I'm going to choose a book, a SINGULAR book, that is my sole favorite. Then I will adequately explain why. Wish me luck.
Over the past seven years that I've been literary-active, many books have come across my path. I've flirted with some, danced with a few, and seriously fallen in love with a lot. They've made me laugh and cry; they've broken my heart over and over. Yet I still keep coming back for more. I've collected many memories that I cherish a great deal, and that makes it difficult to choose just one who's been my absolute best.
But I've done it. For you.
Drum roll, please. *Drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrummmmm* (Don't judge me. I know that sound was pathetic, but I make do, okay?)
Mead is one of my favorite authors and one of the first I ever encountered after the Twilight fiasco of 2008. Compared to that, anything looks better, right? (insert laughter here) But seriously. Delving into YA was a new experience for me at the time and I wasn't that immersed in the community yet. So I didn't know what was good or what wasn't. But Vampire Academy stood out even then.
Book one sets the stage for a six-part story that seriously rocked my world. Rose Hathaway is the quintessential YA heroine. Except she's not.
Badass? Check. Dark, twisty love story? Check. Political espionage? Um, check. SEE? THIS STORY HAS EVERYTHING. Plus, Rose is hilarious. And her friendship with Lissa is the real love story of the series. Their bond was at the center of it all and held things together even when all seemed lost. It connected Rose to her friends when she went off on her own. It kept her grounded.
There's just something Rose that's always spoken to me. She's the version of me I would choose if I could. I relate to her in way that I've never with another character. And stepping into her world time and again brings me back to a place where I've always felt welcome and safe. The familiarity that comes along with VA and its characters never fails to make me smile.
It's the way Rose always finds herself with a giant mess she has to clean up, and then somehow she makes it worse before making it better. But mainly, it's her character growth throughout the series that I love most. She grows into herself in a way, I think, that she thought she never would. And that's inspiring to me. And because I'm a sucker for a great love story, Rose and Dimitri were everything I could've hoped for at fourteen.
Now my question to you: what is your favorite book and why? Leave your answer in the comments below!!
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