Vampire Academy Boxed Set [Paperback]

 

 

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This series is about vampires but the author took a new approach. Rose is the main female character, she's a dhampir - half vampire half human. She's a tough gal with bad boy attitude with awesome humour and great comments. She'll be the first in battle, protecting everyone and fighting until last breath. Her best friend is Lissa who is a moroi - a vampire, and Lissa is royalty. After graduation, all dhampirs are given assignments to body guard moroi for the rest of their life and Rose of course hopes to be assigned to Lissa. However, strigoi are bad vampires who drink blood and kill for it. Strigoi are what dhampirs protect moroi from. The first book starts off with Rose and Lisa having ran away from St.Vladimir's school and live on their own, until they are caught by St.Vladimir's guards and are brought back. Since Rose is so behind in school training, she's assigned a private tutor, Dimitry. He is older than her by maybe 5 years, he's strong, smart, brave and good looking with a Russian accent. All of moroi have special ability, for example some can master fire and use it as a weapon.

The plot in each books gets better and deeper, and each book is like a whole different story on it's own. It just gets better and better. Rose is an amazing main character. Most of other vampire books - the main female characters are all the same. But Rose knows what she's doing, what she wants and has a great positive, strong attitude. Her comments are hilarious. Each character is so vividly described, you can picture each and every one of them. The mood is very well set and all the action is described perfectly. There is no sappy and touchie feelings in these books, there's no "your eyes are pretty and i would die for you" every other page. That's the main reason i like them - and this is due to Rose's tough character. She's not girly girly and the books are written from her point of view, so it's great to read about this kind of character. Also, you're spared from the theme of a human finding out that someone is a vampire - that's been done so much lately - these books focus on the world of vampires and there are no such surprises. The author also writes about vampires only - so no werewolves or witches or fairies or any of that other stuff - which is also great because it gets a bit too much when authors throw everything supernatural into 400 pages. There's good action, good dialogue, interesting characters, love, friendship and sacrifice. Everything is balanced out and in between there is no boring thoughts to read for 5 pages on what the main character is thinking.

If you want something different but with a vampire theme to it, then this series is a must read, especially for any Twilight fan out there. I read all the books and am planning to re-read them very soon. This box set however contains all the books except for the very last one that just came out. So either buy this and the last book or wait until everything is put together for you. This would make a great gift for any teen who enjoys supernatural themes and vampires. Although, the books are written much better than most teen books and young adults or even adults would also enjoy them. Get them, read them, you'll love them and everything about them!

The whole series was a page turner. The story between Rose and Dimitri was so electric. I loved it!!! The friendship between Rose and Lisa was also pretty special. Just the whole story was great. I'm sad to hear that this is the last story about Rose. I felt like there was at least a couple more books left for Rose and all to star in.

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