I love Richelle Mead’s young adult works. I started reading Vampire Academy at it’s inception, following the story to Bloodlines. I knew she had written novels for adults, too, and had wanted to check them out. So I cracked it open and dove in.
Vampires, and vampires, and more vampires
I’m now halfway through the Vampire Academy series with Book 3: Shadow Kiss (2008) by Richelle Mead, and I’m hooked. I have to find out what happens, I have to finish this series, and it’s likely going to happen soon. Well, pretty soon. I’ve got some other books to read, too. These books aren’t great literary masterpieces, but they’re fun and entertaining. Even though this last book dragged a bit in the middle, it’s still easy, engaging reading. Mead has created a world where there […]
Vampires, Half Vampires, and Evil Vampires, oh my
Frostbite (2008) by Richelle Mead is the second book in the Vampire Academy series. Wikipedia describes the books as “an American best-selling series of six young-adult paranormal romance novels.” Paranormal is not my usual go-to genre, but now it’s captured my interest and I’m planning on finishing the series. Rose Hathaway is a high school student at a preppy boarding school in Montana, but she also happens to live in a world with three different kinds of vampires. Moroi are pure vampires: they drink blood […]
Well, Rose is no Bella
I read Vampire Academy (2007) by Richelle Mead after hearing about it from some Cannonballers and thinking that it sounded like a fun read. And for the most part it was quick and entertaining. Sure, it sometimes made me feel old. I thought that Rose was sometimes a bad role model, acting like a “mean girl” without remorse, but on the whole I enjoyed it. There’s a lot of teen vampire books out there, and in this one Mead switches things up by creating three […]