Life is hard when your parents don't teach you any survival skills, and especially hard when you are a vampire princess. Ana Parker's distinct lack of knowledge of anything vampire makes for fun reading in Tate Hallaway's third installment of the Vampire Princess series, "Almost Everything." Ana Parker, raised by her witch mother to loathe vampires, finds herself endowed with vampiric rather than magical abilities. Having had no education in things undead, she finds herself adrift when negotiating with the Southern Region vampire king and mistakenly offers up her former fiance and vampire, Elias, to prevent a war. Her interference in vampire affairs has also created a situation in which her Father's tribe is starving to death, going crazy.RulesOn the plus side of ignoranceShe doesn't follow the rules.surprises along the way...the supernatural hero types love Ana but have never taken her on a proper date. Elias, who is most constrained by rules of vampire culture is, in some ways, the most open minded in terms of gender roles, and contract work-arounds. This is the last book in this series. It starts out with Elias still living in Ana's basement. One morning a prince, who is like Ana, comes to town. He says they are on the brink of war because Ana let his captain’s betrothed out of her agreement. And that someone must be offered to keep the two regions at peace. Ana makes a joke saying that all that she has to offer is Elias, and of course the prince thinks it a fine deal. She has to find a way to correct this, or at the very least make it OK. Almost Everything is really focused on "The Hunt," and finding a way to have her vampires’ hunger to be able to be satisfied without a witch having to die. We also learn more about her vampire heritage and how things really apply to her. I also think Ana’s character has grown so much in this book and I am happy to see the choices she makes. There is a lot of boy drama in this one. She now has a total of 3 boys vying for her love: Nikolai, Thompson aka Matthew & Elias. The story however is not focused on this, although she does choose who she wants to be with. The vampires of her and her father’s region are slowly going mad with hunger since Ana has called off the hunt in the previous books. Her father is to the point where he is maddened with hunger. This is also affecting Ana and Elias as well. It is becoming a big problem and some of the witches are in the mindset of "let them all starve to death and be rid of them." So, Ana and Nikolai come up with a plan to help with "the hunt” She finds a way that she thinks will enable the vampires to satisfy their hunger without a witch dying. This book does not disappoint with the amount of action and intrigue. The story only takes place in a matter of days, and yet so much happens. As we all know, most series end. I truly felt the author did a wonderful job ending Ana's story. I really didn’t feel like screaming "I need more, I need more." I was also quite surprised and pleased at how everything, other than love interests, resolved. The only thing in the entire book that bothered me is really who Ana ends up with. I think I didn't like who she chose to be with and was really expecting it to be different. This is the reason I gave it 4.5 stars. I guess the author left it vague for a reason. Ana is more than likely going to end up living for hundreds of years, so a lot can be left to the imagination. So that’s something. This a wonderful ending to the series with all loose ends tied up nicely. No feeling at all like something was left unanswered. Enjoy!
What do You think about Almost Everything (2012)?
This is absolutely one of my top favorite trilogies. Great ending and character progression!
—Bella
i no longer find the story and the characters engaging enough.
—Grace
