Last Sacrifice, by Richelle Mead

The final instalment of the Vampire Academy mostly manages to avoid a sense of anti-climax, despite being somewhat predictable. Richelle Mead writes with great pace and style, which helps in overlooking some of the plot stretches. It also helps that this franchise is infinitely superior in every way to the execrable Twilight series and most of its proliferation of vampire/werewolf successors. It does share the Twilight addiction to soul mates at the expense of common sense, but it manages to achieve a satisfying conclusion without jumping the shark. There are enough intriguing small threads left untied to beg the question – is this really the end of the saga? Only time will tell, but a continuation of the story would not be unwelcome.