Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

Title: Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy 1)
Author: Richelle Mead
Number of Pages: 336
Age Level: Young Adult
Genre(s): Urban fantasy, supernatural, vampires, magic

Synopsis: Rose Hathaway and Lissa Dragomir have been on the run from St. Vladimir's Academy for the last two years. Only the school's finally caught up to them and they're once more in the place that had once been the biggest threat for Lissa of all. At first everything seems like it might be ok, but the longer they stay the more evident if becomes that Lissa is once again in danger by being there.

Review: This was actually a book I kept seeing everywhere and my curiosity got the better of me making me want to read it. It was a little slow in getting started after Rose and Lissa were brought forceably back to St. Vladimir's, but once Rose starts getting searching for what a previous teacher called her, and her training with Dimitri all hell seems to begin to break loose.

Add in a forbidden relationship, and one twisted by circumstances surrounding the parents of Lissa and her boyfriend. The action though really increases though in the last several chapters when Lissa is kidnapped and Rose is the only one who can help the older dhampir's find her.

The plot twist at the end was entirely unforeseeable and it will shock the reader. Altogether Vampire Academy was an amazing read and I'm currently in the middle of reading of Frostbite. This is definitely worth the read.