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Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

39 reviews

simba524's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Mental illness, Self harm, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Car accident, Animal cruelty, Death, Bullying, and Kidnapping

Minor: Chronic illness, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

madeleineelr's review

mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, and Self harm

Moderate: Bullying, Car accident, Death, Mental illness, and Sexism

Minor: Addiction and Suicide attempt

beaudoindani17's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This rating is reflective of how much I enjoyed this book when I originally read it, however I recognize a lot of the issues this book has now, and probably wouldn't rate it as highly anymore, despite really enjoying all rereads. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Self harm, Violence, Bullying, Body shaming, Classism, Mental illness, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Blood, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Sexual content, Death of parent, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Car accident, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Chronic illness

nienora's review against another edition

funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

3,5⭐
It's better than I expected. At moments it's so ridiculous it's actually funny. I'm pretty invested in Rose/Dimitri drama. Training scenes and one pushing against the wall and I'm hooked, I'm a simple girl. Of course there'll be some dumb love triangle (or two) later on.

Rose is your classic popular girl. She's bitchy, mean and jealous of everything and everyone around Lissa. You can't convince me that Rose doesn't have at least a tiny crush on Lissa. There's a lot of homoerotic subtext, and yes, maybe it's just because she drank her blood and that's always hot.
I can't decide if I like Rose or she annoys me. On the plus side her inner voice is actually fun. Jokes are on a level of 12 year old trying to make dick jokes, but I'd be lying if I said I haven't laughed more than few times.
Only reason Rose goes into Lissa's head is because YA genre never heard of writing in 3rd person. Not to mention it's definitely invasion of privacy but she does it 'to check on Lissa' so that makes it okay, somehow.

Dimitri has one character trait and that's duty, duty, duty. And occasionally ogles Rose's hair. I liked how they dealt with consequences of lust spell. It's so much better than it just being brushed off like nothing happened.
The villian has motivation. I'm impressed. I can actually understand him, and yes his methods are wrong, but he had a point.

REREAD
After finishing whole series, I've decided I love Rose and she can do no wrong. I had even more fun second time around. Just hearing Dimitri say "Roza" in russian accent on audio deserves five stars.
I love amount of 'foreshadowing' here.

Especially, blood whores. Might be my favourite moment in the series. And great character development on that subject.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm

Moderate: Mental illness and Car accident

readwithzoe_'s review against another edition

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Medical content, Mental illness, and Self harm

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Terminal illness, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Death, and Car accident

Minor: Murder

balter's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny lighthearted fast-paced

0.75

This is probably the worst book I’ve ever read. From slut shaming to pedophilia this book has it all. The characters are mostly unlikable and one-dimensional and the dialogue is cringe-y at best. The main character/narrator is funny, at least, so it gets a portion of a point for that. I read the entire thing waiting for the book to start making sense and it never did, I do not recommend this book at all.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Biphobia, Bullying, Car accident, Death of parent, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, and Sexism

amndaj's review against another edition

adventurous funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Self harm, Death of parent, Mental illness, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, and Car accident

Minor: Sexual harassment and Chronic illness

aimeethom05's review

adventurous challenging dark funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious relaxing tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Car accident, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Adult/minor relationship

sonygaystation's review

lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

My thoughts this entire book was that Daniel Craig meme from Knives Out “makes no damn sense. Compels me though”. This was not good lmfao. Writing was so bad, it was sexist, so much teenage DRAMA, flat characters, and literally an unrelenting amount of girl hate and YET? I would try the next one because I could see a promising plot and the world building was so interesting (in theory). Also I kinda liked Dmitri (even though I hated everyone also. Rose sucks so bad) but I will DNF immediately if I don’t like the second one cuz even though it compels me, it doesn’t compel me THAT much. Also random sidebar but the narrator made Lissa’s voice sound like the nerd girl with braces from Big Mouth and I literally could not take the book seriously because of that

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal death, Bullying, Misogyny, Self harm, and Sexism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Medical content, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Murder

Minor: Car accident and Death

caleigh_reads's review

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Car accident, Death of parent, Hate crime, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Self harm