So chapter one of the book is usually always your introduction. With spin off series it's usually an introduction along with a brief summary of the story it is spinning off of.
Bloodlines is no different except for the fact all your recap is in the story itself. There is no prologue or 'in the previous story...'
As promised Richelle Mead has started with Sydney Sage's story. Our lovely, ex-vampire hating Alchemist. Yes an Alchemist in this story is still one that messes around with science to bring about magical things.
This particular Alchemist however is the one that disobeyed all teachings and helped our awesome dhampir Rose Hathaway escape from Moroi prison and prove her innocence. That action got Sydney, well for lack of a better term right now, sidelined from all duties.
Now, the Alchemists need Sydney's assistance. Lissa's illegitimate sister Jill Mastrano is in danger. The Moroi have this pesky little rule that in order to be Queen you have to have at least one family member alive. Stupid rule but hey if it works for them who's to argue? However it puts Lissa in a precarious spot because Jill is the only family that Lissa has left alive and just the year before found out about her sister when the people voted her Queen.
Sydney, in chapter one, has to convince her superiors (her father included) that she and not her younger sister Zoe is up for the task. It's when she finds out what the task is that she starts getting cold feet.
Sydney and Jill are to be roommates at Amberwood Prep, and that's not the best part. She has to liaison with Keith Darnell with whom she is mortal enemies with. The reason why comes a bit later in the book, for now you only know that there is a secret between the two of them that makes them hate each other with a fiery passion.
For a first chapter, Richelle Mead sets the mood to intriguing right off the bat.
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