{"id":4565,"date":"2014-01-09T17:27:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T22:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=4565"},"modified":"2014-01-09T17:27:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T22:27:49","slug":"vampire-academy-by-richelle-mead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=4565","title":{"rendered":"Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Title: <\/strong>Vampire Academy<\/em>
\nAuthor: <\/strong>Richelle Mead<\/a>
\nPublisher: <\/strong>Razorbill<\/a>
\nSource: <\/strong>Columbus Metropolitan Library<\/p>\n

St. Vladimir\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Academy isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just any boarding school\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been on the run, but now they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re being dragged back to St. Vladimir\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe very place where they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re most in danger. . . .<\/p>\n

Rose and Lissa become enmeshed in forbidden romance, the Academy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ruthless social scene, and unspeakable nighttime rituals. But they must be careful lest the Strigoi\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fiercest and most dangerous vampires\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmake Lissa one of them forever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I hadn’t seen the movie trailer yet but saw on Richelle Mead’s blog the series was being made into a movie. I thought I would read it before it came out.<\/p>\n

I’m glad I did! I found myself telling my book club about it and it sounded quite silly talking about it out loud. You see, there are “good” vampires who are mortal and use their magic to improve life around them and there are “bad” vampires who are immortal. The bad ones, or Strigoi, are former humans who were turned by a vampire bite or a former good vampire (a Moiri) who killed someone while feeding. They are harmed by sunlight, have red-tinged eyes, and are evil. That’s the very basic thing you need to know about the vampires.<\/p>\n

Why wouldn’t they need to go to their own school? The vampire academy is in Montana and is where the Moiri learn how to use their magic. Other students include Dhampirs who are trained to be Guardians to the Moiri.<\/p>\n

As Moiri are mortal, their numbers are dwindling and the Strigoi numbers are increasing.<\/p>\n

Add teenage hormones, royal families, and the pressure is piled on for Lissa and Rose to figure out who keeps leaving dead animals and threatening notes for Lissa. I’m hooked and can’t stop reading the remainder of the book series. (I’m now on the last one.)<\/p>\n

The trailer for the movie seems to play up the snark. Hopefully I’ll enjoy the movie as much as the book series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Title: Vampire Academy Author: Richelle Mead Publisher: Razorbill Source: Columbus Metropolitan Library St. Vladimir\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Academy isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just any boarding school\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess.… Continue reading Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[705,706],"class_list":["post-4565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-richelle-mead","tag-vampire-academy","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4565"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4580,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions\/4580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}