Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters movie news

We finally know the whole cast of the Vampire Academy movie!! I'm just so excited to write a blog post about it... Really want to see the movie soon!! :)

The movie is going to be out in cinemas on February 14th, 2014. Yes, on Valentine's Day. And it's going to be great!

I like the cast, they're good for the characters they're playing, more or less (quite better than the TMI cast, in my opinion), and the movie can be really good, if they more or less follow the book (please...).

So here you have the list of actors and actresses, in case you haven't seen them yet:

- Zoey Deutch plays Rose Hathaway.

- Danila Kozlovsky is Dimitri Belikov (he's Russian, which means real accent!!).

- Lucy Fry is Lissa Dragomir.

- Dominic Sherwood plays Christian Ozera.

- Sami Gayle is Mia Rinaldi.

- Ashley Charles is Jesse Zeklos.

- Cameron Monaghan plays red-head Mason Ashford. 

- Sarah Hyland (yes, from Modern Family) plays Natalie Dashkov.

- Olga Kurylenko is Headmistress Kirova.

- Claire Foy plays Sonya Karp.

- Gabriel Byrne is Victor Dashkov.

- Joely Richardson plays Queen Tatiana from the Ivashkov family.

So what do you think about the cast? I'm just really excited to see them working together and let's see how the movie looks like! They're filming in Europe, in the UK most of the time, and they're going to include some photography scenes from Montana, where the book really takes place. And I think it's perfect that the actor playing Dimitri is Russian, because we are really going to be able to listen to a beautiful Russian accent while falling in love...

Author Richelle Mead is happy with the cast and with everything movie-related, and she's just as exctited as we all VA fans are. The only thing they've really changed (that we know) is the title. Blood Sisters instead of Vampire Academy. Why? Don't know, really, but if they leave the whole saga as Vampire Academy it's okay for me. 

What do you think? Like the cast members or not?

  

Arcadia Awakens, Kai Meyer (Arkadien #1)

Synopsis:

To New Yorker Rosa Alcantara, the exotic world of Sicily, with its network of Mafia families and its reputation for murder and intrigue, is just that—exotic, and wholly unknown. But when tragedy strikes, she must travel there, to her family’s ancestral home, where her sister and aunt have built their lives and where centuries of family secrets await her. Once there, Rosa wastes no time falling head over heels for Alessandro Carnevare, the son of a Sicilian Mafia family, whose handsome looks and savage grace both intrigue and unsettle her. But their families are sworn enemies, and her aunt and sister believe Alessandro is only using Rosa to infiltrate the Alcantara clan. And when Rosa encounters a tiger one night—a tiger with very familiar eyes—she can no longer deny that neither the Carnevares nor the Alcantaras are what they seem.

Ancient myths brought to life in the Sicilian countryside, dangerous beasts roaming the hills, and a long history of familial bloodlust prove to Rosa that she can’t trust anyone—not even her own family. Torn between loyalty to her aunt and love for her family’s mortal enemy, Rosa must make the hardest decision of her life: stay in Sicily with her new love . . . or run as far and as fast as she can.

I was recommended this book by a person in Twitter, saying I would totally love it and that it was amazing. The author himself replied to our tweets, and that made me want to read it even more, because he had shown to be a normal person like all of us, accessible to everyone by a social network, which is great. 

Well, anyway, I had decided to read the book when I was told that it was only in German and English, and a few other languages I don't speak, so I had to find the English version, which is not easy here. So in my trip to Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, with my parents, I found it at this small bookshop and bought it without even thinking. I had been waiting quite a long time to find it. 

But it took me a couple of months to have time to start it, even if I had really wanted to earlier. But I did. I started it and loved it since the very first page. I loved the main character, Rosa, because she wasn't obvious like many other main characters in other books are. The shoplifting thing surprised me, and I loved finding out more things about her as the story went through. And Alessandro... omg. I loved him since the very first sentence he said, and it was as clear as water that Rosa, underneath her strong attitude, was going to fall head over heels for him. And I did too. 

The rest of characters were beautifully described, not in a page, but through the whole book. It's great to find a book where you don't get to know the characters in the beginning, not even the main ones. It's nice to get to know them page by page like we would if they were real people. 

When Rosa finds that tiger in the woods I was like ok, I guess what's going to happen. And it does happen. I kind of expected it. But I did not expect the consequences of that situation and everything it happened later. Most of it was unexpected. And I really like that. I was afraid, when I guessed the tiger thing, that the book was going to be plain and expected, but it finally surprised me and erased my doubts. 

So I really loved it and I'm really happy they recommended it to me, and I will recommend it to anyone. Now everything I want to do is find the next two books that complete the trilogy and read them all. Let's see what happens. 

Wattpad

Wattpad? I love that website! It's just so great that there's this place where we can all post our own stories so people can read them, and also read amazing stories or even novels that other people post. 
When I found it for the first time, all I could do was read and read other people's works, and it took me some time to post my first short story. Then I post my second one, and it wasn't until this week, after almost a year, that I uploaded my first one. It would be great if you checked them out, you know, and comment or vote or share or whatever...
What I was saying, this webpage is completely addictive, if you find something good to read, and I've spent hours reading this stories people post. The problem is that, that people post them. So maybe you're reading a great story with many chapters and you reach the end of one and it says "I'll upload soon", so you check when was this published and tell yourself than "soon" is going to be soon. But it's not. Weeks go by and it hasn't been uploaded... And that freaks me out, so what I do is always check if the story is finished. But sometimes you find something so good that it's worth waiting (hadn't happened to me yet). So I really recommend you to go check it out if you haven't already. And, by the way, don't read it in your phone. The app is great, and the font can be made bigger and stuff, but I've ended up with a headache many times, but continued reading just because it was really interesting. 

So I hope you like it. 

By the way, these are the links to my short stories, if you want to check them out (I'd appreciate that...) :)

Erasing memories

Walking through the forest

Sadness 

Sant Jordi

On April 23rd every year, in my country we celebrate Sant Jordi (St George), which is the Book Day here :) That makes it one of my favourite days of the year, because it's my opportunity to get new good stuff to read... Traditionally, women give books to men while men give red roses to women, but I've always wanted to break traditions... Why would I want so many roses? I mean, one is great and nice and beautiful and all that, but then they die... And what I really want on that day is new books! So like a month before the day I start telling everyone how much I would love this and this and that book, and maybe they'll get it for me...

So this year for Sant Jordi, which was last week, I finally got:

- Warm Bodies, by Isaac Marion. I was so excited when I got it! The movie has just come out in cinemas here, but I'm not going to see it until I read the book, so that's what I'm currently reading... It looks great for now :)

- The dead of night, by John Marsden. I wasn't really sure I wanted this book, because I didn't buy it when I saw it some months ago... But my sister bought it for me, and now I'm excited about it, because I didn't expect it, but I really liked the first book. John Marsden's idea for the plot is really good. So let's see...

- The Selection, by Kiera Cass. I've been wanting this book for a few months right now, but I never really found it in a bookshop. Someone recommended it to me by Twitter, and I looked at the synopsis and stuff and I really liked how it looked so... But then I went through a few blog posts from different blogs making review about it, and I saw this one which said that buying The Selection was the biggest mistake she ever made, but the rest of reviews were quite good, so I decided to go for it and try, because only my personal opinion will decide what I think about the book. So I'll tell you when I'm done. 

- Splendor, by Anna Godbersen. Ok, this were the 17.95€ best spent in years. I've been looking everywhere for this book for four years, and I had already started to give up... Because I love the The Luxe series, I loved the first three books, and I have them in Spanish. So the right thing to do was wait until the fourth one was published. But it didn't for a long time... I remember looking everywhere on the internet for a publishing date or something about it, but the results were none. I decided to buy it in English, even if my collection will be a bit... different that way, but there was no way I was waiting any longer. So when last week I found in in a bookstore, I think I almost screamed and cried of happiness... I grabbed it and wouldn't leave it for anything till I got home, and my mom was starting at me like I was crazy... Whatever. But I was so happy I had found it!! Now let's hope that it's worth a four-years wait.