Richelle Mead - Vamprie Academy

So I'm back and I can't be bothered to write my essay anymore.

Ooh Tom Dice - Me and My Guitar from Eurovision just came on, such a beautiful song.

Anyway, I decided I'd talk about the Vampire Academy series because I just finished the 6th book, I know you're probably thinking "Oh another vampire series" but fear not this series is pretty good.

Vampire academy is set around Rose Hathaway and her best friend Vasilisa (more commonly known as Lissa) Dragomir. Rose is a Dhampir, meaning she is half Moroi (I'll get to that in a minute) and half human/Dhampir, a Dhampirs father is a vampire and their mother is either another Dhampir or a human. Now a Moroi is a name for a type of vampire. They need to survive on the blood of humans but they can still eat normal food. Moroi use Dhampirs as their body guards as while they both go to Academies, Dhampirs have combat training while Moroi have more academic lessons.

Moroi have to have bodyguards because the other type of vampire, Strigoi, feed off of them. This is because to turn Strigoi they have fed on another Moroi and drained them completely or a Moroi has exchanged blood with another Strigoi. Moroi blood sustains Strigoi more but they can still feed from humans.

Now back to the story. The book starts with Rose in Lissa's dream about her brother. When they come out of the dream they are talking about how long it had been since Lissa had fed. After giving Lissa some blood Rose looks out of the window and see's a man watching her. Rose then makes the judgement that it is no longer safe for them to remain where they are. They try to make it to a "borrowed" car but the man is not alone and they start to catch up to them so the girls start to run.

A man cuts off their path and Rose obviously steps into a defensive position to protect Lissa, after she has noticed how "hot" the man is. When he gets to close Rose attacks him but he blocks her manoeuvres. Lissa tells her not to fight anymore and the man, Dimitri Belikov, says that he will take them back to the academy.

The rest of the book is spent at the academy where Rose is put back into training and Lissa is put back into her lessons. However not everything at the academy is perfect as someone is trying to get to Lissa by leaving dead animals in her bed. This makes her unstable.

When they reached the academy Dimitri was set as Rose's instructor to catch her up on the two years of training she has missed. Gradually their relationship grows from hate to respect to love.

I'm not going to reveal any more about the book because that would defeat the point of reading the book. You'll have to read it for yourself and tell me what you think of it.

Next time I will write about Richelle Mead's second book in the series, Frostbite.