In 'The Ruby Circle,' Sydney Sage Ivashkov and Adrian Ivashkov, alongside their friends Rosemarie Hathaway and Dimitri Belikov, set out on a dangerous rescue mission for one of their closest friends. … I realize that sounds very strange, but that is what I’m going for.” “I’m interested in their love and pain and grief. “I think that’s kind of a cool juxtaposition, and really, at the end of the day, human emotions, even in vampire characters, are what I’m interested in,” Mead said. The freedom and ability to take things traditionally frightening and nonhuman and give them human characteristics that readers can relate to is what Mead said she enjoys most about writing in the paranormal genre. “This is such an emotional and interpersonal book,” Mead said of 'The Ruby Circle.' “I was so into that aspect that I was like, ‘Oh, I want to work on these characters relationships,’ and I was like, ‘Wait, no, no, you have this critical piece of the world you need to get back to.’ I had to keep myself on task.” “And suddenly, you get to that last book and you’re like, ‘Whoa! Look at all this!’ So it does become difficult to wrangle all of that.'Įven though Mead plans her series in advance and the Bloodlines series went according to her plan, there were still many tiny subplots that weren’t easy to resolve. But after six books, it’s just subplots and there is so much going on,” Mead said.

“When you start a series, you’ve got maybe one or two plots going on. With five previous books in the Bloodlines series, plus related character storylines coming from the six books in the Vampire Academy series, Mead settled in to finish with an ending that would tie up all the loose ends. “I think readers are going to be pretty excited about some of it,” Mead said. Mead had to reassure her editor that although much of the reader-petitioned information she wrote didn’t have to do with the plot, it would be worth it to fans who were dying to know the details. I finally revealed certain things, certain burning mysteries that people have wondered about.” “There are things that readers who love the characters and who love the world have wanted to know. “There is definitely a handful of things that I put in this book that have been things readers have asked about or for,” Mead said in an interview on ' The Ruby Circle: A Bloodlines Novel' (Razorbill, $18.99, 15 and up). After nine years and 12 books, author Richelle Mead brings the world she created in her best-selling Vampire Academy series and its spinoff series, Bloodlines, to a close - with a series of surprises that are sure to excite its dedicated fandom.

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