Vampire Academy: the Officially Unofficial Fan Series

Stop checking boxes for casting every mouth-breather that claims to be oppressed and manipulating the story to do so. This absolutely ruined Legacies. There are books. Follow them. The show has promise with Julie Plec if they stop this nonsense.

The Vampire Academy books are boasted as fantasy/horror comedy. The series so far is fantasy/horror, with vampires and magic, but no comedy, which is fine.

The series starts out at St Vladimir's Academy boarding school where Lissa, a Moroi royal, and Rose, a Damir guardian are best friends. Rose is not only Lissa's best friend, but is also training to be her guardian. Outside the gates of the Academy there are "undead vampires" called strigoi who are a deadly and nasty bunch and definitely not friendlies to anyone within the Academy walls - so far.

The series is not cast very well, in my opinion. They seem to be trying to get brownie points instead of casting the best person for the role. So far it is coming very close to ruining the series, but there is still some promise in the series. Time will tell.