Next stop on my YA book tour is Richelle Mead's Bloodlines for California. The book is a new series from her, but set in the same world as her Vampire Academy. I have not read the Vampire Academy series, and I felt at a slight disadvantage for it, so if you want to read this probably want to read the other books first.
Sydney Sage is an alchemist, which are humans dedicated to keeping vampires existence from being known by other humans, and protecting them from the vampires. She has been given a chance to redeem herself from re-education after she basically went rogue. (Pretty sure it happened in one of the Vampire Academy books.) Oh, and vampires are divided into two types, which are pretty much good and bad. The good are Moroi and the bad are Strigoi, and then there are the half vampire protectors of the Moroi, the dhampir.
Sydney is being sent to protect the Moroi princess, Jill, because if she is killed her sister can no longer be the queen. Because apparently you need to have a living relative to be elected queen of the Moroi. Jill had an assassination attempt on her at Court, and is being sent to hid at a boarding school in Palm Springs. Maybe not the wisest choice to send a vampire to a desert community in Southern California, especially since her magic is water magic. Oh, and Sydney is going to have to enroll in the school to be with her, even though she has already graduate. (Talk about my own personally hell, repeating high school.)
She has to report to Keith, a major d-bag, whom she as a history with. She knows he has done something really bad, but the book is almost finished before you find out what that is, despite hints being dropped several times throughout the book.
Sydney and Jill, along with a dhampir, Eddie, start school at Amberwood, and Sydney really seems to like school. Probably because she has never really had a experience like this, being home schooled with Alchemist training. Jill on the other hand is having a very hard time getting the hang of it. Sydney gets noticed for her unique Alchemist gold lily tattoo, many of the students are demanding to know where she got it. She notices that several students has metallic tattoos, the copper ones for a euphoric high and the silver ones for strength.
Sydney spends about half her time trying to appease Adrian, another Moroi, who there for Jill's support because of what happened at Court.
Like I said before I really felt I as missing out by not having read the Vampire Academy books before reading this one. I think reading them would not only help with the references to past events, but also understanding to Moroi society better.
Sydney was definitely a socially awkward character because of her up bringing and the prejudice instilled in her by the Alchemist. Despite that she is very adaptable and is slowly becoming more social, and she is miles a head of Keith.
Oh, then there is Trey. He is another student at the school, Sydney's chem partner. At the end, there was definite hints that he is more than what he seems.
Currently Reading:
The Truth about Forever
by Sarah Dessen
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