Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

69 reviews

daniquevdijk_'s review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Definitely should’ve had a list of trigger warnings, did not expect the darkly emotional aspects such as selfharm and depression.  Besides that, entertaining story with good romance. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Blood, and Death of parent

Moderate: Chronic illness, Infidelity, Rape, Terminal illness, Kidnapping, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

lilradridinghood's review against another edition

4.0

I probably would've DNF'd or given it one star if I read it for the first time today, but I was really into this series in middle school so re-reading it was really fun and nostalgic. I can't bring myself to give it anything less than four stars. But man I totally forgot how much they mention self-harm. Those parts made me uncomfortable. The age gap is an ick too, but how could I forget Rose and Dimitri?
The audiobook is kind of annoying. I don't like the voices given to characters who aren't Rose. But it's bearable on 2x speed if you need the convenience.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Self harm

kryptickali's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

5.0

Coming back to this series is like a warm hug as every character is familar, the plot is familar, the tone is familar and it reminds me of a simpler time. Anyways, this series has some amazing kickass female characters and the female friendships are top nop and so relatable (which, how often do you really see in YA?) I won't even try to summarie the story because I'll defs throw spoilers in by accident, I 100% recommend this series. Ignore the ugly covers. Pick it up, its so good. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, and Bullying

haysways's review against another edition

lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Sexism, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

tiana_king's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

This was always my favorite vampire book series. Lots of original content, addressing classism, plenty of drama, and a ton of adventure. My only criticism is that there isn’t a ton of build up for either of the romances. I understand that a decent amount of time passed in the book and the author couldn’t write about every little interaction that made people fall in love but she could’ve spent a smidge more time on it. Other than that a great read with good plot twists! The narrator was good but she said Strigoi weird

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Death of parent

kmxler's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

rrstockton's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

I will admit, vampires are not my thing, so I was only gonna like this so much. It's not bad. I see why people like it. There's just too much angst and vampires for me. Also the love interest age gap is weird. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Self harm

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Bullying

Minor: Grief and Car accident

The love interest is seven years older than the teenage main character. Also no sex but some graphic make outs depicting a minor.

dreamingelfhame's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

I remembered a few major moments from the first time I read it, but I enjoined it a lot and liked Christian a lot. I’m not sure about Rose, but I guess I’ll decide after reading the next book, I thought she was a bit annoying sometimes, but she’s just 17 I guess 🤷‍♀️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Self harm, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Terminal illness, Torture, and Classism

Minor: Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

homesweetread's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Torture, Blood, and Death of parent

scarlettereads's review against another edition

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

I first read Vampire Academy when I was fifteen, and wow was fifteen year old me powerful, because this is pretty bad and I thought about calling it quits a whole lot.
I’m going to put some of that down to the audio narrator who shouldn’t try for a Russian accent for any reason at all, but a lot of it is down to the writing.

The major issue I take with this book (and I felt the same fifteen years ago), is that the love interest is literally a paedophile. What was it about the 2000s that had YA authors writing about “older guy” love interests like their lives depended on it?

I hated Dimitri Belikov way back when, and I hate him even more now.
This is going to sound extremely bizarre, and perhaps it’s like when Michael Gary Scott imagined a unicorn before he’d ever seen one but hear me out: Before I even knew of the existence of Tommy Wiseau it was Tommy Wiseau who I pictured when I pictured Dimitri. To fifteen year old me that was how much older than seventeen a twenty-four year old looked. Also, how the hell did I do that?
Even after watching the terrible but bingeable TV adaptation where Dimitri is just some British guy who slipped into a sort of Russian accent about twice, I still see Tommy Wiseau when I picture Dimitri Belikov. Just wearing a leather duster coat and fewer belts.
Is it kind of iconic of me to read a book with a love interest who is kind of part vampire, who looks EXACTLY like TOMMY WISEAU, who I believe to be kind of part vampire—it explains a lot about him, just think on it for a minute—when I had never seen or heard of Tommy W? Incredibly. The accent is somewhere in the wheelhouse of what the audiobook performer went with, so why the hell not?
(But my sincerest apologies to Mr. Wiseau for picturing him when I envisioned a child predator in 2009. I know now that he’s just an “American guy” who is so super good at playing “American football” but is probably not a fan of garlic or holy water.

Anyway, this book is bad. Rose is pretty horrible. Dimitri is literally a paedophile. Etc etc etc. How the librarians at my catholic high school snuck this series onto the shelves I’ll never know, but I kind of wish they hadn’t 😬

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail