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  • on of the best books ive read period. the best vampire book ever. more of a book about life in an academy with a side of the best thing like ever,VAMPIRES!!
    but yeah,so totally read it. it took me no time,i couldnt put it down.

    

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• ― spasm91 said on May 4, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  • Duty over lover

  • I enjoyed how the characters unfolded. Rose could be a typical girl from nowhere, working to be more responsible. The way the majority of adults dismiss her out of hand reminds me of my teenage years, where no one takes you seriously and all attempts to assert your independence result in disaster (g ... Continue

    I enjoyed how the characters unfolded. Rose could be a typical girl from nowhere, working to be more responsible. The way the majority of adults dismiss her out of hand reminds me of my teenage years, where no one takes you seriously and all attempts to assert your independence result in disaster (generally because of how the adults react to your actions).

    Lissa is the opposite: rich, old family, and greatness is expected from her. She is also striving for the same goal: responsibility.

    Rose is the unlikely friend, who finds that sometimes a true friend is more of a keeper than your buddy.

    There is a hard truth: duty over emotional attachment. How can you separate your personal life from your business, if your boss is your best friend? It makes life choices very hard.

    In the end, only you can make the choice, because you are the one that has to look at yourself in the mirror every morning.

    

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• ― Freyja's Child said on Oct 5, 2007 | Add your feedback

St. Vladimir's Academy isn't just any boarding school—it's a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They've been on the run, but now they're being dragged back to St. Vladimir's—the very place where they're most in danger. . . .

Rose and Lissa become enmeshed in forbidden romance, the Academy's ruthless social scene, and unspeakable nighttime rituals. But they must be careful lest the Strigoi—the world's fiercest and most dangerous vampires—make Lissa one of them forever.

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