Another Vampire Academy Post
Do you have a book series that's so ingrained in who you are, your identity, possibly your DNA, that you cannot separate it and you?
-Cue the groans and eye rolls and "ugh, she's talking about Vampire Academy again" from family and friends 🤣-
It's amazing, discovering something about yourself and watching all the puzzle pieces finally slide together and fit. Took me 13 years to finally pinpoint why I love VA so much, and I literally can't talk about the two things separatly.
I fell hard for the bff friendship between Rose and Lissa. I didn't understand why at the time, why I loved a book that centered friendship and hated all the teen books that involved love triangles and oozed romance. Surely, as a teenager in high school, that's all I'd want to read about, right?
Like I said, it took me 13 years to finally pinpoint why I became so obsessed with this book series (we won't even talk about the guide I made to correct the movie guide and everyone else on the internet that got VA wrong 🤣): #BabyQueer! I'm ace, and on the aro spectrum, but for easiness, I just say aroace. Like, whoa, does my VA obsession make sense now. It was about the only YA paranormal-ish book series out at the time that uplifted friendship from sidekick status (if lucky), to equally (if not more) important as the romantic plots.
Which is about the only priase I can give the movie adaptation as well, for getting Rose and Lissa's friendship pretty close to the book.
Really looking forward to seeing this world again on screen, the small screen this time, and hopefully expanded further than just the first book. I can't stop thinking about all the new things a TV series can bring that movie adaptations can't, and showing what we weren't able to see off page due to the books being written from Rose's PoV. And hopefully it will last for years to come...and fingers crossed, knock on wood, that maybe we'll get to see a Bloodlines adaptation too?????
Side note/question: I saw my library via the Libby app finally has all the VA books on audio (for some reason the middle books were missing before?). I really don't think I can hang with the narrator (I've listened to a sample a few years ago and balked), and I know the narrator changes, but I still don't think I can do it. If you've listened to them, what are your opinions?
Also: with the different narrators for the VA series, and the apparent accent switch in the Bloodlines books, anyone else strongly want all these books to be rerecorded? For continuity sake?
