The Meeting (Vampire Academy, #1.1) by Richelle Mead

Final Rating: 3/5 Stars

Pages: 3

Edition: eBook

Time Read: 12.6.14 - 12.6.14

Summary:
"A scene from the first book of the Vampire Academy series, as told from Dimitri's point of view."

Review:

Richelle Mead had blessed all of the Vampire Academy lover’s souls when she wrote through Dimitri’s perspective.  She knew precisely what we wanted and so she gave it to us.

Unfortunately, she didn’t give it as well as I had hoped. What we got was absolutely tiny; 3 pages of the first time Dimitri saw Rose.  In those three pages it was very hard to get a feel for Dimitri’s personality.  That is the exact opposite of what we wanted.

On top of that, she didn’t even write the scene correctly. In the first book it specifically says a tall man (Dimitri’s size) sees Lissa and Rose while Lissa is feeding.  In Dimitri’s point of view, he doesn’t see Rose until she’s on the street.  So what’s going on? Is there another guardian the exact same size as Dimitri who saw them? Does Dimitri have short term memory loss? Or did Mead just not care while writing this?

It’s really hard to give this a full review because there’s just not much to it.  It’s an anecdote versus an entire story.  She can’t be blamed for that, as it really is just one scene from an entire book.

I had originally given this short story 4 stars, but once I got over the whole OMG Dimitri’s point of view I’m gonna die!!!, I saw this as a bit of a cop out. While it was nice to read from Dimitri I feel like she’s dangling the treat in front of us just out of reach with this story. In the end it teased but left me unsatisfied.