In the beginning, I was a skeptic; it’s hard not to be. With Twilight, True Blood and The Vampire Diaries saturating the media (or at least the things I read), I refused to believe the Vampire Academy series could be anything good and at minimum was an extremely juvenile read. BOY, was I ever wrong. Cut to two weeks later, when I was able to come up for air after a marathon read and I was annoying all my friends about the series. I promptly took my bestie off “Friendship Probation” (I get put on it for tweeting words like ‘Moist’ and/or ‘Panties,’ while she gets put on it for book reco’s that leaves me irrationally angry when the couple I ship is separated.) as she had rec’d the series to me. Long story short, why are we all not reading/rereading this series while gushing about the utter hotness that is the half-vamp, Dimitri ~~and braiding each others’ hair~~?? LORD, HAVE MERCY.

The Series Explained TN-Style

The story follows Rose, a half-vamp, who is protecting her bestie, Lissa. Lissa is a Vamp-light (they are refined, beautiful, not dead and only need a little blood). The two teens are off living on their own due to an incident at their school the previous year. Their society catches them, and drags them back to school because Lissa is royalty, yo. In this universe, being half-vamp/half-human makes you agile, strong and also attractive. So the vamp-lights and the half-vamps go to school together and the half-vamps do extra training to protect the vamp-lights who are slightly weak and often the prey of the full-vamps that are definitely dead and blood hungry. What makes this story is the ultra hot Russian half-vamp that is assigned to train the beautiful, brave, yet stubborn, Rose. Heyyyyyooooooo. Danger comes back to campus. DANGER always comes back to campus. Guys, I swear it’s the density of hot people. A density of not-so-hot people never invites trouble.

What’s the fuss about that Russian guy anyway? (slightly spoilery)

I think Rose puts it best :

The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms.

Major swoons for Dimitri:

If I let myself love you, I won’t throw myself in front of her. I’ll throw myself in front of you.

English isn’t his first language after all:

“He watched as I slipped one of the shoes on. “You have a guardian angel.”
“I don’t believe in angels,” I told him. “I believe in what I can do for myself.”
Well then, you have an amazing body.” I glanced up at him with a questioning look. “For healing, I mean. I heard about the accident…”

Good banter, they have it:

“What’s with all the running, anyway? I mean, I realize the importance of stamina and all that, but shouldn’t I be moving on to something with a little hitting? They’re still killing me in group practice.”
“Maybe you should hit harder.”

Quotes found on GoodReads

Vampire Academy, The Movie

You may have seen some of the press surrounding the movie here on That’s Normal. We are super excited for this upcoming movie. And needless to say, I am super excited for DIMITRI (played by Danila Kozlovsky).

Recently, the super cool animated poster teasing the movie hit Yahoo Movies. Dripping blood? I’m game! Hopefully, this means the movie will have a bit more of an edge to it than the first book of the series. I mean, we have to be a little scared for Rose and Dimitri, right?

Have you read the series? Are you shipping DimRose too?