characters we grew to love, but don't worry! They appear in later books!! This book's main focus is Adrian and Sydney. There are a few new characters introduced to make up for that empty space - and that includes a little witchcraft! While I didn't enjoy these characters as much as our typical brood (Angeline, Eddie, Jill, etc) they were still a nice edition to the story.

Overall, this supernatural story is a definite recommended read from me! Start from the beginning (Bloodlines) or the VERY VERY beginning (Vampire Academy) if you want some great reads to fill your time. They definitely are worth it! Keep in mind these are YA novels - so there is lots of young adult love and drama, and of course this book has vampires. Not your typical vampires, but still...vampires. There was a trend a few years back, if you can't remember. Vampires were "the thing".

Five out of five stars.

Annabella

I have no cohernce right now... Sydriaaan.

Marissa Luzio 

This book was hot hot hot! The connection between Sydney and Adrian is just inevitable. I do feel for Sydney though, she has to go against all of her instincts that have been drilled into her head since childhood. Besides the romance in this book, we get a lot of action! Sydney finally finds the infamous Marcus Finch who managed to escape the Alchemists and do something spectacular to his tattoo. I liked that we got to learn a lot about the golden lily tattoo's in this novel and their history, Mead really focused on the implications if the tattoo was to used on you. It's almost like brainwash in a way and I have a suspicious feeling that is what is going to happen to Sydney's sister, Zoe. 

This book really is just about the struggle Sydney has mentally about whether to follow her instinct, that may be wrong, or her heart. The problem is that she has so much other crap to deal with, her newfound magic, protecting Jill, dealing with Angeline, and especially the lies that the Alchemists have been telling her. She doesn't know who to trust expect the Moroi, whom she had been brainwashed into not trusting... basically it's a huge mess in Sydney's life and she's close to exploding. I honestly wouldn't blame her if she did. 

The big 'bad' in this book is some person tracking and killing young witches across the US. So, of course Sydney and Adrian go on little, adorable trips to all of these places to figure out who and why this is happening. Unfortunately, they do lose some witches but the culprit is revealed and Sydney finds herself fighting to the death with them. It's an amazing scene and an amazing way to end the book. I still have so many questions that need to be answered but I guess I can wait till the next book :(. 

This was a pretty good novel and it seems to be going in the same direction as Vampire Academy, which is nice because that series was awesome! 

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Sophie Hutchings

I couldn't put this book down. Damn, it was great. Richelle's writing is infectious, you just can't stop reading and it just keeps better with every book. 

Gosh the characters in this book. I love them. Sydney is really turning it to an amazing character, I love love love how she has grown. I cannot wait to read book number 4!!!! I wish someone would make VA a tv show so BL can become a spinoff show as well!!!! great book!

Courtney ✿ @librarycutie

There is only one word to summarize this. SYDRIAN. Meaning that they (mainly Sydney) has come to see that she loves Adrian, and wants to be with him, being the vampire he is. She's rebelling against her kind- the alchemist because they've lied to her multiple times. I got a tad frustrated at Sydney when her and Adrian would kiss and yet she would deny her feelings, I understand why, if they were caught then he would be dragged to re-education for sure.

Then, her sister, Zoe, came and I kind of got mad. With Zoe around, how will SYDRIAN be together and have romantic moments and bicker and talk and be SYDRIAN!

What I also loved was that Sydney and Adrian are the parents of a magical creature, a Callistana (aka: a demon creature) which I picture to be really cute. They name him Hopper, best rabbit ever!!

If you don't ship Sydrian, I'm judging you…

With that being said, I'm going to start The Fiery Heart tomorrow!

Ella Zegarra

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Me encanta Richelle Mead, es una de esas escritoras que con tan solo la mención de su nombre sabes que tendrás un buen libro.

Uno de los puntos fuertes de este libro es Adrian Ivashkov, ese sexy Moroi que nos conquistó desde Vampire Academy, tanto así que muchos querían desplazar y matar al co-protagonista de Rose para que nuestro talentoso pintor se quede con ella. Incluso ahora los Team Dimitri y Team Adrian, son fandoms con los que no te quieres meter.

Dejando mi lado FanGirl y Team Adrian (también soy Team Dimitri, tengo para los dos), el libro me gustó. Si bien...

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Amy Grieve

How can I even find the words to describe my feelings? It would probably involve a lot of exclamation marks and bold lettering but thank God that I took five minutes to compose my feelings. 

Firstly, Sydrian. THE FEELS! To me these two are literally perfection. I cannot find fault with them in any way, shape or form. I love the way that Richelle mead has developed their relationship and from everything I've seen so far if they don't end up together happily ever after it will be a travesty. Plus the ending...

Secondly, Eddie and Jill. They needed to be to be together like yesterday. They both have deep feelings for one another and personally I think that they both deserve something good in their lives.

Thirdly, Sydney is so kick ass. Everything she does is pretty much perfection but something tells me that with the Zoe issues things may become harder to deal with. Especially with the whole loving Adrian/using forbidden situation. Somehow she'll pull it off. I think that simply because she is Sydney Sage.

Jessica Williamson

That ending! 

Great plot this time around. The only negative thing is there was very little of Jill and Eddie in this one but I suppose seeing Rose, Demitri, Lissa, and Christian was a fair trade. 

#teamadrian this is your book.

laura

Indigo Spell: Spolier Review This book was so good and it became much less predictable hence the five stars that i gave it. I am really loving the relationship between sydney and adriana and I can't wait to see where it goes in the future books. I love how complex this relationship is and also why it not easy for these characters to been in these relationships. I love high stakes relationships it makes the drama and and the love even more intense.
 
I also love the side stories with Jill and Eddie. I love them being so not aware of the others feelings and again it is slow profession but one that I am really enjoying. I think eddie is still one of my favorite characters in this series by far.
 
I thought this book really bought the drama and had some great fight scenes and also a lot of stuff that really struck the core that was sydney. I love how she is being challenged from all sides especially when magic is concerned. 
 
That is one of the parts of this book that I love her learning of magic and how good she is at it even if she hates it. It is very similar to her feeling for adrian in some ways.
 
I think the series really focus on her trying to find herself in so many ways that is the heart and soul of this story and I love it. I can't wait to see how her sisters presence my effect the future books!

damla

I actually loved this book until the very last part and.That seemed a bit forced to me.Also I don't know why but the whole "Sydney realizing she loved Adrien this whole time" felt a bit off.But nonetheless I loved the book,I love Sydney Sage and I can't wait to read the next book.Though knowing me that's probably gonna take a while.

Elke

I am (still) so in love with this series! They are just amazing!

The Adrian and Sydney scenes where so good, I totally fell in love with them again and again. 

I want an Adrian so badly too...

Andrea Ayala

I loooved this book. I really liked Sydney and her attitude and how things are turning out. oh Adrian I just love you, he was so great and cares so much abou Sydney *sigh* I want the next book asap, love the story.

Andreea Coșarcă

Cat Nunez 

Sin duda está saga no me defrauda, tiene de todo y aunque habían veces que me daban ganas de pegarle a Sydney, sé que la decisión que tomó fue la mejor de todas (view spoiler)[ Fue hermoso que decidiera quedarse con Adrian y no ir a Mexico con Marcus, siempre supe que ellos dos tenían que quedar juntos, además de que Adrian es perfectoo♥  (hide spoiler)]

Me gusto que mezclaran la magia con Sydney, siendo que ella en un primer momento no creía en eso, pero eso la ayudo a ver las cosas de distinta manera y descubrir que algunas veces se tenían que hacer cosas que uno no está acostumbrado a hacer. Siento que Sydney a crecido mucho a través de toda la saga, ya no es esa mujer que le tenía miedo a algunas cosas (view spoiler)[ la magia y los vampiros sobre todo  (hide spoiler)] y ahora la podemos ver como una mujer más madura y dispuesta a hacer lo que sea para ayudar a los que ama (view spoiler)[ que en un principio no eran los mismos que ahora, ya que los alquimistas le están demostrando que no son lo que ella creía  (hide spoiler)], pero en fin, sin duda me gusta mucho más esta Sydney que la anterior :)

Otra cosa que no puedo dejar de mencionar, ADRIAN, el le da toda la perfección a el libro, amo como es, su personalidad, como es con Sydney y como hace todo lo posible para salirse con la suya (view spoiler)[ principalmente logrando que Sydney se quedará con él♥  (hide spoiler)]. Amo su personaje y como también cambia a través de los libros, cosa que es más que entusiasmante de ver en él.

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