Vampire Academy (Book #1) by Ricelle Mead
Only the truest of best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies....
Lissa Dragomir is the Moroi princess, an mortal vampire with a rare gift for harassing the skills of earth magic. She must be protected at all cost hours a day from the Strigoi - the fiercest of the vampire race, the ones who never die. With the powerful blend of human and vampire blood that flows through the veins of Rose Hathaway, Lissa's best friend and makes her a dhampir. Rose's life is dedicated to the perilous and dangerous life of protecting Lissa from the Strigo, who have a hel bent mission to make Lissa one of them.
However after two year of freedom for Lissa and Rose, the have been caught and forcefully dragged back to St Valdimirs Academy. This academy is a vampire school for royalty and their guardian to be. The academy is hidden in the deepest forests fin Montana and is protected by a magical force field. Inside the iron gates which should be a sanctuary for all however life is fraught with danger and this means that the Strigoi are always close by.
Rose and Lissa must navigate this dangerous world, by confronting the temptations of forbidden love while not letting their guard down. And all this has to be done with the evil undead who want to make Lissa one of them forever.
Anything with a vampire sucks me in and i devour the books with this subject. It has a different take on vampire life by looking at half-breeds and the immortal vampires are the enemies in this world. I enjoyed the way this was written however i did find that i kept wanting a bit of the back story for the previous 2 years. It reads like a distant cousin of Vampire Diaries and i love that about it. It also has the injection of romance for the two leading characters, which helps build the story and lead into the rest of the books in series. I will definitely be adding the rest of the series to my TBR list.
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