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If you’re a regular reader of this blog then you may recall that a week and a half ago I made a whole post discussing the news of Vampire Academy being adapted for a TV show, while also complaining that the movie deserved better.

Well. Inspired by my own rambles, I picked up the first book to re-read just for fun but then one things led to another and ten days later I officially finished the entire six book series.

5 years these books have sat on my shelf and I read the lot in 10 days 😂😂 I don’t know what came over me. Actually I do. It was ✨anxiety✨ that prompted me to hide from life by reading these books at an onbsessive rate but that’s besides the point.

I really, really enjoyed my time re-reading the first four books and then finally finishing the final two novels and I’m here to talk to you about the series today.

*the covers are ugly. please enjoy this instead*

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The word around the internet the other day is that Vampire Academy is getting a new TV show, which “yay”, I’m always excited about book adaptations but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t slightly bitter about the movie.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not bitter because it was a bad movie that was totally unrecognisable to the original novel. I’m bitter because there was no sequel!!!

In my opinion Vampire Academy (2014) was by far one of the top tier book to film adaptations. After watching for the first time I was hooked. I went on to watch it again and again, and even got the entire book series, (which I still haven’t read the last 2 books of).

They had the perfect cast in Zoey Deutch as Rose and Lucy Fry as Lissa. After the release of this movie I would search for any information about the sequel for a good year or so. I think I even set a google alert. The sequel, Frostbite, was my favourite book of what I’ve so far read and I was excited to see an adaptation of that but alas …

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