Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead – review

‘I loved Vampire Academy – it was a humorous, kick–ass, action–packed novel’

Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead came out years and years ago in 2007 – I should have read it by now? Wrong: I have had this book since it came out and it has taken me eight years to finally read it! Two things happened – first of all, the amazing Hope Ortego (please check out her BookTube channel) read the series at the end of last year and recommended it to me, and second of all, I committed the bookish sin of watching the movie before reading the book. But thank goodness these things happened because I loved this book and it has become one of my favourite books this year!

Vampire Academy follows best friends Lissa Dragomir and Rose Hathaway, but they aren’t regular teenage girls. Instead, they are vampires. Unlike in regular vampire novels, however, I liked how Mead divided the types of Vampires into categories. We have the Moroi, who are pureblood vampires, mortal and wield magic, and the Dhampir, who are half Moroi and half human, and live their lives to protect the Moroi. Finally, we have the Strigoi, the bad vampires who are immortal, emotionless, evil and burn up in sunlight.

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