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Books Like Vampire Academy

Vampire Academy is vampire, magic academy & fierce heroine — mild (2/5), first-person, ending on a hard-won happy ending. These 12 romantasy read-alikes are ranked by how much they share with it, closest first — each one explained.

Seventeen-year-old Rose Hathaway, a dhampir bodyguard-in-training, is dragged back to St. Vladimir's Academy alongside her best friend Lissa Dragomir, a Moroi vampire princess, after two years on the run. Navigating deadly social hierarchies, a psychic bond with Lissa, and a forbidden attraction to her older Russian guardian mentor Dimitri, Rose must uncover who is threatening Lissa before a sinister plot tears their world apart. The novel blends vampire-world politics, dark magic, and slow-burn romance in a hidden boarding school where the stakes are life and death.