Vampire Academy: A Diamond in the Rough

[m_pendulum]

There are so many books that I have reviewed that I didn't care for or find mediocre at best. So I happy to finally be talking about a book series that I hold in high esteem. That is the Vampire Academy Series by Richelle Mead.

Comments

[elofan80]

This is proff that you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover(The covers look so cliche to me); after I'm done with the Sookie stackhouse books, I try these ones out.

[m_pendulum]

Yeah the covers are awful :(

[x_the_duck]

I started Vampire Academy, and so far I must admit I am impressed. Like, really impressed.

By the way, have you read any of the Sookie Stakhouse novels yet?

[lanna_lovely]

I concur with pretty much everything you said (although, I haven't read the fourth book yet - own it, but my TBR pile is massive).

But... it's being made into a movie. Well, the rights have been sold at least, maybe it'll fall through and never happen but if it does, it would be a nightmare if it turned into another Twilight (crappy movie that becomes popular to the point where it just becomes annoying).

Have you read The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins?

[thebloodfiend]

Yeah Blood Promise was where the series dropped for me as well. I do like the conflict between the Dhamphires wondering if they are slaves or not. But I have to be Team Adrian, Dmitri doesn't do it for me. As for plotting I do like the way she builds tension.

[m_pendulum]

I'm the exact opposite I am Team Dimitri because I realized in Spirit Bound that Rose and Ade don't click that way for me

[thebloodfiend]

I haven't read Spirit Bound yet, only the first few pages that Richelle Mead put on her website. But I guess I'm just weird because for a while in Frostbite I was shipping Christian and Rose together.

[devinemuse]

I kind of went off the new teen-vampire books atm. It's not that I think they're all bad, I'm just not as much of as vampire junkie as I used to be (guess Twilight helped with that).

It does seem interesting though, maybe I will pick it up at one point.

How is it doing series wise? (I know books sometimes tend to turn bad when it becomes a long series)

[m_pendulum]

I think I mentioned it in the blog, but the books are good, but the 4th one was a little poor compared to the others.