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Bird and Other Monologues for Young Women

Laura Lomas

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A cutting-edge play that throws light on the experience of a teenager in contemporary Britain, from...

Sharon Horgan recommended Everything I Know About Love in Books (curated)

"Alderton has been writing for UK newspapers and magazines for years, and then she wrote this book about love, but not necessarily about finding the love of a man. There’s a very deep female friendship at the heart of it. As a writer myself, anytime I write something that feels painful to tell, and you don’t know how people will respond to it, you’re laying yourself open to be criticized—as a woman especially, when you’re writing about people you’ve slept with and the bad choices you’ve made again and again. As soon as I read it,I got in touch with Alderton. I said ‘Please, please let me buy the rights to this book and let me make it,’ but someone had got there before me. It’s about not giving up, and not losing sight of the thing you’re after just because life has fucked you a few times along the way."

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Evil Thing: A Villains Novel (Villains #7)

Serena Valentino

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The darkly captivating seventh novel in the popular Villains series follows the rise and fall of...

What His Wife Knew

Jo Jakeman

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SORRY. Beth Lomas thought she knew her late husband. But this one small word, written on the back...

Andrea (28 KP) rated Vampire Academy in Books

Aug 18, 2017

Vampire Academy

Richelle Mead | 2007 | Fiction & Poetry

8.5

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Passes the Bechdel test on the first page. (2 more)

Primary relationship is a friendship

Strong female protagonist

Other books in the series are stronger, so keep reading (1 more)

Don't judge a book by its movie

Not about vampires, and that's a good thing.

This series represents some of Mead's strongest writing. While this isn't the best book in the series (I save that distinction for #2, #3, and especially #6) it does give the necessary set up for everything.

The primary relationship with the friendship and devotion between Rose and Lissa. Both women have their own stories through the series and the book easily passes the bechdel test and many others. That isn't to say that the male lead isn't worthwhile; he will most likely become one of your fav "book boyfriends" but his role become bigger later in the books.

While the series contains vampires and is set in a vampiric world (practically no humans in the series) I wouldn't call it a typical vampire book. The vampire setting serves more as a way to introduce a discussion on class structure and politics. We seem more and more of this later in the series.

One thing of note: the primary romantics relationship in this book is between a student and her mentor/instructor. Also, while she is above the age of consent in Montana (where this is set) she is under 18 for half the series.