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Today’s the last day to post your reviews of the Vampire Academy series as part of the Re-Read Challenge (if you want to win prizes). Remember, if you review all five books you’re in for the big prize pack. If you review just one, you’re still up to win a copy of Last Sacrifice. Two reminders: 1. You must fill out the participant form to be up for prizes. 2. You must link to your reviews from the... 
Blood Promise (Vampire Academy #4) Richelle Mead Published: 2009 (Razorbill) Purchase at: Book Depository or Amazon Rating (out of 5): 5 stars **While we tried to avoid specific spoilers for this particular book, events of the prior novels are referenced freely. ** I’ve said many times that Blood Promise is my favorite Vampire Academy novel. It’s actually in my favorite books altogether. I know many other... 
Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy #3) Richelle Mead Published: 2008 (Razorbill) Purchase at: Book Depository or Amazon Rating (out of 5): 5 stars **While we tried to avoid specific spoilers for this particular book, events of the prior novels are referenced freely. ** Each Vampire Academy novel advances in tone and depth as the characters age. In terms of time, only six months has passed from the beginning of... 
Frostbite (Vampire Academy #2) Richelle Mead Published: 2008 (Razorbill) Purchase at: Book Depository or Amazon Rating (out of 5): 4 stars If you read this blog with any regularity, you know I love the complicated, kind of alpha bad boys (Terrible, Rhys, Prince Ash, Mal). So, it’s a little surprising that the first time I read Frostbite, I found Adrian’s cocky, entitled attitude less than appealing. Oh,... 
Join us this coming Wednesday, Nov. 3, to talk about Richelle Mead’s series opener Vampire Academy (a.k.a. the October group read). We know most of you re-read the book as part of our challenge, so we’ll talk about the new things you took away this time through, Rose and Lissa’s friendship, Moroi royalty and, of course, lust spells and Dimitri. If you’re game to join us, we’ll be holding the Vampire... 
With so many readers participating in the Vampire Academy series re-read challenge, we’ve been talking about Richelle Mead’s young adult series more than usual. Yesterday, we chatted with a few of you on Twitter about favorite lines from the series and the like, but we were surprised when more than one person said they aren’t looking forward to re-reading Blood Promise, the fourth book. This was crazy, as... 
Today we discovered a great video on the Amazon page for the final Vampire Academy installment Last Sacrifice. Looks as though our friends at Amazon got two of our favorite authors — Richelle Mead and Charlaine Harris — together to talk new books. Mead gives us a couple little bits about Last Sacrifice, including promises to tie up all the story lines but no word on how she’ll resolve the... 
Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy #1) Richelle Mead Published: 2007 Purchase at: Book Depository or Amazon Rating (out of 5): 4 stars The first time I read Richelle Mead’s Vampire Academy, I devoured it and immediately leaped into the second book Frostbite. But I wasn’t so sure about the book when I started it. The first 40 pages felt clunky and a bit confusing, but once past them the visuals exploded and...
Early on in the first Vampire Academy book we learn about the different types of vampires in the VA world. First we have the moroi, who are the living vampires. They don’t kill to feed, but do drink human blood to survive. Moroi are slender and very pale. Think model-like with boyish figures. Also, these living vampires can wield elemental magic. Then we have the dhampirs, who are half vampire, half... 
