Vampire Academy Themes

Where would we be without our friends? They pick us up when we're down, they keep our deepest, darkest secrets, and they always know what to say. In Vampire Academy, Lissa and Rose have a bond that...

Rose and Mia desperately want to be part of the cool crowd, but they don't have the right parents or race. Admit it: we've all been there. In Vampire Academy, being a Moroi is basically equivalent...

It was George Washington who said, "Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected." Easy for him to say, but for Rose it's not so easy. In Vampire Academy, she's caught between her duty to pro...

Vampires are not real—or shall we say, we don't think they're real—and that makes them supernatural. Author Richelle Mead invented an incredible mythology surrounding vampires for Vampire Acade...

Rose's coming of age—her transition from kid novice to adult guardian—is packed with drama: she fights off psi-hounds, goes to a magic school, discovers the secret behind St. Vladimir and shado...

We hate to get all Braveheart on you, but there's a lot in Vampire Academy about freedom. On second thought, we'd kinda like to be William Wallace fighting for freedom against an evil tyrant....

Let's talk about sex, baby. No, really—in the hormone-charged atmosphere of Vampire Academy, it seems that pretty much everything is about sex. Everything's a dirty joke or salacious piece of gos...

Not since the queen turned herself into a witch in Snow White have we seen so much transformation. Okay, okay, so no one actually morphs into a witch, but there is magic that brings animals—and h...