
And then there's the dhampirs, who are half vampire and half human, and they protect the Moroi against the Strigoi. Vampires exist, and they're two kinds of them: Moroi, who are nice to humans and don't kill them, and Strigoi, who are nasty, super dead, evil vampires. You might be a little confused by the world Mead has created, so lemme break it down for you. Here is my reaction:īloodlines is the first in a new series with some of the same characters from Vampire Academy, although you don't have to have read the latter to understand the former.

So when it came time for them to publish this series, I thought, surely, SURELY they've seen the error of their ways, and these covers will feature neither celebrity look-alikes nor angsty faces. I KNOW, RIGHT? Again, I pointed out the heinousness of this trend. Razorbill then decided to do a release of the books with new covers. In the first printing, there were faux celebrities looking DRAMATIC and MYSTERIOUS, which I exposed as one of the top things NOT to do on a YA cover. The rating in this section is directed at Razorbill, for BLATANTLY IGNORING all of my feedback regarding Richelle Mead's previous series, Vampire Academy. BOOK REPORT for Bloodlines (Bloodlines Book 1) by Richelle Mead
