Had to get a few things off my chest
I've been relistening to the Vampire Academy/Bloodlines series and while I still do like Rose to some extent. I really think she screwed up in the books and some parts of her make her unlikeable.
When I first listened to the series for the first time I loved her and her relationship with Dimitri and I still do like them. I think where Rose pisses me off is in the way she treats her friends/Adrian.
When Adrian was first introduced, I didn't like him, as I felt he was just there to create drama between Romitri.
But I grew to like him just when he wasn't around Rose as I hated the way she treated him, especially at the end of Shadow Kiss when she sweet talked him into giving her money. Though I don't agree he should have given her the ultimatum, that was bad form on his part.
Also at the end of Blood Promise, Rose should never have pursued a relationship with Adrian. She told him to write a proposal of why she should date him, she hadn't said yes yet. Then she finds out she can possibly bring Dimitri back from being a strigoi and that he was in fact alive. I think she should have told Adrian flat out then and there about what happened rather than half being his girlfriend and half trying to find ways to save Dimitri. It's not fair of her to lead him on into actually think he had a shot with her while trying to resurrect her true love back from the undead. As Ron Swanson would say 'Never half ass two things, whole ass one thing'
I don't know I just hated her selfish attitude towards him and the fact that she told him that she would still want things to work even if Dimitri was around. But then when he finally does come back, her whole being seems to revolve around being with Dimitri and getting him to love her. Getting jealous of the fact that he was with Lissa.
'I still felt a lingering attraction for him, yes, but that didn’t change the fact that he had hurt me in breaking things off between us. He had rejected me'
He was the one to break things off not her, she couldn't mean when he was turned strigoi so it must be when he said he didn't love her anymore.
It should have been Rose that broke things off with him because she had a steady boyfriend that she promised to keep around once Dimitri returned. I'd Dimitri was all about getting back together straight away, she would've dropped Adrian. Also she really should have left Dimitri alone, he was traumitized after his ordeal and wasn't the right state to talk to her, yet she kept pushing him.
Then she finally cheated on Adrian, I'm not saying she shouldn't have got back together with Dimitri as we all knew it was heading there, but couldn't they have kept it in their pants till she officially broke things with Adrian. It was actually Dimitri that had to remind her that she had a boyfriend when she was all ready to jump his bones. And also the fact that she didn't want to tell Adrian that she had just slept with Dimitri because she might need his help.
Adrian had to find out that she was cheating by seeing it with his own eyes and after then she never sought him out to break things off properly, he was the one who had to come to her for the 'talk' and she had the audacity to turn it all around him using some twisted Rose logic. Can we appericiate how much Adrian's life sucked at the end of LS, his great aunt was dead, his mother incancerated and his girlfriend was cheating on him.
I'm glad he found love again with Sydney and I am a MAJOR Sydrian fan, I think the fact I prefer Sydrian to Rose/ Adrian was that it was a slow burn romance where they started off as friends first. I didn't get the connection between Rose/Adrian mostly because it was just him flirting and her putting him down. I couldn't properly ship them when they were together because it felt to one sided.
I love Sydrian because they are both flawed people who as Sydney says 'Bring out the best in each other' you could feel their connection before they were even a couple and it wasn't mindless flirting. They learnt about each other's insecurities and fears, had real deep conversations that we never saw between Rose/Adrian. Also I also like the fact that once they were together, they never broke up. There wasn't any other third party and thank god there wasn't any love triangle. I'm not including Brayden as they weren't together then.
I'm just so pleased that after the Rose debacle, Adrian found someone that truly deserves him and knows him despite his flaws.
