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Bloodline Series – The Indigo Spell (book 3)
Author: Richelle Mead
It’s all about Sydney and Adrian. Will they finally be together or Sydney will keep holding on to her beliefs and push aside the attraction they have for each other?
Bloodlines Series – The Golden Lily (book 2)
Author: Richelle Mead
Released almost 1 year after the 1st book, The Golden Lily is as good as Bloodlines, and I reckon Richelle Mead did a good job refreshing our memory about the past events in the previous book – simple, direct and not too repetitive (which was a big problem for me on the Vampire Academy Series).
The story on this one is mainly about Sydney’s conflicts in being loyal to the Alchemists’ principles while getting closer and fonder to the Moroi (vampires) and, well, being also loyal to these friends, which is a big thing and strongly punishable by The Alchemists.
The group is still in Palm Springs: Jill, Adrian, Eddie and now Angeline, the dhampir who used to live with The Keepers. Sonya Karp and Dimitri also establish themselves there to conduct experiments on the Strigoi issue.
Bloodlines Series – Bloodlines (book 1)
Author: Richelle Mead
The Bloodlines Series consists of 6 books, with only the 1st one published to this date. It’s called “spin-off series”, as it will use the same characters and universe of Vampire Academy series – the difference being that now it’s not Rose Hathaway telling the story, but some of her friends.
Bloodlines is told by Sydney Sage, the Alchemist.
The Alchemists are humans who know about the vampire world and are in charge of getting rid of Strigoi bodies and any mess they are involved in, in order to protect human race from knowing about vampires. They have a great knowledge of chemistry and potions, and despite working with Moroi, they do not like vampires and dhampirs at all.
Vampire Academy Series – Author: Richelle Mead
First of all, I’m not going to review each of the 6 books in separate posts because I read them one after the other and it’s easier for me to just do an overall review about it.
In the Vampire Academy Series, vampires are pale (as usual) and very slim, they can be in the sun (but it’s painful) and they feed from humans that are called “donors” – these humans are normally junkies who are addicted to the substance released in the vampire bite, so they willingly offer their blood to get “high”. Each vampire has the ability to use water, air, fire or earth, and there are some very rare cases when one doesn’t specialize in any of the elements, but develops the ability to heal others (they are called spirit users).
There are two kinds of vampires: the good ones, called Moroi, who are ruled by a monarch, are peaceful and mortals; and the bad ones, called Strigoi, who are evil creatures that kill humans, have an unbelievable strength and speed, and are immortal.
