In 2014 there was a movie adaptation from the director of Mean Girls. It also critically engages with feminist themes and mental health issues. Richelle Mead also respects her demographic, and doesn’t shy away from the fact that 17 year olds think about sex and have ways of getting alcohol. Despite that, Richelle Mead’s writing still has me glued to the page. I’m not the target demographic anymore and the fifteen or so years since I started reading this series has put a lot of distance between my perspective and Rose’s. Now that I’m almost 30 and have actually met 24-year-olds who are dating high schoolers, I’m a lot more like ಠ_ಠ. As a teenager reading this, I was like 😏nice. Her love interest is wildly inappropriate. Rose worries about running out of lipgloss and engages in gossip about which of her classmates are hooking up. This is a story about a teenager who does teenager stuff. Against the backdrop of political intrigue and life and death situations, this is a story of friendship and sacrifice as well as a steamy romance between Rose and her mentor, Dimitri. Rose Hathaway is the Dhampir protagonist who trains to be the bodyguard to her best friend Lissa, a Moroi princess. Lastly, there are Dhampir, who are the half-human bodyguards to the Moroi, more resilient than the Moroi but have better reflexes, vision, and resistance to disease when compared to humans.
Moroi are elegant tall magic vampires that sunburn easily, have their own royalty, and are being hunted down by the evil vampires. There are three kinds of vampires in this series: Strigoi are evil vampires that are afraid of the sun. Baby Eliza meeting Richelle Mead, author of Vampire Academy, at a book signing. So, here’s what you should know before you start reading or watching Vampire Academy. I still have a lot of nostalgia for the series, though, and recently started a re-read. If you’d have asked middle school me, both were my favorites at different times. I’m not interested in engaging in any ‘ Oh, this series is better than that one’ type narratives, because I don’t think I’d have picked up this series without its peer novels. Like much of the fanbase, we’d read and fangirled over Twilight, and then moved on to all of the other paranormal romance YA novels we could get our hands on. When I was fifteen, my best friend and I were obsessed with the book series Vampire Academy.
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