For me, Vampire Academy was one of those books where I really liked the main character and if there was a spin off series with a different main character, I wouldn't have read it. It's always really disorienting for me: different main characters, different secondary characters, you get to know the (mostly) tragic ending that happened to the main character that the original series doesn't mention, etc. Bloodlines didnt really have any of that, except the first two, and it wasn't as disorienting. I'll always like Vampire Academy better, but I think this was better written.