Addicted to a new book series

Reading books are one of my favorite pastimes and my friend was able to make me read a new series--The Vampire Academy Book Series. I know I know...some of you are probably thinking vampires again?! It's true that vampires have become the "in" theme with a lot of books and tv series but there's always something new that people add to it to keep it interesting.

Vampire Academy is a cross between Harry Potter and Twilight. Here's a description from Richelle Mead(the author) about the series:
Two races of vampires walk our world. One, the Moroi, are alive and wield elemental magical. The other, the Strigoi, are undead and evil--feeding on the innocent to survive. Rose Hathaway--a half-vampire with poor impulse control--is training to be a bodyguard for a Moroi princess. Learning to decapitate and stake is hard enough, but Rose's real danger may lie in an illicit romance with one of her instructors...


I was hooked on it from the first few chapters of the first book and it was so easy to read that it was hard to not finish the 5 books(the 6th and last book will come out on December 2010) in a week! For people wanting to have a light read that would engross you into a different world then this is a MUST-READ! Go ahead to the bookstores and get a copy or borrow from your friends. This is in the young adults section so reading it is easy :)